Weekend in Photos

It's been a quiet week for us so far, but here are some photos I meant to share from our weekend. We hung out with family, as usual :)

{As you can see by her wrist fat and cheeks that are wider than her head, she is so malnourished that she must resort to eating her own hands. Poor baby.}

{And then there's this one who had to stop and "take a break" while walking 50 yards to our car. You can tell she had played hard though :)}

{Every so often we have a Mary Kay party with my mom, sisters and cousins. I'm a total makeup junkie.}

...and back to our quiet Monday

Rain Check

I feel like a lot of my post titles have "rain" in them lately. It's been a rainy end of spring, I guess.

Today we planned to meet SIL Nennie at my in-laws' house to swim, but it rained. We decided to get together anyway and take a rain check on the swimming. It was still a fun day of playing, talking, lunch and coffee. 

Riley was totally impatient with Carsen's casual approach to lunch. 

Father's Day

Father's Day at Oriole Park!

Happy Friday

Despite many reports of wild weather in our area yesterday like this photo posted on Facebook by a local meteorological group...

{yes, that's a funnel cloud, a tornado was confirmed} we managed to get only about 10 minutes of hard rain out of the "super cell" storm that was forecast. 

Today temps are about 20 degrees cooler and the humidity is almost zero. We even had to wear hoodies when we went outside this morning. After several recent severe weather events, it was nice to see a clear blue sky even if it was a little cooler.

Carsen celebrated by drawing a dolphin :)

Happy Friday!

Fun Before the Storm

Today was gorgeous and we spent it splashing around at Nana's house.

Everyone was sufficiently exhausted from our fun in the sun. Good thing, because tomorrow we're supposed to have crazy super-cell storms so we'll probably be stuck in the house... hopefully not stuck in the basement.

Game On

Yep, I'm back to training after an almost year-long hiatus for my pregnancy and the birth of our second daughter. I had an amazingly easy recovery so I got the all-clear to resume workouts with no questions at all.  It felt great to start up again after that big break. I really missed it though and looked forward to that first run for a long time. The biggest challenge for me right now {and for many mamas, I imagine} is finding the time to train. I went from having a toddler who naps for a solid 3 hours every day guaranteed, to also having a newborn that naps sometimes really great and other times not so well. While we're currently working on getting her into a good nap time routine, until that happens I can't count on a specific chunk of time during the day to run. So, for now I'm using any nap time I have during the day to prep dinner (something I can fairly easily walk away from and go back to as needed if she wakes up), and then doing my run when Josh gets home. Thankfully long runs are scheduled for weekends :)

Rain, Rain Make My Day

When the radar looks like this...

I highly recommend curling up with a little of this...

and the cutest people you can find...

{A Doc McStuffins marathon can't hurt either.}

Today we're riding out tropical storm Andrea. It's really just a lot of rain but it gives us the perfect excuse to slow down, stay home, and spend lots of time snuggling {and singing, and tickling, and reading, and baking...}. I love getting out of the house to enjoy fresh air and sunshine, but sometimes it's just as nice to curl up and spend some quality snuggle time with my girls. There's something peaceful and recharging about surrounding yourself with soft blankets, soft sweats, soft babies, soft music and the sound of a downpour outside your window. I feel an epic, house-wide nap time coming up this afternoon...