Spring is finally here - I hope

After three weeks of saying "hope we get the yard mowed before it snows" I think it is safe to say spring has finally come to stay.  Having thunderstorms this week - last night slept with the window open and had a crack of thunder that sounded like it was right in the room.  I jumped out of bed and shut the window and pulled the blind.  We need to rain though so that is fine with me.  Just rain though please - no tornadoes.

The last couple of weekends have been great fun.  Couple of weeks ago Jimmy and the girls went with Dennis and me to the Trailerhood for the day.  We really had a great time.  It was a little chilly and damp feeling but we started a fire in the fire pit and made s'mores and later roasted hot dogs.  Dennis got a little bow and arrow set and the girls learned how to shoot an arrow.  I kept them inside the trailer while their dad and grandpa did some target practice and they loved watching the lava lamp.  Lily was shocked I didn't have a bunch of toys down there so guess I need to start looking at garage sales for some to put in a box for their visits.  :)  At one point one of the girls looked at me and said "I love this place!"  That made me very happy.

Last weekend was also a ton of fun but it went by way too fast.  Jimmy and Maranda signed up awhile back to run in a 5 K called the Color Me Rad (google it).   They told Stacy about it and she and Jessica signed up too.   So the Renfroe family came on Friday after work which made them getting here around 11:30 at night.   The run has three different starting times since so many participate - 8000 were running in this one - it sold out.  The kids were in the 9:00 start so Stacy, Jessica and I had to be at Jimmy's house by 7:30 so they could get to the run by 8.  The lead story on the news the night before was to avoid the area because the traffic congestion was going to be awful - that turned out to be overblown as the kids said they had no issues.  I watched the triplets and then took them to gymnastics and the runners met me there after they were finished.    In this run they stop occasionally and the audience throws colored corn starch at them to color their clothes.  Here they are before and after - I didn't even recognize them when they came in the gymnastics area.

While we were at the race Dennis took James and James Jr to the Trailerhood for target practicing but since I didn't go, there aren't any pictures.
We then met back at our house and had a little birthday party for James Jr with cake, ice cream and pizza.  We had a great time - wish Laura could have been here too!