It’s been a great few days for Piper’s Run – no, I haven’t signed any deals or received anything (other then a great complement last night from Marathon By The Sea that they love my blog – fun, eh!). We just a great weekend celebrating our daughter’s 5th birthday! I’ll get to that in a minute but first….
I had booked Friday off work to get some stuff done for the birthday girl and spent the entire day with my husband. We managed to get to Halifax, shop, eat lunch at the Wooden Monkey and got back in time to pick up the girls.
The Monkey Pita
Saturday, Lilly went to swimming lessons with Grammy, while Sai and I frantically ran around our house getting ready for her party. It was supposed to be outside but we ended up inside due to LOTS of rain 😦 Meh, they loved it and I took zero pictures – whoops!
After the party, Sai had to take off for work which always sucks but the girls were distracted by presents and Grandparents. I managed to sneak out of the house with my running buddy. Remember her? It’s been a while since I’ve chatted about Krystol since we haven’t been able to run together.
We ran in the HOT HOT sun Saturday afternoon, roughly 27C! It was great. We warmed up with 1k walking, ran 6k (my first 6k in months) and then walked another 1k to cool down. It was so frigging hot we had to walk a few times along the trail we ran on.
It was so GREAT to run with her again {and her dog Fletcher}. We chatted the whole time. It was really nice to be running outside with someone who shares a lot of the same things. Really missed that this winter. Slowly but surely we will be running races together again!
Lilly turned 5 on Sunday! She was so excited Saturday night that she couldn’t go to sleep and woke up saying “I’m five, I’m five”. We called Sai before we got out of bed and then moved onto her presents of course (bike and clothing).
Birthday fun & Zoo! Lots of pictures for Daddy today 🙂
Sunday morning, I took the girls to the Zoo where we had a picnic lunch before we came home to skype with Sai’s Mom. It was a bit of a challenging day for me, one that I was hoping would be a breeze like the day before but you can’t win them all. Hilary is really starting to challenge us on everything and trying to be MISS Independent! Needless to say, I may have grown a few more grey hairs yesterday.
We ended the day with cup cakes again and all was good. I can’t believe we have a 5 YEAR OLD now!
1 Day Old & 5 Year’s Old.
How was your weekend?
How’s running in the heat for you?
Cake or Cup Cakes for Birthdays?
Piper's Run 
Aww, happy birthday to your little girl!! What a cutie pie! I’m definitely a cupcake kind of girl!
Thank you 🙂 I love cup cakes too 🙂
Happy 5th birthday to your little one! And the Wooden Monkey is by far my fav restaurant in Halifax! I always go there whenever I’m in town. Sooooo good!
The Wooden Monkey is SO good, it’s our favourite place to enjoy when in Halifax.
Happy birthday, Lilly!
Thank you Abbi 🙂
Happy birthday to Miss Lilly! Glad you had a good weekend 🙂
Thank you! We had a great weekend! Keep an eye out for the Cordskinz!
Oh yeah, Pics of party… I’ll get on that soon! was SO GREAT to run together!!
It was SO great to run together! Can’t wait to do it again soon, I hope! And, I’m super thankful you took some pictures. I didn’t even take out my camera…bad mom!
It’s usually safe to say I’ll take a picture or two for you 😉
I greatly appreciate that!
Happy Birthday Lilly! It’s amazing how much changes in 5 years in our lives, right? ANd having a child, well, there you go.
I would say mini cupcakes so that you can have lots of flavors. Or cookie cake.
It is amazing how things can change in 5 years! We had normal cup cakes and mini cupcakes too – I got your back here, ha ha! I put mint in the icing…so good!
Awh happy birthday to your babe!!! She is too darn cute!!!!!
She’s our little fire fly! The other one is the bad ass 😉
Happy birthday!! She’s adorable.
Running in the heat is pretty much unbearable right now. The high today is 97, which means I will be running on the treadmill 🙂
Umm, yeah that’s a little unbearable for running, I’d say! 27C or 80F is hot for us but 97 would be rough! I probably wouldn’t run in that heat either BUT I have played in many soccer tournaments with in those temps!
Happy birthday to the mini one! so cute. Most people say 5 was the best age – enjoy it!
“Most people” ??!?!?! Uh oh! She’s so funny and sweet. Parenting is HARD work sometimes but SO rewarding!
Jealous of your Wooden Monkey meal! One of my faves? Have you ever been to Calactus in Moncton? You have to take your husband – it’s like Wooden Monkey but completely vegetarian.
It’s so good there, eh! I’ve never been to Calactus…….and I just checked out their menu. Great, now it’s on my list 😉 I’ll have to tell him about it as he is often in Moncton transferring patients back and forth to PEI.
PS I had a good run this weekend too – I think you and I are following very similar recovery paths!
So great to hear you had a good run this weekend! Saw your comment on IG – I have a feeling we’d have a great running pace together 🙂