We are in des moines Iowa (a Wonderful city by the way) for another year of USA national championships. Josh will be running in the steeple finals on sun at 12:50. (Prelim races were on thurs; he looked good, and comforatable.) You can watch his race live at flotrack.org (then go to videos and coverage) You will also be able to watch this race on ESPN or NBC. This is the link to the T.V. schedule. http://www.usatf.org/events/2010/USAOutdoorTFChampionships/ He's had a hard year with injuries and stuff- taking off September to February, but he's worked hard to get back into shape and has been feeling pretty good lately! He is the defending champion from last year... so it should be a good race. But, I think with all things considered Josh just feels lucky to be able to even make finals this year! Nice job Josh! We're proud of you!

Outings

I'm a little behind on blogging, so I had to combine a few things we've been doing under the heading "outings". So- a few nights ago we went to this cupcake place called Gigi's. It was so super good and really hit the spot! I totally recommend going there- they have like 20 different flavors that change according to the day. (IE: Chocolate malt, Italian cream wedding cake, cookies and cream, Mallow cream, Peach cobler, texas milk chocolate, southern comfort, etc) Pictured below is Midnight Magic- only drawback was a little too much frosting- BUT that it worked out perfectly that we have a little frosting monster living in our house, so any extra frosting was quickly taken care of!

There is a new culinary arts school a couple miles away. One of my dreams is to attend Culinary arts school... this one had an open house and the students and instructors made all this delicious food for you to sample! It was all free, and all yummy! (This is a real pig, I do like ham, but I think if I would have breathed in and smelled the scent of this I would have been sick)

We finally went to see the ducks that live in the fountain of the peabody hotel. Each morn. the ducks are marched out to the lobby fountain. They spend the day there, and at night the Duck master comes out, rolls out a red carpet (and stairs) and marches them out of the fountain, into the elevator, and up to their night quarters.

Magnets

I made a post a couple weeks ago with the "jesus loves you note" being held up by some cute magnets that my sis. made me. Lots of people liked them... If you are interested in gettin' some for yourself I had her post them on her blog- http://sunnykellybeck.blogspot.com/2010/06/butts-and-mags-buy-them.html they are .75 or 3 for $2.00! She has alot but here's a photo of some of them.

Almost, but not quite

Do you remember this Delicous stuff?

It used to be .89 cents at Albertsons and we would beg our mom to buy us some everytime we were there. I would usually chooose boysenberry or raspberry and sip on a bottle savoring the flavor for several hours- to make it last as long as I could. Wikapedia says it "was extremely popular in the 1980s and early 90s, but fell out of favor in later years"- but not to this girl!!! I have been searching for a bottle of this delicous stuff for years!

Found this drink at target (by the deli) and was hoping it may be like Clearly Canadian- it was!!! Not quite as good of course but had a similar deliciousness! After this bottle was gone (to quickly) I searched online and found you can purchase Clearly canadian at www.DrSoda.com ($1.89 a bottle, plus shipping, but it's worth it! that's what I've asked for for my birthday. Don't know if I Can wait!