Would you rent me?

Would you rent a house you have not seen the inside of? I think if it was an older property, and didn't look well maintained I would say no, but look at these two homes. They are cute, new and well maintained so in our situation I would say, yes, but Brody still says, no way. The home I am most interested in is only 3 years old and had only one previous tenant, which was a single older lady. Since there is someone currently living in it the owner is not comfortable letting me have someone go through and take pictures of the inside to email me. She doesn't have any pictures online because she's a little older and not current with technology, so she's kinda old fashion but still very professional. The property owner allows no pets and no smoking. The interior has high ceilings, italian tile throughout main rooms, bathrooms and kitchen, carpeted bedrooms, neutral paint, french doors leading to a patio, backyard, and storage. This house is also in the nicest part of town. It is only 3/4 mile to church and 2 miles to Brody's work. I can tell by talking to the owner on the phone that she is very passionate about her properties. They are very nice, and before I would move in she would personally go through with professional cleaners and maintenance and make sure everything was in perfect condition. I would be able to go through the home before I signed the lease and even have someone go through and take pictures at the end of the month when the tenant moves out, but by then my other rental options would not be available anymore. Would you rent a house without seeing the inside?

Mother's Day Preview

This Sunday Baylor is singing a mother's day song at church with the other children in primary. Here's a little preview of the song with some added singing by Chase.

Chase and Lynlee

For those of you who don't know Lynlee, she is my friend Sarah's daughter. Sarah and I do things together all the time including working out at the same gym. The gym we go to is huge and has a ton of children in the child care center. Lately when I have gone to pick up Chase I have seen him and Lynlee wrestling, dancing, chasing each other, and even just gazing into each others eyes. The childcare workers have said that they always find each other and play and follow eachother the entire time. I was kind of surprised that with all the babies there they know and always find each other.

The other day Lynlee was at our house when I took these pictures. It seems obvious now that they have feelings for each other.

Look at Chase in this picture. He is drooling over Lynlee....literally his shirt is wet from the drool.
And then there is this picture. Lynlee fake falling into chase. I mean come on, that is almost as obvious as when a guy fake yawns and stretches his arm out to put around a girl in a movie.
They are so super cute. We will miss Lynlee like crazy when us and the Nelson's move. And, I'm pretty sure we will miss Sarah and Jason a heck of a lot too. Ya'll are awesome and have been such great friends.

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.