Miracles Happen

You are witnessing one ... a new post after FAR too long!! I won't begin to bore you with all of the reasons I haven't had/made the time to post lately. Let's just say my plate is full and I don't always do the best in the balancing act department ;) It's been PTA meetings, church meetings, digiscrapping class, helping out where needed in other areas, and did I mention I'm training for a triathlon?! I keep thinking "once I get _____ done then things will slow down so I can breathe." Unfortunately by the time I finish one thing it is on to another. The good news is that things are going well and getting accomplished!!

We have Stake Auxilliary Leadership Training coming up next week so we are busy planning for that. I got lucky and don't have to speak so I'm getting to do the fun stuff like invitations (which are already in the mail ... should have arrived today or tomorrow), creating notebooks and matching pens for the YW presidencies, and creating a sample notebook to help the leaders train their young women to be leaders themselves. All of it is time consuming but enjoyable - far more than having to prepare a talk (sorry, S)!!

Bigger than that meeting is the fact that my adorable baby boy is turning 1 on Sunday!! I can't believe a whole year has passed since that sweet little boy came to our home. Life has been enriched in so many ways in the past year and it has been so fun to see my girls shower our little guy with love. He is going for his first haircut tomorrow so he looks extra handsome for his birthday pics ... you know I'll be posting plenty!!

Onto triathlon news ... the race is a week from this Saturday and I am starting to get really nervous about the whole darn thing!! I feel like I have been training pretty hard for it - haven't missed a day (except for taking weekends off) for over a month now. Then I talk to others who are training and feel there is no way I will be ready by the 19th!! I am running 3+ miles consistently now without feeling like I will die. I've run the actual 3.2 miles outside a few times now and actually can't believe I can do it ... it is such an accomplishment for me!! I almost feel silly thinking about how proud of myself it makes me since I know that is such a little thing for many, but it is BIG for me and it makes me feel so good to think how far I've come in my running in such a short amount of time. I even ran the whole thing pushing a DOUBLE jogger with Kendyl AND Cougar in it the other day (with a potty break in the middle for Kendyl)!! I really need to work on transitioning from the bike to running the rest of this week and next ... and getting from the pool to dressed and on my bike. The photos of this event should be pretty entertaining ;) Hopefully Steve can get some good ones while trying to juggle 4 little ones cheering their mom on!

The airline we bought out tickets to Hawaii on (for our trip this summer) filed bankruptcy this week and canceled all of their flights, leaving us scrambling for tickets before prices skyrocketed due to the higher demand. We've had to file a claim with our credit card company but should be getting our money credited within 6-8 weeks. We actually got lucky and saved $150 with our new tickets ... even though we are now on a red-eye flight home rather than returning at a reasonable hour :(

My newest digital scrapbooking class started last Monday and it is beyond amazing. It is called Digi: In Deep and that is exactly what it is!!! I can't even begin to list the things I've learned in the first 2 lessons. It is challenging, exhilarating, frustrating, and empowering all at the same time! It is pushing me to try so many things I never would have imagined and is teaching me ways to do things in Photoshop that I never would have thought to try. Jessica is such a fabulous teacher and her resources and videos are worth way beyond what I've paid to take any of her classes. She'll be starting a new session of all her classes, starting with her beginning class, in May if you want to dive in. My newfound knowledge and relationships I've built through taking her classes have changed my life.

Okay, okay ... I'll wrap it up ... that is the drawback of not having posted for 2 weeks - You get all of the mish mash ramblings of my life in one long-winded post!! Thanks for hanging in there waiting for something new. Now if I could just get around to creating the new header and blog look that I've been itching to work on ... maybe after the race and my class ends ;)