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Liv’s Birth Story

February 11, 2018 meglurieLeave a comment

Tomorrow, Liv will be five years old.  We’ve already been busy celebrating with cousins (and donuts!), cocoa with marshmallows! for breakfast, cake baking, and decorating, with so much more to come.  I’ll be back with her birthday interview, but first, I wanted to republish her birth story, because this might be “her” day, but it’s… Continue reading Liv’s Birth Story

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Liv is SIX! 🎉 The day was sweet from start to finish, with cake for breakfast and acai bowls for lunch, before I got to spend the whole day with her at school! Together, we read One Fish Two Fish to her class, had unicorn cookies during recess, skipped home in the sunshine, then finished out the day with a fun family dinner at Sammy's, and an actual mountain of cotton candy for dessert 💖 #livclare #6yearsold #sweetestgirlever
When I was little, I used to promise all the stuffed animals at the store that I'd come back & buy them one day... Just keeping my word, I guess 🤷‍♀️💖😏 #livandleo #mariekondomethod #amidoingthisright
Liv's school held a Fun Run today, raising money for art, music, and other enrichment programs. She hit up friends & fam for pledges, with the goal of running 26 laps, like her mom runs 26 miles in a marathon 😍 Rain has been in the forecast, and she told me she's had her fingers crossed all week that the rain would hold off. She got her wish, and I got to see her run her little heart out! 💖 A few laps in, she was worrying she wouldn't reach her goal, but the smile never left her face as she kept running. She gave out high 5s, skipped and danced, cheered for her classmates, and pulled me in for a couple laps through the tunnel. When they called time, I got to tally up the checkmarks on the back of her shirt: 32 laps!!!! 🎉 20 minutes later, the kids were back in class, and Leo & I had walked home, just in time for it to start pouring rain. Such a fun & special day 🙌🏆💕 #livclare
#10yearchallenge - Only a couple things have changed
Today, #leopax is #22monthsold 🎉 and here's a little gem from this afternoon: Leo: "Mom! I farted!" Me: "Good job, Leo. What do you say?" Leo: "Thank you." Me: "No, you say, 'Excuse me'." Leo: "Excuse you!" (*runs away giggling)
This was @zendad12's and my TENTH year showing up for the #CarlsbadMarathon (and/or Half)! My favorite bro (Uncle Rhino) got to join us and see dolphins while spectating! 🐬❤🎉 AND on the final stretch to the finish, Liv jumped out, and sprinted her little heart out, right by my side. Best ever. . Official finish - 1:41:09 (7:43/mile). It was too much of a sufferfest to only be 10 seconds faster than last year -- and still shy of the sub-1:40 I KNOW I have in me... but the goal lives on! 👊 #alwaysgrateful
There's water all over the floor, I'm drenched, and I just broke up a "spit war," but I live for these giggles 💖 #joyeveryday #livandleo
Um, hi. I own a #BostonMarathon #CelebrationJacket... Me. 🙋‍♀️ The girl who was picked last in gym class, slowest on the high school track team, the 10+ minute miler, who turned herself into a Boston Marathon QUALIFIER 3x to FINALLY score a spot in the race... #nevergiveup
Liv says she's been dreaming of this day her "WHOLE LIFE!" -- She took her 1st ballet class yesterday! With her bestie Madelyn! And with Miss @hope1284 as her teacher! 💕 And Luke, Maddy's big bro, kept Leo entertained ✌🤣 #newwestballet #littleballerinas #brothersarethebest
Recently, Liv got hooked on the Kids Baking Championship on Food Network, which inspired her to make Jared's birthday cake. She shopped for the ingredients, cracked eggs, measured, stirred, poured, baked, frosted, decorated, and sampled (a lot 🤣)! I helped when an egg smashed on the counter, and put the pans in/out of the oven, but otherwise, #livclare (#5yearsold!) made this ALL BY HERSELF!!!! 🎂🎉❤ Happiest birthday, @zendad12
@zendad12's birthday breakfast, sweet + silly 💕❤💥🎉
@zendad12, I (still) can't believe they're ours 💕❤💥 #livandleo
5 years ago today, in the wee hours of morning, my sister called. I knew what she was going to say before I answered... At 19 years old, my niece Jessica, had come to the end of her 12 year battle with cancer. She had made it through one last Christmas and into the new year, but she was tired... With a fresh blanket of snow outside her window in Ohio, she went to sleep peacefully. And life has never been the same. * My sister visited a few months ago and on the day that would've been Jessica's 24th birthday, we took a bouquet of purple roses to the beach Jessica last visited. We threw petals into the waves between laughter (we got soaked) and tears. * And on Christmas day, I found myself in tears again, listening to Emily Blunt sing in Mary Poppins Returns: * So when you need her touch And loving gaze Gone but not forgotten Is the perfect phrase Smiling from a star That she makes glow Trust she's always there Watching as you grow Find her in the place Where the lost things go * ("The Place Where Lost Things Go")
Finished 2018 with my highest running mileage ever: 1947 miles. I ran 7 races: 1 5K, 2 10Ks, 2 half marathons, and 2 fulls. I tied my half and full PRs (1:40 and 3:33), so those are still the times to beat... But I did pull off a 10K PR, and best of all, I ran my 3rd BQ - the 1st BQ that actually scored me a spot in the Boston Marathon! 💛💙🎉 104 days. Here we go!
Leo's During & After the airplane ride at Legoland is exactly how I feel about Christmas day & the day after... #postholidayblues
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