Yesterday we did The Color Run in Portland! That was an experience! We decided to take the kids with us, they were free and hopefully they would see that fitness/being healthy= fun! We jogged some, but walked most of it because of the kids. Pictures will follow eventually, but possibly not until my yearly slideshow! (Yikes!)
I'm not even sure what to say! The next few weeks will be busy as well! Next weekend we will celebrate Avery's 3rd birthday! :*( (I should probably get on that!) The following weekend we have a birthday party to go to, and then the weekend after that we are moving! Where? We don't know yet! We've been inquiring about some rentals, but we are needing a month to month rental and most places are 6 mo or 1 year leases. SO, that makes things complicating.
On the house front, we've met with a few builders and we are feeling like building might not be whats in store for us. For one thing, the lot we are looking at, we could potentially get cheap, but since we'd need to put a daylight basement in, it would be a more expensive build, so that would cancel out the cheap cost of the lot, which would make the price too high for us most likely! The last builder we spoke with, we talked to at the lot as well as at our house, and he was very thorough and honest about what kinds of expenses a build on that lot would entail. We haven't 100% ruled it out yet, but our goals have shifted towards looking at already built houses now..... and finding ourselves a place to rent in the meantime!
I'd like to just say, this is very hard for me. I HATE change for one thing, and knowing i'm leaving the comfort of my own home for good to go to a rental (that we don't even know where yet) for a house that we don't even know when we'll find....it scares me. I like the familiarity of our life. I like the routine of our life. I don't do well with spontaneity, and flying by the seat or your pants, or unplanned things, and that's kind-of how this feels to me. I'm anticipating a lot more migraines this month, a lot of sleepless nights, and a lot more heart palpitations!
On a lighter note, my baby girl will be 3 in a week! How is that possible!? She requested a Strawberry Shortcake cake, and I make all my kids birthday cakes. And even though they don't look very good most of the time- after all i'm a mom, not a professional cake decorator and I've never had cake decorating classes- I make them with a special ingredient that no bakeries can make them with- Love! So I found a Strawberry Shortcake cake to make Avery, and I ordered the topper, and the rest doesn't look too terribly difficult. I thought about attempting to make my own marshmallow fondant since it apparently tastes a heck of a lot better than the premade Wilton stuff. We'll see. I don't know if I will have the time to do that. We haven't even talked about what we are doing for her birthday yet! AAHH! I feel so behind!
The cake itself and the stripes will be easy.... the flowers.... i'm not sure. I'll have to research! But she will LOVE it! And she gets to keep the set on top to play with afterwards.
I was noticing the other day how much Strawberry Shortcake had a makeover since when I was a kid!
