SOOOOO….yeah, I’m one of those bloggers who blog and then quit and then blog and quit…sorry… but THINGS need to happen in order for me to blog about it… or do they?

LIFE AS IS… …. …. I’m done with all my 5K’s, half marathons, FIVE MILE runs…till FALL. Then it will start all over – but for now, I’m CHILLAXIN it. I love FaceBook, have met some new friends on there, some old friends and TONS of family. Now I’m into this FARMTOWN on FACEBOOK….UGGGG…..if you haven’t started it, DON’T. It’s HIGHLY addictive but OH SO MUCH FUN!! (well, go ahead, try it)

Our church, CROSS POINT COMMUNITY is opening up a new campus, our NORTH CAMPUS which will be in Goodlettsville/Hendersonville area so we’re pretty excited about that.

The 4th of July is upon us and we (Karl, Kyla and I) will be venturing over to St.Louis to visit my family for a few days and then on to Karl’s family in Buffalo NY for a few days…YIKES… that’s a lot of driving with a TEEN in our car!! PRAY FOR US… LOL.

OTHER THAN ALL THIS…. life is exactly where God wants it to be with us….and we are BLESSED and THANKFUL.

I’ll try to post a little more often, but I’ve probably lost all three peeps who were my “true followers”…. so now I’ll just ramble on for MY sake.

HAPPY 4th OF JULY!!!!!!!!!!

WHAT A COOL IDEA!!! This is a 5K race that I signed up for through active.com… I don’t know “Scott & Erin” but they really are getting married right after this race…. Scott ran the race (as you can see by my pics below) not sure where Erin was, probably over at the other tent getting ready for her wedding. It was a cute race…. if you pre-registered you received a t-shirt that looks like a tux… they also had wedding cake after the race…something I did NOT WANT after running 3.1 miles!!

This was held at Centennial Park and it was HOT HOT HOT out… AND quite hilly…more so than I thought it would be. Saw a fellow CrossPointer there, Andy Youssi (which for those of you out there who have little ones, Andy does voice characters in VEGGIE TALES!!) So Andy and I took a pic w/SCOTT. My friend Lori Horner ran it too…I had to PEER PRESSURE her into doing it… she hasn’t been able to run w/me on a consistent basis since she had her second child, TWO YEARS AGO…and she did FABULOUS!!

YUP…. I tend to start going crazy once I’ve gotten the taste for PAID RUNS! You’d think after doing the HALF MARATHON that I wouldn’t run again….and that’s what I said upon completion of the half marathon….however, I tend to forget the pain (UNLIKE CHILDBIRTH…which is why I only had ONE child….I can STILL remember every single vivid detail….but that’s for another post)… HERE are the pics of this Music Row Road Race, which helped out St. Jude’s Children…

I’ll be doing ANOTHER 5K on May 30th… called “Scott & Erin’s Wedding”…. can’t wait to see what this is going to be like!!

Here we all are….JEFF MOORE, LEANNE MATTINGLY, ME, KAY MOORE, LESELY VAN D, and Lesley’s little one, DYLAN

HERE COMES JEFF MOORE!!!! (check out his time!!)

I know it LOOKS like I was walking, but trust me….I was NOT!

Our “Y” friend, Leanne Mattingly….she had not run in a YEAR before this race…LOOK AT HER!

We are all cheering on little Lesley…it was her FIRST RACE EVER!!!!

Kay and I…. CHEERS TO OUR PHOTOGRAPHER, KARL!!!!!

ALL OF US… Jeff, Kay, Leanne, Lesley, me

WHERE THE HECK IS JEFF??? Oh, taking the pic…..

OBVIOUSLY this last pic was AFTER the race…. we did have a LOT of fun!…comments?????

Well… HE/SHE is GONE!!!!!!

This little bird stood on the side of that nest and I was SO HAPPY (thinking it was going to fly off) that I ran to the window telling it to GO ON…. and it flew off …. I WAS YELLING YAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! (as you can hear, sorry) then I watched it fly to the other side of the street and land in the tree (making sure it didn’t fall or anything) and when it landed successfully…. I yelled YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA again!

No more damn birds…. Now I can clean up my window sill and close down the webcam.

Hope you all enjoyed….

I thought this would be my FINAL video on my birds…however – this is what has transpired today…. all caught on motion sensor cam.

FIRST… this last and final baby does what the other two did, came OUT of the nest, onto the ledge and (SHOULD HAVE) flown away….but not this bird – HE/SHE SCARED!!!

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED NEXT…MAMA COMING TO CLEAN UP THE “ROOM”…

LASTLY….here’s the next thing I see….BABY’S BACK and SO IS MAMA!!! Something not right here….

I’m SURE this last bird will FLY off by tomorrow….

Well, baby number 2 is off!! As you can see in the video…she/he doesn’t just FLY away…he/she goes out on the ledge…that’s as far as I could tape it….I wasn’t even at home but had my video cam on motion detection.

MAYBE I’ll be able to get this last one???

Well, it happened…. I was GONE and the first bird has left the nest….I didn’t even get it on video!!

Here are the remaining two. You can really tell who is ready to leave and who isn’t. The one who keeps “preening” herself/himself will be the next one out…the one whose beak is open is the youngest.

A feeding of the last two….

I SERIOUSLY thought this one was getting ready to fly out!! But false alarm….

It really is time for these birds to leave this nest…as you can see, it’s slowly falling apart. If the internet is true, then the prediction is they will fly off sometime THIS week. I’ll TRY to catch that on video, however, the likely hood of that is near impossible… but I’ll try!!

You can really tell the bird that will be leaving the nest first…..VERY AWARE!

YESTERDAY was the actual day … but I’m just now posting about it today. It took me all day yesterday to recoup!!

We did TONS of training since January and I thought I was really ready….till we got down there and started feeling the HEAT…. As if that wasn’t bad enough, my “system” decided it wasn’t going to “work for me”…until the race began and I was already at MILE ONE…so I have to run into the closest place, which was a McDonalds…with quite a few other girls…I waited IN LINE for 20 minutes…then my “process” took 20 seconds… done…now back on the asphalt..only to realize my GARMIN wasn’t running!!!!!!! YIKES!!!! So as I was running, I kept piddling with it till about the 2.00 mile mark and I just decided to turn it off and turn it back on…RESET… which it then began to work. OK, now can I have a FUN RUN???!!!

It was fun…till about 2.15 miles when a very young lady (I’d say about 24 yrs old) next to me just dropped to the ground and started having a SEIZURE!! About three guys immediately picked her up and layed her on the sidewalk yelling for someone to call an ambulance. I literally wanted to cry… I had never seen something like that and I could do absolutely nothing… it tok a good mile to get over that. NOW CAN I HAVE A FUN RUN??

It was fun…. till it started getting hot…not just hot, but VERY hot…. I wore a skort…and my legs were sweating bad… rubbing and rubbing… I didn’t put anything on my legs… I thought they were going to bleed they hurt so bad…. so I ran over to the Medical set up and got some vaseline…AHHHHH…. relief……and ready to continue on. NOW CAN I HAVE A FUN RUN????

I don’t even remember what mile I was in… the whole thing has now become a blurrrrrr…..at some point I saw my friend, Kay Moore (be sure to check out KAYS blog, more and better pics on there) so I just jumped over and started running w/her – not much of a loss there, abt a half mile…. but still…I kept going but had to stop at all the medical stations (more vaseline) and I saw, at least, 20 people (all young) passing out and getting carted off my ambulances… it was so scary. At the end, I was SO delirious… I got very nauseous and thought I was going to get sick…I just kept asking for Karl….who couldn’t come in the runners corral….so I had to WALK MORE just to find him.

It was definitely an experience….don’t know if I’ll ever do it again. But IF I do, things will be done a bit differently!! HOWEVER, I very much enjoyed my training months with my peeps…JEFF MOORE, KAY MOORE, RHONDA COLGAN, TIRSA PAGONA, AMANDA MILLER, BRIDGET and DANIEL MENG, HOLLY SINGLETON, ASHLEY WARREN and JENNI CATRON…. NOW THAT WAS FUN!!!!!!!

I NEVER HAD A FUN RUN…. But here are some FUN PICS…The first one is of all of us .. the SECOND one is of me crossing the finish line and you can see Kay over to my side SMILING at me w/her white hat on and her MEDAL on….the THIRD one is of Kay, Rhonda and Me…..the FOURTH one is of all the peeps at the race, the FIFTH one is of Jeff Moore, he is wearing the GREEN shirt w/ a multi-colored buff on (headband)…the SIXTH one is of me coming into the finish line but I’m pretty far back…(I have on the blue buff).

You can go to CMM to see race results.

Today was the COUNTRY MUSIC MARATHON and 1/2 MARATHON... I will post about that later….AFTER I totally recover…. FOR NOW, here are the babies…who really need to get ready to leave their nest soon! TOO CROWDED!

If my calculations are correct, these babies will be “flying the coup” sometime by mid next week… I sure hope I get that on video…

You can finally HEAR them chirping on this video…THEY HUNGRY!

YOU CAN SEE THEIR EYES ARE OPEN NOW….

Wow….have they changed! They are fluttering their wings and when they get fed their necks stretch BEYOND BELIEF… Their little eyes are opening…

MAMA NOT LIKING ME TALKING TO HER BABIES…..YIKES!!!

You can’t see it from this first video….but the babies have tee-niney wings now. This is the daddy feeding them…AND still eating the “doodie”…. although, the “doodie” is becoming more like a MEAL!! YUCK…

SOOOOOOOOOO….I don’t know how, when, why or where….but I think we’re missing a baby bird…. I only see (and have only seen) THREE… I’ve searched the ground…not there…I keep looking under the other three….nope… there is only THREE babies. There used to be four… gonna have to look that up on the internet…hmmmmmm..

Daddy’s cleaning the nest after he feeds these younguns…. ack!

So here’s another video…. and this time pay CLOSE attention to the 15-17 second mark…and the baby…who “doodies” – Mama QUICKLY takes it and eats it.. … kinda gross, however a lot of the animal kingdom do this… but VERY INTERESTING!

Just posting a day-by-day video so you can see how BIG these babies are getting….can’t wait to see how the mama (or daddy) teaches them to FLY!! AUDIO too..

Here is the daddy doing the feeding first…then the mama hopping on the nest and feeding…. I have to be very careful when I film due to the sensitivity of their little feelings. I hate disturbing “nature”…

I DO have my camera set up for LIVE FEED….however, I am not THAT tech savvy and do not know how to do a “port forward” to finalize it….so you’ll have to just watch my little video clips….BUMMER….sorry!

A LITTLE AUDIO ON THESE ….turn your speakers up and you can “HEAR” the mama chirping at them to open their mouths… that’s how they know it’s time to eat….(try not to pay any attention to the TRAFFIC sounds and poor picture quality)

THIS ONE IS THE DADDY CHIRPING FOR THE MAMA

SERIOUSLY….every time I look in the nest… it looks like someone has taken out the “babies” and put in “toddlers”…. they have A LOT more feathers and they can now hold their heads up longer (begging for food) and their beaks are getting bigger!

I almost feel as if I’m a “peeping tom” with their little lives…as much as I’m in their business!!

SORRY I have no audio…I’m working on it!

Both mom and dad are doing the feeding….