Run Rich Run

This past weekend Rich went in 2 road races: a 10k on Saturday afternoon, and a half-marathon on Sunday. He came 3rd overall in the 10k. Then, after that nice little warmup, he ran his best time ever in the half-marathon, doing it in 1 hr 36 mins and coming 40th out of almost 300 runners. Here he is near the finish line of the half-marathon (large photo taken by me) and running through the rain in the 10k (photo taken by a friend on cellphone).

Way to go Rich!

life's little ups and downs

We got a trampoline this week! Yippee!

fun with family

We've had lots of fun with company this past week. Here's Jonathan with Grandma ...

with Grandpa ...

Allison with her cousin Sadie...

and Jonathan with Sadie.

photo contest

First person to identify this location, I'll treat you to coffee!

Fool-ish Fun

April Fool's Day is one of the most highly anticipated holidays in our house. We start talking about and planning it a week or so ahead (with lots of hand-rubbing and maniacal laughter). Today we've already had lots of fun doing harmless little pranks like
- hiding the peanut butter
- switching the calendar to July
- putting all the wrong cereals in the cereal boxes
And Allison doesn't know it yet, but I put plastic cucumber slices in her lunch, filled her lunchbox with little toy monsters and figures, taped a piece of paper saying "July 1" on today's page in her agenda, and put crackers in a "Bear Paws" wrapper and re-sealed it so she'll think she's having Bear Paws for snack.
BWA-HAHAHA! Here's to being silly!