Day 68: I'm Popular Saturday

So when I woke up this morning my original plan was to finish cleaning my house and get it all perfect for the arrival of my best friend in the whole world, Haley. Haley is coming tomorrow, and I cleaned all my bathrooms, folded all my laundry (which is saying something, there was a LOT of laundry), cleaned my kitchen, and sold some old furniture yesterday in preparation. So today was suppose to just be a quick finish up. Well, then I remembered that I had a million things going today that I had completely forgotten about.

At 9am I had a track practice with some girls in my ward. It was about 25% fun, 75% miserable to get out on the track again. We ran 8 200's, a work out that is considered mild, but oh so miserable. After 6 of them I was certain that I was going to leave. Alivia was freaking out and the poor timers kept holding her for me. This was my own fault. She had fallen asleep in the car on the way to the track, but when I pulled her out and headed up the hill to the track I thought it was a good idea to run after a ball a kid had kicked into the street. Turns out running with an infant carrier is so not a good idea, and I dropped her. She was totally fine, I was a bit shaken up and totally embarrassed. But after that incident, no wonder she didn't sleep. Jack meanwhile could not figure out why I kept running away from him. He spent the entire time wandering from one side of the track to the other. I felt so bad, poor kid was so confused. It probably would have helped to have Lucy there. But I am happy to report that I did complete all 8 200's, even if my times got progressively worse.

After the 200's we headed up to the Christiansen's Easter Egg Hunt. We did this last year and the kids loves it. Lucy would be sad if she knew she missed out, but I probably just won't tell her. Jack had a blast, and Alivia slept in the car the entire time. I love the Christiansen's, they are some of the sweetest people in the entire world.

After that I rushed home and took a much needed shower. Shawn got home at about this time. He was aerating lawns all day. We both got ready and ran out the door to Denver where we had a babysitter waiting for us so we could go to a movie with Dave and Adriana. It was so fun to go on a date, even if we didn't get to go the movie we had hoped.

In the end, my house is so not up to par. I need to dust in a way you cannot believe, it's been bothering me for weeks. I also need to mop terribly, for reasons we will not mention. Oh, and vacuum, this is something that I always need to do and it never happens enough. But Haley will love me despite the condition of my home. I can't wait to see her tomorrow. I pick her up at 9! After that, Lucy comes home!!! We are so excited, I miss her so much. But honestly, it has been so good to have a little one on one time with Jack, cute little monster.