Training... Father's Day... and a question...

What am I training for?

My very first 5K. I don't know what I'm thinking but I'm going to do it.

I'm doing a variation of the Couch to 5K program and went on my first run/walk yesterday. Though maybe I should have called it my first walk/run because there was for sure more walking than there was running at this point. But that is to be expected and how the plan works.

I was out for about 1/2 hour and went approx. 2.2 miles.

I'm so proud of me. :)

The 5K is September 25th at the zoo.

Wish me luck everyone.



Now onto Father's Day.
Brynn and I are so greatful to her dad. J is just amazing with her and he loves her so so so much it is the best thing to watch them together. One of the best things for me to see is the way that girl lights up and yells (and I do mean yells) "hi dada" when he walks in the room. It is awesome.

For Father's Day J wanted to spend most of the day just chilling out with us so we did just that. All 3 of us even took a nap. About 3:30 that afternoon we took a drive to the place we got married. Starved Rock State Park. We love it there and they have delish food. So we ate dinner and I may or may not have snuck into a wedding because the DJs that did our wedding were there. :) It was great to see them.

J hasn't gotten all of his present yet because it isn't here yet but when it gets here I will show you. It is way cute. One of my friends Heather inspired me. :)

Here are some pics we took. I was shocked but I accidentally left my camera at home so they are cell phone pics. :( (Still cute though!)


This picture of the 2 of them melt my heart. <3!


And my question is simply this....

HOW IS MY GIRL GOING TO BE A YEAR OLD ONE WEEK FROM TODAY?!!

Here are some other cute pics we took recently - also cell phone pics because I haven't taken pics off my camera recently.
First pigtails!


I just loved this outfit!

How can you not love this face?!


xoxo.... P.

Catching Up!

Happy Halloween!!!
I hope everyone has a spooktacular day! ;) And I promise a recap of our day won't be as long awaited for as this post. I will also be back with pictures of her at the pumpkin patch and from her 4 month birthday yesterday! I can't believe she is 4 months old. I know I say it every month but it is true! Time just goes way too quick!

I'm going to try and catch you all up with our adventures to this point. There are so many things I haven't posted about. Like our zoo trip! Have I mentioned I L.O.V.E. the zoo? Well I do! I can't wait til next summer when we become zoo members!!!
Now this goes back quite a way but I don't care! I'm posting about it anyway! On September 11th (yes September. I told you it goes back) J and I took B to the zoo for the first time. I LOVED IT! We got some really cute pictures of B! Here they are:

With the statue of Olga. My favorite zoo animal from when I was a kid!

By the lions! The male lion roared while we were right there and B whipped her head so fast to see where the noise came from. It was adorable!


I still say the lion wanted to eat B!



Another fun adventure was on October 3rd, we took B to her first Blackhawks game!!! It was freaking awesome! We had seats in the last row of the 100 level for a pre-season game so we took advatage of the good seats, smaller crowd and early start time to bring her to her first game. She was an angel baby the whole time! She stared at the ice and didn't fuss except for the couple minutes it took for me to change her diaper and get her bottle ready! Of course I think we got some pretty good pictures once again. :)
Right after a goal celebration!!



Her favorite thing to do with daddy! Watching the Hawks win!




Our perfect little family!!!