Happy Halloween

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Gardner Village Outing

We went to Gardner Village to see the witches. Mackenzie was not happy that they were not "real" so we took the little hay ride to see the "real" ones. Brooklyn insisted on being held. She is turning into quite the fraidy-cat. But Mackenzie loved all the witches and seeing their trailer-turned-house and listened so intently to everything they said. She was very relieved because the first thing "Helga" told the kids is that Gardner Village only has GOOD witches.

Fun family outing...

Soccer

Here is a little taste of 3 and 4 year olds playing soccer. We are the blue team and Mackenzie has on the pink sleeves. If you watch closely (at about 15 seconds), she actually kicks the ball in this video.

p.s. The coach for the black team was cracking us up being all intense. Every time we would kick off he would yell "Look at their eyes- that's where the ball is going!" Actually coach, their eyes are looking over at the park or at the sideline searching for treats.

Talented Friend

My friend Raelene makes some way cute baby accessories and aprons. She just started this blog because she's had a lot of people wanting her to make stuff for them.

Check it out: www.cocobelladesign.blogspot.com

St. George Marathon 2009

WE DID IT! I've never been so happy/relieved/excited to see a finish line. What a wonderful sense of accomplishment after diligently following our running schedule for the last 4 months. The day finally came and all our hard work earned Robert and I 4,562nd place and 3,548th place respectively. Pretty good, huh?

THE RUNNERS with "finisher" medals

THE FAM

ROBERT coming through the finish line

So here is a breakdown of October 3rd

4:00 am Wake up

5:15 am Load onto bus with 7,000 plus others (the ride up to the starting point is about 35 minutes of trying not to notice how long the ride is as you'll be running it on the way back)

6:55 am We cross the starting line

7:00 am I realize that I forgot to cut my toenails. Not cool.

8:00 am Running and feeling pretty good

9:00 am Still running

10:00 am It's becoming painful but of course we're still running

11:00 am Somehow we're still running

11:19 am I cross the finish line 4 hours and 24 minutes after we began

11:50 am Robert makes his goal of finishing under 5 hours

Then we met up with our supporters (Carol, Liz, Grace, Ali, Jeff, Jill, Mackenzie and Brooklyn). They were so great to fight the crowds to be there. For first-timers, it was great to feel like what we did was worth cheering on.

This really was one of the coolest things we have ever done together.

Post Marathon

We, my husband and I together, are running the St. George marathon in less than a week. I hope we're ready. We've been seriously faithful in following our running schedule. I've been quite impressed with us to tell you the truth. But 26.2 miles is just a long way. Wish us luck...

Anywho, I'll get on with the point of this post. The other day we were talking about what and where we should eat after the race. I'm thinking somewhere nice with appetizers, main course, desserts, drinks- you know going all out for this meal. Bert doesn't even have to think about it "Carl's Jr."

Um, I guess we'll be celebrating separately.