Beach Bum

Trevor's sister, Bethany, came to visit us last weekend before she headed out to camp for the summer.  We had a lot of fun while she was in town, but the highlight was spending the day at the beach on Sunday.  We took Ruby on her 3rd trip to the beach, but her first time with Trevor there so I could take pictures!

She has always loved water, but for some reason she has been a little scared of the waves.  But this time I think she knew what to expect and seemed to enjoy it more.  She loved playing fetch in the waves, chasing everyone into the deeper water, running in the seaweed, and digging in the sand.

But after several hours of playing at the beach we had one pooped pup!

We ran a Marathon...

This past Saturday Trevor and I ran in the Beach to Bay Marathon relay.  Okay, fine i'll write it a little larger... it was a relay marathon!  We had two teams and each team had 6 people running 6 different legs.  We ran with the Woolsey family and friends.  Trevor and I were on different teams so that we could the same leg together.  We were assigned to leg 4, which happens to be the longest leg (how did I get signed up for that?) at 4.69 miles.  The longest I had ever run before this was a 5k, so this wasn't too much further.  


My racing career started back in the first grade.  I ran in our school's fun run and I was the only girl from first grade running.  So it was just me and the boys and I was definitely wearing a little denim skirt! I remember my dad telling me to pretend like I was running away from a dog (I was terrified of dogs when I was little).  So I did, I think I sprinted the whole thing and honestly remember picturing a dog chasing me.  I guess it worked because I got first place!  I wish I had the picture to put on here of me standing there with my first place trophy in my denim skirt and pink ballet t-shirt!


Well sadly my running career didn't really take off after that win.  I don't think I ran in another race until college when I ran in the Glow 5Ks a couple of times.  So needless to say, I wasn't in the best of shape to run this past weekend!


I really enjoyed our leg.  We ran through the Naval Base and I had never been on a base before so it was fun to see it.  The most miserable portion of the race was waiting for the baton handoff to start running.  We didn't really know how long it would take us to park and get to the start of our leg so we left early and got there with around 45 minutes to spare.  While we were waiting the bottom of the sky fell out and it started pouring.  So we were just standing there shivering, drenched head to toe, with no shelter from the storm! About the same time that our teammates came through with the batons the rains slowed down to a drizzle.  The rest of our run it was still relatively cool with a light rain which turned out to be pretty good conditions.  I didn't even feel like I like I was breaking a sweat!  Trevor was sweet and stayed with me at my pace, which is a lot slower than his!  I'm pretty sure he could have been walking next to me the whole time and kept up, but he would get a little bit ahead and then jog in place while I caught up.  My goal was to run the whole time and I did it!


After our run we headed to the finish leg to cheer on Sarah and Bill who were the 6th leg runners from our teams.  We got our medals, took some pictures, and ate some pizza, and shared our stories of all the crazy weather we had.  Trevor and I had a blast and are so glad we did it.  The pictures we took don't do the race justice because by the time everyone was finished the sky had cleared up and it had become a typical sunny, hot day in the middle of May in Corpus!

Ruby {4 months}

Ruby is 4 months now... actually 4 1/2 months, but who's counting? :) She's getting bigger and wilder!

She officially has all of her big girl teeth now.

I found a baby tooth that she lost on the couch and saved it... not quite sure what to do with it though... she doesn't have a baby book to put it in!

She loves to workout with her mommy.  We take walks/ jogs everyday and sometimes do some workout videos at home.

We learned that she has an allergy to stinging insects, and had to make our first trip the the drug store for some benedryl!

One of our biggest rules for Ruby is that she is not allowed on furniture.  We were so careful to keep her off of everything since day one so that she never got used to it.  However, she has finally gotten big enough to jump on the couch all by herself and that rule went quickly out the window.  Apparently Vizsla's are known for being "couch potatoes".

She's spoiled! And we love her to death. 

Mothers Day

This weekend we had our second annual mother's day picnic.  There might have been more than this, but this was the second time that Trevor and I were able to make it.  Uncle Rob reserved a pavilion in Canyon Park, right on Canyon Lake.  Most of mom's side of the family was able to make it this year, and I don't think I had seen some of them since last Mother's Day so I was good to see everyone.  I tried to get a picture of each mother with her child/ children.  I think I got everyone but Cara with Ainslee and her a bun in the oven!

Memaw with mom and Rob

Mom with me and Cara

Jason and his mom

Me and my baby :)

Ruby had fun running around all day at the park, and eventually pooped out.  Ainslee decided to join her for a nap :)

The Gilbreaths brought their boat out and Ainslee and I went for a boat ride with the boys.  She started out by playing captain and driving the boat, but within about 2 minutes of being aboard she was lulled to sleep bundled up in her life jacket and Aunt Cathy's jacket.

It started raining on us out on the lake, but we didn't let it stop us from enjoying our boat ride!

Dad on the boat

Uncle Rob

Mark took over driving once our captain fell asleep!

Happy Birthday Trevor!

Yesterday was Trevor's 26th birthday!  He was on a fishing trip with the guys out at the island all weekend, so I didn't get to see him on his actual birthday.  He got home today just in time to deal with a "drain line stoppage" and two almost flooded bathrooms!  Love you babe! We were just thinking today about how crazy it is that this is his third birthday that we have celebrated together as husband and wife.  He was only 23 when we got married and now his is 26...crazy!

Since I didn't get to celebrate his actual birthday with him, I made him a cake and sent it with Rob for all the boys to enjoy.  I decided to break tradition this year and make him an actual cake, the two previous years I have made him a fruit pizza for his birthday "cake".

May 1, 2008

May 1, 2009

I asked him what kind of cake he wanted and he asked for chocolate cake with chocolate icing.  I then double checked to make sure he didn't really want a rainbow cake like the one I made Cara for her birthday! Cause I was pretty sure thats what most guys would want their wives to send with them on guys weekends :) 

I'll admit it, I don't really care as much about how the cake tastes, but how it looks.  So I went with boxed cake mix and pre-made icing.  But then I had to figure out how to make a brown cake with brown icing pretty!  I decided to go with a fish theme since they were going to be fishing all weekend.  I googled 'fish cakes' and found this picture:  

I decided to go with this design, but needed to make a few changes since the icing was brown and a brown fish wouldn't show up, and because my husbands name is 'Trevor' and not 'Josh'. :)  It took a little trial and error and some coaching from Mallory, Johnna, and Cici.... but this is how it turned out:

I was pretty happy with it, and Trevor claims that they all enjoyed it.  Happy Birthday Trev! There's always next year if you decide that you really do want that rainbow cake!