Sickness!

The last 2 days have been pretty rough for my sweet Landry. She has been running a high fever on and off since Sunday evening. I stayed home with her yesterday and Matt today. The dr. said it was viral and if her temperature didn't get better continuously in 4 days to bring her back. She hasn't been eating much at all....LGT cannot afford to loose any weight:(!! Mom is going to keep her tomorrow with hopes she won't have any more fever. Hopefully things will get better from now on as we have a birthday party and Easter egg hunt this Saturday(although I KNOW that's not near as important as her getting better!).

On the upbeat side of things, we bought some land today and will soon start clearing off the lot in order to build a new house! Not looking forward to all the choices and picking out things, but hopefully it will be worth it to get what we want in a house.

Just a small update!

Fun with Grandparents!

We are so blessed to have my parents close-by. Even when we lived in Benton, Matt's parents were 5 minutes away. What in the world would we do without them? Well, life just wouldn't be near as fun:)!!!
This weekend was another busy and fun one. Friday we went to eat dinner with some friends. Saturday morning started out EARLY for me as I got my 22 mile run over with by 8:45ish. Downhill from here! After taking advantage of the kids napping, I headed to a baby shower for a friend of mine, Kellye Ketchum. Then GiGi(Matt's mom) was on her way home from West Monroe and stopped by to babysit the kiddos while Matt and I went out to eat and then to a movie. Needless to say I was EXHAUSTED by the time we got home. And WHO woke up at 5:30am....JAKE TYLER! But he did go back to sleep with us until 7 thank goodness.
Today after naps, we tool advantage of the beautiful weather and headed out to Lincoln Parish Park. So many people were out there and the kids had a great time!
Below are some pictures taken at Big D and Big Mama's house. Mom just got some great deals on toys at the Kool Kids consignment sale. The best was a train table for Jake! He loves it and one of mom's friends just gave her a lot of Thomas the Train Engine toys. Jake constantly wants to go over and play trains now:).
Jake and Landry playing on their toys in the backyard.

At the park today in the wagon. We saw some ducks on the "beach" and Landry was heading straight for the water. My girl has NO fear! Of course Jake was screaming at her, "No LU LU no!!".......

Jake playing with his trains at my parent's house

Again at the park, Landry LOVING the swing!
At the shower yesterday for sweet Kellye
On our way out to eat Friday with sweet Landry.

23 Days to Boston!

But just WHO is counting the days??? ME! That's who. Yes, I am getting more and more excited about it. I just gotta get past one more LONG training run tomorrow. We received our bib numbers on Monday and it kinda made me a little upset to know I was in wave 2. There are only 2 waves and you are placed according to your entry time. It is probably best that I am in that wave as mom and I will start out together(wave 1 starts around 10am and wave 2 starts at 10:30, I think) and this will mean less wait at the finish line-she MAY be waiting on ME!!

What am I NOT looking forward to? Well, probably the PAIN that comes with a marathon. I had a high school running buddy who told me that the race begins at mile 20(a marathon is 26.2 miles for those of you who might not know) and that pretty much sums up the entire race. Mile 20-26 might as well be another full marathon in itself. Let's also add in the fact that HEARTBREAK HILL is at mile 21 and is a FULL mile UPHILL. But hey-what can you do except run it?!! I will say that when I finished San Antonio, it took me a FULL 30 minutes to come back into reality. Exhausted wasn't the word.

I had a friend ask me if I was pumped about going to Boston, and although I am, it is not exactly a Spring Break trip(yes, it happens to be my S.B from school that week) since I know what the trip will entail! But on the bright side, it is truly a dream come true that mom and I are running it together. Some might not know that this is a qualifying race. According to your age, you have to run a marathon in a certain time in order to qualify. I know for my mom this has been something she wanted to do with me since she ran her first Boston in April of 2003. I am sure once we are there, I will hopefully have some euphoric feelings about running another marathon:)! So that now brings us to the year 2009 and we are making it happen. For that reason I am pumped about doing the race. Do I have a finishing goal? Yes and no. I haven't thought too much about it, but I would like to run faster than San Antonio-and that was on a very flat course. My time there was 3:35:46. I do feel that I am in better shape this time around. Boston is down hill for the first half(according to mom) and rolling uphill for the next half. Trying not to think about the second half:)!!!

So that brings me to the athlete tracking part of the race. You can read the message below and track us if you would like. My bib number is: 14508 and mom's is: 21420. It asks for a date of birth and if you need mine, it is 11/11/1978. I would love for you to track us if you are interested. If not, no biggy! Just an option.


AT&T Athlete Alert Program
Now, thanks to AT&T, your friends and family can be right alongside you on the course. Just have them register to receive automatic updates on your progress using the AT&T Athlete Alert Program. First, tell them your bib number. Then, ask them to text RUNNER to 41234. It's as simple as that. For more information, or to register on-line, click here. Forward this email, along with your official BIB#, to all your friends and family so no matter where they are on race day, they'll be right there with you. AT&T. Your World. Delivered.

Pictures and 15 Month Stats

Landry had 4 shots this morning during her 15 month check-up. Matt took her to the appointment and I didn't realize she was going to have that many. At 12 months, I opted(mainly because of my mother) to break up the immunizations due to the link with autism(yes, I know there has been no scientific proof) and I really thought she would be getting 2 at the most.At 15 months she was 20 lbs, 12 oz, and 32 1/8 inches long. One day she will gain some weight, but I definitely don't worry about it anymore. To me, she is absolutely perfect! So to make a long story short, I took a half day off from work to stay with her since her nap was running long and my dad was here with her. It was nice having some time just by ourselves. She got to play with any toy she wanted to without her brother pitching an absolute fit! And although I wouldn't change anything, this afternoon reminded me how EASY one child would be...but like I said, I wouldn't change a thing!



Had to get a quick picture this afternoon....of course she decided she was not going to stop sucking those fingers!

This is Jake working on his smile....enough said~

And as I was going through my old pictures today, I found one of them crying together when Landry was only a couple of weeks old. Thought I was putting that picture on here, but instead ended up with this one. But I love this one too! This was in July of '07 (yes, mom still had her Snow Villages up in the background...don't ask!)and Jake was 7 months old. Look at those curls on his sweet head!!!! I was 17 weeks pregnant with Landry and had just found out we were having a girl. Fun times!
I haven't mentioned that our friends, Ben and Katye, got to bring home Bennett on Sunday! Many blessings for that! We are going to Bossier tomorrow for a fund raiser at Chick-fil-A for them. If you are in the area, please some out and support them. Bye for now.