Hayride

Last weekend, we had a Fall hayride with Sarah and her gang. The only thing that would have made it better was actual Fall weather. It was 80 degrees.

The whole gang

Charlie with Sarah's fiancee, Jason, & his boys: Cole, Elijah & Luke. Sarah is about to add to the testosterone in her house when she gets married soon :)

Laughing with my boy

Loud tractor!

Best family shot we could get

Love this shot of Elliot and his "Daddy-duh"

Best photo of the day & also the loves of my life

Sarah & Jason

Roasting hot dogs

Noah roasting his dog

Don't let this fool you. He didn't forget about the chocolate

There is nothing like special occasions when you get to drink "junk juice"

Post S'mores

Elliot started sampling the graham crackers, taking a little bite out of each one

Running wild

E's cracker collection

Good at sharing for a one year old :)

Daddy & Noah being silly

Of course, E had to get in on the action

Love this face

Noah had a lot of fun despite having a yucky cold and cough

Minor details like a hacking cough and runny nose don't stop my boy

Jason was trying to get acorns down from the tree.

Great picture of all six of them!

Charlie & Cole

Jason & E meeting on the path

KC Marathon

I ran in the KC Marathon last weekend on a relay team. There were five of us and each of us ran a leg of the run. I ran the first leg, which was a 5K. I run a 5K three times a week so it sounded easy enough. What I did not plan on was a very steep/long hill at the end. Adrenaline and a few new songs of my ipod had me running fast the first 2 miles, but that really slowed me down. I still finished in a decent time. Our whole team did great! We finished 9th place out of 34 female relay teams. I walked from the end of my race all the way to the plaza to meet Paul & the boys at Panera. Then walked to Sunset Hills where he had to park due to the marathon all around the city.

I went home, showered, ate and then met my team members near the finish line. We ran the last part of the race with our last leg runner to finish as a team. It was a lot of fun!

This is part of our team. We were towards the end of the race waiting for our last runner. The girl on the left I went to High School with (Amy). The girl in the middle, Crystal, I met that morning. She was the 2nd leg runner.

Running with my team at the end

Finishing strong as a team!

The energy at a marathon is so much different than any race I've done before (only 5k and 4 mile races). It was exciting watching all the full marathon-ers finish. Some were hobbling and grimacing in pain as they finished to their supporters cheering. Pretty cool. Paul & I are planning on doing a 10K soon and then we are going to start training for a half marathon that we are going to run in April! Pretty crazy, but I know we can do it!

Mr. Independent

I walked into the playroom to find Elliot had gotten down the diaper wipes, pulled his pants down and was wiping his legs. Sure enough, he needed a diaper change. I'm just glad I got to him before he proceeded to take off the diaper, too.

Haircut # 5

Noah's new game

I love this new game of Noah's. We'll be driving home and he'll pretend he is asleep in his carseat. Knowing he's not really asleep in the past I just left him in the car (in the garage) for a little bit while I put away groceries or whatever. He told me one day after doing this he was upset because I was supposed to pick him up and carry him to the couch since he was "asleep". So we established that this is what he wants me to do in this situation. Now I play along when he does it. It is obvious he is faking and he does this out loud sigh/hum thing like that is so funny. The best part is his smile/smirk he does with his eyes still closed when I lay him down and he thinks he pulled a fast one. He inevitably "wakes up" within a couple of minutes. Love it!


And just because posts are more fun with pictures, here he is not faking sleep in the car.

Pumpkin Patch

We had a great time at Johnson Farms yesterday. It was unseasonably warm. Almost too warm for a traditional fall activity. We had lots of fun!

Out in the pumpkin patch

Cole & Charlie with their pumpkins on the wagon ride back

Luke with his little pumpkins

Paul & Elliot on the wagon ride to the patch

Charlie, Elijah & Noah checking out the goats

Llama Llama having fun

Cute little goat

Baby chicks - Charlie wouldn't leave them alone

Elliot loved them, too

Swinging

The giant inflatable pillow. So fun!

I may or may not have played the "can I jump with my son? he is scared" card, just so I could get in a little friendly competition on who could jump higher with Noah

That's my boy. Not sure the lady bought that he was "scared" once she saw him in action.

We are so competitive. Yes, I know he's 30 years younger than me, but that boy is a machine so I consider him fair competition.

Wee!

Hay barn fun

Who says you have to limit jumping to the inflatable pillow?