I have a lot to say, but I don't have time to say it. Right now, I'm at a three day audit training in Omaha, but I'm hoping that this weekend I will be able to do a proper blog post. Meanwhile, you can gaze at the beagle, the bane of my existence.
Do I even need words for this picture? I think not. Except that this is one of my most favorite photos I've ever taken.
We've had a fairly slow weekend for us. Yardwork and more yardwork. Painting the deck. Zach's soccer game. Church. Errands. Mother's Day. Library. Long morning walks. Baby birds and baby ducks. Hitting golfballs in the backyard. Naps.
Actually, sounds pretty perfect to me.
Okay, I forgot the funniest part about the Mayor's Run on Saturday. Mike was supposed to be running with Zach, so when Zach showed up by himself at the finish line, I asked him where his dad was. Zach said, "I asked him to drop out so I could run faster."
In any event, spring soccer is finally in full swing. We had a rain-out, a snow-out, and an Easter-out. On Sunday, we finally had a game. Zach made two goals and became very cocky. So a couple of hours picking up dog poop in the backyard was in order for him.
Here's more fun. Our beagle likes to get feisty with Mike, who is the alpha dog. He keeps her in line, and she never tries to feisty any of the rest of us, unless she's totally desperate. I believe that she spends her days trying to figure out how to get rid of the rest of us, so she can get a promotion to beta dog. It totally cracks me up how she play bites Mike, except that this time, she really worked him over. She accidentally bit him twice and ripped a hole in his shirt.
There she goes! I love the way her ears flap when she runs.
She's got him!
On a more sober note, many of you have been following my "scanxiety" on Facebook. For those of you non-Facebookers, I had a lump at the base of my neck, and I ended up getting a CT scan of my chest and neck. After many horrible days of waiting for results, it came back normal, and now the lump is probably just some sort of lymphatic issue that's the result of cancer treatment. But I really appreciate all of the prayers and positive thoughts during that time. Now, as a result of all of that stress, I have shingles. And they hurt! But at least it's not cancer, right? ;-)
We've had a darn busy weekend. On Saturday, Zach ran the Mayor's Run around the Capitol, from which I have no photos because due to a computer glitch, I lost them all. Afterward, Mike and Zach went camping, while Bailey and I went to the Lincoln Children's Zoo. Again, lost the photos. It's a long story dealing with Vista, and I figure that we should just move on.
So anyway, today I felt like just wandering around and taking photos. I fixed the computer with a Microsoft patch, so all was good. Zach and I pretty much just walked around downtown Lincoln, having adventures. I had this idea for a photo series done from the tops of parking garages, and we hit my old garage and then the State Office Building garage, which we had to vacate after Capitol Security came around. Prior to that, I did hang over the edge of the roof and get some photos of the Lincoln Marathon, which was being run today. So if you look over to the left and scroll down, I have a new photo album called "Lincoln on a Sunday" with all of our photos from today. Here are some of my favorites:
Mike had an anesthesia conference this weekend, so the kids and I went up to the Omaha zoo on Saturday. We were totally traumatized by the new ride they have called Skyfari, which is basically a ski lift that starts at the giraffes and goes all the way across the zoo and drops you off at the elephants. I don't do well with unenclosed heights. So the three of us were frozen to our seats, singing the ABC song to not be afraid. We were a little wobbly when we landed, so we immediately headed for the ice cream parlor, where we got free ice cream because their debit card machine was not working and I didn't have any cash. Although it was only 40 something degrees out, we ate our ice cream and recovered from the Skyfari. After which we realized that because we didn't take the round trip ride, the stroller was still parked across the zoo at the giraffes. But that was okay, because we walked on solid ground the whole way back.
