My friday excitment

So Matthew texted me from school today to let me know he is a vegetarian now, and would I please make him a veggie burger for dinner. Good thing it was a text because I laughed so hard my stomach hurt like I did a 3 minute plank! I wonder which girlfriend of his is a vegan and how long this one will last.
Elle stayed home with a high fever and some throwing up. Weird she was totally fine all afternoon and then came home from gymnastics sick. Kinda like when she used to go to the neighbors house to play she always came home and got a fever, what could do that? Yesterday was her first day going with a friend who wants to carpool to gym, does this mean something in their car makes her sick? weird

Ever have one of those days where you trip in the garage while carrying bags of groceries, twist your ankle, bang your bad knee, break 2 jars of spaghetti sauce and a jar of jalapenos since the grocery store didn't have cans of them? Yah me too.

Our super busy awesomely wonderful Saturday

We had the best time on Saturday. we knew we needed some happy family time for our teenagers who think everything is out to get them right now. I went and ran my 10 miles with girlfriends, which is the best way to start any day! Then ran home fed the family a quick breakfast threw sandwich's together and got the kids in the car to drive to Tallulah Falls in norther Georgia. There is even a sign welcoming you to north Georgia, which was funny. This place is so amazing. I've been making fun of Georgia waterfalls and this put me in my place. You can only hike to the falls if you get a permit and they only give 100 out day, and only if the weather is good. Which we scoffed at until we hiked it. It's a 3 miles hike round trip over boulders and trees and through rivers with no bridge, up and down 1062 steep stairs!! It is a crazy workout but some of the most beautiful scenery I've ever seen. As you can see from the videos below you hike to this natural rock water slide, you slide down and land in this beautiful basin of water. The hardest part if the slick rock face that you have to climb back up, but it's worth it. One time Elle was still nervous so I had her on my lap which weighted me down funny so I hit a rock and I have the most awesomely horrible looking bruise of red and black. I'd love to show it to you, but since I was sitting you can guess where it is. A shame really, it's great! After that we raced home changed our clothes and ran to the Braves game downtown. We missed the beginning because of a car accident but the kids still had a great time. we took the kids down in the 9th and they stand in line and get a turn running the bases down on the field! It was really cool to be on the field. They won't let you touch the grass, but they give the kids a tee shirt and certificate saying they ran the bases. Elle has worn hers for 3 days, I finally had to pry it off her. We got some great video and pictures of it, I'll post later when I have more time!!
And the best part? Not a single whine or complaint from the teenagers, ahhh success

Batteries not included

Nothing like having my battery die at seminary. I guess I left it on enough to see the time, but I didn't even think about it. Luckily there was a dad there waiting to drive the kids, but I had to go into the seminary and ask the kids if they had cables and then go back in and ask a girl to move her car... sigh. Then I almost ran out of gas so I went over to the gas station and I had the thought "maybe you should do your other errand first so you don't turn the car off", which I ignored. Got my gas and the car was dead. Went around asking everyone for cables, talking to strangers in the morning with no makeup or bra on is my favorite thing of course. The next jump took 4 tries and finally worked. Ran home got Connor ready for school, with the car running, took him to school, stopped at the auto place where they tested my battery and what do you know?? It failed. So I now have wonderful new battery, less money again and I'm having trouble pulling it together to run. MAYYYYBEEEE later......

tallulah gorge