April's 12 on the 12th - It was Easter!

1. Noah is ready for church. Doesn't he look so handsome?
2. Noah got sidewalk chalk in his Easter basket.
3. Eating some yummy banana.
4. Giving Daddy some love before church.
5. Easter eggs from the hunt.
6. Noah is looking for the eggs. He tried to keep up with the big kids for a few minutes.
7. Our beautiful Easter lilies.
8. Noah also got some plastic golf clubs in his basket.
9. The Easter bunny brought Noah a big basket and surprised me with one too.
10. We grilled out and had some BBQ. Noah's favorite dish was the baked beans.
11. Danille, Justin, and Emily brought their kids over and we had a little Easter fun!
12. Noah had a blast playing with Ashley.

Calgon, where are you?

I just have to vent in this post. Please feel free to skip. It's been a rough couple of weeks. I don't know if I mentioned this earlier, but we've been in mandatory overtime for a few weeks now. It's not a ridiculous amount of overtime required, but it's still tough to work out a schedule between me and Billy. Plus it's just been a rough time at work lately too. So it's really been draining. Then we have a lot going on at home. Billy will be leaving for a significant amount of time soon, but I'll go into more details about that in a later post. Right now I'm really just upset about one thing.

It all started yesterday morning when I was taking Noah to day care. I rear-ended a car. Yeah, it sucks. I was at a red light, the light turned green, I let my foot off the brake, but the car in front of me didn't. I had enough time to hit the brakes and hope that I wouldn't actually touch the car, but no such luck. I bumped her. We pulled off the road and there was NO damage to either car. Noah was with me and we were both fine (in fact, he went to day care, I worked all day, and then I ran 3 miles after work). The driver of the other car didn't see any damage so we agreed that there was no need to call the cops, but we exchanged phone numbers. I should have given her a fake number. She called 4 1/2 hours later saying her back just started hurting and she had to go to the emergency room. What kind of crap is that. Seriously, bumper cars have more of an impact than we had. So now I'm having to deal with the insurance companies and claims adjustors. And I know she's trying to get something out of it because she's in the military, which means ALL of her medical bills are paid for. Am I going to get sued??? Ultimately, I know it was my fault. None of this would have happened if I had paid just a little more attention, but geez... I guess I just picked the wrong person to play bumper cars with.

Cooper River Bridge Run

If you're from South Carolina, you know what the title is about and you recognize the picture. If you're not, the Bridge Run is an annual 10k that takes place starting in Mt. Pleasant, goes over the Cooper River Bridge, and ends in downton Charleston. It's a huge event that has even had a few famous people participate. I heard Oprah did it one year. Anyway, I did it last year for the first time and LOVED it. I never thought running 6.22 miles could be so enjoyable, but it really was! So I was very excited about this year. I was ready to compete with myself and was really hoping to beat my time from last year. By the way, I completed it last year in 1:04:10, and I was very proud of that time, especially since I'd never run 6 miles straight in my life. So this year's Bridge Run was this past Saturday and the weather was perfect!!! The first year I tried to go it was cold and rainy, so the weather is always hit or miss in the beginning of April. Anyway, the weather was good, I ran almost the whole way, and I had a great time. Unfortunately, I did not beat my time from last year, but I have good reason. I guess there's always next year. My goal is to do it in less than an hour so I need all of you to remember and hold me accountable for next year's race! I'll need all the help I can get!

March 12 on the 12th

1. This is Billy's usual position when Noah and I leave in the morning

2. A candid shot of Noah first thing in the morning

3. Some early morning love between mom, Noah, and Ruffy

4. Breakfast of champions - pancakes, fruit, and milk

5. Lucky Billy got to go fishing today!!!

6. Noah's school - I only pick him up on Thursdays

7. Noah and his teacher - they love each other

8. Noah and I go to the commissary every Thursday for groceries

9. Pushing his best friend, Ruffy, around in the stoller.

10. Helping mom pull the wagon

11. My not so healthy, but oh so yummy dinner

12. Our March calendar

Will I ever have a snow day??

I complain about this all the time, so you might have heard this already, but I've never seen snow. I grew up in south, and I mean really south, Texas where it doesn't snow. Then I met my wonderful husband who just happened to be stationed in another part of the country that doesn't see snow, and I'm really okay with that because I'm not a fan of cold weather anyway, but I still want to see snow. Up until a few weeks ago, the closest I came to snow was when I was very young on the top of a mountain in Veil, Colorado in the middle of summer, which really isn't snow, but crunchy ice. Then there have been so many occasions when I just missed the snow.

1. My school always had a church camp during spring break and you had to be a certain age to go without your parents. The year before I was old enough, it snowed like crazy. I went for maybe 6 years after that and it NEVER snowed.


2. I lived in the Rio Grande Valley until I was 18 and then in the summers until I was 22. I went to college in San Antonio, TX and then lived in San Marcos, TX for a couple of years. I thought I would certainly see at least a few flurries in one of those places, but no such luck. Six weeks after moving to South Carolina, it snowed in San Marcos and San Antonio. Unbelievable.


3. And this one is even more unbelievable. My family (mom, brother, and sister) all came out to Charleston for the first Christmas after I had moved. This was the only Christmas that any of us had ever been away from our house. None of us had ever seen snow. There was a major snow storm that covered our house in snow... ON CHRISTMAS EVE. It just doesn't snow in the Valley, much less on Christmas Eve, and as soon as we're all gone, the unimaginable happens. Our relatives were nice enough to send us pictures via e-mail of our snow-covered house and the dogs pouncing around in the snow. So yes, our animals saw snow, and we didn't.

I did see my first snow flurries a few weeks ago. The flurries were few and far between, as evidenced by the pictures below, but they were there. Like I said earlier, I'm not a big fan of cold weather, so it's not like I want to live somewhere where I have dig through snow to see my driveway, but one snow day would be nice! (and one would probably be enough!)