The Birthday Countdown Begins!!

'Tis birthday season around here for one little Miss Bean!

Here she is after her first hair cut on Wednesday! We took some pictures at Aunt Sharon's.


Her first hair cut went way better than I expected! She was great, liked watching herself in the mirror and Amy's birthday present arrived perfectly (thank you by the way, super cute dress too) and it kept her distracted with a new toy! We went to get celebratory ice cream afterwards!!












I'm totally amazed that she will be 2! So much has changed in the last year.  I'm putting together her year 2 birthday video and it's just amazing.  I think the time between 1-2 is even more of a change than birth to 1!



I've got presents wrapped, birthday cake ordered, helium found (apparently there was a shortage in Elkton??) and stuff is ready!  Just gotta iron that cute Elmo dress and I found her white squeaker sandals today to wear with it!!



This weekend was pretty slow.  Ben headed over to the Lake on Friday afternoon to spend the weekend crappie fishing with his bud Nathan, so they had a low key weekend fishing and brought home some fish for frying later!!



Bean and I spent Saturday am cleaning house.  Yuck.  I've never liked it and it never gets better!



I forgot to mention that Friday evening after work Bean, Sue and I ran my Prematurity Sucks Virtual 5K again!  This time with our race bibs.  So fun!!







Saturday afternoon we had our Bunco Tournament for Relay for Life.  It was fun, we all had a good time and had a pretty good turnout.



Saturday night was off to Clarksville to dinner with Mom, Dad, Sue & Nick. Mallory loves sucking on limes??






Sunday am Susan and I got up to pound out our 4.5 mile training run for our upcoming 10K.  I enjoyed it.  Susan might beg to differ but she did great and I'm looking forward to this race in Nashville on April 14!!



Then a quick trip to Target after our run and spent the rest of the afternoon and evening at home!  Ben finally got back around 4pm.



Time to party this weekend for the big 2!!






Visiting Grandaddy's grave

Summer in March

At least that's what it feels like but we are enjoying it!



Mallory's getting plenty of swing time in.



I'm getting plenty of running time in.



Ben's getting plenty of playing with his tractor time in.



All is well!



Here's a few pictures from this past week:



Bean enjoying breakfast:


The pretty little purple flowers in our front yard:


Bean swinging in the yard and checking out Uncle Nick's cows:


The cute punch and cake we had at Bunco Friday night for 2 memebers baby shower:





Bean feeling the need to wear one of my scarves with her outfit on Saturday:


Swining at the part on Saturday after being good during Susan and my 4 mile run:


Mardi Gras explosion in the living room of our old house (We went up to get summer clothes and for Ben to mow the yard)


Hugging on Susan and Nick's dog Effie:


Watching UK play and shaking her Maracca, Whoo


Eating lunch after church on Sunday:


Petting on Murray Cat with Dad Sunday afternoon:



Hugging on her new Kangaroo named Rita (after Dad's mom who was Australian):


Have a good week yall!  We've got Yoga for Babies on Tuesday night, I hope we have a decent turnout!!

Weekend with Family

Ben's parents came over for the weekend and we had some great weather!  I'm really not missing the lack of winter this year at all!



Thursday night I headed out to eat with some of the girls from my Bunco group and then did my Krogering for the weekend at 9pm.  There's some interesting folks in Kroger at that time of night.




Ben's parents arrived around 3:30 on Friday so I went and picked up Mallory and let them in the house and then headed back to work to finish up a few things and then get a run in before I headed back to the house.





I just had Ben pick up some BBQ from Roy's for dinner since I knew I wasn't going to want to cook a huge meal on a Friday night, so that worked just fine.  Mallory didn't seen to be too impressed with Roy's BBQ but I enjoyed mine on a bun with cole slaw!



Saturday was the last of the H&R AgriPower Pancake Days, this time at Russellville.  We all treked over there and Mom and Dad were there too.  Pancakes and Tractors, nothing overly exciting : )








Saturday afternoon was naptime for Bean and I spent the great weather out in the yard picking up sticks from all the storm and winds from the previous weeks.



We had a yummy dinner on tap for Saturday night.  I had picked up some hot pepper jelly at the Home and Garden show in Nashville a week or so ago and it was time for ben to make his chicken quarters on cedar plank with hot pepper jelly glaze  I swear it's the best chicken you will ever eat!!



With that I fixed parmesean roasted green beans, which I'm pretty sure everyone but Ben and I thought was Asparagus lol, and sliced roasted potatoes (both Pinterest recipes) and homestyle Mac and Cheese from a box.  All very yummy with Dirt Cake, another Pinterest recipe, for dessert.



I really don't know how I'd find anything new and yummy to cook if it wasn't for Pinterest......must be those pictures, but I love it!



Sunday was church and lunch at Ruby Tuesday's and then a quick run through Publix, which if you could fall in love with a grocery store, that one comes pretty close. 



We were on the baby isle looking for some more diaper rash cream for M and that isle was also the card isle.  All the sudden M shouts out BelBo, which is what she calls Elmo.  I couldn't find what she was looking at and then we spied it.  A Happy Birthday Elmo balloon.  She must have it, so we did, it's close enough to her birthday : )




Sunday afternoon Susan and I went and ran our 3.1 miles for my Prematurity Sucks Virtual 5K to raise money for the March of Dimes.  It was a good run around Elkton!



Onto the rest of the week!

23 Months!!

23 Months Old!

How did munchkin get to be 23 months old!  Crazy. Invitations came in this weekend and will go out here in the next week
or so.  They turned out so cute, love
Etsy!

It’s hard to believe that we’ve been back in Elkton almost 3
months!  We are adjusting well.  I LOVE that my commute to work is only 2.5
miles now and I can easily just go home for lunch.  Also means I don’t have to leave the house
until 7:45 instead of 7:15! 

It’s just nice to be home during the weekends.  I can get more stuff accomplished, although I
still never get all accomplished that I want, but oh well.

Stormy weather was all the issue this past week and luckily
we had no major storms pass through Elkton or any damage at the other house in
Utica.  I am glad that the house we are
in now does have 2 basements actually, so I guess we can take our pick as to
which one to go running to if need be!

Friday I had to go to the Commodity Classic Trade Show in
Nashville so Mallory and Ben just went with me. We ran into Crystal and Grant Norwood, sat out in the hall of the hotel
for the Tornado Warnings on Friday, and then after the show went down to Cock
of the Walk for some dinner.  I love
their huge rocking chair!!

Back home Friday night to get up early to head to
Shelbyville, KY to go to one of Ben’s dealers open houses.  We all went because Ben bribed me with
shopping in Louisville.  The dealer had a
little Kawasaki 50 4-wheeler in their show room which Mallory instantly fell in
love with and hopped on like she knew exactly what she was doing.  Of course riding 4-wheelers is in her DNA, so
who knows, maybe she does know!  But, she’s
not going to get a chance for several more years, she can’t drive her stick
horse around the house without hitting something, she’s not driving a 4 wheeler
anytime soon!

 Ben’s  version and my version of shopping are 2
different things but I did get by my fav running store in Louisville to get
some new shoes, but then he had enough of shopping and traffic and after a trip
to Target that was it.

Back home again and then Bean and I went with Mom and Susan
on Sunday to the Lawn and Garden Show in Nashville.  Lots of flowers and amazing landscaping!  One area had baby ducks that the kids could
hold and pet.  Mallory LOVED the little
baby duck.  She did not want to give it
back to the man in the booth!

That was pretty much our weekend, Ben’s parents will be in
this weekend, so we should have lots of pictures for next week!