Photo Dump

Getting pictures from my phone to our tablet is such a tedious job, and if I get way behind, it becomes REALLY tedious. I'm really behind on pictures, which means I'm getting really behind on posts. Oh, well, I guess that's life. 

Here's a photo dump from probably mostly June.

Some of my balcony flowers. 

Some little scenes are so simple yet so beautiful and peaceful to me. 

More balcony flower.

Just a summer street view. I love summer so much. 

I love walking down this railroad. 

My cute, sick little girl. Yes, this is from back when she was so sick in June. 

I took a picture of this in memory of Bethany. She really liked these drinks, so I drank one on the anniversary of her death. 

The kids and I went to a car show one morning. There were so many great cars. 

This thing was so adorable. 

Taliya wanted to get in every one of them. 

I love filling my bottles with flowers all summer long. 

Cooling off at the water fountain. 

Monkey man. 

When Taliya was finally getting better, I couldn't resist getting the kids these awesome new cars. Obviously, the Bronco is their favorite. Now whenever we're out, Taliya always points out the Broncos on the Road. 

I love trains. 

A solo trip to the creek one afternoon. 

A sketch of Jacob I drew for his Birthday. 

Birds on the balcony. 

Church clothes

You guessed it, more balcony flowers. 

Afternoon tea time. 

And a delicious sandwich. A very important picture to be a part of this dump. 

Maybe see you soon. 

V

Running

In December, I started running, which I hadn't done since I was 13 or 14. It was extremely hard at first. The first day I ran, I said I was just going to run nonstop for 5 minutes. I thought that was very little. I barely finished. It's amazing how you can think you're in shape, and then you try to run. Running is HARD! I decided I wanted to run in a 5K race. Obviously, it took months of self-training before I was ready for this. In April I ran in the first ever Derby Festival 5K. 

Jacob and the kids cheered me on. 

We ran by the Ohio River.

Everyone got a medal. I'm keeping mine in memory of the first official race I ran. 

Jacob and I both signed up for a Memorial Day race in Alabama with his family. He ran the 10K, 5K, and one mile "fun run." He's crazy. I just ran the 5K. We surprised his family because they didn't know I had been running. It was hard, but I beat my record by about two minutes. 

These pictures are from the race photographers. 

Jacob finishing his 10K.

Jacob and I finishing the 5K.

Since that race, I have run a lot less. Running is good exercise, but it is hard. I am mainly just working on a personal goal for a mile time. 

V

One Year

 

I've been thinking a lot about you. I wish you could know how much we miss you.

Long Time No See

Well, here I go again, trying to blog. I guess I get distracted with other things. I do have the time, I just use my time for other things. Oh, well. 

There's a lot to catch up on. June was a hard month. It started with the stomach virus for both of the kids. Then Taliya continued throwing up every day for nine days. It was awful. I took her to two different doctors. The first one was rather stupid, but the second one seemed to know what was going on right away. He said it was a post virus problem in which the stomach gets lazy and stops sending the food down. He told me what to feed Taliya and gave us a medicine that was supposed to help. She started getting better, but it was slow and tiresome. She had to drink a lot of stuff and mainly eat mushy food. Really only in the last few days has she started eating more normal again. So, yeah, it was a hard month.Very exhausting. I had many meltdowns. Jacob was very helpful. I am always so grateful for his help.

I don't know where to begin.

The day before the kids got sick, I took them to the creek that was muddy and flooded.