March Madness

How is it that i can't make it a Sunday tradition to post about the week!  Now it's been 2 weeks and so much has happened it's almost a big blur.
Of course, lots of baseball.  That's a given right now.
My cousin Lisa came up on the 16th with her family and dogs- and gave us their dogs!  We now have a black lab and a german shepard.  They are not quite 2 years old, full of energy, and in need of some training.  If we didn't have our hands full before, we do now. :)  They are such good dogs though and i can't wait until they are familiar with me enough and trained enough that i can take them on runs without a leash!  Hooray for running partners!  They love hanging out with us and love our almost daily trips to the creek and river.  Rivie, the shepard, LOVES the water!

Leila had a birthday!  I can't believe she is 4 years old. She wasn't feeling the best on her birthday, but we managed to get to the zoo for an hour... one of the things she said she wanted to do.  I made her funfetti cupcakes and turned them chocolate with a box of pudding mix- so she would actually indulge in funfetti. Haha.

We took a family hike up to the old hotsprings hotel ruins.  The wildflowers are out of this world right now after all the blessed rain we have received.  The kids did great, as always, and i got to see a piece of the course i would be running the next day.

Billy and I ran the 9 trails relay on Saturday the 23rd.  Boy was it a tough course to run with the minimal amount of training i had.  18 miles of up and downs across the front country from Romero to San Roque.  Took me 5 hours, took Billy 5 hours as well going the other way.  It was beautiful, but tough!

Lots of trips to the river with the dogs, lots of walks and working on training and bonding. We are to the point where we let them out in front with us when we are out there and they stick close by!

Yesterday we went on a family hike up sage hill to sit in the wild flowers.  The hillside is orange from our house, so we had to go check it out of close.  The kids picked me the most beautiful and colorful bouquets!

We have been on a sort of spring break.  Break from baseball games and Jameson's school.... the other two don't have spring break until the week before Easter.