I read a magazine article titled “63 Things to Do With Your Kids Before They Grow Up”

First Thing: “Run a marathon. But not all at once. Set a goal with your kids to run a full 26.2 miles over the course of a year….”

Great idea! But not with my kids - That would be not so fun.

So my goal: Run a marathon (104 times around the track) by Labor Day weekend.

I started today and, pathetically, I could only run one time around the track. (Granted, I did just finish up an hour of playing tennis, so I was already feeling it in the legs).

I’m so excited about this! Sometimes you just need a good push!

If I had been on top of my game here, I would have remembered to get Eppie what he wanted for Father’s Day - A witty T-shirt.

Last night, Eppie was online and wanted to show me the funniest shirt he had ever seen (from threadless). That’s when it hit me that I forgot to get him his shirt. When I checked out this shirt, at first I was like, “huh?” But two seconds later I could not stop laughing. He is totally getting this shirt if it’s the last thing I do:

And then Eppie and I found the perfect one for my dad:

I guess being a doctor, my dad is pretty morbid and will totally dig this shirt. He still wears the one I gave him 15 years ago that says, “Eat Right. Exercise. Die Anyway.”

For fun, here are some of the other shirts that Eppie and I love (these are from Busted Tees):

Here are some of my favorite Daniel quotes from the last two weeks or so:

-Because I had been spending so much time doing stage rehearsals and shows last week, Daniel told my sister Katie, “I just want Uncle Dan to fire my mom!!!”

-Daniel’s prayers often turn into church sermons. Last week as Daniel was closing his prayer, he said, “In the name of Jesus Christ…who loves our environment because heaven is a lot like earth, except they don’t have bodies there. Amen.”

-Driving home from church last week, we asked Daniel what his primary lesson was about. He told us this story: “Once there was a little boy who’s daddy died, so the mom had to get a job. The little boy decided to help his mom, so he got a job too. Now, Sister Hansen didn’t tell us if the boy had to have a job interview or not, but I’m guessing he did…

-”Mom, is Lizzie asleep yet?”

“I don’t know. I can’t see her.”

“Is she camouflaging herself again?”

-Daniel made a rocket out of Legos that he called “spacey.” He loved spacey dearly for about three days, until he broke. After he broke, Daniel sang made-up songs to spacey. I really got a kick out of the some of the lyrics, and Daniel’s acting was worthy of an Oscar. But what really got me going was when Daniel broke out into a Britney Spears song:

“Oh Spacey, Spacey,
How was I supposed to know
That something wasn’t right?”

- Today, we were planning on splitting up the kids and doing a “boys date” and “girls date,” where ep and Daniel would go to the movies while Holly and Lizzie played together.  The discussion surrounding the subject led to these 2 gems from Daniel:

Dad: Daniel, do you want to go see Kung Fu Panda with me?
Daniel:  Well, is it level 1 Kung Fu Panda or level 2 Kung Fu Panda?
Dad: Daniel, there are no levels, it’s just a movie.
Daniel: No Dad.  There are levels.  Is it level 1 or level 2?
Dad: Ummm… I think it’s level 2…
Daniel: Ok, then let’s go… I think there’s a level 3…

Later, Daniel recanted on his desire to go see the movie.  The conversation with Holly was as follows:

Daniel: I don’t want to go the movie with Dad.  I want you to come.
Mom: But Daniel, you and Dad are going to have a boy date, and Mom and Lizzie are going to have a girl date.
Daniel: Boy dates aren’t any fun when there are no girls.