Diva Dash

This Saturday I participated in a Women's Diva Dash. It was a 5K run with some obstacles. I did get to run it with some friends from school, but due to tball and soccer, no family was able to come with me. This was the second obstacle. They pushed these big balls into you as you ran out of the "ball pen". Trail running, up and down.... This was a rope obstacle... Then this crazy hill... Running through inner tubes... This was funny... you had to jump from these rafts and hope not to fall in... I stayed semi dry... I tried taking a picture of the finish line, apparently I was more tired than I appeared, but see what a pretty day it was.

A nice refreshing cold beer topped it off. I am NOT a beer drinker, but it was hot outside and the beer was cold and it tasted delicious. This was a departure from just running. I'd definitely do it again, hopefully next time with Trevor in a coed adventure race.

Birthday Boy

I love this boy...

I love that he is 14 and still wears a funny hat, or two for me to get a cute photo!

The blogs I read update their baby stats...

here's my baby's stats:

14 years old

5'8

approx 14o lbs

size 10+ shoe

8th grader, which means he will start HIGH SCHOOL this year!!!!

Catching up!

Sometimes I feel like I miss writing about a lot of things that happen in our lives. I mean, I post about the big things like birthdays, sports, fun holidays, etc.. but there is so much more I want to mark done here in my "history" book. For my family that reads this, it keeps you up to date cuz you all live too far away from us! For my friends, the randomness is what keeps us connected. I love reading your randomness too, so keep it coming! For myself, when I do get around to scrap booking again, (not that I know when that will ever be....) I am using this as my memory-jogger.

So here goes.... and just so you know, its long, but lots of great pics... and I apologize, I am having some spacing issues when publishing. It doesn't look like it does when I am writing it and I am not techno savvy enough to fix it. Sorry...

During Spring Break, Hollister and I made peanut butter play dough. It was sooo fun! For mommies of young kids, get the recipe here. Its edible and not really that messy.

Ingredients: dry milk, peanut butter, honey, powdered sugar.

We put ours in the fridge before eating. He is so proud and no, he doesn't have a mouthful of it yet, just a silly face!

Several months ago, Trevor made fondant for the first time. Fondant is a sugary covering that makes cake smooth and pretty. Problem is, it doesn't taste that good. We had fondant on our wedding cake and it was yuck! There is icing underneath fondant, so you can still enjoy cake, but as a whole, fondant is not people's favorite. Watching one of the many cake shows one night, we heard how easy one baker makes fondant and Trevor tried it. It worked! So far, Trevor has tried fondant three times.

Begin with a cute baker! (Haha....)

Grease the table with Crisco

Pour powdered sugar on the table, melt marshmallows

Pour the melted marshmallows onto the powdered sugar. I know this picture is blurry, sorry, but you kind of need to see this part. Begin kneading the mixture.

Knead, knead, knead... eventually it will turn in to a ball!

Pat that ball and wrap it in Saran wrap. Place in fridge until ready to be used.

And amazingly, you can turn marshmallows and powdered sugar into these:

The top is fondant, the bottom is his regular amazing icing.

Dipped cupcakes in fondant and then decorated! YUM!!!

Only white so far, but anything is possible. And, yes, it is YUMMY!

I continue my love/hate relationship with running. At the beginning of March I participated in a 5k with a bunch of ladies from school. It was loads of fun. Recently Trevor has decided to join me in my running quest. This has been really nice. I think I am going to enjoy having a running partner. I blogged about our first run together here.

My team, we were the DDD team, Drop Dead Divas!

The Whole GangAnd of course sports has taken over our nights and weekends, but we wouldn't have it any other way.... Trevor is coaching both soccer and TBall and is on the Elgin Soccer Board. He even has a title: Vice President of U6 soccer division! He's a busy man!

How cute is this boy?

This is him longing to be in the dugout with his Daddy and brother at one of our TBall games. More cuteness.... hanging out at their brother's soccer game. Isn't this picture funny? This is Hollister after running through the celebration tunnel at the end of our last soccer game. Which we did win! This is after our Tball game. It ended during his bedtime.

Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!

Last weekend was my 40th birthday. We were busy with TBall and the Capital 10K. So, when Trevor asked me if I wanted a party I just say, no, we're all too busy.

I actually had a great birthday and was no less off by not having a party. If you missed it, click here.

Saturday, after Tball and soccer, I told Trevor I wanted to nap. I was hoping he would nap with me, but the youngest one decided not to nap, so Trevor stayed up as well. Almost 2 hours later, yes, TWO HOURS!!!!! Trevor came and woke me up. I was shocked at the time. He said, "well, lets bathe the boys and we'll just have that out of the way." So, I did and then went down stairs. I noticed the house looked different and he saw my face. Things had just been put back in their place and organized. He said, "We (meaning my neighbors) decided last night to have game night." I said, "Oh, okay, who's coming?" He mentioned two families and I said, okay. He said no one really had time to prepare anything so I told them to bring it over and I'd get things ready.

When we do game night everyone just brings stuff to share, appetizers, chips, etc.... At one point, I said to Trevor, we have a lot of food for 6 of us. But really, this isn't abnormal. We ALWAYS have more food than we need.

I quickly swept and mopped the floors because even though it was just my neighbors, my house was pretty dirty. Trevor told me, "You should go change." With a sigh, I did. Man, I just wanted to be comfy. Since it was just game night, I threw my hair back, threw on some yoga pants and a homemade-blinged out shirt I made for a run I did with some friends at school.

At 7pm, my neighbor and her kids came over. She made her famous guacamole! My fav!

Then someone knocked on the door and in comes a friend who is NOT a neighbor. I said, "UH.. hi... its not game night huh?" I kind of caught on. More knocks, more friends and their kids. Cards and presents and in walks Trevor with a cake!

WHAT!!!?? You threw me a surprise party? How did he pull that off? He told me to nap and if you know me, I will NEVER pass up a nap!

I was totally shocked and can't believe no one spilled the beans. He had even invited friends from work, which is quite the drive for them.

Check out all that food! How did I not catch on?

Here's a funny story... I love oatmeal pies,I mean love, no I mean, obsessed..... I have been known to buy a box of Little Debbie oatmeal pies and eat the entire box before the evening is over. For the record, I haven't done this since CJ was very little.... For this reason, I never and I mean NEVER buy them. I know myself and they have some crazy hold over me. I am just sucked in by their awesomeness. Well, after 6 1/2 years together, Trevor just learned this fact about me. How is that? I don't know. I guess because I know my weakness with them and just refuse to even go near the Little Debbie section at the grocery store. Well, now that he knows, look what he bought me? Sweet and kind of mean, all at the same time. But guess what? I learned that most people LOVE oatmeal pies and that plate was empty by morning! See, I am telling you, they have a hold on more than just me!

Another funny... On Thursday, Trevor said, "I want to make some foundant for something I want to try. Will you help me?" And as the dutiful wife that I am, I said yes. (Are you having to clean up the coffee you just spit out from me calling myself dutiful? Sorry.) Anyway, I helped him make foundant for MY OWN CAKE. HA! He is so clever! Check out the inside of this cake...

vanilla and chocolate with raspberry filling!!! Friends to help celebrate!!!

Opening Day is not a Joke!

Today is MLB Opening Day for the Astros! Beaseball is serious business in our house.

This was dinnner! All baseball park food of course.

Hotdogs, yes, wrapped in aluminum foil, nachos and "French fries". (keep reading)

This was the younger boys opening Day presents!

We can't wait to go to see the Round Rock Express, even if they are now Triple A for the Rangers. We will still support them. The boys are official members of "Spike's Kids Club". They got this cool shirt, a Spike blanket and 10 sets of 4 tickets for the BERM seating at the Dell Diamond. Its a really great deal for some really good family fun! And its only $20! If you are local, I highly recommend it.

Today is also April Fool's Day? Mom can not resist!

Remember this? This was last years dinner, we ate dessert first!

This year along with our baseball themed dinner, I made "French fries with ketchup". They are made from pound cake and red icing. Hollister saw the icing bag and said, "Can I have cake?" Really? We can't get anything passed him. I said, "its not cake, its french fries." He took a bite and said, "hmm. this is different." We just laughed. CJ did a good job of playing along. Heck, he got to eat with dinner, I'd play along too! I also played an April Fool's joke on CJ. I was cleaning up and saw that the red food coloring from the "ketchup" had spilled. It was everywhere! What a mess. It looked like blood to me, so I put some on my finger and called CJ downstairs. I acted panicky and said, "Hurry, I'm bleeding." He saw it and FREAKED! He started running around the kitchen loooking frantic and grabbed a paper towel... ran over to me... He was like, "Oh mom, what happened..." I couldn't contain myself and just started laughing. He did not think it was so funny. Mom thought it was HYSTERICAL!!!

My napkin had lots of splotches of red food coloring. I had another idea....

Trevor had been across the street during my trick on CJ. So I walked across with the napkin on my nose. My neighbor said, "What's wrong?" I said, "Oh bloody nose." It was dark so they couldn't see, but Trevor and both the neighbors told me where I should hold the napkin, etc.. to get it to stop. We started walking in their house to see something and when we went in, I expected them to check on my nose. No, nothing... so I said, "Uh.. hello? bloddy nose! April Fools!" They just scoffed. I told my funny story about CJ and at least they liked that.

No, I really don't like April Fool's jokes, but I do love tricking my family with fun foods. That I will always do! The laughs wwere "icing on the cake!" (Pun intended!)