Baby Fox Starts Preschool and a 5K

So Friday was Baby Fox's first day of preschool...there were tears...a lot of tears. I wish I could say there were from my end, but unfortunately it wasn't. But he was excited, until his teacher opened the door, then the waterworks started.

We started off with pictures at home... I had this really cute sign I made, but then I couldn't print it out...darn. So a hand drawing will have to do.

Walking there, all was okay...

Yep, gotta get a selfie in

He got tired of walking, so I carried him the rest of the way. Lazy bum.

Before we knocked on the door, he asked us if we could just stay for 5 more minutes

Then she answered the door...and all hell broke loose. He couldn't stop crying, and wouldn't let go. It was so sad, and I couldn't handle it. But we had to let him go, so the teacher held on tight as Mr. and I tried to walk away as fast as we could...you know trying to rip the band-aid off as fast as possible style. Good news though, by the time we walked home, the teacher had called and said he was playing in the backyard and doing great. This morning, was the same, except on the walk over he pretty cried the whole way saying he didn't want to go (so I'm told). We'll see what happened during the day, I'll keep you posted.

Our walk home

The our daycare provider had a doctors appointment so I was on Mini Fox duty.

We ate some breakfast

She played the piano while I tried to get some work done. Work was not happening so we played around in Daddy's office area.

After school I took just Baby Fox on a special first day of school treat.

After naptime we made some desserts for going over to my aunt and uncle's house on Saturday. Fact: Did you know that angel food cake takes 12 egg whites and Creme Brulee takes 10 egg yolks? Yep so I made both. It's super easy, really, much easier than you would think...Seriously. And who doesn't love to use a torch to crisp up some food? That's Mr.'s favorite part of creme brulee.

Checking to see if the egg whites were whipped enough

Baby Fox is eating a grape

Saturday was pretty low key, we knew were going to be going and spending the night at my aunt and uncle's. Mini Fox explored one of Baby Fox's toy bins

What do you do when you're out of ketchup for your hotdog? Well use the almost expired whipped cream of course. Eww, but he seemed to think it was pretty cool.

After naptime we headed to my Aunt and Uncle's. My aunt (far back), Cousin #3 (red shorts), her husband, my sister, Baby Fox, Mr. and my Uncle (back towards us)

Cutie #4 and Baby Fox, love watching them play together, they are just too cute for words. They were both asking about each other the whole day. As soon as we walked in the door, Baby Fox went running around looking for her.

My sisters version of a healthy dessert

Seriously, she brought all of this individually and the put it together at the party, crazy awesome right?

 Before going to bed, I got to brush my teeth and what do I find? Yep Mr. packed Baby Fox's bubble gum toothpast. I told Mr. that he brought the wrong toothpaste, and he says, no I thought it would be fun. Fun it was not, brushing your teeth with bubble gum toothpaste is really gross, and it doesn't make you feel like you have clean teeth, gag!

Sunday we were up early for our 5K for Eveyln's Breast Friend Forever. From their website:

Our mission is to unite women with breast cancer through unifying social events. Together we are committed to support and enrich the lives of those we touch.Through fundraising, volunteer support, donations and ultimately financial generosity, our vision is to help raise the self confidence of women with breast cancer by providing funds to pay for breast reconstruction to uninsured women.
Unity is not our wish, it is our goal.

 It was seriously the most perfect weather for a 5K, even if I was dying and couldn't walk because it hurt more to walk, so I just kept going. Yep I pushed both kids in the Double Bob, for 3.1 miles. I did finished in about 36 minutes, 12 minute miles, not too bad. But I was dying, my legs hurt today :)

Bright and early

 All fresh and ready to go

Race is about to start

Baby Fox decided he wanted to get out and run for a bit, and when I say a bit, I mean like 10 seconds.

Beautiful view right? This is mile 1.5 or so.

Aunt and Mr. already got to the turn around and were headed back, I was happy to see them, meant I didn't have too much farther before the turn around.

I'm all hot sweaty, just finished maybe 5 minutes prior, they had been done for a while longer.

Selfie after running, still smiling

We told Baby Fox that we would take him to Starbucks if he was good during the run.

Waiting for our drinks/food

She finally fell asleep for a bit on the way home, I love bare baby feet. I don't want to put shoes on her...good thing she's not walking yet.

After we got home, everyone took a nap, well Mini Fox, not so sure, she "woke" up 1.5 hours before we thought she was going to...and she took a solid late nap, and then practically put herself to bed last night.

It was a great weekend with family and running. Even though I complain, I'm so glad that we're able to be with family, run at the beach and are able to support a great cause.

Linking up with Faith, Sarah and Heather for Mommy Moments

and with Bella & Lisa

And The Results Are

Saturday we went to the Be The One Run. We were worried that it was going to rain, but Mr and I decided that we would go rain or shine, but the weather worked in our favor, cloudy, not raining and perfect walking weather.  The whole thing was truely an amazing experience. There were so many people there supporting family, friends, loved ones, people with matching shirts with pictures of their loved ones, signs, it was really great to see everyone coming together to support such a great cause.

 

This is my friend Sarah and her sign

 

This was the sign that they used last year for the run, and has been in every hospital room since then.

 

 

Getting ready to start the race. K-Man had a rough night, but everyone still showed up in relatively good spirits.

 

I ran ahead of everyone with a friend and when we came back around (about mile 2.5), I walked with the rest of the group. Baby Fox got hungry, so we stopped to give him some breakfast, I felt since I already ran most of it, I deserved a break, right?

 

We let the rest of the group keep going, and when they came back around, we finished off the walk with them.

Almost at the finish line!

 

Finished!

 

He wasn't in the mood to walk across the finish line.

 

We won for the most money raised about $7500!!! and K-man's Dad won for most individual money raised, I think about $2500! Go Team Happy Star!

 

At the end we took some group pictures, but they haven't sent me the pictures yet, I think they came out really well. Excited to see them. Thanks everyone for the support and prayers!

 

 

That Time I Ran a Half Marathon

Okay, so maybe it wasn't that long ago, 2 weeks...but now I'm left with, now what? I spent the last 3 months running over 200 miles trying to train for this sucker...I knew what I was going to be doing every other day, running, and running, just keep running. But now that I'm done, I'm not sure what to do. This week I went to my beloved cardio kickboxing class, this used to be my favorite form of exercise, after class I felt great, but I feel like it's not enough any more. I have a love/hate relationship with running, I like the way I feel after I'm done, but hate almost every moment while I'm doing it. This could be the heat talking...where is Fall? Weather.com says it's supposed to be 97° tomorrow, huh? I want cooler weather please, thanks! I digress, I signed up for personal training sessions (okay I didn't sign up as they told me I had unused sessions left from 2005! Yep 2005, heck ya I'll take them!) I had my first session on Thursday, still don't know how I feel, got a good workout, but it's not something we can afford to keep up. What is your exercise regime?

What's a post without pictures? Here's me at mile 12.5 or so...only 0.6 miles left, I can do it!

 

Me and Baby Fox, yep we got him up at 4am to come with me to the run, he stayed awake the whole time and then took a 5 hour nap when we got home (does that even count as a nap?) 

If you ever do run a 1/2 marathon try out the Disney Half, it's Labor Day weekend every year and it's a fantastic first one to do. You run through Disneyland, California Adventure and actually run through Angel Stadium (with people cheering for you), it was an awesome first 1/2 marathon.