I'm alive!

Yes! I am still alive. I've been so busy that carving out some time to blog just hasn't been possible.

I'm working 2 part time jobs, at Life Time Fitness and at Gymboree. So when I'm not working, I am working out or running my kids to and from school and/or sports. With the summer approaching, I am going to have more time to relax and perhaps blog. ;) Unless the warm sunshine just keeps me outdoors all summer, which would be fine by me!

I haven't been running at all this year. I've been doing a lot of kickboxing and dance classes at the gym though. I bought some cute new running gear and hope to get out there one day soon and get a good run in. The weather is getting pretty warm here, too...I don't want to run in 80+ degree weather, which is what we have right now! I am hoping to run the Life Time Fitness Torchlight 5K again like I did last year. It was my first organized race and was so much fun.

Lots of stuff has been going on. Chris and I are doing fantastic as always. The boys are growing like weeds and both are doing well in school. Ian has been on the Lakeville track team, and is AWESOME at hurdles. I'm thinking its because his legs are so long compared to the other, normal sized kids on the teams. He's not very fast at running the 50, 100, or 200 though, but he doesn't finish in last place at least. His last track meet is tomorrow night and I hope he wins the hurdles again like last week. The school year is almost over for both of them. Quinn's last day of 3yo preschool is next Thursday. Ian's last day of Kindergarten is sometime in early-mid June. I can't believe it.

Chris has finally received a decent raise at work, as well as partial ownership in the company starting at the beginning of 2011. He has worked SO hard for this. He was going to resign there and work for another company, but his current job really stepped up and made him feel appreciated. So he's staying and we're all happy. He gets to keep the flexibility he has now, and make some extra money which is always nice.

We have started construction on our basement. It was completely unfinished, but a guy from our church does construction and he started on it 2 Mondays ago. It's really coming along nicely. Its a BIG space so it will take a while to finish, especially since he's only one guy, but he's giving us a good price and we're letting him have creative freedom which makes him happy. I can't wait to get ALL the toys out from this level of the house and down into the basement. "Bye kids...go downstairs and play!" LOL

A cat had kittens under one of our bushes recently and we were able to catch 3 of them. We have them upstairs in the bathroom with all the necessary kitty supplies. We are going to try to find them homes, but I think we might end up keeping one. I wouldn't be opposed to keeping all 3, but Chris is kinda anti-pet so I think if he lets me keep one I will be happy. He's getting attached to them too, I can tell. ;) I wish I could catch the other 2 kittens. I worry about them out there. I don't want them to get run over or eaten or starve to death. The mama cat is fast and runs away so we can't catch her. I'd like to take her in too so she can be with her babies, but I haven't seen her or the other 2 kittens in a few days. :(

Well, thats all for now. I need to go collect my kiddos from their schools, then go to work at Gymboree.

It felt good to blog again. I look forward to doing this again! :)