I don't work all the time...I took a day off today :)

I took off today so I could hang out with the kids while Abby was on spring break. But before I get to that, I got some pictures off of my mom's camera that I wanted to share.


I love this picture! My grandma, who is 90, and Adam, who is 2, have the same birthday and this is them together on their birthday last year. How cute is that?

This is Abby and Adam at a park in St. Peters.

Abby and Adam at a park in St. Peters.

My mom with the kids at Thanksgiving.

Adam and my mom on Christmas.

Now to our adventures today... Seth worked from home today so I was able to go to the gym without the kids. I am on a training schedule to be able to run a 10K (6.2 miles) on April 30. So I had to run 3.75 miles today, which I did. It was a little rough in the beginning, but I got into a pretty good groove after about 1.25 miles. Tomorrow, I have to run 2, Friday 4.5, Saturday 2 and Sunday 4.5. Then rest. There's supposed to be an extra day of rest in there, but I am not going to do that this week because I skipped a day earlier in the week already. Next week, my long run will be 5, the following week 5.5, etc., until I'm up to 6. We'll see how this goes. Kind of intimidating, but I never thought I'd be running 4 miles at a time and here I am.

My mom came over around lunchtime today and we took the kids out to eat at Applebee's. Then we went to The Painted Pot and did ceramics. It was cute and the kids enjoyed it. A little pricey, but it was something different we hadn't done before.

Here is Adam getting ready to paint his car with blue paint.

Abby painting a heart-shaped box pink. See the pink barettes in her hair? This is what we're doing while her bangs grow out.

Abby painting.

Me and the kids.

Adam painting. You can see that Adam painted orange on top of the blue, making a nice gray-brown color, and then green on top of that.

Adam and my mom.

The finished product...the car. I added numbers to it and his name on the back at his request. He said this car was "Speed" (also known as Lightning McQueen from Cars).

Abby's box. Hard to tell here, but it's supposed to be pink and purple speckled. Once it's fired, the colors will be bright and shiny. We pick it up next Wednesday.

And now we're at home. Abby is playing My Little Ponies and Adam is napping. Seth is working and I'm messing around on the computer. We're going to cook a nice dinner and try to have a relaxing evening. I have a little bit of work to do tonight for a management training class I have to go to tomorrow at Wash U. It never ends, you know. :)