Dances with Wolves? No, Jogging with Pitbulls

Last night I achieved my goal of doing 5 miles of a combination of walking/jogging/and running in an hour.

Before that I have been doing 4 miles - sometimes a little less, every day, with a day of rest every few days.

Last night I did 5 - or 4.9 something --- but I'm calling it 5. Close enough right?

It was a busy day so I didn't get to the apartment's fitness center until 9 pm, an hour before they closed.

At 10 pm, I'm jogging on the treadmill at mile 4.9 something, and all of a sudden the door opens. An unleashed pitbull enters the room and I hear a man call out "closing time" or "time to leave" or something like that. I don't remember what it was he said exactly, but the point was made loud and clear with the introduction of the pitbull alone, and I was out of there in seconds flat. They don't mess around. But that's my excuse for leaving at mile 4.9: the unleashed pitbull exception.

I over did it though.

I went back home, played around on the internet for a while, and then I took a hot shower. I was hot and sweaty, and when I was getting out of the shower everything started to go dark and I almost fainted. I had to lie down on the bathroom floor. I think I must have been dehydrated. Oliver got me some water and that seemed to help.

Anyway, I'm two pounds away from being able to say that I've lost 30, but I may need to take it down a notch and work up to my goals at a little slower pace - and make it to the gym a little earlier in the evening, next time!

Fariytale Land Eggstravaganza

We went to the egg hunt at Faiytale Land this morning.

Toby, is admiring another boy's Easter egg basket in this picture - can you guess why? It's Thomas the Train, of course!

The kids got to collect eggs, and then exchange them for a gift at the end. Toby got to choose between candy, or a small thing of bubbles shaped like a bunny rabbit. He choose the bubbles, and LOOOOVED them. He insisted on holding it, and then spilled the bubble solution all over the carpet though, and I wasn't a fan of that. Of course, it is just soap, so maybe I should get him some more sometime. I'm thinking, next time, though, we'll blow bubbles outside.

Toby and I have been to Fairytale Land, but it was Oliver's first time. I think he had fun too.

A picture of my "boys" at the cutest men's room I've ever seen.

Toby, going down the rabbit hole.

And coming out the other side.

Bunnies, bunnies, and more bunnies

Toby liked seeing all the bunnies, even the giant Easter Bunny, but he thought the larger than life Humpty Dumpty was scary. I didn't get any pictures of him, but he was a little creepy looking. I thought he was a giant baseball with a baseball cap, but I was informed that it was Humpty Dumpty. The whole place is based upon classic children's stories.

Toby went down the slide at Owl's House this time. I don't know if you can tell from the pictures or not, but it is a really high climb, and then you go down a really steep slide! I was super impressed.

The boy is fearless... well, except for Humpty Dumpty, but you can't really blame him for that.

Español Italian Dinners

So today is Friday, and we got another box of fresh organic fruit and veggies, but, you get the idea right? Week 7's delivery was especially great because they ran out of collard greens (which I'm not a huge fan of) and replaced it with Kale (which I can not get enough of), and they felt bad about it, so they threw in some more strawberries and pears. What a fantastic mistake! I hope they do that more often.

We drove by a restaurant today called Español. It is an Italian restaurant. They do not serve Mexican food, which I thought was pretty funny. Deutsch Chinese take out, anyone?

Sunday in Stockton with Louise

We went to Stockton on Sunday to show Oliver's mom his new office and go to the Children's Museum there. Oliver's office is the yellow awning on the left.

Stockton

Perfect weather for a garage sale.

Children's Museum

El Pollo Loco

It's Saturday night. Toby is asleep. Oliver is hanging out with his friends playing Dungeons and Dragons. My mother-in-law, also known as "Gamma Weeze," feel asleep on our couch over an hour ago. We must have worn her out playing with puppets, Thomas the Train, and chasing chickens around Fair Oaks. Poor thing. I think she had fun though. I sure did. It was a beautiful day and chicken park is a pretty great place to spend an afternoon. Keeping up with Toby, however, is a challenge, to say the least. That boy has energy and stamina unlike any other - and he is so cute, it's hard to resist trying. (Not that I'm biased or anything. ;o)

Chicken Park!!!!!

(Toby is going down the slide in this picture and Louise is by the monkey bars, to the right of the mini-rock wall.)

My friend Sarah

My friend Sarah, and her husband Brandon, were in town for a wedding this weekend. They stopped by our apartment and we all went to the park. Sarah, Brandon, Toby, and Oliver too. He didn't have any appointments Friday afternoon, so he came home early.

I was so excited to see them that I talked their ears off, and didn't take a single photo.

So I thought I'd post these instead:

Sarah and me circa some time in the 80's:

It was so good to see her, but also a little bittersweet - it reminded me how much I have really missed her!

It was a wonderful, and somewhat surreal, experience to get to see my old childhood friend chase my son around the park. We were only about year older than Toby when we met. It makes me wonder if Toby will still be friends with the boys that he is meeting now, in 30 + years time, and if he'll get to see them chase his future children around the park. I think that would be really wonderful.

Week # 6