What’s summer without some slip n’ slidin!
This was Kalen’s first time to try it! She was a little hesitant at first, but got into it real quick!
I loved all the silly faces!
They would yell “Look out beeelllooooowwww” the whole way down!
I have a feeling we will be pulling the slip n’ slide out again! They had a blast!
Hope you all are having a great summer!
We love going to the playground during the summer (when it’s not too, too hot)!
This boy can do the monkey bars all by himself this year!
And this little girl loves the slide!
We are havin’ fun in the summer sun!
I started going to our Run for God program at church at the beginning of March. It is a 12 week training plan with a Christian focus! It was so great to have God in the center of training. Being a swimmer growing up I really, Really, REALLY disliked running, so I needed to be reminded that I could finish this program with His strength and not of my own!
So on Memorial Day I set out to run my first 5K at the Cotton Row. My goal was to run it in under 35 mins.
This is a BIG event with a 10K, 5K, and 1 mile fun run for the kids. There were about 5,000 people there!
Tyler and Kalen did a great job cheering for me at the start! I actually heard them saying, “Go Brianna, Go Brianna!” It worked out great that I heard them, I forgot to take off my wedding ring and was able to give it to Mike as we started!
It was such a HOT day and was probably in the upper 80’s - low 90’s when we started at 9am! Mike and Tyler went to a couple points where they thought they would be able to cheer for me!
It was nice to have friends to run with and be able to encourage each other!
Almost there!
I did it! Woo Hoo!!! When I crossed the finish line my time said 34:15 and later looking online at the results of my k-tag (which records when you actually cross the start and finish lines) it was 33:33! I was so excited that I finished and under my goal!
Woo Hoo! Love my girls!
Family picture. Kalen didn’t want to be in it, she said, “My not running!”
Then Tyler had to get ready for his 1 mile! He was talking for days and days before about the “big” race! So cute! Daddy ran with him!
I couldn’t find him at the start (he must have been too fast) so these are at the finish line!
We were so proud of him! Mike said he did a great job and really liked it when the people were cheering for him! When I asked Tyler what his favorite part about the race was he said, “Winning!” I think he got his parent’s competitive genes!
So I think we all have the running bug now! Mike wants to do the next race and I think I want to try a sprint triathlon! (Yikes, did I just say that!!)
So on Christmas day we got snow! A LOT of snow!! Like 4 inches of snow! Crazy!!! Tyler wanted to play outside more than he did with all his new toys! So after we got all the presents open and ate Christmas dinner (lunch) we finally got to play in the snow.
This little boy was SO excited!
Kalen liked the snow a lot better this year than last year!
Tyler made lots and lots of snowballs!
And threw them all at Daddy.
Mom stayed safely behind the camera. Ha!
Kalen is such a little cutie!
Here is our HUGE snowman! It took him 6 days to melt.
Having snow on Christmas day made things a little more exciting! They were just calling for flurries and the snow had not started while Mike was out delivering the paper, so we were all surprised at how much it snowed! It was a beautiful White Christmas!
I am so thankful the Lord has blessed my with a wonderful husband and two beautiful children!
Happy Thanksgiving to you all!
On Sunday afternoon we took the kids to a little pumpkin patch to search for the “perfect pumpkin!” This was a big job for Tyler and he took it VERY seriously!
Kalen on the other hand, picked out some right away!
Tyler had to help her a little bit.
Daddy did too!
Mom was determined to get the best pumpkin patch photo!
I was so happy when Tyler sat still for a few!
I think this is my favorite.
Kalen kept going from one pumpkin to the next sitting on it and saying “Cheese.”
Silly girl!
They really liked the baby pumpkins.
Kalen picked out a small one which she really wanted to carry herself,
but it was too heavy! “Help please Mommy!”
After about 30mins of running from one end of the patch to the other searching and searching Tyler finally found his!
Now we have two perfect pumpkins to carve!
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