Catching up on Thanksgiving

I never caught everyone up on my Turkey Trot run. It was a drizzly cold morning, but we went out anyway. I decided to listen to Bon Jovi for my run. I told myself I needed to run for 9 songs to finish. I paced myself well and things were going great until song number 7. I thought, "there is no way I can keep running for three more songs", so I stopped to walk, but then I heard cheering and figured I must be close to the finish line so I started to run again. I finished the race in just over 7 Bon Jovi songs. Even though I didn't run the entire race, I still consider it a victory because I signed up, trained, and ran most of it.

The rest of the Thanksgiving day was very nice. Steve's sister Jennifer came to visit and we had Thanksgiving Dinner with our friends. As it was Miles' first Thanksgiving, I gave him bits of dinner to try. He had turkey, mashed potatoes, rolls, and stuffing and he loved all of it. Here are some pictures.

Another thing Miles and Scooter can bond over. Turkey

Miles had to wear his pig bib for the big day

Everything was beautiful and delicious.

Happy Halloween!

Since it is Miles' first halloween, we thought we would make a big deal out of it. Actually, his school goes trick-or-treating every year to the local businesses and since we are first time parents, we took billions of pictures. Here are a few of the good ones.

One of Miles favorite teachers Nikki

Miles and Adriana (bat girl) check each other out.

Trick or treating at the four seasons

We loved the Elmo costume

Class photo

And here are some pumpkins we carved with friends one night after Miles went to bed.

Pumpkin Patch

We took Miles to a local farm to pick out pumpkins. Here are some of our adventures.


We ran in to some friends of ours.

Dad and Miles checking out the animals

Even at something as innocuous as a pumpkin farm, you can still find some scary.

On another note, Miles started crawling last night.

Bubbles bring brothers together

Steve bought Miles some bubbles yesterday to play with and Scooter joined in on the fun. Watch the video of Miles and Scooter enjoying the bubbles together.

Inspired to Run

Last weekend Steve ran his first marathon in Victoria, British Columbia.

As I was waiting for Steve to reach the finish line, I was watching a bunch of people come in and I started to get a little emotional (only on the inside). These people had been running for hours and were still going. I was so inspired, I decided to sign up for my own race. I won't be running a marathon, I'm just going to run a 5k, but it's a start.

For those of you in the Seattle area who would like to join me, I'm running the Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning. For information, the website is: www.seattleturkeytrot.org

We've almost got it

Miles is learning every day, but learning to crawl is proving to be very difficult. At least he has a good attitude about it.

He's almost 6 months old!!

My baby boy is turning six months soon so I thought I would pull a picture from each month of his life to show his progress. Since you can't view him in action (unless I were to figure out the video on our camera) I will say that recently, he has started rolling over, public speaking (he usually gives a sermon on the bus), he thinks about sitting up, and he just started rice cereal today.

Just born


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