May 2010

School's out for summer! We are all really looking forward to summer vacation this year. We have a lot of fun things planned. We have tickets to a couple of baseball games. We will be going to Adventureland, Great Wolf Lodge, Denver and Estes Park! I plan on painting the boys' room and doing some running and other projects. Hopefully I get to read a few books as well!
May was a busy month with the end of the school year, graduations, running, Mother's Day, and a trip from Grandpa Denny.
Denny visited at the beginning of the month for a night. He always brings the boys each a set of Hot Wheels cars, which they love.
Mother's Day was the day after I chaperoned AL's prom, so I was a little tired. We didn't do much. We hung out, had a good dinner and the boys gave me some gifts. They got me a new (much littler) camcorder. The last camcorder we had was the one my parents gave me for our wedding in 2001. It seemed small at the time, but seemed huge now! The one we got is awesome and fits in the palm of your hand! I love it. They also got me some new pictures to hang on the walls, once we get them painted!
This weekend has been spent doing mostly fun, unproductive things! Sunday I went to Sherry's house with Susan for dinner and then we went to see Sex and the City 2, which was cute. We had a good time!
Today we went to the Boys Town Memorial Day Run. The boys, Doug and I all ran the one mile race. It was Jack and Charlie's first. We weren't sure how they would do. We were fairly certain Charlie would make it the whole way. We thought Jack might want to be carried, but it all turned out great. I ran with Charlie nearly the whole way and we finished in 12:2something. Doug walked most of the way with Jack and they finished in 17 minutes. I think Jack was almost last. He wasn't super excited about the event, maybe because he's only 4, but Charlie was really excited. About 1/4 mile into the race, Charlie asked if we were done yet. I worried that he might want to quit, but he only stopped to walk a bit and ran the rest of the way. Both Jack and Charlie want to do another race. They were excited to get their t-shirts and their ribbons at the end. They liked having the bibs on their shirts and the timing chip on their shoes. Of course, it all had to come off the moment they were done. I was proud of the both of them for finishing the race and for being so happy along the way. This is a great race to do as a family. There are always a lot of kids and activities and it's so family-friendly.

Some funny things my kids have said:

After playing outside on a hot day, Jack was sweating buckets. Charlie looked at him and then yelled, "Daddy, Jack is leaking!"

Charlie is just finishing up kindergarten and he had seemed to like this little girl, Catie. She also seemed to like him. One day at recess, apparently she tried to hug and kiss him. Charlie came home saying he no longer liked her because she did that and he really didn't want her to do those things. Jack said, "So, just push her down." Charlie replied, "No, I just threw wood chips at her!"

(for some reason, I can't get my photos to move to the appropriate places, so I guess they will all just remain at the top of the post!)