Fun with Friends - January 7, 2012

Downtown Holland...checking out the ice sculptures with the Schaaf family!

L to R - Garrett, Lucas, Ian, Ethan, Kendra, Caroline and Gavin's foot down in the corner.  Just missing little Lydia!

(Sorry it's sideways the computer and I are not getting along too well!)

49.8

Can you believe that it is January 6 and it is 49.8 degrees??  I can't either...which is why I took a picture of me...can you see the sun?  I just got back from a walk and am HOT!!  Happy January!

1/5/12

Wicket...doesn't like his picture taken...therefore he is not looking at the camera. Oh, he also is badly in need of a haircut!

January 4, 2012

Saying good bye is never easy....

Goodbye Aunt Jennie!  See you in July...hopefully before then via Skype:)

It's been a while....so I have a new idea!

A good friend at work gave me a great idea....take one picture every day for the entire 365 days of 2012...so here we go...lets see if I can do it!

January 1, 2012

At the pool, new years day, Beulah, MI

January 2, 2012

 My backyard...just before midnight.

 January 3, 2012

 The front porch...snow and sun:)

 

25k

On May 14, Matt and I ran/walked 15.5 miles or 25k!

All went well and we finished...at times we weren't sure we would finish as I stopped running and started walking at the 9 mile mark. I have been having ongoing IT band issues and it again reared it's ugly head. I sent Matt on ahead because he didn't need to have as slow a time as I did. However, I caught back up to him at mile 11. Apparently he had run the mile after he left me quite quickly which caused his foot to hurt...in the end, he had a stress fracture. So...we walked miles 11 to 15 together and ran the last 1/2 mile to the finish line! It wasn't the way I wanted it to go, but I/we finished!!!!!!!

Here we are after we got back home...Renee (on the far left) is our next door neighbor and Kristen (in the grey) is a good friend! What is also pretty amazing is that about 10 people from our church also ran the 25k - Renee and Kristen being two of them!

So, will I do it again? Yep, I hope to do it again next year and run the whole thing therefore getting a better time:) This years time was 3 hours and 24 min....shouldn't be hard to beat:)

Blizzard 2011

So...today they say we had "Blizzard 2011." We did have lots of snow and wind which led to many snow drifts and pretty much everything was closed...but was it really that bad? Who knows...we had a great time playing outside, shoveling, snow blowing and sledding!

The "shovel brigade" out to help...not sure how much they helped, but they did have a good time!

Getting ready to play!

Matt took to the snow with the snow blower! My dad had plowed a bit of the drift, but there was still lots left!

Because of all the snow...there was a great hill next to our neighbors driveway....Kendra loved sledding down it!

It was a VERY fun SNOW DAY!!!!