We cut our walk short on Saturday. It was so cold and windy. It snowed yesterday too and it's supposed to snow today. None of it's accumulating but still annoying. How am I supposed to justify flip-flop shopping? :o) It's getting REALLY hard to tie my shoes though so I need it to be warm enough to wear flip flops soon! Fortunately my feet aren't swelling at all yet....I just can't reach them so good.

Yesterday we got some chores done around the house. I got Jack's room looking like an actual room now! He loves it. He's got toys and books up there and I moved his roadway rug and cars up there. He likes to play in there. Now there's plenty of room in the living room for the baby stuff we'll be dragging out in a few weeks.

I went and worked at my mom's for a few hours and finished cutting the last of the ties. Thank god! I wanted to fist fight those ties. They're very frustrating to cut out and have been a VERY stressful job for my mom. Hopefully she finished them all last night as dude was coming to get them today. Jack napped on her bed while we were downstairs working and when he woke up, he got off the bed, opened the door and stood at the top of the steps and said "Mama!". It was funny. I had a feeling he might do that as opposed to sit in her bed and cry. Her doorknob is pretty easy to turn. He really likes being a big boy now. He gets mad when I break up food into little pieces for him!

Starting today I'm watching Brooke every day, all day! Barb got a new job and starts today. Her hours are regular hours now and her mom's starting to work full time too so she'll be spending quite a bit more time here. Jack already asks "Brooke comin?" everyday :o)


We watched the Big Brother finale last night. I really hate the whole juror aspect. I could care less what those people have to say. You lost....just vote. I would have been happy had either of them won so it wasn't too exciting. Kind of interesting though considering Adam had Ryan do all the dirty work. 

We started watching The Alaskan Experiment....I think that's what it's called. It's pretty interesting. 4 different groups of people are dropped in Alaska and have to make their way a few miles to their cabin or tent and then spend the next 3 months there roughing it. The father/2 daughter team is going to fight A LOT! I can't believe those girls sat around eating all the limited rations (sp?) while he was out fishing....and then fought over boot placement!

Jack's new favorite show is Big Big World. I tivo'd it for him a while back and he wasn't interested but now he loves it. He asks for it every morning!

 There's snow on the ground! And it's still snowing. And it's supposed to snow all damn day. Not cool. We have our walk today. Last year for this walk we were wearing shorts and sunscreen. Lame. Amy and Jazzy are coming with us. Amy is a friend that Jared went to school with and Jazzy is her golden retriever who happens to be Daisy's mom. Now I'm really glad I wasn't planning on bringing Jack! Barb's coming over to watch him because Jared's going up to hang out with Amy's husband Brent for some stupid football crap :P  

Jack went to bed very easily last night and woke up once about 5:15 and went right back to sleep easily. I guess night before last was just a fluke. Thank god. He totally doesn't want his dad involved in any of the bedtime routine now! If Jared puts him in his jammies and brushes his teeth, he cries the whole time and says "mama do it!" and if he even thinks Jared will be putting him to bed he has a meltdown. He won't even kiss him goodnight anymore!?!?! Argh. Hopefully that'll change once he's used to his new big boy bed. He NEEDS to let his dad be a part of bedtime. Hopefully he'll nap for him today :/ Napping hasn't really been a problem though. 

This is such a great organization! The 7.5K walk that Daisy and I will be doing on April 26th is for this cause. There's still time for you to donate here. 

 Phew! That was a lot to catch up on! I read everyone's journals but again, didn't have time to comment much. 
The shower went well but I could feel myself getting sick :( and when I get sick....Jack gets sick too. Um....were we not both just sick a week ago???? GRRRRR!! Damn you YMCA!!! He's of course had it worse....he even woke up from his nap with a fever today :( Poor kiddo. 
He has an appt to get his hair cut tomorrow morning. He's got the cutest outfit to wear on thanksgiving! A button up white shirt, vest, and dress pants. He doesn't have any dress shoes though so  he'll be rockin the Robeez knock-offs with little puppies on them :P We're going to my mom's for Thanksgiving. That morning we're doing our annual Turkey Day 5-K. It's normally just a tradition for my aunt Cathy and me but with Amy & Erik being in town, we decided they could join us. Rob and Barb were going to come to and Rob even picked the walk we were going to do....but they couldn't get their shit in a pile and register even after several reminders ;) They could still register day of but they said they're just not going to go so phooey on them guys.
I had a windows/blinds cleaning job today! Yay side jobs! Jared had to work from home today as something is yet again wrong with his car. He went and got a new battery but it turns out that's not the problem. Awesome. That's all I got for now. I'll check in when I can.

( Great day for a 4K )

We had fun on our walk today. And it was such a nice day. Daisy was super excited. She was barking at all the dogs as soon as we pulled into the parking lot. She calmed down though once we got to walking. Jack napped for the first half of the walk. He was pretty content until the walk was over and we were just sitting in the grass. Then he decided he had had enough and it was time to go home. Daisy made a few friends. She shared her water with the black dog pictured with her. She got a couple pretty cute bandanas and I got a shirt. They were handing out all kinds of grub afterwards. Trail mix, oatmeal raisin cookies, power bars, gatorade, water, and bananas. They were also selling hot dogs and brats. There were so many cute dogs there! Lots and lots of golden retrievers too.


Apparently Saturday's in our neighborhood are the day to drag things to the end of your driveway and slap a free sign on them. I swear, every other house for blocks had things for free in their yards today. I scored a sandbox for Jack! We didn't get the memo so we didn't know until we were out and about but I think we need to spend next Saturday just driving around to see what's for free :P

Daisy and I are doing a 5K to benefit Helping Paws. Helping Paws of Minnesota, Inc., is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to further the independence of individuals with physical disabilities (other than blindness or deafness) through the use of a service dog. As part of this mission, Helping Paws trains and places service dogs with individuals with disabilities in the state of Minnesota and surrounding areas. Here is a link to our donation page. There's a cute picture of Daisy on our page ;)  Please give if you can. Even if it's just a little bit. Thank you!! :O)

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Here's pics of us from the Christmas day 5k. My mom, my brother Rob, myself, my future sister-in-law Barb, my brother in law Erik, my sister Amy, and my niece Brooke. We froze our  butts off but it was alot of fun. May have to make it a tradition.
( Holidazzlers! )