hard

so, i have no idea where to start! it's been a long time since my last post. the last month and a half or so have been hard, in several areas. i haven't really felt like blogging because, honestly my attitude has been horrible, and there is no need to come on here and whine about my life. my life is great, actually, but i just hit a bump in the road and let it take control of me. but no more! i woke up with new resolve this morning, and am determined to be positive about things. no need to be angry at the world when i can't control everything!

i am still running, and honestly have become somewhat addicted! i am a horribly slow runner, but i really enjoy it and have completed 2 more 5k's since my last post!

jamie, jay and i did the red bud classic, but this time jay didn't wait on us slowpokes!!

then just a week ago, jamie and i ran the memorial 5k - in the cold and rain! it was a fun experience to do that race, though!

i have set a new goal for myself also...there is an 8k race in june that i am determined to RUN the entire thing! it's 5 miles, and i have started training for it, so i know i can do it!

my sister had her beautiful baby boy on april 20th, so my family has a new love! he is precious and perfect and hannah is head over heels. she is more than ready for him to grow a little, though, so he can play with her! my sister better watch out though...she is going to get all the payback from spoiling hannah rotten! it's finally my turn! :)

hannah is just growing so fast and becoming quite the independent big girl. we are having our issues right now with attitude, tantrums, and talking back, but she is also just as sweet and loving as always. she started swim lessons last week and loves it! i have a feeling we will be at the pool a lot this summer!

we finally bought hannah a big girl bike. every time we go to walmart she wants to get one down and ride it in the aisles, so we decided we would just get her one. it's so much fun watching her ride it! she has no interest in taking off the training wheels any time soon, which is fine with me!

hannah got her first hair cut yesterday! and i didn't even cry! she desperately needed a little cut off, so we had about 2 inches taken off, and made all the difference in the world! she made sure, though, that i understood she wanted to keep it long like rapunzel! 

 we took her to snip-its to make a big deal over her first cut, and she loved that she was able to pick out a GREEN butterfly clip, and GREEN glitter to sprinkle in her hair! i think she loved being pampered!

with some of the stuff that's been going on over the last month or so, cody and i have decided to put our house on the market. we found a really great piece of land that we don't want to miss out on, so even though we are not ready to build, we are going to go ahead and start this crazy new adventure. as soon as we sell our house, we are going to put a trailer on the land and live in it for a year or so while cody builds living quarters in a shop. then we are going to get EVERYTHING paid off and actually pay CASH when we start building our dream home! i never thought i would be excited about a plan like this, but i am so done with "stuff". i don't need all the stuff, and it seems like the more stuff you have, the more problems you have. i am ready for this new phase in our life, and am so excited to see hannah living country life! she is going to love having so much room to run and so much dirt to dig in! the land backs up to a creek, and hannah and her daddy will be missing most of the time probably!

happy monday! :)