The Shafferland Shuffle

* Last Sunday, you guys, was the most blissful day. We took TWO naps, which was pretty amazing, actually, and when we went to Starbucks, we ended up getting FREE FRAPPES!!! Also amazing. Ryan had received some jalapenos from someone's garden, so we tried our hand at grilled jalapeno poppers. They were delicious! Grilled in the rain and all!

* Monday, Ryan got free pork rinds at work, and he tried to send me this excited picture of himself eating one - but I think he forgot the excited part! LOL!!! I did all sorts of chores at home - AND I committed to running the Haiti Half. I was wavering between the half and the 5K and decided to spring for the half- provided my body doesn't utterly rebel against the first couple weeks of training. I wrote out my whole training schedule and went for my first training run - 3 miles. Whew!

* Tuesday, I squeezed in an early run, which very nearly killed me, but had a gorgeous view! I kept busy all day, but missed my guy, who sent me a darling photo of himself just to make me smile - and it worked! {Back at home, Braeya NEEDED me to sit and watch her eat. It's a for real thing with her. She will cry and cry until we sit and watch her eat. Seriously, girl?} After work, we scooted to Starbucks for a quick date before resuming our evening of work. {Can you tell we're trying to complete the Star Dash? Which, by the way, is more my style of running!}

* Wednesday was another run day for me, and I was grateful for more good weather - especially in this summer which seems to only have two extremes: rainy or humid! I spent the day doing a variety of chores, which at one point included reading at the stove while I made macaroni and cheese. LOL!!! That was a new one, even for me! I'll tell you more about this later, but that night, we invited our favorite barista and her husband over for dinner and we. had. a. blast. 

 *Thursday, my mom invited me to join the ladies of their church for a lunch, and I shared a little speechlet with them. It was fun and the food was really good! That evening, Ryan and I headed to one of our favorite places: THE LAKE!!! We didn't get there until the sun was almost gone, but we scurried right down to the lake to see it...as I'm sure it had missed us both!!

* Friday we spent the whole day at the lake with most of Ryan's family, and it was such fun! We watched the sunrise and took boat rides and ate Mexican food and played with the kiddos. AND we took a 3 hour nap! It was a pretty perfect vacation day, even if we were 100% exhausted!

 * Yesterday we rounded out our lake mini-vacation with more boat rides, more playing with the kiddos, and even some fun adventures driving the Gator downtown to walk through some festival booths. We also ran four miles by the lake, which nearly killed me, but it did not. There was a 5K happening in town, so I got my picture by THEIR finish line in case I don't get to mine! HA!!