What in the world was I thinking?!?!?!?!

Some of you know I had been training for a half marathon but was unable to run it because of an injured leg. Well, I ran into my ex sister in law at the homecoming parade (2 weeks ago) and she told me about a half marathon that was on the 1st of November and begged me to do it wth her. Me, being the brainless person I am agreed to do it. Remember, I haven't been training for about 3 months but said I would do it anyways. We decided we should run it last Saturday (1 week before) to try it out and know what to expect. We did really good until the last 2 miles when we started getting really tired but we finished and felt good about it, at least until the next morning when I tried getting out of bed. I felt every ache and pain possible, in places I didn't know existed. I think I might even lose my big toenail from it because I had a blister form underneath my nail. Now that I am almost fully recovered from pure stupidity I get to do it again in 2 days, the morning after Halloween which I'm hoping I still have a sugar high. Wish me luck and if you don't see any posts with results make sure to check the obituary for the date of my funeral. Plus, if you talk to Jeff, make sure to give him a hard time because he won't be there cheering me on because he thinks I'm NUTS (which maybe I am) or because he wants to save himself the embarassment of cheering his wife on an hour after everyone has crossed the finish line.

Our pumpkin carving adventure....

We have missed many years of carving pumpkins (which I'm sure has to do a little with Jeff hating when his hands get dirty). But we decided it was time to try it again. Everything was going good, the girls were cleaning out their pumpkins and Jeff's job was to seperate the seeds from the "guts." I tossed a seed at Jeff and it stuck and fell off the side of his face with a reaction of the "I'm not impressed look," but a second later I see some guts flying through the air right at me so I grabbed some and threw it back, that's when it all broke loose. We had Beckham in one corner sqealing like a little girl, Mikaiah in the other corner crying that we were going to get it in her hair. Jeff took the bowl and dumped all of it in my shirt and on my head so of course the other two girls start fighting back for me but in the end we have pumpkin guts in the dinning room light, down Ty's pants, sliding down the cupboards against the window, It was a mess. I thought Jeff was going to break his other leg the way he was sliding around on the floor. We did finally get the pumpkins finished and they looked BOO-tiful.

We have finally got all the kids back to school and getting settled in our everyday routine of things. Of course Beckham is completely lost without his sisters here to entertain him. He has taken on the roll of being our second puppy in the house. He thinks he needs to drink out of a bowl on the floor and crawl around with his tongue hanging out and of course we can't forget his sweet doggie kisses.

This will be our first Year that none of the kids wanted to play soccer which was kind of sad but in a way a huge relief of stress. But that has also left it open for other activities that they want to be involved in and have wanted to try.

Jeff and I each play on a co-ed soccer team. We were suppose to be playing in different leagues since I wasn't wanting to play competetive but they combined it so we were left on different teams but same league.

I was also made the head room mother of Mikaiah's classroom at school so there will be quite a bit of time consuming activities there, but I'm very excited to have the opportunity to be involved with her class.

Here we go

I'm once again trying to do this to help keep everyone informed with our crazy life. We'll see if I do any better this year