9.8.10

Dear husband,

1 word will do: secondfrigginplace!!!  So proud of you and your mad “I never train” mountain bike skills.  Last night you seriously made me laugh harder than I ever have with you.  For hours.  Love.

Dear Jillian Michaels,

Oh really?  Really?!  Eleventy billion sets of jumping squats?!  Pretty sure you made up some of those moves and people think you belong in the loon.  The rain forced us to skip our Tuesday run/ride and meet with you.  I think we forgot how much we loathe you, but we said it at least 12 times last night while you yelled in our faces.  PS I secretly love you.

Dear old cooking light magazine I bought at a used book sale,

My husband wants to marry you for the Latin baked chicken I made last night.  Until he took that first bite on the living room floor, I had never heard him say “THIS IS FRIGGINGOODCHICKEN!” so many times.

Dear marathon training,

You are slacking.  Get. it. together.

Dear September,

Devin and I made a goal for your duration.  It is much harder than we thought it would be.

What a crock.

I need you to tell me about your crock.

We have this one and we use it at least once a week (more in the winter...like every day...like I had to buy a new slow cooker cook book this weekend because we've made all of them in our first book) and we love it...

The only thing is that if we want to cook something for only 6 hours while we're at work, it turns on the "keep warm" setting, which actually means "overcook your dinner" setting. We have resorted to one of us drawing the short straw and having to come home at lunch to turn the crock pot on. That sort of defeats the convenience of it, doesn't it??

So this weekend we dreamt up what we really want: a crock pot that we can program like our coffee maker. We can set the clock on it and program to start at, for example, 10:00 am so it will be ready when we walk in the door, and not burnt.

Turns out they don't make these.

Tell me about your crock pot and why you love/hate/both it.

9.3.10

Dear Husband,

Operation throw an epic lake house party with killer food without anyone getting hurt or breaking anything 2010 = success.  I loved doing that with you.  And the fact that you trust me enough to teach me how to drive the boat while you wakeboard makes me feel like your #1 stunna (what whawha what?). 

Thank you for being a man of God who has his eyes open to see ways he can love on people.  I love seeing that.  I love helping with that.

Wife.

Love this.

My cousin, Michelle, is a super talented painter.  She does amazing work in the Dallas/ Fort Worth area.  She has done work on Extreme Home Makeover AND last I heard she was going to paint Jewel's house in the near future? 

I saw her a couple of weeks ago when all of the girls got together and she gave us all one of these

 

How cute is that?!  The lipstick print is painted on.  A really cute idea for a group of girls.

I love it.

PSAs

1.  It’s the first of the month.  Don’t forget to pay rent.  You. are. welcome.

2.  My buddy, Brett, made an iPhone app for kiddos called Match-a-roo Zoo.  You can check it out here.  It’s really cute.  Ashley Ann Photography is doing a giveaway for it, so if you want to try and get it for free, check out her blog.  Her kids are the cutest things ever made on this earth besides this guy.

Look at those racing eyes.

3.  I need some running advice regarding the following:

- running with sore muscles

- abdominal cramps

- running form slash how not to tense my shoulders

     Anyone?  anyone?  Bueller?

4.  How the heck is it September? 

- 24 days until the Jellie matrimony!

- 9 days until D’s velodrome national championship master olympic races

- 19 days until I sign up for my first half marathon

5.  3 day weekend coming up!  What are you doing?

6.  Does anyone want to hire me?