September Highlights!

September went by so fast! Getting into a new routine and soaking up the evening hours with the boys and their many activities has made life fly by. Here are our September highlights! 

I forgot to post Jacob's 1st day of Kindergarten pic in the last post and wanted to make sure I put it into this one because he was so excited to start school with the brothers and start being a big boy. Kindergarten is going so well for him and he is really enjoying it!

September lunch date with Jake! We had fun visiting together with his new friends. They are all so cute and funny! They seem to really like "Jakey" 😊

Kyle and I had fun racing in the Stillwater Triathlon! It really was a new experience for us and we both finished feeling excited to start doing more triathlons together. I love that Kyle and I are enjoying this sport together.

Our Friday's together have become my FAVORITE day of the week as we get to spend the whole day together! September Friday's have been spent biking together after the boys take off for school.  I am really soaking up this time w Kyle and loving it. Our rides together are so beautiful with the changing leaves, quiet country roads, and time to connect and refresh together.

Drew and Micah participated in the 3on3 St. Joe's street tourney with their friends and had a blast!! The weather was warm as you can see in the pic on the boys faces, but they had fun together! Preston, Kahne and Noah are pretty awesome dudes. 😎

A fun new tradition we started was pancake Friday's! Each Friday a different boy gets to flip pancakes! Bubba is lovin' this new plan and flipped us pancakes for breakfast last Friday. 🥞 

I had the opportunity to race in the Women Run the Cities Event a few weeks ago. This trail was where I ran both my warm up and cool down, so pretty. It was really hot racing so they ended up closing the 10 mile course I had signed up for. Instead I raced the 10k, which was a little tricky to plan out my pacing because I haven't raced many 10ks lately! I ended up just getting out there and having fun! I ran hard but nothing too crazy with the change up in distance, weather and environment. Sub 7min.

It was an out and back course, which is never good for those of us in the front pack... I ended up running into the 5k runners and tried my best to dodge strollers and runners much slower then myself. It was still fun and I would totally go back next year! Hoping I can do the 10mile next time.

Women Run the Cities 10k! 🏃🏼♀️
Jake just makes me smile. I had to sneak this pic of him in the bathtub because he loves taking a bath after supper! I miss this soapy head so much during the day! So proud of you kindergarten man!

Last weekend was super chill for us and I picked up a trick-or-treat snoopy coloring book that we completely took on and had a blast coloring, chatting and hanging out! I think the BEST conversations come from these simple evenings. These boys fill my heart right up!

Micah and Caleb showing off their football skills on Saturday mornings! So fun to cheer and watch them play together! I love that they are on the same team this year before Micah heads over with Drew in touch football next year.

Drew had the most exciting outing last weekend from his amazing trip to ValleyFair/Valley Scare day with his buddies!!! The pic above is from last year and this years trip with his best friend Kahne. They sure have grown since last year! Drew said it wasn't as scary as last year. It was fun to hear about his day!

6th grade boys making memories together! ValleyFair 2017 was a success!!
September went by quick but so glad we captured a few of our favorites!!
We welcome you October as long as you don't bring too cold of weather yet!


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Getting better and getting ready to go home!

Image
Hey There! We thank all of you so much for all of your prayer support through this entire process. Go sure had His hand in this from the beginning. Anna and Micah are both doing just great. Yesterday was a hard day for Anna, She was very tired and had a hard time as the Doctors began to take her off of some of the pain meds she was not feeling good. She began to get a high temp,but that was all taken care of by early in the night and she slept great. She will be again trying to get of the IV pain meds and move to pills, if this goes well today we will be on our way home to see Drew tomorrow. Anna and I are both really loving the calm personality that God gave to little Micah as we know the high energy that Drew has waiting for us at home. We can't wait to see his little smile again and hear all of his animal noises and cars sounds. It will be so great to see the way that God grows these two boys only 17 months apart. It will be crazy and great all at the same time. Pray ...
Read more

Big Bro Twin Cities Champion/Little Sis Big Woods 1/2 Marathon Champion

Image
My brother and I are the crazy runners in our family! We took on the Twin Cities Marathon challenge on October 7th and trained like mad to get ready for the event. We began the morning feeling great and ready to take on the challenge before us, yet not knowing only one of us would finish. Ben was taking on his first marathon and was looking forward to finishing and enjoying this wild adventure! I however have done a few of these already and was aimed to kick some butt in the process. So, different goals, but the same idea in mind-lets run the race for Christ. The race did not go as planned for me. The weather was extremely hot and humid and it totally took over my body. All I can really remember is thinking, "Wow it is really hot and I am really sweating!" With little to drink I passed out at mile 10 of the marathon! My time at that point was 1 hour 7 minutes..... on track for an amazing marathon. Truly discouraged I attempted to get back in the race to pass out AGAIN at mil...
Read more

trails+goals🍃

Image
Lately  I have been asked by many- “Now that you’ve accomplished one of your biggest goals, what’s next??” and to be honest I have been really soaking up my 2:58:01 marathon accomplishment and feeling extremely grateful my body felt so strong and healthy for that race. I will never take for granted a healthy body… many of you know my journey has included some pretty tough injuries along the way. So first, I really haven’t hurried to find a “next goal” but have sat in awe and thankfulness. All that to say I am a goal kinda girl and love a good challenge. So on Jan 1, 2024 I signed up to race the Javelina Jundred with some of my greatest running buddies! It will be my 2nd 100miler and this time will be held in Arizona (not Iowa) where it will be very hot. My goal tho will be to have a blast with running friends and finish the race- different then a road race goal….  I really love a good challenge!!  easy trail runs have started….and at the perfect time when the wild flowers...
Read more