Fast Running Mommy

My birthday is tomorrow...sooooo. if anyone wants to wish me a happy birthday....they can....I'll be thirty something for another 7 years after this birthday....I loved turning 30 but 33....that's just the beginning of a long confusing decade of babies and talent shows, homework and ballet class, dinners and breakfasts and all the laundry and dishes in between....do you think I'll remember how old I am in the midst of all of that? I doubt it..

Snow...for my birthday. When I was a little girl in Dallas I wished and wished one birthday that there would be snow(it only snowed once a year there...sometimes not at all)

My wish came true. I guess that wishing carried over for this one. This is the first heavy snow of the year and my kids are going to be so excited.

I already received a wonderful present...my baby slept all night and I got to sleep in my bed all night for the first time in a long time. I was able to get up early and run before Sasha even went at 7...wow!!

Have a great day everyone!! 

I'm feeling pretty good today. Nice easy two miles at 12 min mile pace. 

I got so mad at Sasha this morning...well..not really but I did give him a mini-lecture...he woke up the entire house before I got to go out on my run with his LOUD voice.

He has a very loud voice to go along with his loud and interesting personality...gotta love him..I'm not really mad because he has been so sweet and helpful lately but I wouldn't mind if he learned volume control.

Can I just say that I love my Billy Bubbles so much!! He is such a good baby. He is sleeping well at night and I really enjoy taking care of him...which is why I wanted another baby..I really love little babies and just love trying to figure out how to make it all work. Things are going well most of the time...When I struggle I just try and be patient and not freak out. :)

I got some really fancy smancy running pants from Nordic Track for one of Sasha's prizes. Problem is that I don't really care for the fabric they are made of. I guess some people like this fabric because they make pants out of it. Does anyone in the area want the pants? They are size medium and veeeery fancy running pants. ;)  

2 good miles in fresh fallen snow....with deadly black ice underneath...Imissing my old running partner Amanda..that lady was at my house everyday in the black of the early morning running in heck frozen over...well I guess we were running in happy valley frozen over...anyway...she was there and I miss her. :(

I'm getting excited for Christmas. I think I love being a mom at Christmas more than a kid...I have oodles of presents to be excited about giving. This year our children did slave labor for me for about a month and earned money to buy eachother presents. I'm excited to see how happy they will be to give eachother presents. I think it will bond us and them together more to have them grateful towards eachother for nice things and grateful for the experience of sacrificing and being generous. They are such good little kiddies...I'm choked up thinking about my older ones growing up. I think that's part of the reason I want more. 10 is the official number I've always wanted but just about everybody I know thinks..okay not everybody but my husband and my mom (how many more opinions really matter in life anyway?) ...anyway to continue this run-on...just about everybody I know thinks I might as well go for 12. My mom's exact words were, "Would you deny me the right to say that I have a daughter with 12 children." She was kind of joking and being silly but at the same time....I'll take it as a compliment that two very important people in my life who know my weaknesses are confident that I could handle as many kids as I want. 

William is a doll..He has been sleeping all night and lots during the day too. His dimple is darling...the bubbles that he blows with his sweet little mouth are adorable and we just love him more and more each day.  

Sasha took us for an adventure yesterday. We left the house in the middle of a terrible storm...thank goodness we kept our 4 wheel drive van. We headed for Jolley Ranch in Springville and spent twice as long getting there on terrible roads. Once there the gates were closed ..argh..and we had to haul six children, four sleds, one on skiis and a baby carseat with snoozing dreamer inside through a gate bordered by icy river death up a hill and to the sledding area almost 1/4 mile away. I was tough but I have to admit I did yell at my kids for the first time in a long time...I was so scared someone would run off suddenly and slip into the river. Joseph..my wise almost 4 year old observed that they would have to get close to the river to fall in. Later he also said a hilarious thing ....I was still stressed out during the sledding (mostly because I was planning on having the car parked 10 feet away in the parking lot like we normally would when the gates were open..by the way...they were supposed to be open and we had just paid Springville city 200 dollars that morning for the privilege of walking a 1/4 a mile with babies and sleds)  so...I was still stressed and when Joseph asked for help I declined. Then in his mostly still baby voice he said with perfect wisdom and clarity, "Mommy, I am your child. " Cute..true and to the point. I helped him haul his sled up the hill after helping the 2 year old Jacob and checking on sleeping baby a few feet away under the pavillion. phew...I slept in today. :)