7.12.2009

4th of July

Independence day was real chill this year. We went to my parents house for some good ole fun the the sun. Below you'll find some entertaining pictures, but none that include any sparklers or fireworks because apparently the kids are deathly afraid of them. Of course it didn't really help that the very first firework lit by my brother Levi exploded right in front of us instead of shooting up the air like it was supposed to. Shards of the explosion actually hit us and I have to admit was a bit nervouse after that too. Malachi was done with being outside at all after that. So the kids stayed inside and watched Happy Feet while we enjoyed the light show on my parents front lawn. My little princess enjoying a rib bone.
My prince charming getting into the slip n slide with Malachi. I was suprised he actually got wet.

Malachi is doing much better with water now that he's had swimming lessons. Last year he wouldn't even get near the slip n slide.


The water was a bit chilly coming right of the hose. Sorry honey!


She's so cute. That's all I can say about this picture.
The ultimate water gun, Chi was Heaven getting us all wet.

This outfit was much cuter on the rack. She wore it well though!

Retirement

So apparentley your only supposed to put like 300 miles on one pair of running shoes. In the back of mind I guess I knew that, but for some reason I think I've put about 1,000 miles on these good ole' addidas that i've ran in now for the past 5 years (could be longer my memories not so good). So I am officially putting these babies to rest, which I feel pretty good about since i've trained for and accomplished my goal of running a 1/2 marathon.
My friend Keith and I ran the Seattle Rock n Roll 1/2 marathon last month and it was much better than I thought it would be. The thought of running 13 miles made me a little nervous, but it wasn't as bad as I thought. I survived, which is always a good sign, had a great time and wasn't even that sore the next day. A full marathon is still not appealing to me, but I'll for sure be a participant in a 1/2 again. It was really nice having the fam there to cheer me on. They were on the street about 1 1/2 miles before the finish line, which was a nice boost for the finish.

Keith and I rushing to the start line for no reason. The race started at 7 a.m. and we were all assigned to corrals. Keith was in corral 7 amd I was in 37, the very last corral. I managed to work my way up to corral 32. It was driving me nuts to have to wait so long and even then I was still an hour behind Keith's start time.

Can you see me? Nope because my corral was all the way in the back and around the corner. There were 25,000 participants.

7.06.2009

getting old

I went out with the ladies a few nights ago and had a great time. We went to The Melting Pot for happy hour (great deal BTW-only way i'll ever go back there), I had a whole 2 glasses of sprite and of course some cheese & chocolate fondue. It was great fun, but man I had no idea I was at the stage of falling asleep with my glasses on my face and my mouth hanging wide open. Thanks for taking the picture honey!