Merry Christmas 2012

Getting ready for Christmas in photos

Santa patty





Getting the tree


Grand illumination


Making cookies for our teachers


Making the ginger bread house


Seeing Santa


Frodo


Putting the angel on the tree


The baby tree


One of the tacky light tour houses

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Survivor Winner!!

Carrie wins!!!
I really wonder if Malcolm would have won if he was in the final.
Becky - Sarah "DAWSON" & Artis
Carrie - Katie & Denise
Cath - Dana & Jonathan
Dave - Malcolm & Abi-Maria
Emily - Angie& Russell
Faye - Roxy & Michael
Junior - Carter & Pete
Mike - RC & Jeff
Ryan - Lisa & Zane

Survivor #6

Junior is out now too... I think Dave has a pretty good chance with Malcolm

Becky - Sarah "DAWSON" & Artis
Carrie - Katie & Denise
Cath - Dana & Jonathan
Dave - Malcolm & Abi-Maria
Emily - Angie& Russell
Faye - Roxy & Michael
Junior - Carter & Pete
Mike - RC & Jeff
Ryan - Lisa & Zane

Survivor #5

Becky and Cath is out...I so wish that Abi had NOT won immunity this week. I'm surprised Penner got out tonight. I don't know why people aren't flushing out Malcolm's idol. I'm rooting for Denise or Lisa to win it all.


Becky - Sarah "DAWSON" & Artis
Carrie - Katie & Denise
Cath - Dana & Jonathan
Dave - Malcolm & Abi-Maria
Emily - Angie& Russell
Faye - Roxy & Michael
Junior - Carter & Pete
Mike - RC & Jeff
Ryan - Lisa & Zane

Half Marathon

Yesterday the day finally came that I had been training for since August. I ran the half marathon in Richmond. First off I would say my training was probably 70%. Had done the long runs but did not get the miles in each week that I was suppose. That being said I ran 10 miles once and figured with the adrenaline of the event I would be able to make 13.1. My goal was under 3 hours.
Sadly as I was going to bed after the race I realized I didn't take any pictures of me at the race. Luckily there are photographers along the race so hopefully some will be good, and I'm not tomato red and wincing all of them.




To start we got to the race with 3 friends and made our way to their starting corral - 1:47 pace. Almost half the time I planned on finishing. So once we started I was the last person in the wave - haha. Unfortunately the wave behind us took at least a minute to get going, so for 100 yards at least I was running alone. Not really in my comfort level with all the spectators watching me shuffle along. I ended up running that first mile at 10:30, which is WAY too fast for me. I was passed by faster runners until probably mile 11. It made me run faster which probably was a good thing because at mile 9ish my calves started cramping. And once that happened I had to run in a non-natural way to keep my calves from cramping. My feet really hurt today I think because of that.




After the race I wolfed down a piece of pizza, took once sip of blue moon, sat down and immediately felt like I was going to pass out/throw up. After spending a few minutes in a hot stinky port a potty and not throwing up, Ryan thought we should go to the medical tent. I had low blood pressure but nothing else really wrong with me. I sat and sipped water for a while then walked back to the car. I felt pretty terrible the rest of the day- crazy stomach pains. Today right after I eat it hurts but overall I am feeling better. I read that blood flow to your stomach is slowed when running such long distances and can cause stomach-aches. I don't know if that's it or it was the pizza or just I got some stomach bug thing I got the same day.
My feet ache and my knee is sore. My shoulders, lower back and arm are sore- but I think I am doing OK based on what I did to myself yesterday.
Ryan finished 2.06 and I finished 2.49.




The wolfpack represented.
A few things I noticed:
Most women wear spandex pants and no underwear while running.
People just discard a lot of clothing, hats, gloves, etc during races.
Some people running pick up said discarded stuff.
Some people don't sweat while running, makes me jealous.
I stop sweating when dehydrated (around mile 8).
Ethiopian marathon runners can run 26.2 miles quicker than I can run 13.1 miles - and it's absolutely amazing to see them sprint past you. They are pure muscle.
I should not eat pizza right after running 13.1 miles.
I will never voluntarily run 13.1 miles again. Glad I did it, but once was enough.




My medal
Update: here are my pictures

Survivor #4

Did anyone else not even know who Pete was when they showed him in this episode? Sad to see Jeff go, I liked him.

Becky - Sarah "DAWSON" & Artis
Carrie - Katie & Denise
Cath - Dana & Jonathan
Dave - Malcolm & Abi-Maria
Emily - Angie& Russell
Faye - Roxy & Michael
Junior - Carter & Pete
Mike - RC & Jeff
Ryan - Lisa & Zane

Survivor Update #3

Oh really would have loved to see Penner out. Such a strange episode I thought overall


Becky - Sarah "DAWSON" & Artis
Carrie - Katie & Denise
Cath - Dana & Jonathan
Dave - Malcolm & Abi-Maria
Emily - Angie& Russell
Faye - Roxy & Michael
Junior - Carter & Pete
Mike - RC & Jeff
Ryan - Lisa & Zane

Pumpkin patch

We went to the Ashland Pumpkin Farm- the kids had so much fun. We got there early and didn't even have to wait to get on the hayride to go out to the field. Ethan loved watching the tractor pull us.




There were so many pumpkins. We got some cute family pictures too
























Audrey was so excited to carve the pumpkins when we got home. I love the enthusiasm for Halloween!

Survivor update #2

Well typical...I'm out first... I had duds though. I'm glad to not have to listen to squeaky voice Russell anymore.

Becky - Sarah "DAWSON" & Artis
Carrie - Katie & Denise
Cath - Dana & Jonathan
Dave - Malcolm & Abi-Maria
Emily - Angie& Russell
Faye - Roxy & Michael
Junior - Carter & Pete
Mike - RC & Jeff
Ryan - Lisa & Zane

Survivor Update

Argh I did not get two people on the right team. They are pitiful.


Becky - Sarah "DAWSON" & Artis
Carrie - Katie & Denise
Cath - Dana & Jonathan
Dave - Malcolm & Abi-Maria
Emily - Angie & Russell
Faye - Roxy & Michael
Junior - Carter & Pete
Mike - RC & Jeff
Ryan - Lisa & Zane

Wow its been a while

I have been such a blog slacker lately. I realized that I've been doing my online scrapbook at mixbook each week. I wonder if I could link this up to it so you could see those pages each week.



We have been very busy this year. I thought this fall we were going to start to slow down, but a trip to the 'CUSE this weekend and Blacksburg next weekend it's not seeming so.




I made some cute fall shirts for the kids too. Hopefully they will wear them.




Audrey is going to be Audrey Hepburn for Halloween this year. I made a dress like this for her. I can't wait for her to wear it, and hope she will. The other day I asked Audrey what her middle name was and she said 'Hepburn'. Haha we need to work on that!

Survivor

Becky - Sarah "DAWSON" & Artis
Carrie - Katie & Denise
Cath - Dana & Jonathan
Dave - Malcolm & Abi-Maria
Emily - Angie & Russell
Faye - Roxy & Michael
Junior - Carter & Pete
Mike - RC & Jeff
Ryan - Lisa & Zane

Survivor: One World Final!!

Kim wins!!!!! I'm glad I thought she played a pretty good game! Congrats Dave!!!!!
And Gina you win your $5 back
Ryan FINALLY watched it so I can post
Becky: Monica & Nina
Carrie: Chelsea & Colton
Cath: Alicia & Jay
Dave: Kim & Kourtney
Emily: Christina & Kat
Faye: Matt & Troyzan
Gina: Leif & Sabrina
Mike: Bill & Michael
Ryan: Greg & Jonas

Survivor: One World #5

I have never been so glad to have one of my persons get voted off. oh that Kat was so annoying.

Becky: Monica & Nina
Carrie: Chelsea & Colton
Cath: Alicia & Jay
Dave: Kim & Kourtney
Emily: Christina & Kat
Faye: Matt & Troyzan
Gina: Leif & Sabrina
Mike: Bill & Michael
Ryan: Greg & Jonas

Survivor: one world #4

I'm kimd of sad troyzan didn't make it. I can't wait to see him in the jury.




Becky: Monica & Nina
Carrie: Chelsea & Colton
Cath: Alicia & Jay
Dave: Kim & Kourtney
Emily: Christina & Kat
Faye: Matt & Troyzan
Gina: Leif & Sabrina
Mike: Bill & Michael
Ryan: Greg & Jonas

Survivor One World #3

Becky: Monica & Nina
Carrie: Chelsea & Colton
Cath: Alicia & Jay
Dave: Kim & Kourtney
Emily: Christina & Kat
Faye: Matt & Troyzan
Gina: Leif & Sabrina
Mike: Bill & Michael
Ryan: Greg & Jonas

Survivor: One World #2

Becky: Monica & Nina
Carrie: Chelsea & Colton
Cath: Alicia & Jay
Dave: Kim & Kourtney
Emily: Christina & Kat
Faye: Matt & Troyzan
Gina: Leif & Sabrina
Mike: Bill & Michael
Ryan: Greg & Jonas

Survivor: One World

Becky: Monica & Nina
Carrie: Chelsea & Colton
Cath: Alicia & Jay
Dave: Kim & Kourtney
Emily: Christina & Kat
Faye: Matt & Troyzan
Gina: Leif & Sabrina
Mike: Bill & Michael
Ryan: Greg & Jonas