mother's day

Well, last year on Mother's Day Caleb and Logan were just two little peanuts inside me.  We did know by that point that we were having twins, but we were still a couple months away from finding out they were boys.  I've got all sorts of sappy, reflective, insightful thoughts flying around in my head, but I don't have time to organize them and type them out - I'm a busy mom!  :)  Let's just say that life is great with my boys and I am having an incredible amount of fun with them. 

Yesterday was the big race day!  Months ago I had decided that I wanted to do the 5k River Bank Run, but I just wasn't sure if I was going to be able to pull it off.  I really owe it to my husband and brothers.  Mike so willingly watches the boys so that I can get out and run a couple times a week with my brothers, and my brothers are kind enough to slow down and run a few miles with me (they do longer distances at a faster pace otherwise) and encourage me to keep going.  Anyways, I didn't train for very long, so my goal was pretty much just to run the race without having to stop and to not be last, and I did it!  I didn't have a stellar time in comparison to other runners, but I met my goal and that felt great.  Just a little over 5 months ago when I could hardly walk thanks to a couple little boys in my belly I certainly didn't think I could run a 5k!  I'd like to keep finding races to run periodically and continually improve my time.

Almost the whole fam came out for the day and it was alot of fun.  My brothers, and my sister-in-law's brother and his girlfriend all ran races as well, so it was great to be supporting each other.  My race was first, then my brother Mike and Rob's girlfriend, Carolyn, did the 10k.  Eric and Rob did the 25k.  It was a chilly morning for spectators, but a great temperature for running.  A little windy at times and some precip, but not too bad.