Busy, Busy

So it's been a while since I lasted posted. We're busy. It's spring. Life happens.

On Friday, Spring Break started. Yay! We left Friday after school and headed to The Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine (near Fort Worth). Anyone, who's ever been unlucky enough to travel on I-35 between Austin and the DFW area knows how awful it can be. Ummm, it wasn't awful . . . it was a parking lot. Which may or may not have caused some frustration. Then we got into Fort Worth, over an hour later than we should've, and the road we needed to go down was closed. It wasn't just closed. It was closed like Twilight Zone closed. We got off because we had to, but there was no stinkin' way to turn around, and it was dark, and traffic was bumper to bumper, and did I mention I was navigating using my phone which only had eight percent battery left on it because I may or may not have spent most of the drive playing on the internet because I hadn't forseen this little problem (big run-on). It took us over an hour to drive five miles. I suggested we pull over and ask someone how to go around the construction mess of the century. Patrick's response was, "That just seems like the thing to do doesn't it?" "Yes, yes it does." Clearly I think like a human being and not like a man. Anyway, we got there without anyone getting killed. Although, had we been in the car five more minutes . . .

I'll post details and pictures on the trip soon.

Yesterday, I went and bought these babies.

I needed the Red Converse because Andrew's t-ball team is the Red Sox, and I needed cute shoes to match my shirt . . . and that was just an excuse to buy Red Converse.

I also got new running shoes. I've actually kept up the running. I was running quite a bit last summer, and I don't know why I ever stopped. I like running. I don't always want to do it, but I like the way it makes me feel. Yesterday, I managed to run two miles and walk half a mile (not bad for three weeks back at it). The reason for my new shoes is my knees. I have horrible ankles which overpronate (they roll in) which causes knee problems if my shoes are either worn out or don't have enough support (I know you really care). This morning I could only run a mile. I walked the rest of the way. My knees were begging me to stop. I felt like I was 150. Any suggestions or exercises to help this problem would be welcome.

The other reason I'm sore probably has something to do with the 50 lb bags of garden soil I lugged around yesterday. Andrew and I planted the world's smallest garden, and it only took us three hours. I'll show pictures of that later too.

Well, I better run (or walk). My cousin is in town (another yay!), and we're having dinner at my parents' tonight. I'm making an extremely unhealthy delicious dessert so I better get on it.