Right Now with Jenn-o: All In One Day

All In One Day

The Saturday before Mother’s Day I scheduled three different things to do, since they were all at different times during the day it seemed a logical solution. Remind me next time I am contemplating multiple events in one day that maybe two is the maximum. But last Saturday I decided that three was an ok number so at 5:30am Terry, Allie and I woke up took showers and got on the road. First we went to Grandma and Grandpa’s house Allie got to hang out with them going to the car wash and little league games to cheer on her cousins while Terry and I went to the Color Run at the Irvine Great Park. The day was beautifully overcast, just the way I like it when I go for a walk. When we finally parked; there were road closures, construction areas and only on entrance, it was time to get the race started. Terry and Dennis ran while the J-Walkers skipped along throwing colored corn starch at each other. The J-Walkers included Jen and Jenn (J-Walkers get it? Hahahaha), April, Kim, Karen and sometime Tommy; he ran back and forth between his entire Color Me Clique group. April was our designated color fairy, she floated it on heads, butts and teeth! Check out the blue mustache!

Most photos taken by Dennis Wjinker.

Some photos taken by professional at Color Run and available free for download at the Color Run website.

After running home to get a shower (that stuff was messy!) we swooped up Allie and went to celebrate the life of Floyd Miller with the Miller clan. Joy, Mike C., April, Mike McD., Riley, Gay, Tabitha, Tim, Terry, Allie and I enjoyed homemade turkey sandwiches, Brussels sprouts, pasta salad and lots of crunchy munchy veggie and cracker snacks. Then we all shared in a moving celebratory ritual of planting a tree to commemorate the life of a man we all loved. The lavender bush that was planted for Jane Miller just two short years ago waved at us in the breeze nodding approval at the proceedings.

As the afternoon faded to early evening bringing with it a cooler twilight we ended our day at a baby shower. Elisa and Dan will soon be welcoming their daughter to the world. Evan will be a Big brother soon and buying pretty little baby clothes is just something that I LOVE doing. From the looks of all the bags filled with tiny pretty things my friends feel the same way. All of our kids (wink! wink!) ran around Noelle’s backyard bouncing on the jumper, flying on the trampoline and shooting the air rifle at gophers!