Women's Fitness

I did the Women's Fitness last Saturday. This is such a fun race - it's all women and they get 20,00 women doing it every year. I did it with 4 other friends - Kim, Andrea, Alison, and Stacia. As we drove downtown the rain started to fall. By the time we parked it was really coming down. By the time we parked, walked to the start line, and the race actually started we were soaked - literally water was dripping from our hair (luckily we were all wearing our pink camo hats we got for joining the radio station Mix 106 team - the Mix Chicks)! We were dying for them to start the race early - but no luck! Running in it didn't seem bad and kept us warm. It wasn't until we finished that I started to get cold. It rained every minute we were outside. When I got home I looked like a drowned rat - I told Derek there wasn't a dry spot on me and he pointed out that the knees on my pants were still dry - but that's it! That race was one to remember!

Bailey Starts School

Bailey started preschool this year. She's in a neighborhood preschool with 4 of our friends. We each take a week teaching - 2 hours, 2 days a week and then we threw in a playgroup week just to make it even better! We've planned some holiday parties and field trips throughout the year. It's the cutest group of 5 little girls. Bay loves going to school and every day asks if today she can go to school. Yesterday when I told her that she couldn't go because she was sick she cried! She loves going to school!





There's my girls before they each go to school!

I Love Cha Cha

Ok, here's my public service announcement - I love it when people share their good ideas and tips so I'm sharing mine. Derek found this service called Cha Cha. It's a texting service that lets you text them any question and in 5 minutes they text you back. It's just like having the interenet on your phone for those of us who don't have the interenet on our phones! You just text them at Cha Cha (242-242) your question. Here's a scenario: Derek and I were driving to Twin Falls and we were talking about a Saturday coming up. I was asking him what time BYU was playing (it dramatically impacts me what time BYU plays every Saturday!) and he didn't know. So I just texted Cha Cha: What time does BYU football play on Saturday? 5 minutes later I had my answer - 1:00. Awesome eh? And Cha Cha is totally free - I don't get why or how, but it is. Sometimes I use Cha Cha just because I'm lazy and I'd rather have someone else spend the time finding the answer. I wanted to know what the weather was going to be like in Florida in November - now I could have found this out for myself - but why not text them, work on dinner, and then get the answer!? So I just texted them: What is the average high temperature in Orlando in November? 5 minutes later (and my dinner closer to being done) I had my answer of high 70's. It's also become a verb at our house - if Derek asks me something I don't know my answer is now - "I don't know, Cha Cha it". It's awesome - get cha cha'ing!

Go Mavericks!

Go Mavericks!

Emmy started cheerleading last month. It is the funniest thing ever! Her squad consists of 8 girls ages 5-10. They have practices twice a week where they learn lots of cheers and dances. Who do they cheer for you ask? They cheer for a football team through Optimist. These boys are 12 years old and our girls cheer at all their games. It's so funny that Derek and I take all our kids to watch Emmy cheer at a 2 hour football game - but that is where every Saturday finds us. Poor Tyler gets so bored! We went to a cheer camp that was 2 days and had all the Optimist Cheerleaders there (think 400 cheerleaders!). We're the Mavericks and our colors are maroon and white. Emmy cheers all the time at home and Bailey and Tyler both know all the cheers - so do Derek and I (Bay's favorite is Cookies and Cream: Cookies, Cookies, Cookies and Cream - what's the matter with the other team? Nothing, nothing, nothing at all, they just know how to (clap, clap) FALL! Complete with all the cheerleaders falling down of course!). They have the whole uniform they wear, they take turns being the Cheer Captain every week, they have a Cheerleader of the Game (Emmy was it last week and she couldn't have been more clueless as to why some football player was calling her name to give her a treat!). Emmy's really liked it - way more than soccer (the worst!), gymnastics, or dance. It's been really fun - GO MAVS!

Home Sick

I've taken quite a break from blogging the last month - this wasn't a voluntary thing, we had some serious computer problems going on at our house. We bought a laptop last summer and then a month ago it started freezing up - I mean, to the point where you couldn't turn it off - that's when you know you have problems! And I'm no computer wizard so the computer would freeze and it wouldn't turn off so I would let the battery die so I could start it back up (I know that would give some respecter-of-computers a panic attack but I did it anyways). Derek was out of town and I was complaining about it and he asked me why I wasn't just taking the battery out - good point, my friend. So we limped along like this for a few weeks until it was freezing all too frequently and I made Derek call his good friends at HP and get some help. They told us we had a bad hard drive, so they mailed us a new one, Derek installed it, no improvement to the ol' computer. So the next step was to mail it into them and let them fix it - and now I am back in business.
None of this has anything to do with the reason for the post - my little Bay being sick today. In the middle of the night she woke up, went to the bathroom and threw up, and then came and got me up. She and I then spent the next 2 hours throwing up. After she'd throw up she'd say "wash it out" - and she wanted me to brush her teeth. So I'd brush her teeth, and then she'd throw that up! After brushing her teeth 3 times (and throwing up 3 times) I put an end to that and made her suffer through it.
I hate when your kids sick. They are so miserable and you're so helpless. I hate when you're up in the night with a sick kid thinking about all the things you need to cancel in the morning (I'm guessing my Visiting Teachers don't really want to come today). I hate that Derek is out of town this week and missing out on all this. I hate laying in bed . . . listening. Listening for a cough . . . a sneeze . . . worse. Listening for tiny footsteps headed your way. Listening for other kids who might be waking up sick, or just waking up.
I am so grateful though that I'm a stay-at-home mom today. I'm so glad that while I have to call my Visiting Teachers, I don't have to call some boss and explain why I can't be there. I'm so glad that I am the one taking care of Bailey today. I'm the one giving her her blanket, letting her watch Barney, and holding her. I'm so thankful a babysitter or a nanny isn't taking care of my little girl. But I am open to the idea of sharing the night shift . . .