Cowtown Marathon

This weekend, we made a quick trip to Ft Worth for Dan to run in the Cowtown Half Marathon with some of our San Antonio friends.  The girls stayed with my parents at the lake and we had one night and day to ourselves.

For some reason, on our one day off, we got up at 5:45am so Dan and everyone else could run- no break or sleep!   Here are the SA girls and me :)

Anyway, the Cowtown has ZERO spectators.  Dan, Bert and Julia, Laura, and Courtney ran the half.  David (Courtney's husband), Otto (Julia and Bert's 3 month old) and I went to spectate and cheer everyone on at mile 4 and 10.  At mile, 4- zero spectators, so i had to pull out some old cheerleading jumps and superstar movements a la Mary Catherine Gallagher.  I felt very sorry for all the runners getting no support and I thought they needed a little comedic interlude, therefore I pointed at specific runners looking downtrodden and yelled at them that they were awesome.  This went over well.  Fortunately, there are no pictures of this, as I injured my hip from jumping around since the last time I did cheerleading jumps was in high school in 2000.  We were able to find all five of our runners and cheer them on- good success!

Then, after feeding Otto in the car, racing across town (only one mile but everything was blocked off, so big detour), we made it to mile ten right when Dan was running by.  Perfect!  I did a half jump I had been saving for him since my hip was injured and then we yelled for everyone again because again, zero spectators.  Our best line was "We are not married and this is not our baby!"  We felt this was necessary because everyone kept telling me I looked pretty good after having this little infant (I took the compliments for awhile because I did have a baby a while back, just not a three month old) and then people were admiring our motley little family that did not go together.  Again, the runners were pretty bored with no spectators, so we were interesting relief.  Our yell got some laughs which we felt equaled successful encouragement and then I reverted back to my "you are awesome" point and yells.

All in all, a success.  Dan didn't train at all and he ran a better time than the Ok City marathon.  We were very proud!  Fun weekend!

Guess the Riddle

Dan is so strong he can hold four people.  (He does Crossfit ALOT!)

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Give up?

Well, another little baby will be joining our family September 17th- half a month before Annie's 1st birthday.  What a surprise, but we are definitely excited :)

And I am especially excited to get past these next two weeks and hopefully get some energy....

Snow Day!

A few days ago, we had two inches of snow!  June had zero interest in playing in it.  She only wanted to spend an entire hour eating it.  This was fine with me - no clothes to wash! :)

The chickens usually stop laying in the snow or cold, but they were happy scrounging around in their pin that was carefully enclosed by Dan so no snow got in.

Every day, we give them all our leftover, moldy, unwanted food we have, as well as things like the end of strawberries and flower stems and even their own egg shells.  They eat it all!  And they have been so much happier since I have started giving them variety and we have had more eggs...  I have really been surprised how much we would have previously thrown away but is now going to good use.

Madame Cluck and King Tutu would not pose for my picture (they are pretty skiddish), but below is Esmerelda and Miss Penny.  Esmerelda lays the dark brown eggs and Miss Penny- the light brown ones.  Madame Cluck lays the blue eggs above (they are not white) and I suspect that King Tutu doesn't do much laying, although I can't be sure because technically his eggs are the same color as Miss Penny's...

And wouldn't you believe it, by 3pm that same day, all the snow had melted and it was 55 degrees.  Crazy Lubbock weather!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Flowers from Daddy :)