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10.29.2012

Hallo-weeeeeeeeen


On Sunday we met for our weekly family deener. Since our kitchen is being remod3eled we met at nancy and nathans house. Nancy cooked food and afterward we decorated sugar cookies(bats, frankenstein monster heads, tombstones and punkins). We also carved real life pumpkins. Mines is the best. Howl-oween is fun. ENJOY!!!
Did you do anything fun for Halloween?
-MiChAeL

It's crazy intense in here...


Sugar cookies are good. When I was a kid I used to be able to eat more...what happened?

Mine is the third from the left or third from the right. Take your pick.

Nathan is a gangster...kinda. 

Tails and Trails



A little history...
My mom and I were talking a few months ago about how we would both like to get back into shape. She ran a half marathon last year and has expressed how much she liked the feeling after she crossed the finish line after all her training. So I suggested that we sign up for a run and told her to invite the family also. We’ve been training ever since. I was sick all through the beginning of Oct and got off track of the training but Mike has been doing great.

 To get him excited to run our 8 miles we’re gonna run, Mike decided to sign up to run in a race that was a little shorter. He ran his 5k on Saturday that was hosted by the Denton Animal Shelter. He has been pretty busy so I’ll give the update. He ran the first mile and was doing great. This is the first time he has been able to run in many many years so this was a HUGE DEAL! He sped walked for the next two miles and when he was getting to the finish line started to run. Right as he was about to finish he heard a loud POP in his knee. Yup, right at the end he hurt himself. It’s been about a week and he’s healing crazy fast. He’s not able to run yet, but hopefully he’ll be able to continue training for the Turkey Trot next week.

~Jess

Mike's second biggest fan (leaving his biggest fan to yours truly) 

They had little shops and displays set up around the area

Sharon and her dogs dressed up in 80's costumes came and did the one mile

Finishing the race! He's so good looking! 


He did it! This may have been where he heard the loud POP.

10.25.2012

A Leather snob


This by no means is a blog about fashion. In fact I think Mike would have a heart attack if I wanted it to be. Regardless of his feelings, I have been thinking lately about getting some cute boots like THESE or THESE or a leather jacket like THIS one, but I obviously can’t afford to purchase both or even one of these right now. I refuse to purchase something that is fake leather. I just can’t bring myself to do it. There is a certain feel and smell leather has that I’m not willing to sacrifice even if those other boots are cute. In fact Mike has a Scentsy travel tin that has the smell of leather even though the car he drives has absolutely no leather in it…ha ha.  I wonder how our 4 readers feel about pleather or fake leather. Am I the only leather snob?

Jess