The Second Summer Begins

Grandma and Grandpa Wade are here!  Grandma and Grandpa Wade are here!  On the 4th Jim and Liz drove into town.  Their Prius was stuffed to the gills (I don't really know this) and they coasted into town.  Rooney is always excited when Grandma and Grandpa come to town because I think he has really good memories of the lake house.  He talks about it often and knows that it is located near Nannie's (Aunt Annie's) house.  The last couple of years they have talked about renting a different house but for whatever reason it hasn't worked out and they stick with their usual.  It's a great house and truthfully when they finally do rent a different house I think we'll all be a little sad.  The weather this summer is not as good as last year and I don't anticipate much swimming in the lake for us this year but the ducks are still there and presumably the canoes as well so the kids can still have fun on the water.

On the 10th was Rooney's preschool orientation.  Roon got to see all his old school friends and actually remembered a few of their names!  Parker was there so that's all that really mattered and they reconnected with their beloved Tinkertoys. 

Lastly today I ran my second Iron Girl 10k.  I finally feel like I'm getting back into running shape and the race felt good.  I tried very hard to pace myself this race, but maybe a little bit too much.  I finished the race in 1:03:03.  I was aiming for under 1 hour and I feel I could have done it but I kind of stopped paying attention to my time and was kind of people watching.  For some reason the last quarter mile seem to come up on me and I decided to kick it up a notch.  I shaved 4 minutes or so off my previous time so for several reasons this race really felt good to do again.  Tomorrow starts my running group that I am doing with AMAT.  Not sure what I was thinking starting it the day after my race but I'm excited to be able to run with Ailbe while she's still light and hopefully get some other moms involved in running.