first day of training

Yesterday Hank and I started our training for the marathon in December. We started a day early since I will be on vacation this weekend and wanted a head start. We walked 3 miles on the greenway. The first picture is of Hank after two miles...

Hank was very hot and laying down every couple of feet so I let him cool off in the river for a little. He loved it and tried to go down every path to the water on the way home after that.

This is just a view on our walk. I'm so glad we live right on the greenway. It will be perfect for everyday training even though we might go hiking for the longer days. 

Hope you guys have a good first training day today!

Home from the hospital

This video is only 6 months late. I can't believe I have a 6 month old baby girl today. Crazy how fast she's growing up. This is us getting home from the hospital.

Baby videos

Just uploaded videos from my phone to YouTube. Follow my channel and you can see them all!

I still need to do the editing on the Bubble rapper before it becomes an internet sensation, haha.

Ainsley's new favorite game is peek-a-boo under the sheet. She laughs and laughs and laughs, too cute.

Loves the jumper.

Sittin' in Dad's chair.

Is this her first word? I think it will definitely be Dada...

Eating avocado. She likes to hold the spoon herself and gets upset when Kellen takes it away.

First baby video

I forgot that I hadn't shared our first baby videos. They take awhile to upload so I'll be posting one at a time when I can. Here's our car ride home from the hospital. Seems like such a long time ago!

4th of July party

Our party went very well last night but I wish I would've taken more pictures! We had less people than we thought but that's ok! Now we have plenty of leftovers for the rest of the week! The pictures are out of order of course but I'll try to explain them.

The first picture is of the tray I painted with chalk board paint and wrote the drink options on by the front door.

The next one is of the little drink table in the front room. Iced tea and lemonade and lemons and limes

Then the dessert table downstairs with whiskey chocolate cake and apple pies in mason jars and chocolate chip cookies

Next the stove with sangria, jello shots, chips and salsa and firecrackers. I made labels out of pieces of wood an chalkboard paint and then when people brought stuff I could label it too!

The dark one is of the moon rising next to the star when Jeff and I finally got to sit together on the front porch after everyone left and we cleaned up some. It was a great night and our house had an amazing view of the fireworks without the hassle of a million people.

The last picture was actually the first. It is Jeff and hank waiting for guests on the front porch with the streamers.. Jeff and I wore matching shirts that said "merica" with bleach pens. Mine was red and his was blue. I wish we would've got a picture together but we were too busy hosting! Jeff made an amazing boil too and I didn't get pictures of that either. We bought enough stuff to make two batches and only ended up making one so we are making another one with the neighbors on Friday night so it doesn't go to waste. I'll get a picture then! How your holiday was fun too!

iPhone pics this week

Lots of pictures this week.

Napping baby in her pop up tent at Gramme and Pappap's.

Me and Ainsley on her 5 month birthday.

Ainsley and the bears on her first trip to the zoo. We didn't stay very long, way too hot.

Ainsley getting very close to crawling.

Bubble rapping baby. Video to come.

Me and Ainsley on a dinosaur at the zoo.

Lululemon store opening in Memphis!

Ainsley and the sea lions at the zoo.

Ainsley sitting in Dad's chair.

Waiting on the fireworks to start. We tried to watch from my work. Ainsley ended up falling asleep and we thought we couldn't see the fireworks, trees were blocking our view. Ended up they didn't start until 930 (the ones behind the trees were another firework display further away) oh well. That's pretty late to wait since we got to our spot before 8.

Ainsley and Dad in the Not Adult Lounge. She was really cute in her lady bug floaty, swimming and kicking her feet.

Overall baby.

107 degrees while stopped at a red-light. Not the hottest day this week.

Me and Ainsley ready for fireworks.

Plant pics

This weekend was pretty relaxing. I was on call and had to go to work at 330 am on Saturday but got done by 10 and had the house to myself for a while bc Jeff took his mom hiking for the day. I worked on my garden some and just relaxed. I took pictures of my jalepenos cucumbers and newly planted mint. then Sunday we sent up our very own adult lounge and grilled some delicious burgers but I didn't take any pics of that. Sorry. Also on here is gourd pretending to be a mountain lion bc he's so wild.

So sad

Big news..... This happened yesterday in Richmond. Still love her though!

Project weekend

This weekend we worked on a bunch of stuff in the house and got a ton done! The guest room is ready for guest! We have a real mirror in the bathroom and the bar is done! Which means the front room looks MUCH better and so does the kitchen bc we move the red shelves in there. Here are some pictures of our animals and projects. The front and back of the bar. Gourd helping me fold clean clothes but really just getting cat hair all over the clean clothes. Hank in his new pool and some shelves we made out of left over pallet pieces! I need to think of some more things to put on them but I like them! Hope you all had a good weekend too!

Jeff's bday

I forgot to post the pics from Jeff's bday! I didnt take any on my phone from the weekend so these are just from the real day

Jeff excited about his grill

Jeff excited about his cake

And the inside of his cake (layers of brownie choc chip cookie cheesecake and graham crackers with marshmallow and chocolate frosting)

iPhone pics

We really need to figure out how to put the pictures in the right order. Someday.

This week we have:
- Ainsley playing with her giraffe pretzel. Holding it all by herself!
- Duke attacking a Chucky Cheese balloon that floated into our fence.
- Ainsley and her dad
- Ainsley's first haircut!

iPhone pics this week

Just 3 pictures this week. The statue of liberty outside a church on my way to work in Memphis. Happy baby in her swing with her giraffe from Aunt Rach. Yummy pumpkin cinnamon rolls Kellen made for me for mother's day.

Looks like our whole family is sick again. We had probably 3 days where we were all well and then took a turn for the worse again. I hope we are not sick for Ainsley's first years of daycare.

I was at the downtown facility on Friday and saw a bunch of people I hadn't seen since Ainsley was born. I guess people don't realize what they are saying to pregnant people or new moms. As a note what not to say When you see a picture of the cutest baby ever "looks like she hasn't missed a meal." no, of course she hasn't missed a meal. These are the same people that said I looked like I could have her any day at 5 months. Driving me crazy.

iPhone pics this week

Just two pictures. Daddy and Ainsley playing and a crabby baby needing a nap.

Mom has some pictures of Ainsley's first dip in the pool that she'll hopefully post!

Weekend pics

Here are some pics of our derby weekend!

First is our new bikes that jeff surprised me with Saturday morning! He went to look at a bike for him and came home with two! He even found out he worked with the guy selling then on craigslist which was funny

The next one is me in my derby hat that mom helped me make. Everyone loved it and it went perfectly with my dress! One lady even ran out of a shop to tell me I looked "sharp" when we were walking down the street!

Then is Jeff in his seersucker suit which was very fun too! They said at the party we were unofficially the best dressed couple. After the party we went to Jeff's friends wedding. It was outside and they had to delay it bc of the rain so we missed the actual derby but it was still fun wearing my hat all day.

Then we have hank eating his first pancake that Jeff made for us on Sunday morning.

And finally our new power tools!! We worked on the pallets for a lot of Sunday and made two shelves that are finished but not hung and sanded the pallets for the bar. We need some more wood for that though. Hopefully we will get that done this weekend!! I'll take pictures of the final projects when they are done.

Overall it was a great weekend! Hope yours was too!