Kitchen, Color Run and More...

Depsite the lack of blogging, lots has been happening in our lives lately!  I am nearing the end of my over-1-year-long kitchen up-do project.  My dad came over a couple weekends ago and put up the rest of the tile.  Now I have to grout it and it will officially be done.  And, truthfully, it makes the rest of my house look pretty shabby, so we may be looking at up-doing a couple other rooms in the house!  :)

The kids have been enjoying the really nice weather by playing in the sand and riding bikes.  Carter loves finding lizards in the sand! 

On October 6 my sister and I and some friends ran in the Color Run in Lawrence.  It was a blast!! This race was the funnest, not-boring-est race I've ever done!  It was also a real confidence booster as I finished in 24 minutes!  (Only 3 minutes behind my speedy sister!!)  I'm pretty sure it was not a full 3.1 miles, but it sure was worth the drive to Lawrence!!

(Jamie, Brandi, me, Erica)

(me & Tiff)

Living Life

Blogging has obviously slowed down some.  We are just living life.  And loving life.  Carter so far has not once begged to stay home from school, but is enjoying his days off.  Gemma is getting louder and louder and finding her voice as well as her words.  She adores her brother, "Ky", as she calls him, and follows him everywhere trying to do just as he does.  

I am gearing up for some much needed fall cleaning and hopefully purging.  We have accumulated too much stuff over time and it's time we pare down.  Plus the weather's nicer so that makes it a little easier.  :)

Halloween will soon be here - I should start working on the kids' costumes.  I think they should be Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf, but since I showed him a picture on Pintrest of Fred and Wilma Flinstone, that's Carter's pick.  Either way, a couple of bath towels should make for some fairly easy costumes.