5k racing and celebrating Poppi's 60th Birthday!

We had quite a busy weekend!! First, we started out at McAlpine Park where Shawn ran in a 5k race. This is the exact same course he ran in high school for the state championships where he came in 2nd place!! It was really cool for him to be back at the same course, however, he did have to realize that his body was not quite the same as it was 15 years ago!! Never the less, he did awesome and hit his goal for this particular race, which was to get below 22min. and HE WON 1st place IN HIS AGE GROUP!!!! (just for comparison, when he ran this course in highschool, his times were in the low 16minutes!!)

After the race, we headed to Greensboro over the weekend to celebrate Poppi's 60th birthday. The kids had fun riding horses, stopping at the Strawberry patch to pick some berries in the sprinkling rain, riding Poppi's fancy lawnmower (it's the small things people!), and eating Poppi's strawberry pie birthday cake!

Playing in the rain.

Last night we were eating dinner on the porch and a big rain storm came in. It was fun to eat outside and watch the rain falling harder and harder. Reilly asked if they could go play in the rain and I said, "sure! go get your rain boots!" By the time she and Braxton got their boots on, the rain had completely stopped. But, they still had fun stomping in the small puddles and walking around the driveway with their boots on!! I didn't seem to think it was a problem that Braxton didn't have any pants on....just his cute little choo-choo big boy underwear :)

Pregnancy Brain at 31 weeks....

Wow, today my daughter totally called me out!! Here's the story....

This is my week to pick up Reilly and her friend Sophie from preschool. They get out of school at 12:55. Last night I had a friend who is a realtor tell me she had someone interested in our rental house and wondered if I could show it between 12:00-1:00. I said that surely I could meet her there at 1:00, thinking I'd have enough time for Braxton and I to eat lunch and then get to school to pick up the girls. While we were at the rental house, they sent me a message saying they were running late and I told them I couldn't stay past 1:20, which would allow me enough time to get home for Braxton to go potty (he's potty training now!) and then get to school to get in the pickup line. The whole time it never donned on me that I was NOT thinking! We got home from the rental house at 1:05 and I stared at the clock for a few minutes and then finally it HIT me! HOLY COW! I was WAY past late to get the girls...surely they would be standing around waiting for me to get there! Wow. So embarrassing. So shameful.

Then, the kids and I were playing on the driveway and Reilly asked me for some lemonade. I started to get out a cup without a lid and she said, "no mommy, I want one with a lid so I can take it outside". I told her to get the cup that she had at school today for lunch and I would just refill it instead of getting a new cup dirty. She told me that she didn't know where that cup was. I explained that she unpacked her own bookbag so she would need to remember what she did with her cup. She responded that I didn't GIVE HER A CUP TODAY with her lunch!! No drink. Nothing. I couldn't believe her so I asked what she drank today at school. She said water....from the bathroom. And I asked her what she had with her lunch and she said NOTHING!! Holy cow, I didn't even give my child a drink to have at school for 4 hours that she was there! I started apologizing and she quickly replied, "Mommy, is the baby eating all your brains?"!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow.

So much truth comes out of the mouth of a 4yr. old!!

Mothers Day 2011!

I had a fun Mother's Day with my kiddos! Shawn fixed a pancake breakfast and then we headed up to Jetton Park on the lake with a picnic made up of Bojangles chicken and fixin's!! We hung out at the park for a while, checked out the lake and trails and then played on the playground with the kids. We finished up the day at my favorite, On the Boarder, with dinner on the patio! I'm so blessed to have such an amazing family :)






Reilly's preschool class did a special "Moms and Dad" breakfast this morning to celebrate both Mother's Day and Father's Day since they won't be in school in June. It was so sweet. Reilly has been talking about it for over a week now, but insisted that everything was a "surprise" and would NOT discuss any of the details! It was so cute to see her so set on keeping the secret! She was super excited for Mommy AND Daddy to be in her classroom this morning. They had several cute crafts that they had made for us and they had a special "Mommy" song and one for "Daddy" as well that they sung. So super cute :)

Reilly and her friend Lilly

The kids dressed up in suit coats and ties and had their picture taken and framed for a gift for Daddy's. So precious.

Asheville- May 2011

Last weekend we headed up to Asheville for the annual Chad K. Haynes Memorial Golf Tournament with all of the Turners and lots of other family friends. The golf tournament was on Friday and it was another great turnout to raise money for the endowment fund that was set up in Chad's memory to help provide financial assistance for a student to attend NCState. Reilly and Braxton couldn't wait to get out on the course with Daddy and had a blast riding in the golf cart with Aunt Kelly!

Shawn and Mama Ree

Reilly and her "2nd" cousin, Davis

On Saturday morning, Shawn, his dad and Uncle Stan all got up to run a 5k race that started just outside of the Hilton where we were all staying. This was the inaugural year of the race and there were 1400 runners registered!!!!

nothing like a live band at 8:15 in the morning to get ya going!

Shawn said it was one of the hardest courses he has ever run!!! He drove me on the course later that day and I couldn't believe how intense the hills were. I am so proud of him though!! Despite all of that, he finished 17 OVERALL and 3rd in his age group!!!!! You still got "it" babe!!
And then the kids and daddy took a little dip in the freezing cold pool/super hot hot-tub...

We hit a jackpot with this one!! O.P Taylors is this awesome, huge, nothing-like-it toy store right in the same complex as the Hilton as well. Holy moly we could have stayed in there for HOURS and could have spent HUNDREDS!! It is the coolest ever and we will definitely be making a trip back when it's time to buy some Christmas presents this year!!

And we finished up the weekend at Dave and Denise's house for a get together. Reilly LOVED the swing in their front yard :) The kids played, the adults ate, and then we all gathered to watch the Kentucky Derby after all bets were placed!

Park time!

We took a trip up to the Kannapolis Village Park a couple weeks ago and had a such a great time on the awesome playground there. The kids loved all 20+ slides they got to choose from! We were hoping to catch a ride on the train that goes around the park after our picnic lunch, but didn't realize that it only runs on the weekends until after Memorial Day :) Mental note made!

check out the static in that baby fine hair!! So cute.