I can’t believe April is half over. It’s been a crazy couple of weeks here, with hazing for the Mamavation Mom finalists every day, school, crappy weather, real 5Ks. If you’re around tomorrow night from 7-8:30 (central), I’d love you to hop over to twitter (with the #mamavation hashtag) for the big announcement and cheer me on if I do make the cut or let me cry on your shoulder if I don’t. There’re also prizes involved.

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I got to spend the day with my girl, MamaMash, before she moves to Texas this coming weekend.

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A fancy girl and her Easter candies.

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Part of the hazing process for the finalists is getting 10,000 steps in each day, so we’ve all been wearing our pedometers religiously and strapping on those sneakers. I don’t have a neighborhood to walk around in, so when it’s nice, I’ve been taking Diver out in the yard for a walk and chasing the kids around.

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I’m kind of horrified at this next picture….apparently it’s the only picture I took all day. And I didn’t realize it until the next day. We were asked by @bookieboo (CEO, matriarch, general badass of mamavation) to tweet a sweaty picture after our hazing workouts. This was a particularly tough workout day. I’m making the picture really small. i apologize…you’ll never be able to unsee it.

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It was a really fancy week for the smallest girl child. She wore at least one tutu every day (but most days she layered them or changed into new ones repeatedly).

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You know how sometimes, kids will come up with a brand new game and then want to play it over and over and over? EB’s game of the day was She Sticks Her Tongue Out and I Squish Her Cheeks.

And then we got my swag bag for the Color Me Rad 5K that I did on Saturday morning, and the kids went through it. Of course.

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Color Me Rad, with my mom. It was like 40 degrees.

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