Happy Birthday James

My wonderful husband turns 27 today! I am so lucky to be married to him, he is the greatest person I know. He has such a good heart and is always trying to look for the best in people and is always willing to serve and help others. I just asked Carter what he loved about his Daddy and he said that he loves when he "goes running, and when he takes him to the park which has the letter p in it." Those were the exact words. He is hilarious, and is the spitting image of James which I love.Tonight we are going to Texas Roadhouse for dinner and coming back for cake and icecream at our house afterwards. Not too exciting, but his birthday always seems to sneak up on me...he's a good sport. Happy Birthday James, we love you!!

Week in Review

It has been a good week for us here at the English household. Not anything too exciting, just being with family and the day to day routine. On Saturday I participated in the Race for the Cure, a 5k race in Salt Lake with my cousin Megan. It was awesome! Actually our friend Leah got us to sign up but she ended up being sick and couldn't come. We were team "Save the ta-ta's". All of the money raised goes to breast cancer research. It was so cool to see 18,000 people all there united in a good cause. They also had signs saying either "in celebration of" or "in memory of" that you could wear in honor of someone you know. I saw several husbands walking that had lost their wives, daughters who were walking with their mothers who were survivors, and great shirts like one that said "boobalicious" haha! I plan on going next year it was so cool, I would recommend it to any of you!

The race was a great kickoff to mother's day on Sunday. I had a great one this year. James made me breakfast in bed which was some amazingly delicious crepes. Bananas, macadamia nuts, honey, and real maple syrup, is your mouth watering yet like mine is? They were divine! I got some new gardening tools and gloves, a new waterbottle, and some speakers for my ipod. Spoiled I know! We went to my mom's house that night and all of the boys prepared a wonderful meal for us. My husband seriously is the best cook ever!! He made this yummy pork tenderloin, quiche, guacamole, shrimp, and black forest chocolate cake. He goes a little nuts with the food sometimes, but he wanted to make it special for us. For birthdays whenever we are about to blow out the candles my mom always makes us go around and say something nice about the person, so in perfect Diane Tenney fashion, my dad had all of us go around and say something nice about my mom and then the men got to say something nice about their wives. It was really great to hear some of the comments. I love hearing my dad talk about my mom. He was telling us that he had been thinking about her at work last week and just how lucky he felt to have such an awesome wife and what a perfect mother she is to us. It was really sweet. Thanks James for making my day so special. I am so grateful to be a mother to my two sweet little boys. I am also grateful for my mom who is a great example of what I want to be. Also, I am grateful for James' mum for what a great mother she was and is to James and all that she does for us. In England, Mother's day is in March so we are usually not on top of it and forget. I hope that all of you mothers out there had a great one! This picture is of my mom dancing in her bedroom with Preston this past week to Michael Buble. I think it is so cute, my boys love her!!
We have also had some friends come over to play! Benny Milne came over a few days ago so that I could give his mom a break since she just had a new baby. He was such an angel! He and Preston are 3 months apart and were so funny together. They both just sat on this bottom step and ate fruit snacks! So cute!Come back anytime Benny, it was fun.
I have also started my half marathon training again officially this week. I have been running for a few weeks now already, but the training is 12 weeks until my race. I ran 3 today on my treadmill (which makes me want to stab my eye out!!) and it felt so good to sweat and just listen to my tunes. I can already feel a difference in my strength and my legs are getting just a little less jiggly! Well, I say that and then you see this picture of what I ate last night. I really needed to run atleast another 5 miles to work off all of these calories!! I mainly just posted this picture to make my sister jealous because she loves yorkshire puddings more than anybody I know. Here you go Mel, we'll call you next time!
Finally, I have a question for all of you fellow Americans out there...What are you doing with your economic stimulus checks? Are you going to "stimulate" the economy, and if so what are you buying? Or are you going to save it/pay off bills? We are doing a little bit of both. I just ordered 3 window well covers for my backyard which I have been putting off for a year now. It was time since the swingset we bought is almost up and I want to not have to worry about the boys playing back there. I also got Carter some new shorts for summer and am thinking about a new comforter for my bed that I want. We'll see. I want to hear your responses...

Just to make your day

I am sure most of you have seen this clip, but I laugh every time I see it and I have seen it atleast 10 times! I probably think it is so funny because this would be Carter and Preston if we were living in England. Enjoy...

Kate is here!

My BFF Kate lives in Denver and I get to see her usually once a year, tops. This year thanks to her husband's brother deciding to do a destination wedding at Sundance, they made the journey to Utah. I also went to see her in January for her birthday, so we are doing great, 2 times this year and it's only May 1st! She really is the greatest! Chris (her husband) was awesome and knew that our time would be limited together so decided to leave earlier than they had planned so that we could hang out longer. They got here about lunchtime yesterday and we have just been chatting ever since. We did make one outing to Thanksgiving Point for ice cream but that's it! James made his famous barbeque for us which was fantastic for dinner. The kids played great and Carter was in heaven chasing Aspen (Chris' little girl) around all evening. I had such a blast and my face hurts from laughing so much till late last night. The best part is, Kate and I are such good friends, but our husbands get along great as well. That's a rare find. Thanks Coates family for making my year by coming to see me! I loved every second of it.

me and Kate (terrible picture I just got out of the shower- also notice I am wearing a sweatshirt today because it is SNOWING! May 1st- come on, get over winter already!!)
Carter and Aspen goofing off
Chris, Kate, Aspen, me, and James

(we probably shouldn't have taken it in front of that window but oh well)