Surprise!

I've had a pretty good week. Things have been busy as usual and my mom has spent the past couple of days with us so that I could help her out by taking her to get her hair done. She can't drive for the next several weeks because of her surgery, and I agreed to drive her there. Of course she ended up watching the kids for me a couple of times, which I did not intend on. I told her I didn't bring her up here to help me... but she said it was no big deal to just sit with the kids while Adam and I went out for a date night last night, so it was really nice!

This morning Adam let me sleep late thank goodness! I got a big kick in the pants on Tuesday when I headed out to do a pace run at 3:30pm. Needless to say, it didn't go very well. I was supposed to do 6 miles with descending mile splits. I finished 4 with my mile splits getting slower, and stopped at 4 to either throw-up or pass out! Fortunately, I managed to stumble my way back to the car without enduring either. Apparently, 100 degrees is NOT a good time to try to do a pace run. :)

So ever since then I've had to get my rear in gear and get up early before the heat really sets in around here. Despite the fact that I've been going to bed in time to ensure at least 8 hours of sleep before my early rise... it still hurts to get up early. I'm completely out of practice and tired! So it was nice to sleep in a bit today. But I knew I had a 1:30 run looming, and knew I had to get going out there before too long.

I did the run in my neighborhood, and I live on a descent size hill so I most of the time finish at the bottom of the hill and walk it out on the way back up as a cool down. Well today as I was walking home all sweaty and disgusting (it must have been like 90% humidity today!) all of my neighbors start wishing me Happy Birthday! I was like, well thanks... but today isn't my birthday. In fact its almost 2 weeks away. They said according to my children, they were telling everyone that today was mommy's birthday.

As I get closer to the house, Cooper and Gracie run out to wish me a Happy Birthday! I kept saying... Thanks guys, but today isn't my birthday! Yeah... Well Daddy went to get the cake!

So as it turns out, Adam was giving me a surprise birthday party with all of my brother's and sister at the house today and did it 2 weeks early to throw me off! Fortunately, I got home around 11am and the party didn't start until 12pm, so I didn't walk into my party getting surprised covered in salt, sweat, and gross! I got to shower and actually plan to wear something decent!

Thanks guys for the surprise! It was lots of fun!!