Six on Sunday...is it really May?

I'm back for another installment of Six on Sunday. As normal, this is always random, stream-of-consciousness. Here goes!

1. I am thankful to be running again. It is such a great feeling to be able to get out and move again! My knee is better. I don't think it's 100% better, but I'd give a 90% rating.

Today I combined one of my errands with my run. I figured why not kill two birds with one stone? What did I do? I ran to my neighborhood Von Maur to buy make-up because I had run out. The challenge? There was no way to match the Super Balanced Clinique foundation to my face since it was beet red. Oh well. We took an educated guess and I ran back home with a bottle of foundation in my hand. Classy!

2. I've talked about Project 365 before on here. I thought I should provide an update. (I don't have pictures of my album yet, but I'll get to those in a couple weeks.) I am keeping up with it - in fits and starts. This weekend I spent some time downloading my everyday snapshots to Costco. I had printed quite a few, but still had a ways to go. It really is fun and exciting. I'm enjoying taking photos of the ordinary, every day events. For instance, I took a picture of my Blackberry. Just think how much cell phones have changed over the last 20 years! In 20 years my BB will look like some sort of relic.

I'm also putting things in there from magazines, pictures of the TV shows we (mostly the girls) watch, and current events. I've put in the bibs from our half marathon - just bits of our every day life. Fun.

3. I was able to attend #2's soccer game ALL BY MYSELF yesterday! That was a real treat for me because it meant I was able to actually watch the whole game - no chasing two-year-olds. I brought my trusty 7D armed with my dad's lense to shoot some images of #2. Despite the FREEZING temperatures, I had a good time. Here are just a couple.

This one is my favorite!

She is #17.

After editing the photos I realized she loves soccer because she had a huge smile in every picture. She also had her mouth open wide every time she kicked the ball!

4. Project updates.

I bought an AWESOME mid-century telephone table (I think that's what it was used for back then) for $5. The top of the two tiers are veneer but I don't care. I've already painted it. It just needs a couple coats of white. I'll debut it next weekend. I am going to love it. It's going in #4's big girl room.
Since I had the great green paint for the telephone table, I took the liberty of painting the back of #4's bookshelf. The bookshelf is really tall and the green will provide a great pop of color to the solid white. I can't wait to rip the tape off and put all the books back!
I finally finished the dresser for my niece's room. I was able to deliver it this afternoon. It actually fits her room really well. She has a "glamour" vibe going on in there and the white and silver works. Here it is:

We are getting new siding on two sides of our house: the front and the south side. Well, it's a perfect time to replace two old, crappy windows. In order to measure for the windows, I had to rip off the trim pieces. This is what I found on my front window:

See that black stuff. Want to know what it is? Mold! Yep - our front window was leaking and we didn't realize it. Thank goodness we're replacing it. I'm just pulling that whole 2x4 out and putting in a new one. I'm not even going to clean that off!

We found out windows are expensive. (I had forgotten that part.) I'm not going to tell you how much they cost because I like to focus on the positive. Like how much we saved. Yep, we opened up a credit card at Home Depot to save 10%. That was a savings of a hundred bucks. Sweet! Now we just have to get the windows installed. Yuck.

5. It's official. #4 is FINALLY talking! WooHoo. I left for three days, came back, and boom! Talking. She's even putting a couple words together. She is still not very clear, but she will say "my shoes" or "dada's shoes." She is saying all her sister's names, which she definitely wasn't doing a week ago. It's so nice. I hope she continues to just snowball in terms of growth.

6. I spent a few minutes last week (when it was still warm outside) shooting some of my flowers. It was actually kind of fun to shoot something different. They are so beautiful this time of year.