Food, Friends, Football, and Fun

These past couple weeks haven't really been too hard, but they haven't been too easy either. This was the first week where I felt more at ease! Here is what we have been up to.

 #1 ) Food: We have been cooking lots of food! We are staying at Mary and Russell Guilfou's house and have had tons of REAL cajun food! Homemade!! It has been fantastic!! Monday we had red beans and rice, Thursday we had jambalaya from Jason and Russell's work jambalaya cooking contest, and this weekend we had the most AMAZING gumbo!! Here are some pics!

#2) Friends: We have the most AMAZING friends!! Our Jefferson Ward friends came out to help us gut our house and worked so hard! Our amazing friends the Davis family evacuated with us and then still aren't tired of us! (that is amazing!!) And, we have stayed with our amazing friends the Loaders all last week. And now, we are staying with our amazing friends Russell and Mary! They are so great! Mary and I have now become sister wives...in the sense of cooking, cleaning, working, shopping, and taking care of the kids...no husband sharing though lol We have played volleyball, games, xbox, etc. and have had a blast. Keaton even loves his little friend Marie. She is only a week older than him and they get along so well....well Keaton follows her around all day...but I think they will be lost without each other when we leave. :) They are just so cute! Yall check it out...

You can see what a great influence Keaton is on Marie too ;) 

#3) Football:  The house is filled with football talk on the weekend! I have been thinking of making a canvas art piece for the house that says "we interrupt this marriage to bring you...FOOTBALL"! Thankfully I have a sister wife to keep me company! :) and the kids. 

We recently ran the Saints Season Kickoff 5k. It was great! My first 5k ever...and it went pretty well...despite: 

1. me never running more than 2 miles at one time in my life 

2. never have run in the morning 

3. leaving the house at 6:30 a.m. and not going to bed the night before until after midnight haha 

4. not eating breakfast before we left because we thought there would be some 

5. wearing black while running in the Louisiana heat and the sun beating down

6. me not having a set pace yet...since I didn't get to finish my training program before the race due to Hurricane Isaac.

We did finish in a decent time...Keaton slept the whole race...and Jason got #1 in the 40 yd. dash out of 4,080 people!!! Here are some pics.

#4) Fun:  We have just been having lots of fun here! Between crazy running errand trips, games, sports, cooking, mud baths, regular baths, rain baths, football, and just playing...we have had a blast! Keaton has for sure! Check out the little ham.

I need to think of a good way to sign off every time I finish a blog...it's gotta be cajun/southern/fun!... I got it!

Holla Back Y'all!