Career Day for Maddie

With one of her good friends, Allyson - the Vet.

Our Illustrator!

Owl Field Trip for Adam

He was very excited for his 1st school bus ride :)

awww, Adam and Cali (his "girlfriend")

The screech owl

His friend from Pre-school, Fiona.

Daddy was able to take the morning off and go on field trip!

Nike Half Marathon - 2011

And the Minion even finished before his Mama! :)

Me, Quyen and Maggie

With Quyen...

Yep, the Robin Egg Blue boxes and firemen at the finish line :)

We did it!!

So proud of Mark...he didn't train AT ALL! :)

Teasing point...you can see the finish but it's another 3+miles!

Why we run/walk...

Closer to the Bridge

Perfect day!

Couldn't help it, the views are amazing every time I do these runs/walks in the City.

Mark and I at starting line!

The very EARLY start...and here comes the ELITE runners.

(note: I'm taking pics of them going in opposite direction :P)

Matching Kids

Amazing sky at Sunset

Another angle of the sky

The kids at play

This was so amazing to me... I ran and got the camera as we were having dinner outside.

Update on lack of Posts

Sorry for the lack of Blog posts!

Long story short, it's been a sad and rough month because of not only tons of activities, but... Our hard drive died! It served 2 lessons: a) back up EVERYTHING, OFTEN! and b) I should have kept more up to date on my blogging!

I have been pretty unmotivated to take pictures, upload/download anything, and update the blog since, BUT I promise I'll update SOON! Especially since the blog now serves as the main memory book for the past year (or however long it's been since we backed up our pictures).

The kids are doing well, Maddie is now in 2nd grade, Adam started Kindergarten. They both LOVE LOVE LOVE school, and we are so fortunate to have some awesome teachers again! I'm learning to adjust to the schedules, finding some "me" time while they are at school, and just growing with them :) Mark is still working hard, but we have such great family time, too.

Can't believe it's officially Fall. It seems as if we are finally getting some Summer weather, yet the kids are pestering me about Halloween and Christmas already?!

Thanks for being patient, I promise lots of cute pics of the Kids soon :)

Sierra's 8th Birthday

Maddie going out to dinner to celebrate Sierra's birthday...