Our first Mother's Day weekend

Our Mother's Day weekend began early Saturday morning when I left home with Beauty the wonder dog and headed to Champoeg Park for the Hippie Chick race. (Beaut and I did the quarter marathon.) Sara was kind enough to pick up my race packet for me the day before. While she was correct in stating the shirts this year were less than appealing, I did have a pretty good bib number - 1. I was busy gabbing with Sara, as she waited for the Noodle to wake up from her nap, so Beaut and I didn't start on time but we did all right once on the trail. Lots of people commented on the bib number, I only saw one other person with a single digit, and many questioned how I came upon such a number, as if I had some insight into number distribution (I don't). A runner who passed me after the fifth mile happily pointed out we were shoe twins. I didn't really know such a thing existed but plan on watching shoes in future races so I can point out people's feet.

Tan came over in the afternoon to spend a little time scrapbooking. Sometimes there are just too many projects to choose from. I decided once the Resident Alien arrives it's probably unrealistic to think I'll have a bunch of available time to work on a family album so I started putting one together that will begin with our pregnancy and go through a year of the baby's firsts. I'm guessing this one album might end up becoming thirteen albums - first Halloween, first Christmas, first President's Day - there's a lot of ground to cover. At least I'm getting the process started, which increases the likelihood the photos will one day be placed in an album.

Darr returned home with Mother's Day gifts. Yea! The Cinnabons were great and the card was most excellent but the Bugaboo Gecko stroller was the coolest. We spent some time Sunday afternoon putting the stroller together and taking Elle & Mabes for rides around the condo. Cat tested, mother and father approved.