Summertime!

I love summer...and it's going way too fast. This year I decided to give myself a post-two baby present and join a running group with a few of my girlfriends...which in part is why I can't seem to keep up with posting pictures on my blog. My post-coffee late Saturday morning runs (which allow me to wake up early and work on the blog) have been replaced by crack of dawn long runs (the past couple of weekends were 8 or 10-milers). Tuesday mornings I set my alarm for 4:30 am for speedwork and then three other weekday mornings of 5:45 am with either runs or a yoga session with my running buds to make sure I can limber up to...well...keep on running. I love it! I'm signed up for another couple of half marathons this summer so we'll see if I can get any faster. The best part of all this running is that most of it takes place long before anyone else in our house wakes up so I don't miss any of the action.

As for the most awesome part of my life...our two adorable kiddos...they're doing great. Shoshi is 5-1/2 months and Spencer turns three in September. Both love swimming so we're doing a lot of that on the weekends and we cleaned up our backyard (complete with new grass and flowers) so we now spend lots of time hanging there. Shoshi rolls over (roly-polies as they're affectionately referred to in our house) and Spencer has taken a new liking to Jon's lawnmower.

And to top it all off we get to see all our family lots of the time. We were in Pierre, South Dakota a few weeks ago (pictures, below). I'm off to NY for work and since Jon also booked a work trip this week I'm taking the kiddos (yup...first solo flight with me and the two munchkins) tomorrow. Jon's dad visits us a few days after we get back from NY, I head to Louisville, KY for work, Jon's mom and aunt Ruth Ann are back to visit us and then the week after we're off to NY for my family's summer trip. Whew.

With all our activities (oh yeah, and I still work what seems like a bizillion hours a week) I admittedly fell behind on going through pictures. What tends to happen then is that I don't take any more for fear of never getting caught up. So hopefully I'll get someone to send me pictures of our adorable kids in their July 4 outfits (thanks Uncle Chris and Cathy) and Spencer in the neighborhood July 4 parade.

Fishing with Jon and uncle Charlie. Spencer liked the concept of fishing but not the actual fish.

Hanging out in grandma Vonnie's beautiful garden...

Halfway along our 10 hour drive to S. Dakota we saw a swimming pool and Spencer put his goggles on (in the car) and didn't take them off for about 48 hours.