Our Happenings

It's going to be a long one.

This last week our school had book fair, so I've been extra busy with that.

Hockey updates:
Tyler had his first Lightning practice on Tuesday and is really excited about this year. They kids got to pick their numbers and of course Tyler picked 99. That is Wayne Gretzky's number, so he has a lot to live up to.

Saturday Tyler's team was short 4 players which meant Tyler and Corbin played the ENTIRE time. It was exhausting. T made the first goal of the game. I totally missed it due to being a coaches wife, I was busy on an errand for Chris. The goal happened right away, and apparently it was a good one! He was soaked with sweat, but I'm sure it will be a great memory for him. They ended up winning 2-0!

Caely got to go to a friends Halloween party Saturday night. She went as a princess, even though that's not what she will be for Halloween. I didn't take pictures, but she looked gorgeous. I already know I'm in so much trouble when it comes to boys. She had so much fun, and learned a bunch of new games.


Saturday night the family (minus Caely) went to the Grizzlies game. It was "Pink in the Rink" breast cancer night. Lexi and I wore our pink, and you can kind of see from the pictures that the ice was pink.

Jill and her family invited us, the kids had a blast! The ran around the entire night. I'm exhausted just thinking about it.

We also were lucky enough to see Ryan Kinasewich score two goals in the game, which made history for the Grizzlies as the most goals made by someone on the team, and also he leads with the most goals in the EHL. I'm hoping I got that right.


Then as an added bonus for the night Jill introduced us to her friend Travis, who used to play for the Grizzlies two years ago as their team captain. He lives in Denver now and recently ran the Denver Marathon, his first. It helped me get a little closer to committing to do a marathon, but don't tell Shauna!



My kids start back to school tomorrow. It's a little bittersweet. I love having a babysitter around so I can run whenever I want or go on a quick errand. BUT, I'm so sick of the messes and the arguing so it will be nice to have things a bit back to normal.

I realized recently I've forgotten how to enjoy motherhood. I do fun things with my kids, but I don't necessarily enjoy all that I'm doing. I think to much about the work that goes into it instead of enjoying the moment and the memories created.

I was trying to think of the last time I took my kids, or even Patch and Lexi, to the park. Sadly, I think it was LAST year. (We did take them today, but I wasn't counting that).

I want to get back to enjoying my kids and the things they have to tell me or show me. My goal for this next week is to make them my priority and to suck in all they have to say, within reason. Wish me luck.

As for my other goal, I am on track for my running even though I put that I wanted to run 50 miles a week. That was supposed to be a month. I'm on track for that. As far as the weight loss, I'm doing terrible. I know it's the choices I'm making, I totally overeat but I will work on that this week too. I just want to make smart choices and not eat the whole bag of Cheetos but just a handful. We'll see.

That's our weekend!