Friday 5: Pinewood Derby Time

It's Friday which means Friday 5!  (#Friday5) Sharing 5 Things and 5 Pictures from the week.  Would love for you to join in.   Every week I have a guest co-host, this week it is Mary from A Mighty Tower.

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Mary is actually my cousin-in-law, our husband's are cousins.  She is the one that introduced me to Power of Mom's and I had such a great time spending the weekend with her at Time Out For Women.   She has blogged on and off but is trying to get back into it more, so let's go show her some love!

Me and Mary 

Here are the questions I asked Mary.

1. How long have you been blogging?
I started a blog in October of 2006 as a family journal. I went back and forth on the privacy thing but have kept it private for the last several years. However, I'm very excited to have launched a public blog last month. The design is still a work in progress but there are a few posts up already. It will be filled with a little of this, a little of that, and 100% me. 

2. What is your favorite thing to do to wind down when you have some me time?

The better answer is reading, but I love a good tv show too. Anyone else watching Parenthood? What is going on there?!

3. What is your favorite dessert?

I love cheesecake so much that I skipped traditional wedding cake and went with three flavors of the gloriously yummy dessert. 

4. If you were given $100,000 today what would you do with it?

I would be sure to do some responsible things like put some in savings, college funds for kids, etc. And then I would take my whole family on a Disney cruise. 

5. What are some of  your favorite books?

I love all types of books but I especially enjoy dystopian and historical fiction. Some of my favorites are The Help, Austenland, and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.

Thank you Mary!  Please head over to her new blog and show her some comment love.


5 Things

1. More soccer games this weekend and both kids teams won!  Alex played goalie for one quarter and is still yet to be scored on.  Lucas unfortunately got hurt at the beginning of his game, ball bent his wrist back, but was able to come back the second half and finish the game.

2. Alex was counting down to April Fool's day as she was determined to fool someone... when it came down to it, she wasn't too successful.

3. Last week SoCal was racked with earthquakes, including one of the longest lasting ones I have ever felt, it was followed up with about 100 aftershocks within 24 hours (most of which were so minor that they weren't felt).  Then we had yet another yesterday, a very small one but one that was centered too close to my house for comfort.

4. Tuesday was the Pinewood derby.  Lucas' car did great last year and this year's car seemed even better... what was not better was the track.  Cars were literally flying off of during almost every race.  Lucas' car which was purposely very back heavy would hit any little bump and went flying off a few times.  Had the track been good I think he would have done great.  Needless to say he was not a happy camper.

5. I said I wasn't going to watch American Idol this year, just kind of over it but I still set it up to record and now during the day, I have actually been watching episodes getting caught up, I just made it to the final 13 though, so no one say anything!  I actually really like Harry Connick Jr. as a judge.

5 Pictures

Ready to watch the Pinewood Derby

See what I mean! Lucas' car is the one still actually on the track in this heat

Rain in the valley and snow on the mountains this week- I do love where I live

We were the talk of the soccer fields with our cool shade tent, can't wait to take it to the beach

What is your 5 for the week?