I am now up-to-date on the basement photos. It’s getting closer to being done. Hopefully in the next two weeks we will have a painted basement with heat and flooring.

This weekend we celebrated our ten-year anniversary.

Saturday we packed a picnic lunch and went to Thatcher Park where we ate, walked, and biked. Mountain biking is not my first idea of fun, but I like it enough and the Husband loves it so for him I biked up mountains and through the woods. I even made it up some of the big hills! Once I was sufficiently sore from the bike seat, we went home to clean up, because I’m not going to a nice Indian restaurant smelling like I just went biking through the woods. They say women don’t sweat, but I sweat buckets. Smelly, smelly buckets. After dinner we went to see a very romantic movie, Hellboy 2. Totally my choice. It’s a good movie.

Unfortunately, I overdid it on Saturday and I think I am now sick. I have had a headache for two days and have wanted to vomit since this morning. But you know what? I think it was worth it because it was a day I will remember and not just because I blogged about it.

I am in shock that we’ve been together for ten years. I can’t believe such a wonderful, thoughtful, caring man would still want to be with a crazy, cranky, stubborn girl like me. I cannot imagine my life without that boy and I hope that we have eighty more years together that are just as good as these last ten.

For the last three weeks there has been construction at work. Last week, work began on the basement. I am more than done with construction, and sadly, there is still a long way to go in the basement. I’ve taken photos every day so you can see the progress. It’s all the photos through yesterday. I do seem to be missing day 3, but I think they just finished a closet or something.

Click the image below to view all the days. I’ll let you know when more sets are added!

I am sure the five people who read this were waiting with baited breath to see how I ran on Friday. I ran like crap. I don’t know if it was because I hadn’t been feeling well during the week, the heat, or I started too fast, but I just couldn’t run. I walked a bunch and had little old ladies pass me. That said, I ran it in 33:58. The Husband ran pretty well and finished the race in 23:20. He tells me things and I quickly forget them. Kristina ran it in 29:something.

Here we are before the race, all happy and athletic (and not sweaty).

The best part of the weekend was spending time with Kristina. We drove out Thursday night and stayed at her place with her dog, husband, and kids. Let me say that her kids are absolutely adorable. Not only that, but they are some of the most well-behaved kids I’ve seen in a long time. She says that’s because we were here and they were on their best behavior, but to me that is a mark of good parenting.