I just looked at my blog and realized it's been awhile since my last post! But with 3 sick kids and a sick mom (all staggered out so it lasted forever around here) and our regular life going on, I ran out of minutes in the day to post, and now I've got a huge backlog of photos that I just am not going to get to share now...
My best friend Jackie has been visiting and one of her pet peeves is business names that are spelled "creatively". Like 'Kindercare' or 'Doll Fin Daycare', so I thought I'd be creative and spell today's blog post in her honor.
Oh yeah... we ran a 1/2 Marathon for Mothers day! It was right here in Everett, and proceeds went to St. Jude's hospital. It was a great course and I ran a personal best, and of course my sweet boyfriend smoked the course and finished in the top 20 of his age group! And it was his first 1/2! His sister and our old classmate Jack (who we have become race partners with... he does a bazillion races and we try to keep up with a fraction of the ones he does) also ran it, and they all did equally awesome. The only downside of this race was when we arrived in Marysville they had us run around the city's retention pond which was nearly a mile loop on a gravel service road. At mile 7, the last thing you feel like doing is SEEING how far one mile is, run it on gravel, and then smell stagnant water (aka poo-pond) the whole time. My review of the race was "running around poo-pond didn't do Marysville tourism any favors". 
While we were running, the kids were running wild on the island. They came home wet, smelly, and completely happy. I told Mike it makes me so happy that our kids get to spend time on the island being "island kids". His and my entire childhood was spent outside in the woods and on the beaches of Whidbey, and our kids are getting to have a little bit of the same experience. If it weren't for the $29 ferry ride to get there, we'd probably put real thought into living there again.
Makenzie and Natalie took Cisco for a ride...
On Monday's Mike has softball, and now that the weather is improving, the kids enjoy the games a lot more (read: there are more kids to run wild with at the playground and in the dirt of the adjoining soccer field).
The kids earn $1 for each ball they shag. There were a lot of home runs this night, but not from our team :( But a buck is a buck!
My best friend Jackie is visiting, and it was a beautiful afternoon, so we knocked back a few Blue Mountains. We rode the piglet down to the store, and came home with sore cheeks from laughing so hard. Two grown women riding a single seater scooter with a half-rack of beer between their legs gave us a serious case of the giggles.
The girls have loved having Auntie Jackie here... enjoying their bedtime story.
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So much fun! Which reminds me...I too have a blog.
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