Bunches of pictures

Hi. I'm back. Last week was really busy, but this week shouldn't be so bad. Here's a bunch of pictures from the last couple weeks...

Seth, my mom and I took the kids to The Magic House on Sunday. The Magic House is a well-known children's museum that recently expanded and doubled in size. I have been a member of the non-profit's Marketing Committee/PR Advisory Board for a year and they asked me to chair the Marketing Committee this year. Basically, since they are a non-profit and can't afford an agency, they look for PR, marketing and advertising professionals to donate their time and provide guidance for their marketing efforts. It's fun to think about how to market to kids considering I work in financial services. Today was our first meeting, actually, and there were people from a PR agency, an ad agency plus a couple other well-known companies in St. Louis. Kind of fun and different and good professionally.

The picture above is Adam and Abby crawling up this tower made of leaves. It was their favorite part.

Abby in the Magic House's construction area.

Adam in the construction area.

Abby in the construction area.

Adam in the courtroom at the Magic House. They have a whole section dedicated to government - a replica courtroom, legislative room and Oval Office.

Abby at the desk in the Oval Office.

Adam and Seth in the legislative room at the podium.

Abby.

Abby doing her best Nixon.

Abby and Adam climbing.

Abby and Adam climbing.

Abby and Adam at Cinderella's castle at the Magic House.

Adam at the Magic House's dining table.

Sitting in Cinderella's coach.

Adam.

Abby climbing the beanstalk.

Abby and Adam "repairing" shoes.

Super Bowl - Adam and Kilian. Seth and I had people over for Super Bowl. It was actually quite a crowd. There were like 14 kids running around and about the same number of adults. Good thing everyone helped us clean up before they left because the basement was trashed. Anyway, this is the only picture I took, but it was a fun time. We may make this a tradition, but only in years in which the Pats are not playing in the Super Bowl. Seth can't handle it if they are. Too much stress.

Abby has had three cheerleading classes now and still really seems to like it. It's kind of hard to tell here, but she's waiting for the teacher to tell her where to stand. They have to stand in formation when they do their cheers and this was when they were all getting set up.

Cheerleading.

It snowed about seven or eight inches here a couple weeks ago. Seth stayed home from work with the kids and took some pictures of them playing in the snow. This is Adam.

This is a bit blurry so darn cute - Adam getting ready to go out in the snow.

Abby helping Seth clear the driveway.

Abby making a snow angel.

Abby and Adam. Adam wasn't afraid of walking in the snow like he was last time.

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On the working out front, I got injured. My left ankle became hugely swollen from the strain of running after being sore for about two weeks. It was freakishly large. I got an x-ray last week and they think it's just a swollen joint and told me to just take Aleve (anti-inflammatory). It's not as big now, but bigger than it should be. So I took a week off from running, which sucked because then you make all these excuses for yourself about why it's ok to eat whatever you want - or at least I did. So I was a little derailed, but Saturday it was 70 degrees outside so I ran outside about two miles with no pain. It was a little sore Sunday and today so I today I just did the elliptical at the gym tonight. I'm still going to run, but I'll have to take it easy for a while. Needless to say, this has derailed my weight loss. I had lost 10.3 pounds and I have probably gained a couple, but I'll keep going and get back on the right track. This is why I have to be accountable to anyone who bothers reading this!