Capital City Half Marathon

This is me and my super-duper good friend Sarah just before running the Columbus half marathon.

I used to be a pretty good runner back in the highschool days. My junior year I did varsity track, cross country, and cheerleading. I went to regionals in track and state alternate on our state champ cross country team. I was also on a pretty competitive cheer squad, plus I had seminary every morning at 5:45am followed by cross country 1st hour, track and cheer practice after school, plus games and meets, and I worked at a restaurant when I wasn't doing those things. So I guess you could say I kinda got burned out after my junior year, so I quit running, and I think that bummed my parents. I think they, especially my dad are glad to see me running again.

I ran the Capital City Half Marathon today. Brody told me not to overdo it (he knows me too well). I took his advise at the beginning and started off at about 8:40 pace the first 6.5 miles, and I felt so great that I sped up the pace to about 8:00 for the 2nd half of the race. I finished with a time of 1:49:20 which is 8:21 overall mile pace. I was the 36th out of 841 female finisher in my age group. The race was awesome. There were almost 7,000 runners there. It was my first half marathon, and I think I'm crazy enough to want to do it again.

Blog Book

I recently make a blog book using Blurb. It was not very hard, time consuming or expensive. I love the way it turned out. Here are a few pictures I took of the book.

Spring Crafts

I love these festive spring blocks I made at craft group. My mother-in-law gave me a cute Easter egg garland that just happened to match perfectly.
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We also recently made ties. They would be really great Father's Day gifts. I already gave mine to Brody though.

100th Post!

Whoopee! I did it. Two years and two months later I am writing my 100th post.

I remember it like it was yesterday. I was at a friends house for craft night when the conversation of blogging came up. I didn't know what it was, and therefore should have been shun from society, because I'm pretty sure I thought blogging was an Irish folk dance with wooden shoes (apparently if I don't know what something means I just think of something it rhymes with). Fortunately, I had some good friends that helped me find my way. I started blogging, but I didn't know what to blog about. I figured I would write an update from time to time about the kids and post pictures for grandparents, siblings, and friends to see. I thought it was a great way to keep family in the loop with updates and pictures since they live so far away from us.

After a little while I changed my reasons for blogging (don't worry family I still do it for you too). I have never been very good at keeping a journal or scrapbooking. I decided I would try to blog at least once a week and use that as my journal/scrapbook. I know a lot of people think that's not a good idea, but for me I was doing nothing before, so this was better than nothing. I feel like it is similar especially because I can print my blog into a book and keep it like I would a journal or scrapbook. I already look back at older post and laugh. I'm sure my children will do the same when they get older.

I feel like blogging is a great alternative for those people like me who want to have memories captured, journaled, and photographed, but just don't have it together enough to pull out a journal or get out scrapbooking supplies every time something happens in their family. I think blogging is great. I have loved taking the time to write about my children, husband, goals, achievements, hobbies, vacations, holidays, fun stories, kids milestones, and memories.

So, that is it. For my 100th post I decided to tell you why I have posted 100 post. Happy 100th Post Day!!