Happy Easter! :0)

Well I’ve had a fabulous weekend!  It began on my day off - Good Friday morning with a 10 mile run through my town. 

Friday night, we decided to go to the Friday Night  Movies Under the Stars at a local park – last week’s was cancelled because the wind was awful.  They only do this for the month of April and again for a month in the Fall – since it’s usually SO hot here in the Summer!

Friday night’s showing?

Monster’s Inc!  Jason’s favorite!! :0)

 

We met up with a few friends and had a really good time!!

Saturday morning, I went Bridesmaid dress shopping with a friend of mine!  I’m her Matron of Honor and her sister is her Maid of Honor.  She also has 2 Bridesmaids! :0)

 

I used to drive these two around EVERYWHERE!  The one on my right is the Bride and the one on my left is her sister!  It’s hard to believe they are all grown up and now one is getting married!  My how time does fly! :0)

We had a blast on Saturday! 

Just like old times! :0)

This morning, my husband and I got all dressed up for church!  We usually get all dressed up, but Easter Sunday is an extra special occasion! :0)

 

I even bought a new outfit on Thursday complete with matching purse! :0)

After Church, we went to Jason’s grandparents house for Easter lunch!  The Easter bunny even dyed the deviled eggs! Hah!

 

We went over to my parents house after lunch because my mom text me “Let me know when you want the Easter Bunny to lay some Easter candy at your house.  He threw some baskets of chocolate and other stuff down our chimney while we were sleeping!” 

My oh my…my mother!  Gotta love her!! :0) 

(I also think it’s hilarious that “The Easter Bunny” used my Easter basket from when I was a kid – no joke, I think the basket has 1987 written in pencil underneath it!  Hahahah!)

Hope everyone’s had a fabulous Easter! 

HE is risen!! :0)

10 miles on a HOT Good Friday!

I created a running plan last night.  In a few weeks, I’m running a 5 mile race (a hot one), so I decided I was going to run a long run today after the sun was out to test the waters.

My plan was to wake up at 7 a.m. to being my run!  I didn’t set an alarm because my husband was set to arrive from work around that time.  Well, he came home and got in bed and apparently, I was sleeping so soundly that I never heard him!  I woke up because a text from my mom came across my phone 8:30 a.m. to ask if I was running yet – YIKES!  8:30 a.m.?!  I jumped out of bed and got ready as fast as I could!  I wanted to treat this run as I would any normal long run, so I got my spi belt/hydration belt together and set off on my journey!  Usually, I do all my long runs with my running group but they will all be in New Orleans this weekend for the Crescent City Classic tomorrow!

My plan was to run a 2 mile route around my house, drive my car to a local Blockbuster (cause otherwise I’d have to run across a VERY busy 5 lane highway that has a speed limit of 60 mph! No thank you! ). After parking my car, run the 2.5 mile route to my parent’s house, re-fill up my water bottles, run 3 miles around their house, then run 2.5 miles back to my car!  Total – 10 miles!

I can say that I was successful with my run but let me tell you – it was HOT out there!  I felt like I almost threw myself into an asthma attack twice (that hasn’t happened in forever!) …I stayed very well hydrated, however.  I had an unopened bottle of Cytomax from the Dallas Half so I drank that as well as lots of water!

During one of my many treks to my parent’s house, my mom showed me a birds nest in one of her trees!  Isn’t the little birdie cute?  Don’t worry…we didn’t touch it or anything!

It was SO HOT out there!  See how red my face is?!

After the run, I made my husband get us Subway for lunch, we watched a few episodes of Glee from Season 1, then we drove to our local snow cone stand and got each a stuffed snow cone.  Now I feel as if I was hit by the sugar fairy!  Hah!  That’s ok!  The snow cone was GOOD!!!

 

I had Pink Bubblegum…

…and my husband had LSU!  Yes, LSU!  It’s purple and “gold”!  Haha!  The flavors: King Cake and Cake Batter!  It really did taste like a King Cake! :0)

 

Apparently the “stuffed” part means that they put vanilla ice cream at the bottom of the snow cone. 

Ice cream + snow cone syrup = SUGAR OVERLOAD!!!

 

Like I said though, it was super yummy!! :0)

We are about to leave to eat dinner, then we are going to try Movies Under the Stars at the park again!  They are playing Monsters Inc!  Hopefully the wind doesn’t mess up the screen this time! :0)

Hope everyone has enjoyed their Good Friday!  4 years ago, I was having my wedding rehearsal on Good Friday and we were married on “Good Saturday”! :0) 

Don’t forget the reason we celebrate this weekend!

He’s done so much for us!  Never forget the sacrifice He made!