One more pic from concert

My awesome friend Sarah who I got the concert tickets from. I miss you girl and thank you SO much again!!!!!

Crazy Fun Weekend

So, I LOVE Michael W Smith and I found out awhile back that he was coming to Omaha with Steven Curtis Chapman (I love him too but have been a fan of MWS much longer) for their United Tour. I can't even tell you how excited I was about this and then when I was looking at the dates realized it was the same weekend I had agreed to watch a friends kids for the whole weekend. Micah encouraged me to go but I just felt so bad leaving him alone with 4 kids to put to bed when I had agreed to the whole thing so I made the decision not to go. Fast forward to this past friday, day of the concert, a friend from Des Moines who was coming for the concert and knew that I was really sad to miss it had come across 2 extra tickets and offered them to me! I called Micah right away and he of course was like GO, I told you I'll be fine! I decided to go for it and my sister and I went to the concert and it was AWESOME!!!!!!!!! I am so glad I went and I got MWS new cd that comes out tomorrow! THANK YOU SARAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! I totally forgot my camera but thankfully Sarah got some pics. I think she has a pic of us also but I need to get that from her.




Kayla and Mason had so much fun the whole weekend. They cooked for a long time and prepped the table and then enjoyed their picnic! :)

4 sweet cherubs! Ages 1, 2, 3 and 4! They came friday morning early and left sunday evening. It was fun and honestly the kids all did so great!

Pumpkin Patch

We went to the pumpkin patch about a week ago so I'm a little slow on the pics. Ethan fell asleep on the hayride out to the pumpkin patch and I just HAD to wake him for a picture and this is how I paid for it! :( He refused to sit or stand in a pic alone with Kayla so this was our second attempt. After a bit we finally got a smile out of him.

Certified!

Micah found out yesterday that he passed his boards! Yeah!

Marathon

As promised some pics from the big race. I have to be honest it's been a rough week because I am so disappointed how the race went. Plain and simple it was just a bad day - I was more than 20 minutes off my time I should have finished at. As my loving and supportive hubby keeps telling me I did finish and that is the ultimate goal! Gives me something to work towards - I will have to do another one some day and beat my time! :)

Checking in and getting my bib and chip. There was an expo and had TONS of free stuff and everything and anything running you could dream about.

Taking advantage of the great sites in Chicago.
Chad (brother), Sondra (sister-in-law due feb. 28), Cherise (sister)

45,000 people registered to race, 33,000 started the race and I believe 31,000 finished the race.

It got to 85 degrees and was so hot - not ideal but everyone plugged through. They had hoses and hydrants spraying to cool all the runners off throughout the course which helped

I couldn't have trained and fulfilled this dream if it wasn't for Micah! Thank you honey for putting up with me and sacrificing to help make this possible for me!

Micah and my brother both ran with me, what was going to be 3 miles each turned into Chad running 6 miles with me and Micah running about 8 miles with me. It was nice having some company along the way and mostly just the encouragement to push me on. Thank you guys!!!!!!!!!!!!



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26.2

SO - I ran my first marathon today! 26.2 miles if you don't know the distance. Something that I have always dreamed of doing and was in Chicago few years ago watching the marathon and decided when I run it - it will be in Chicago. I'm happy to say I finished and that was the ultimate goal. Wasn't the race day I dreamed of but that happens and it is what it is - I finished and I am happy about that! I think I'll stick with half marathons and other smaller distance from now on but it was an experience of a lifetime and I'm so glad I did it! Pictures to come..........

Chicago Bound

Micah, my sister and I are flying to Chicago tonight for the weekend and meeting my brother and sis-in-law there. If you don't know why we are going to Chicago you'll have to check back in. A clue: I'm doing something on my dream list!!! Are you curious????????

Power of Pink

Sunday we participated in Race for the Cure to help promote breast cancer awareness and raise money for research. We did the 5K and ran most of it - fun family morning!
Kids have it so good! :)
There were 18,000 people that participated this year - either for the 1 mile or 5K.

Preschool Field Trip

Thursday morning Kayla had her first field trip. I was able to go and enjoy a fun morning with her!

Kayla loves that her good friend Raegen is in her class!

Nothing like a friendly game of tug-a-war with 3 year olds!

Laminin

My MOPS group played this the other day and it was so awesome! It's about 9 minutes long but worth it - hope you all enjoy as much as I did!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e4zgJXPpI4