A couple of things

These two things are soooo totally unrelated but here goes!

First of all I just finished the Harry Potter series. I never quite understood all the hype....I do now! Great writing, great stories. They pull you in! I couldn't put them down and was actually sad when they ended. How sad is it that the past two series of books that I've thoroughly enjoyed (HP and the Percy Jackson series) were read because I wanted to read them "with" Hayden? How much sadder is it that she hasn't read them yet and I want her to read them so that I (I mean WE) can see the movies?

Second, I have to say that A/C is one of the greatest inventions known to man. I really don't think I'm exaggerating when I say this. I don't think you fully appreciate it until YOUR SYSTEM DIES!! That's right; just about this same time last year we replaced the one on the main floor and now....well now it is about 90 degrees upstairs and the A/C guy is on his way here (2nd one for the day) to give us an estimate to REPLACE it! Arrrrggggghhhh!! Needless to say since it is about the average temp of the surface of the sun upstairs the girls can't sleep up there. Where are they sleeping you ask? In MY king size bed. And where are the hub and I sleeping you ask? In the QUEEN size bed in the basement! Double Arrrrggggghhhhh!!!

Dear Lord, please let the Coolray guy fix the A/C ASAP so I can sleep in my own bed before I have to kick the hub to the floor cause he hogs the bed. Amen. ;-)

School's out for summer......

WHOO HOO!!! Things are now finally starting to slow down. Thank goodness!!! The girls are complaining that they are bored (already; after only 2 days) but I can't help but want to relax for a little bit!! So here's a quick run down of what's been happening the past month:
-I celebrated my 9th Mother's Day

-Andy and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary; including dinner out by ourselves.
-We found a new baby sitter who our girls absolutely LOVE! This has been a wonderful find and she is such a great kid which makes it even better! This may not sound like a big deal to you BUT considering she is only the 2nd person besides family or close friends to watch the girls it's a HUGE deal to us!!

-I celebrated my 40th birthday with a surprise bday lunch with the girls,dinner with my parents, Andy and the girls and a surprise bday party with a bunch of my friends.

What a great way to celebrate turning 40!!

-After 4 years of being the PTO President I turned over the PTO Presidency to the incoming President. I'm not going to lie it was hard and sad but it's getting better.

-We had 2 field days, a 4th grade talent show, an Arts and Tech night, a piano recital and cheerleading fitting day.

-Hayden was on the All A Honor Roll and also received the 4th grade Technology Award. Whoo hoo!! She is now officially a 5th grader. Her class put on their end of year play for the parents. You can read about it on her blog, Hayden's Highly Hilarious Hijinks.

-Isabelle was on the All A Honor Roll and is now an official 2nd grader. This means that for 1 brief year (until the 1 year it will again happen in high school) my 2 girls will be in the same school. This should be interesting!

-In addition I've been walking/running lots of miles, have tried Zoomba (loved it!) and a couple other workout classes AND I've lost a total of 25.6 pounds!!

Now it's time to do all the things that I haven't had time to do for the past month and fun, fun, fun. There will be some cleaning and purging but for the most part I want to be on the dock, in the sun playing with the girls. I want friends to come play. I want to go on some trips.
So bring on the summer!! Cause I'm soooo ready!! Happy Summer everybody! I hope you have a great one!!

And the verdict is....

I tried Pilates this morning. The balance queen I am not. I'm not even the balance princess. More like the balance jester! There were only 2 major falls off the ball. I'm talking fall totally off the ball and have the ball roll across the room. Minor falls there were more of. A.lot.more. Other than that it was good. I feel like it could definitely strengthen my core, make me stronger and more balanced.....with some time.

The only thing about it was that I felt like I needed to do an aerobic exercise as well; something to get my heart rate up. Soooooo after an hour of Pilates I did a 2.2 mile walk.

Heart rate up: check. Aerobic activity: check.

Feeling it all over after both activities: priceless.

This should be interesting....

I'm going to be trying Pilates in the morning.

I was told to bring one of those giant balls to balance on.

Yeah, this should be really interesting!

SU-Weet

Hot diggity; dog diggity!!

21 total pounds down!!

4 pant sizes down!!

Back up to 5.5 miles (walking at this point but can running again be far behind?!?!)!!

Those are definitely numbers I can deal with!!!

Can I get a woot woot!!

So sad

Today two of my friends lost their fathers.

I can't imagine the depth of their pain and grief.

Please remember that each day with your loved ones is a gift from God.

Open that gift with joy and be thankful for every moment.

It can end too soon. Don't have regrets.

Yikes!

I can't believe how long it has been since I've posted!!
I need to post about our fun, fun, fun Spring Break vacay to Tucson.
I need to post about starting back to miles after my knee injury.
I need to post about having my last PTO function prior to handing over the reins to someone else.
I need to post a lot of things but I think after catching up on all the blogs that I follow I'll go to sleep.
Yeah, I need to do that. But I promise I'll be back really soon!!