Rock N Roll Savannah Half Marathon

November 3, 2012

 

 

I decided to do another half marathon this year. My best friend Julie and her husband Brad ran the Rock n Roll half marathon in Savannah last year so we decided that would be a fun race to run.

 

Jules, Sandi, Stephanie and I before the race started. It was a pretty run and the weather was fantastic. My goal was to finish in under 2 hours. I had severe foot pain at mile 8 that slowed me down a bit and I came in at 2 hours and 27 seconds. Oh so close to that goal!

 

 

Showing off our medals

 

 

 

The race was early Saturday morning so we had plenty of time after to relax,

grab a yummy meal and shop.
 

 

 

It was such a fun weekend with great friends.

Halloween

October 31, 2012

 

 

Halloween was on a school night this year but that didn't stop these boys from having fun.

 

 

The older boys are into Ninjago Lego's so they asked to be ninjas this year.

 

Zach is our little monkey so this costume was perfect. This is the same costume Landon wore for Halloween when he was Zach's age.

 

I had a very difficult time getting him to stop for pictures.

 

He kept trying to give everyone his candy at every house we went to.

 It was very sweet and so cute!

 

Don't mess with these two!

I did not get very good pictures but I can tell you that fun was had by all.

Pumpkin Carving

 

 

It was time to carve our pumpkin. Darren is pretty good with a knife so we let him do most of the carving:-)

 

 

Ayden is paying attention so he can do the carving duties someday.

 

We let the boys do all the dirty work and scoop out the pumpkin.

 

Zachary was in charge of making sure everyone was having fun

 while mommy took all the pictures.

The finished product....four happy pumpkins!

Family Pictures

 

The Fellows family joined us for our Blue Ridge trip this year. I took advantage of having Delisa around and asked her to take some pictures of our family. This is what we got.

 

The next two are my favorites!

Sweet brothers!

 

All my boys! Love them so much!

 

 

 

Here is a fun one.

Thank you Delisa for taking such wonderful pictures and keeping me in line when I wanted to stress. Your the best!!

Blue Ridge Trip 2012

We took our annual trip to Blue Ridge, Georgia in late October.

 

 

 

 The Fellow's family joined us this year. This was the first time our families

vacationed together and we were so excited!

 

 

 

Our first outing was to Mercer Orchards just down the way from our cabin.

 

The kids had a blast picking and eating the apples right off the trees.

 

This is one of our favorite things to do in Blue Ridge. We pick enough apples to bake an apple pie that we have for dessert with some yummy vanilla ice cream.

 

One of our other favorite things to do is take a ride on the scenic Blue Ridge Railway.

 

It was a beautiful day and everyone loved the train ride and memories made with friends.

 

One of our days in Blue Ridge we took a little hike to Amicalola Falls. It is a nice paved path that was easy to maneuver with Zach.

 

It was so great to vacation with Delisa and her beautiful family. They are such a blessing to us and we look forward to many more family trips together in the future.

 

There is a great little pumpkin patch right across the street from the falls so we stopped off for some pictures.

 

Delisa suggested we do some gem mining and it was a hit. The boys loved it!

 

The crew getting dirty digging for gems.

 

My mom came with us and offered to watch the kiddos so we could sneak away to dinner.

 

The guy on the left was singing and playing his guitar in the little courtyard where we sat to eat.

Curtis asked if he could sing with him and before you knew it Darren stole his guitar and they were all singing. It was so much fun!

 

I mentioned that MiMi came with us. She does her best to avoid pictures but I got one:-)

We had a wonderful trip! So blessed to spend it with family and friends!