Family movie night

One of our new favorite things to do is have family movie night. Here are a couple pics from the most recent showing of Madagascar, or as Hadley likes to call it, "the move it move it movie" (:

MS Walk

Every year we do the MS walk with our friend Joe and his family in hopes there will come a time in which a cure is found for this disease that Joe suffers from. We had a blast this year and were thrilled when we showed up in all of our rain gear and they told us we could walk the indoor track instead so it was a bit more pleasant than it might have been doing it in the downpour!

Before getting soaked!

Run

I feel like I want this post to be able to summarize all that I felt today, but not sure if that is possible. I finished my first 5K today. It was amazing. Well, it was mostly really hard, but the end was amazing. It was hard because the wind was blowing so hard it almost could blow you to a stop. Then, about halfway through the rain started. At first it was a light drizzle that made you think, "wow, this actually feels good right now, no big deal". That lasted about two minutes before it just poured, and I mean poured. That didn't end until the end of the race, just kept dumping on us. My sister and I ran almost the whole thing together, she stopped to walk for a few minutes and I kept running. I ran by myself for quite awhile until all of the sudden she was next to me again. She had sprinted her little behind in order to finish with me. It was awesome.

This race today had a plethora of meaning to me. The American Cancer Society is a charity that I hold near and dear to my heart due to all of those that I have lost that I loved to that illness. Also those who have fought and won or are still fighting. After my experience last summer I had set all of these goals in front of myself to accomplish. Things that I honestly, without a doubt, never thought I could do. No lie, when I started running, I couldn't make it two blocks before having to stop. It is still hard for me. I have to talk myself through every run. My knees don't appreciate it at all, but thanks to ice and ibuprofen they are making it through.

Two people I thought of today the whole time are the mothers of two good friends of mine who lost their fight to this terrible disease. They were both two of the most amazing women that I ever had the pleasure to meet. I ran in their memory and talked to them both during the race, asking them to help me through when I wanted to slow to a walk. The flags I purchased in their memories are shown above.

I'll post a few more pics when I have them from my sister.

First Plane Ride

We were really nervous about taking Hadley on a plane for the first time. We didn't know how she would be. I think every parent worries that they are going to have "that kid" that screams the whole way. However, she was AWESOME! She kept saying, "this is so fun!" She would say right before we took off, "let's go fast!" She even fell asleep during take off on the way home. It was really fun to experience it with her.

More random pics of Atlanta

Swinging at the park

Here are some pics of Hadley swinging one day in GA when we went to the park.

Carousel

Hadley and Mike riding the carousel in Georgia!

Random pics from Georgia

Boxing

Pics of Mike and Anna wii boxing, hilarious!

The aquarium

Here's a pic of the fam at the aquarium in Atlanta

Hadley and Dylan

We are in Georgia right now visiting our wonderful friends Josh and Anna. They had a baby, Dylan, in October that we came to meet for the first time. Hadley just loves little Dylan and likes to kiss him, hug him, bring him toys and read to him. Here are a couple pics of them together.

Swimming at Mimi and Papa's

Hadley tried out the new swim suit that the Easter Bunny brought her in Mimi and Papa's whirlpool tub, she had a blast!

Easter

Looking for the Easter basket

Biking

Using her bike at Mimi and Papa's house

Having fun at home

Pancake Breakfast

We went to the Riveredge Nature Center pancake breakfast this morning. We went for the first time last year and plan to make it a yearly tradition because the pancakes are so yummy and it is so fun! Luckily the nasty weather we are supposed to get today held out and we were able to go!