The Weekly Chase #68!

First of all I want to say good luck and God speed to all the runners running the Boston Marathon today! I encourage you to get out there and move for Boston today! We are all #BostonStrong!

Well it's back to reality this week. We had an amazing spring break and I'm super sad to see it end! And so are my boys. But...on the bright side...the boys only have 5 more weeks of school left and I only have 4 more weeks of preschool left and then it's summer time!!!

I hope everyone had a great weekend! I had a blast running the Crescent City Classic 10K on Saturday! I'll be recapping it for you this week! And we had a wonderful Easter with family! We spent the night at my sister-in-law's house on Saturday night and spent all day with them and the in-laws and granddaddy on Easter Sunday! It was so nice to relax and enjoy being together!

Now it's time for another Weekly Chase! I'm ready to tell you all about my goals for this week! I hope you will link up your own goals with me too! And feel free to use the badge below in your post too! You can grab the badge HERE! :-)

Here are my goals from last week!

• Goal #1: Run 3 times this week. Yes! I got in two short runs and then I ran the Crescent City Classic 10K race on Saturday!
• Goal #2: Roll and stretch daily. I didn't do this this weekend since I wasn't at home. The rest of the week was successful though!
• Goal #3: Log and stay under all my calories this week. Yes!!! I did great with this even though it was my Spring Break!!! I even ate under my calories on Easter!!!
• Goal #4: Shop for Easter. Yep! The boys had a great basket of Easter goodies!
• Goal #5: Make spring break fun for my boys! Yes! The weather didn't cooperate as well as we would have liked so we didn't get our beach day. We had several rainy and then cold days. But we did get to go see the movie Rio 2 which was really cute! And we got to play at the park!

Here's the plan for this week!

Goal #1: Run 3 times this week. The same plan...2 short ones and a longer run on Saturday (even though I am not officially training for anything I want to keep my mileage up).

Goal #2: Roll and stretch daily. Need to do better this week!

Goal #3: Log and stay under all my calories this week. I'm hoping to hit that 10 pounds lost number this week!

Goal #4: Cook at home this week. I want to cook most of our meals at home this week. It helps me make healthier choices when I'm the one preparing it. 

That's the plan for this week! I hope everyone has a great week!

QOTD: What goals are you chasing this week?

Happy Easter!

What a wonderful thing to celebrate today on this Easter! He is RISEN! I hope you all have a wonderful day spent with loved ones!

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QOTD: What are your plans for this Easter Sunday?

Weekend Springtime Fun!

We had a great weekend! The weather was absolutely gorgeous! The past few weekends it has rained so we were so excited to see sun and warm weather all weekend! We had a jam packed weekend and spent a good part of it outside! I wanted to share all the fun things we did!

Saturday morning I ran a 6 mile run with friends. It was a great run! I'll tell you more about it tomorrow!

After I got cleaned up from my run, me and the boys met my friend Paige and her boys and headed to the Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center for an Easter Egg Hunt. This was our first time doing the Easter Egg Hunt here and they said they had 10,000 eggs!

We parked and had to walk a few blocks to get there. We took a few pictures along the way....all my son Sawyer's doing. Yes he knows his mama and her love of pictures well! :-)

We started off the day making all kinds of Easter crafts which the boys loved! They even got cupcakes! And guess who else made an appearance? The Easter Bunny of course!

Then it was time to hunt eggs! We were told that there were 10 golden eggs hidden throughout the Exploreum. Anyone who found a golden egg would get a prize. So off we went in search of eggs AND golden eggs! By pure luck...I happened to see a golden egg and pointed it out to Hayden who was right beside me! He was so excited he found a golden egg!!!

After the hunt we headed to find out what Hayden's prize would be. Here he is with some of the other golden egg finders!

Each child who found a golden egg got an Easter Basket! They also got another prize depending on which number they had inside their egg. Some of the prizes were money to the gift shop, a week of summer camp, and one on one time with the scientist guys. When they got to Hayden's egg he won the grand prize...monarch butterfly luggage! He was excited (which I couldn't believe he was excited about luggage lol)! The luggage had a price tag on it that said it cost $329.99! Whoa! We felt like celebrities because the people at the Exploreum wanted a picture of Hayden and his family with the luggage!

Then it was time for the raffle drawing! And Sawyer won a stuffed butterfly and two passes to come back to the Exploreum!!! It was my boys' lucky day!

After the Easter festivities were over we walked around the Exploreum and the boys played.

And I got to hang out with my Paigey!

After the Exploreum we ate some lunch and then took the boys to the park and down by the bay to play! It was a fun day!

On Sunday we hung out with Paige and her boys again at the Strawberry Festival in one of the towns near us. The festival has fair rides for the kids and craft booths for the adults! The boys had a blast riding rides!

And my favorite part...the Strawberry Shortcake! Yummy!

It was a fun time with friends and family!!!

After the Strawberry Festival we took the boys to the park to play. Then I had a 3 mile walk around the neighborhood!

It was a fun weekend out in the spring weather!

QOTD: Do you have spring weather yet? Or is it still cold where you live?

Happy Easter!

I hope everyone has a wonderful Easter! We are having friends and family over for lunch and an egg hunt after church! I hope you get to spend time with friends and family today! And please remember the true reason we celebrate!

QOTD: What are your Easter plans?