Life...As I See It

Thursday Thirteen

13 in 2009

1. Alec learned how to play the sax.

2. Alyssa finished her first season of competitive cheerleading.

3. I learned the meaning of getting RIFd (Reduction in Force a.k.a layoff).

4. I recovered from a running injury that occurred in Oct of 2008.

5. I have read 31 books (my goal for the year is 50).

6. I've successfully added 2 days of strength training to my workout every week.

7. I found a must-have t-shirt at One More Mile

8. I started Twitter and don't really get it.

9. I'm training to run the Columbus marathon.

10. Alyssa started wearing my clothes (sooner than I expected).

11. I've kept up with taking pictures for 2009 Project Gratitude (I just need to catch up on adding them to the blog photo album).

12. I've pretty much given up drinking soda.

13. Counting down the days

Honoring Fallen Soldiers

Supporting Heroes 

A simple gesture of kindness and gratitude

Their mission:

To support our nation’s armed forces by sending blank greeting cards to write home on, as well as cards of gratitude to encourage them. 

More information here Cards for Heroes and here The Hero Blog

What a cool idea. And did you know LETTER MAIL IS FREE for deployed service members! They simply write "FREE MAIL" where the stamp would go. 

Alyssa and I are making cards today :)

birthday wishes

Happy birthday Chad, an amazing man in so many ways <3

To celebrate you get dinner of your choice and a trip to Dick's to get a new pair of trail running shoes :)

13 Things

13 Things That Make Life Not So Bad Even When It Kind-of Is (a little reminder to myself)

1. Watching my son run his longest (5 miles) race. Smiling when he started and smiling when he crossed the finish line.

2. Capturing the day-to-day with my Canon.

3. Family Scrabble battles

4. Perfect running weather

5. My Mac

6. Weekends

7. Scrapbooking

8. Movie popcorn

9. Checking off to-do lists

10. Strappy sandals

11. This man

12. Pedicures

13. Being their mom

More Thursday 13 here > Thursday 13

Today...

1. strength class
2. run 6 miles  
3. start Ali inspired Document the Weekend   
4. design a new blog banner  
5. The album was completed in January. Finally, I'm going to photograph December Daily album and add to blog photo albums    
6. order photos for next 2 projects 
7. do a little shopping at  Designer Digitals
8. download Cold Play's totally free and legal Left Right Left Right Left album Cold Play  
9. clean studio 
10. 2 birthday celebrations this evening at Maggianos  
11. and if time permits I'm going to make another attempt at getting actions to work on a Mac with PSE  

Have a wonderful weekend :) 

Thursday Thirteen

13 Things I Happily Obsess About

1. new year intentions

2. running

3. white teeth

4. scrapbooking

5. taking pictures

6. measuring food servings

7. my weekly gym schedule

8. morning routine

9. punctuality

10. starting a book series with the first and reading in order

11. deciding if foods are calorie worthy

12. organizing

13. grammar and spelling

I think that about covers it. Although I'm sure Chad could probably come up with a few more. While he tends to think I'm obsessive about things I prefer to think of it as passionate or enthusiastic :)

More Thursday Thirteen

They are my world!

(Mother's Day 2009)

Thoughtful Friday

See EarthMosaic 2009

my photo

is now here (uses each image once)

and here (photos used multiple times to optimize earth image quality)

you can see the individual photos up close here Flickr Photo

and also a WORDLE of all the photographers who participated Larger image here Flickr Wordle

very cool concept.

Her Last Competition of the Season

One week off and then we start all over again.