Neighbors

Our Dog’s Sweet Tooth + Swimming + Best Way to Wake Up

Temperatures have been in the 90s here in Pittsburgh lately, so Sadie and I took a dip in our neighbor’s pool yesterday.

Toddler in life jacket by pool Mom and daughter ready to go swimming

We have been very blessed with wonderful neighbors. They help us with Malcolm when we go out of town, let us go swimming in their pool, and have become cherished friends to us over the past six years.

Swimming with Sadie totally had me missing swimming on the swim team. I swam competitively from middle school through a bit of college, was a lifeguard, and taught swim lessons. It’s funny, though, that I don’t feel like I can teach Sadie to swim and would rather sign her up for lessons?!

Have I ever mentioned that Niva has a major sweet tooth? She has consumed sticks of butter, bags of chocolate chips, dozens of cookies, and last night she had a new first…

Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate Brownie Mix

Yup, she ate a box of brownie mix in the middle of the night. That was a fun time at 2:00 am with Jimmy, cleaning up brownie mix and watching Niva have a major case of the zoomies from all the sugar.

Today will be spent mopping the floors and deep cleaning the puke off our couch. And wishing I had those brownies, because man do they look good!

Just the other day I had to laugh because we had cookies cooling in our bedroom with the door shut because we can’t cool them in our kitchen. Nowhere (including on top of the refrigerator) is safe from our Cookie Monster husky!

Cowboy cookies cooling

While I was at the grocery store buying the aforementioned brownie mix, Jimmy was home with Sadie when she woke up from a late nap. I checked on her on our baby monitor and found the scene below.

Dad in crib with baby

I think Sadie thought that was the coolest way to wake up from a nap 🙂

Do you enjoy swimming?

Playing around

On Tuesday I spent the night at home for once (instead of swimming or going out, etc.) and it was very nice.

I spend the night ‘playing around’. My camera got played with, so did my sister, and my pots and pans in the kitchen. My homework also got played with … that’s boring though 😉

Playing in the kitchen…

Stuffed Peppers !

Also made some pumpkin bars, but this picture does no justice to them! They were baked and FROSTED<3

Playing with the camera

Playing some basketball with sister + neighbors

(Photo credit to Hannah for this picture!!)

It looks like she made it, but she missed..bummer !!

It was a warm evening in Pittsburgh; 40 degrees!!

I had a very relaxing night at home playing in the kitchen ( + eating ), playing with my camera, sister, and neighbors. I didn’t swim-I did yoga and it felt GOOD.

The way I see it about missing swimming is this:

I love swimming. I truly do.

I know I am not going to the Olympics, therefore I do not expect perfection from myself. If I miss a practice, guess what? I miss a practice. If the weather makes me miss practice I can’t do anything about it, so why freak out?? If my times suck, no one is going to yell at me but myself… and I know I won’t yell at myself because I swim because I LIKE it. I swim for NO other reason.

It feels great and I enjoy it. If I don’t feel like going to practice, I usually won’t-i’ll relax with yoga 🙂 I feel as if I will swim for the rest of my life in some form or another, so what is the rush with making EVERY practice? I have many more times in my life to get in the water!

That is my view. No pressure. Just doing what I like to do 🙂

Bible verse of the day:

Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. James 1:2-3

Okay, I cannot believe it is already Thursday! Pittsburgh is expecting a BIG storm tonight. Wooo I shall provide pictures!!!

Any snow where you are?

What is your view on sports/missing a practice or workout?