Our little girl turns 10!

Hard to believe it's been 10 years since our little girl arrived...

December 2000

Our little baby has turned into a little lady, evidenced by her request for a spa party. No more bumble bee or Tinkerbell parties, I guess. I have a feeling this year is going to be a real turning point as she enters the "double digits". Sigh.

On the upside, she had a great birthday, wrote me a thank you note and couldn't stop talking about it (after she got done crying that it was all over). I was happy to make her happy!

How sweet it is to be loved by you...

Marine Corp Marathon

A major item on the BUCKET LIST was checked off as Dave completed the 26.2 mile marathon (which was actually 26.6) in D.C. last weekend. With a twisted ankle this summer and 2 injured knees, he was thrilled to have finished in 5 hours at 27 minutes and is actually considering doing it again next year as some of his buddies were inspired to possibly train for the next one. Something like 32,000 people registered for the race, and about 21,000 actually finished it.

It was fun to see some of the wild costumes since the race was on Halloween, and also inspiring to see injured service men and women participating by biking and even a double-amputee running. Other Marines were out in full-force encouraging the runners at every turn. It was a high day!

Our good friend, Tonya Turner ran the race as well (at an astonishing 4:33, the girl is a weapon) so we spent the pre-race hours in their home and Chad & I brought the kids in by Metro later in the morning to the race. We're so proud of them both and were thrilled to witness their incredible journey and final victory together.

5 something a.m. as the runners get ready to head downtown.

At this point, Chad & I pondered who was having the more difficult day - the runners, or the two of us with the kids and stroller fighting the crowds on the Metro to get to the race!

My first sighting of our boy...

Dave gave up a minute of his run time to greet his family and supporters.

Here he was confirming that he was ok - though his knees were killing him.

TEAM WOOSTER!

Race Fans

Here he comes....almost to the end!

That's my hand waiving to Dave as he approached the finish line.

The kids with their signs

Congratulations from his Daddy

The sweet kiss of VICTORY!

The real heroes

Monty, a veteran MCM runner himself, helped train Dave for this race, accompanying him on his long runs and supporting him the way only another runner could.

Costume Parade Disaster/Trick-or-Treating

Well, everybody else thought that the kids' homemade electronics costumes were fantastic, except for one mean kid who told Nate his laptop computer was stupid and sent him sobbing through the entire costume parade at school! He was so upset that he was making exlamations such as "I want to go home now!" and " I wish I had never been born!" and then broke out into a bloody nose during the parade to top the whole thing off.

Post-Marathon, the Jacobs kids came over for trick-or-treating but most homes had closed up shop by the time we ate and got the kids out 7:30, so they were a bit disappointed in the smaller candy stash they acquired this year. Mom, of course, was fine with this since they will never see most of that candy again anyways!

Halloween Pumpkins

My little pumpkins carved their pumpkins, another spider web this year and a face. They've been enjoying the toasted the pumpkin seeds in their lunch all week.