latest

• hosting three leaders from honduras for the next 2 weeks at our house. we're so thankful for the space to be able to do it.
• bre qualified for the state gymnastics meet. she's so excited!
• our front door is getting close to being done. the frame is in, and we're almost finished staining. hope to have pictures soon.
• it has been such a beautiful october! we are really enjoying living by all the trees, especially with no raking!

i better get back to preparing for our guests.
hope you are having a great week!

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::gotta love race photos. i'm usually looking down, or look like i'm ready to keel over.

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sherri finished in 6:56!!
i waited for her to finish, so i could be there to capture the moment and congratulate her. it was pretty exciting! a year and a half ago, she had a hard time running even one mile.

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yesterday was a great day!
the weather was absolutely perfect for running. high's in the mid 60's, and low 40's for the start.

here's sherri and i at the start of the race. i wasn't quite awake, or that excited for my race. running 13.1 miles when you haven't trained much at all, just isn't that appealing. i was feeding off her excitement though, and i was just so happy for her and how hard she has worked this year to get to the starting line of a full marathon!

we took some pictures, and went our seperate ways at the starting line.

the 1/2 went pretty well for me, especially considering how unprepared i was. i did a lot of talking to myself throughout the race: "ok, wendy you can do this." and, i tried to distract myself by looking for runners ahead of me that i wanted to pass, that worked pretty well. at mile 11, the winner of the full marathon blew past me. he was amazing! that gave me the little boost i needed to get to the finish line. i kept thinking about how he had just run 25 miles in the time it took me to run 11. wow!

i ended up finishing in 2:18 - definitely not a p.r., but i enjoyed the race, and felt good about it.

next up: sherri's finish....

new recipe

trying this tonight, and i am hopeful. it was the perfect option for a busy night. let's hope it's worthy of making again sometime.

two more football games, and then we have a little break before basketball begins.

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::a quiet morning before the school day begins. i've been getting back into the habit of having everything set out the night before. everyone gets a checklist of what needs to be done for the day.

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::a peak at our new door. we'll be staining it this week, and hope to get it installed on saturday.