A Little Bummed!!!

So this Sunday is the Columbus Marathon and due to a knee injury this summer I will not be able to run my second 1/2.  I missed out on 3 months of running and considered running anyways. I mean if I had to stop and walk I would do so since I am completely out of shape. Then I got to thinking, I'm going to pay $90 to not be satisfied or happy with my time...NOT DOING IT!!! So I decided not to sign up and now that the race is this weekend, I'm kicking myself in the ass for not signing up!! I have a couple friends running their first full marathons and I'm sooo excited for them. They have been training very hard this summer and are totally going to rock it Sunday!!

Looks like I better start getting my lazy ass motivated again so I can run the full marathon next October. My plan is to run Capital City 1/2 in May again and then train all summer for the full.

My Best Friend is a Hairstylist

So my best friend is a hairstylist at Kenneth's. She has been there for 8 years and makes good money doing it. She has always done my hair along with Kadyn's. Well a couple of months ago Kadyn decided she wanted short hair. Instead of asking me to take her to her Aunt Chels, she decides to ask a 5 year old to cut her hair. OMG, I cried!!

The hair cut from a 5 yr old

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OMG, Brian had to cut the tails hanging from the back because I took off running outside crying and blowing up Chels' phone. I was the psycho who dials, hangs up, and dials right back. Yep, 10 times I did that before leaving a voicemail. Thank God, Chels is good at what she does:

Cute right?!?!? It is, but it is still completely uneven throughout and she has about 1 in spikes on the top of her head that are going to take forever to grow out. Now, I'm not upset and I'm not mad...after all it's hair and hair grows back. But I will tell you, I miss her long her hair. She had the best hair ever. She has never had that baby fine hair. Her hair has always been great. Take a look:

Look how silky smooth it is!!!

I can't put pony tails in anymore and look how cute that face is!!

So needless to say, I miss my baby's long hair!! I miss being able to put braids, pony tails, pigtails, headbands, etc in. Think it would be bad to give my kid pre-natals to make her hair to grow?!?!

In need of some wine!!

So I'm not really a wine drinker, at all. Occasionally, I get in the mood for some. Well guess what, I'm in that mood right now. I'm stopping on my way home from work to pick up a bottle, the problem is I don't know what to buy.

It took me awhile to start liking white wine. I will drink pinot grigio or riesling. I want to try a red wine, I think but I don't want anything really dry. I need HELP like ASAP. 

What are some of your favorite wines and what brands?

Meet Mr. Ohio ~aka~ my Brother Budd

Before you get any ideas, no his real name isn't Budd it's Kyle! 

Come on now we aren't that hillbilly...

ok maybe we are!!!!

Budd is something I have called him since he was, well born!! Mr. Ohio would be what everybody started calling him last hockey season because he is "that kid".  You know, the one that is good at everything he does. The one that can pick up a sport and in within a week he is probably in the top 2 best players on the team. I mean after all he does take after me :) :)

I only found it fitting to write a post about him this week since his first hockey game of his senior year is this Friday.  I can't believe my little Budd Budd is a senior this year!! God I'm old!!

Here is Mr. Ohio...check that form out

Just a little background, there's a huge gap between Budd, Maddi (my sister), and I.

Here we are!! Almost 29, 18, and 11

Yes my parents are/were nuts or smart depending on how you look at it!!!

So Mr. Ohio..Budd..Kyle whichever you decide to call him, is probably the best Uncle a girl could ever ask for. According to Kadyn, Unkie Budd (yes that is what she calls him) can do no wrong. I called him retarded one day and got my head bit off by her.

 Girl LOVES her Unkie Budd!!!

So in honor of my brother and his senior year, I'm thinking about doing what any big sister would do. I'm making SHIRTS!!! Yes, I will be the sister with a shirt made that I will wear to every game. It will probably say Mr. Ohio and Budd on there. My goal is to embarrass the shit out of him this season. Any ideas for shirts for Kadyn and I to wear to his games? 

So What Wednesday

Linking up with my cousin Shannon for some SWW

This week I'm saying SO WHAT to:

• If I grounded my 4 yr old from going outside on Thurs and it back fired in my face. 
• If I ate a ham, salomi, and spicy mustard sandwich for breakfast today.
• If I haven't ran in like 2 weeks and have been eating for 6 lately, I have been busy moving.
• If I still haven't gone to get pumpkins yet, I still have a few weeks.
• If I have been celebrating my birthday all month instead of just a day, I feel like I deserve it.
• If I still have stuff at my old house, I'm just pretending it doesn't exist right now. I'm taking this week off from moving. I have what I need!!
• If I dropped Kadyn's clothes off at Once Upon a Child and they said it would only take 30 min if I stayed in the store to wait but if I left I couldn't pick them up until tom and I left. I'm not waiting 30 min in there with a 4 yr old who will want everything under the sun in there.
• If I'm going to be 29 at the end of the month and I still have no idea what the hell I want to do with my life!! I'm hoping one day I will decide.
• If I let my 4 yr old dress herself and do her own hair and half the time she doesn't match, I'm not fighting over clothes. She's and individual!!

The Big Move!!!

So Brian and I have been talking a lot about moving in together for the past several months. So naturally, we started going through stuff, re-organizing things, downsizing belongings, etc. Well after our trip to New Hampshire, we seriously talked about it and decided Oct would be the month. 

I'm like perfect, it's my birthday month, he has every weekend off this month (AMAZING!!!), and the weather is nice. So I take that as moving the end of the month, he took it as you live here TODAY (the day he said move in). Gotta love the communication gap between men and women! So spur of the moment we decide to move this past weekend. He decided he wanted my couch there ASAP, I mean we could watch the Buckeyes blow it PLAY on Saturday. So Friday we decide to go get it, just the two of us. I have sectional with recliners on both ends, HEAVY as a MF'er. So in one weekend I managed to turn his bachelor pad into a home. It looks so good, I'm sooo excited to be living with my best friend.

The best part about it, the kids are all extremely excited and happy about it. Yesterday was my first day leaving work and going to my new home. It was so nice going home to somebody!! The sense of security, not living out of a bag, seeing his face when I pulled into the driveway!!

Moving in with Brian was one of the best decisions I have made. I have never been happier, Kadyn has stability and consistency, and he is just the most amazing man I have ever met. I'm so excited for the holidays and spending them all with Brian and all three kids! 

Tonight will be my first night in my new home by myself, wish me luck!!

A Little Weekend Getaway!!

So the weekend was a success.  I had so much fun!!! We left Friday morning at the ass crack of dawn, dropped Kadyn off at the sitters, hit up the airport.  Good news, they didn't lose my luggage and I didn't get stripe searched!! BONUS. I did have to throw my favorite travel coffee mug away because apparently you can't bring it through the gate.

A nice little view from the airplane:

I love flying, Brian on the other hand is not a big fan of it. He white knuckled it the whole way to Baltimore. We landed in Baltimore and met the rest of his family there and then headed out to Manchester.  So his dad goes to get the rental car, little did we know we would be riding in style in a fully loaded Caddy!!

So my high class boyfriend decided he needs to drink a PBR in the Caddy, so that's what he did. I mean REALLY who buys PBR? He is thinking about switching to PBR for good, I said I'm not drinking that shit!!  So then we get to the hotel and head out to get lunch!! I was forced to eat steamers (steamed claims) SICK!! I couldn't get past the texture. I wasn't that impressed with the seafood there. The place we went to on Saturday was 100 times better. But I was forced to eat this little guy:

Oyster:

Looks like a huge snot rocket on a shell. It took me 20 minutes to finally try it. It hit my tongue and I freaked the eff out and took a bite out of it, then immediately spit it in my napkin. And in return, Brian spit his beer out laughing at me. Since we decided to eat lunch before the wedding, and I was with 3 guys, I only had 20 min to get ready.  I still needed to shave, paint my toe nails, touch up my finger nails, curl my hair, and put on my make-up. Well non of the above happened except for shaving my legs. I went with a side ponytail, curled, with a flower. You can't see my hair in the picture because I'm a dumbass and held the camera on that side to take it:

The final product:

It was a great weekend. We got to spend a lot of time together with NO kids. Let me tell you how nice it was going out to eat and not having to worry about the three kids and what they were doing and making them eat all their food!! So relaxing. We even got to enjoy the hot tub and pool. Now starts my diet, I ate way too much food and drank way too much alcohol this weekend. It is good to be home!!