We just had a small get together at our house this year for Brandt's 2nd Birthday. It was much less stressful than last year because it was just our family so I didn't have to worry about "entertaining" people (because if you know me thats something that sends me into major anxiety mode..lol. Caleb set up the sandbox outside and Brandt played in that the entire time. It was Sid the Science Kid theme and everything turned out really cute. Especially the cake--it looked like something that should have been on TLC! The lady did an awesome job. Everybody had a good time and it was nice just to spend time with family. I cannot believe my baby boy is 2!! He is getting so big so fast. We bought him some big boy underwear--they are the cutest little things ive ever seen. Hes getting very good at telling us when he needs to go "pee pee" and going in the potty. He hasn't pooped in it yet so that should be interesting..haha. He has started saying a ton of words and learning shapes. His favorite thing though is still watching Toy Story. My poor mom has seen that movie a thousand times by now but he never gets sick of it! We are getting more adjusted to Caleb being gone two weeks at a time but it still is hard. Especially this past weekend because Brandt got double ear infections again for the second time in 3 months and he was coughing really bad so it was pretty scary to be all by ourselves with him so sick like that. Plus it would make it a lot easier to go somewhere like workout or tan at night if Caleb was home because then I feel awful having to ask my mom to watch him so I can go do that stuff after she has had him during the day all week. I hope we didn't make the wrong decision with him taking this job. I mean don't get me wrong--the money is nice and being able to save so much and pay off debt is awesome but I don't want the price to pay for that be our family and marriage suffering. But it's too late now so i just pray we can get through this and stay close and make it work.
I think me, Caleb, my mom and Lynda are planning on going to South Padre Island in June to stay at my Aunt's condo and to see my cousins and my Aunt so that will be nice to get away. Cody and his wife Nani are expecting a baby boy (Jakob) around the first of June. I can't wait to see Brandt with his new cousin--he will love it. Lauren is also due in June so as soon as she has her baby I think we are going to go to Missouri to visit and meet her/him so that's exciting as well. It seems like every single person I know is pregnant right now. Crazy! Not me though! lol. I couldn't imagine having a 2 year old that demands all my attention and a new baby.
I ran in my first 5k on March 26th and actually finished without passing out which was my only goal! My time was 39:11 which I know isn't the greatest but I pretty proud of it considering I had never done anything like that before. It was really fun so I decided to sign up for another one on April 30th. It's the Stampede 5k at the Simmons Center. I want to at least run it in 37 this time so we will see. I haven't had a lot of time to train for it so I don't know. I like the challenge though. All too often people get sedintary and set in their ways and comfortable so I wanted to do something out of my comfort zone to push myself and running was definitely it. I am not a runner and never have been but I never thought I would enjoy it so much so now I plan to continue doing 5k's.
