Andreae Adventures: March 2014

Friday, March 28, 2014

Gymnastics

Monday was Natalie's last day of gymnastics for this session! It has been fun to see how she has evolved since the beginning. Her skills are slightly improved, but most of all her listening skills have improved. I felt like at the beginning we were constantly telling her what to do, but now she only needs occasional prompts to pay attention or not to do what a few of the other kids might be doing that is bad. In her last class there were 6 girls which I think is too many for a class with 3 and 4 year olds! The teacher does great with them though. We won't be signing her up for the next session because we will be doing swim lessons with the girls 2 times a week in April. So, we will get one week off of no kids activities and then it will be crazy on Mondays and Wednesdays! Both girls love the water though, so I'm excited for them to participate in swim lessons again!

I was able to get a few pictures, but I didn't want to use flash because I knew it would distract the girls and the lighting is horrible in the place, so it is what it is!

Doing the "Tooty Ta"

She always starts in the middle and stares at herself in the mirror!

Her cartwheel :)

Natalie says her favorite part of gymnastics is her teacher, Chelsea :)

Pacers and Winter Jam

Last weekend, we were in Indy for most of the weekend!

Friday night we went to the Pacers game and watched the Pacers beat the Bulls with several people from my work, but my family and our friends, the Vandivers came along too. It was a good time like usual even if we are in the nosebleeds!

Let's just say they both LOVE cotton candy!

We stayed the night at Amanda and Matt's house, then just hung out until we headed downtown with my parents for Winter Jam 2014. We had never been, but Bobby has been wanting to go for months! The thing is you can only get tickets at the door, so you have to stand in line and just wait with thousands of other people to get in. Luckily the weather wasn't bad, but I still think that the waiting part is dumb especially in a venue that holds over 16,000 and they were able to get over 15,000 people inside. Lucky for us, Joel and his daughter attended and were in line super early so they saved us some seats! The concert was really good but because this was not my idea/thing, I didn't really look into it and was just along for the ride. None of us knew that the concert lasted 4 hours! We took the girls and we were into it about 1.5 hours when my parents decided to just take them back to my sister's house. I felt bad for them paying and waiting in line and then leaving, but next time we will find a sitter for the kids and go without. Natalie HATED every second of it until my dad took her out to get cotton candy and earplugs, then she fell asleep. I have to admit, the concert was really loud, which we experienced during the Justin Timberlake concert we went to in December. I think Bankers Life Fieldhouse is just not the greatest venue for concerts because of all the metal rafters. Natalie cannot stand loud things so I do feel bad about dragging her along. Aubrey on the other hand LOVED it! She was dancing and having a good time, until she was getting hungry. Our favorites were Lecrae, Tenth Avenue North, Colton Dixon, and Newsboys. The others were good too, but those were just the standouts.

Reset Button!

Ever have one of those days that you wish you could just press the reset button?

Today is one of those days for me, I wish I could rewind time a bit and just restart! I can't say things have been horrible, just not going the way as planned. On Fridays, I set my alarm for 8am hoping to make it to the Y to run on the treadmill (since the weather still sucks) before my Body Pump class starts. 8am may seem late to you all, but my girls usually never wake up before that on "school days", I always have to get them up out of bed around 8:10/8:15 and then Natalie is still usually grumpy! However, I guess I should just wake up when Natalie comes in our room on Fridays (it never fails!) and stay up! Instead, I let her lay in bed with me (I'm not sure what time she comes in but Bobby is always still in bed so it has to be before 7:15a). Then, I lazily get up past my 8am alarm, but still manage to make it to Body Pump because it doesn't start until 9:45a.

Today was no exception of how Fridays usually start off, except once I was pulling out of the garage and was already down the road I noticed the garage door went back up. So, I reversed (annoyed) and tried to fix the garage door. We have this problem occasionally, more often than it should happen, where you have to adjust the cameras so they are in line with each other so that the door would close. However, today the dumb door decided to break!!!! That meant that I couldn't go to my class and we were stuck at home for the morning (the entire day). I called Bobby and texted him pictures, he came home before lunch and thought he could fix it, but honestly I think it's beyond his knowledge of the door, so now we wait to see if it was an installation issue (which will be paid for) or something else (that we will have to pay for). I'm hoping for the installation issue because honestly, that door has not worked right since we moved in, but it's never broke!

Then, while Bobby was messing with the door, I was getting lunch ready for the girls and the lazy susan cabinet broke, which Bobby will have to try and fix tonight. Luckily I don't have to fix these things and Bobby does, they are really just inconveniences to me.

Then, while I was trying to get stuff done while the girls at lunch, I look over at Aubrey and see this:

Ugh! I really didn't want to be giving baths midday either! This picture makes her look messy but isn't even half of it! She had it EVERYWHERE! Of course, because Aubrey got a bath, Natalie wanted a bath. Now I have lost all motivation to clean up the kitchen, dining room, play-doh and markers, etc that await.

Hopefully the 2nd half of the day improves!

Update: Our garage door will be fixed later next week and it will not have to be paid by us! There are actually several problems with the door because it wasn't installed properly so this little incident was actually a blessing in disguise! The lazy susan cabinet was actually an easy fix for Bobby and everything is now back into the cupboard!

Today, while Natalie was playing with Play-Doh, she says to me, "Look Mama! I'm making a number one like God! Just like chapel." It makes me so happy that she loves going to church to learn about God and Jesus!

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Irish Dash 5K

Officially one year ago is really when I started all of this running! Last year we did the Evansville 7K and it was super hilly and crazy hard for our first run. However, I've stuck with it and actually enjoy running (usually anyway)!

Rebekah and I ended 2013 with the Christmas in the Park 5K where we wore silly hats and started our running season for 2014 going even further with an Irish-inspired dress I found at JCPenney for $3! There were supposed to be awards for the most Irish-inspired outfit and those that wore the most green, but sadly they didn't give anything out for those. However, we still had fun. Bobby was embarrassed to be around me...haha! He said I looked like a transgender Irish woman...ha! I couldn't pass up the Irish mustaches...they were just too much fun!

The girls had fun hanging out with Eric while we all ran...thanks again, Eric!

My official time was 27:58 which puts me right at about a 9-min mile pace! I'm happy with that. It was a out and back, flat course. That put me 2nd in my age division, so I got a fun medal!

Bobby (who rarely exercises/runs other than bball for 40 minutes on Tuesdays) finished at 24:19, which put him at 3rd in his age division. He also won a free pair of Brooks running shoes...no fair! For me who is really trying to workout most days of the week and I had spirit with my costume for the run, is quite jealous of someone like him! :)

Oh well, it's about time for me to get a new pair of shoes too, so now we'll just have to pay for one pair instead of two!

After the race we grabbed a quick lunch, then headed out to the parade. It was our first time ever going to the parade since we have lived in Terre Haute and it was fun. Natalie really enjoyed gathering all of the candy she could! Aubrey enjoyed eating it! After the parade, we headed to the very crowded park since it warmed up to be a beautiful day.