Passing the Time

A couple of weeks ago I ran the Ogden half marathon with my Dad and brother-in-law. I was so nervous for this race, but ended up having so much fun. I met so many people on the run and had fun talking with them and I just felt so good. Seriously. I don't think I have ever felt so good during a race or after. It surprised me. My poor husband had to listen to me go on and on all day about how much fun I had.

I was pretty happy with my time. But I was more happy that I had such a fun time. I finished in 1:42:54 and finished 10th out of 225 people in my age division. Jigga what?! I surely did not expect that! Hopefully next time I will have more friends to run it with me. Hint. Hint :)

The next weekend Ross, his brothers and his Dad headed south for 3 days to go back packing. He took the camera, hence all of the cell phone pictures below. Naturally Evan woke up early to say good bye to his dad. I tried to get him to go back to sleep. Obviously, that was not happening.

Anna packed the cooler full of her play food so she could go camping too.

Evan decided now that he only had one caregiver, to learn to pull himself up and try the stairs. Sweet mercy.


The first night without Daddy, I woke up to see Anna in my face at 4:30 AM. She missed her Daddy and couldn't sleep. So I took her to her favorite place in the world later that day. We got some books and even checked out Cinderella on DVD. This would be the second movie she has ever watched. She was afraid of Lucifer the cat people! Now you know why she doesn't watch movies.


We played at the park. Evan is a fan of the swing. Anna loved pushing him...high....a little too high.

He also loves to open and close the doors and play peek a boo.

Anna has been begging to go to 'Old McDonalds' to get some 'frenchy fries' for quite some time now. I am not a fast food fan, so I always tell her no. Not this time. Oh she was happy.


Evan thought the apples were pretty good too.



She was so happy to help me water the plants and our garden.

By Saturday evening I was ready for Ross to come home. I made some cinnamon rolls in hopes it would lure him back North. Guess what?! It worked ;)

The Poem

Well I just finished watching the Grey's finale and now I can't sleep. Something about needing my heart rate to slow just a tad? Any who, so I figure I might as well plant my face in front of the computer and as per request, here is the poem I got for Mothers Day :)

Happy Mothers Day Megan, I love you!
I hope you will have a good day too!
Sorry there are no steak knives this year,
(He got me steak knives one year for mothers day. Ummm. Yeah)
but I think you'll like this better my dear.
My toothbrush made the ultimate sacrifice
for something that should look really nice.
You didn't get a new set of wheels,
you got a bunch of cleaned window seals!!

Love, Ross

Mommy Dearest

Last weekend, besides celebrating mother's day, I also got to help throw a baby shower for a soon-to-be mom :) My friend Reta, who now lives with the Canucks, mentioned she would be in town for a little while whilst carrying her child so Marcia, Marie and I jumped at the chance to throw her a baby shower.

Disclaimer: I thought this shower turned out cute and I believe the lighting combined with me lack of photography skills just don't do it justice. Okay. That is off my chest now. Proceed..

Some shots of the party before the guests arrived.

The gift table.

Super cute purse (matching one for baby inside) and diaper cake that Marie made for us to give Miss Reta as a present from the 3 of us. Blast those talented Hutchisons!

The food.



The desserts.

Some of the people in attendance.

I can't believe I didn't get any pictures of the pregnant lady or any of her opening presents. I was having too much fun. It was a good thing I took pictures beforehand or I wouldn't have had any at all. It was so nice to have an excuse to get everyone together to hang out.

Speaking of moms...Mom's are great. I am glad that I have both an awesome mom and mother-in-law. I am glad for the most part ;) that I get to be a mom to 2 awesome kids. Here is a quick update about:


Anna out of the blue started writing her name, completely unprompted and without any help, while we were drawing with the sidewalk chalk. I need to do an entire post about this girl, her attitude and all the funny things she says.

Evan has been playing peek a boo and he is the one doing the hiding. Love it. He is losing interest in the bottle and baby food. He is also getting his second top tooth. And, ready for this? He is finally crawling. He is slow and a little skeptical about it all but at least he is finally moving forward to get where he wants.


And I would like to thank Ross who stayed up late and spent many hours while I was away at the shower giving me the present I wanted for mothers day. Clean windows/seals/tracks. I swear since we live behind a huge field and in the windiest city in the state they get so dirty so quickly and I absolutely hate cleaning them. Best. Present. Ever. I don't know what was better though, the clean windows or the poem he wrote about them for me :) Yep. He is a keeper.