Half Marathon

Hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving! As you can see from our blog background, we have already shifted into the Christmas mode. Our Thanksgiving day started early, as we ran the half-marathon with our friends Donovan and Bill. It was a beautiful course, starting not far from our house and ending downtown at Turner Field, under the Olympic Rings. It started out a bit chilly (30's), but warmed up quickly and was quite sunny (as you can see from the photo where we are all looking right into the sun). We had great races... Steve finishing in 1:41 and Ann finishing in 1:45.

Jackson turns 7!

Our little guy turned 7 this week!! Hard to believe... We celebrated today with a Lego party at the house. We had a "nice" sized party of 12 kids! We tried to keep the kids busy with a variety of games, but that proved to be much more difficult than we thought!

Here is the "Balloon Sandwich" where the kids have to go the length of the room with a balloon between their backs. Jackson's favorite games from the party were the Lego tower building contest and the balloon fighting. Obviously, the balloon fighting was not a sanctioned event!

Catie demonstrated outstanding grit and determination fighting off the older kids on her way to a final 4 finish in the old favorite, musical chairs.

She had a blast with the big kids at the party...

The kids seemed to prefer the ice cream over the fancy Lego cake...

We capped off the party with a Lego Pinata full of a candies and other useless crap that the kids seemed to love.

Abster going for an airplane ride.

After the chaos and being over run by the children, we were surprised when the kids organized the singing of happy birthday by themselves, like a group of professional party planners. See for yourself below.....

Fall Weekend

We have remained busy this fall, largely with birthday parties. It seems that we are invited to at least a few parties each weekend. Above, Jackson at his friend Anya's birthday party which was at the Gwinnett County Pool and Recreation Area.

Here Jackson is enjoying the "lazy river" at Anya's birthday party.

We really have to keep an eye on Abster these days... she is crawling at a good pace and is very curious!

Here she is, enjoying her saucer. Her days in here are limited as she prefers to be on the move...

Here are babies Abby and Landon. We had to keep a close eye on Abby as she was very interested in touching/poking Landon.

The boys are enjoying a 3D movie in the Wilson's theatre room.

Halloween

We hope that everyone had a nice Halloween. Here the kids are suiting up for trick or treating. Catie is Tinkerbell, Jackson is Anakin Skywalker, and Steve is a Rastafarian Jedi.

Jimmy and Tricia hosted a pre-Halloween Party, complete with pizza, desserts, decorations, and even goody bags for the kids! The kids had a blast! Above, a storm trooper (Jimmy) and the Jed is (Jackson and Luke) are in a light sabor battle.

Tinkerbell, Jango Fett (Micheal), and Anakin Skywalker head out in the neighborhood trick or treating...

Here's Tinkerbell, gathering quite a load of candy...

Tinkerbell and Dorothy (Sarah) are enjoying some of their candy after trick or treating.

Our little Hulk Hogan...

Abby didn't stay in her chicken costume long, but we did get a few pictures.

The kids got into a Halloween box with some old costumes and had to try them on....
Good grief! We didn't even needed to buy new costumes... these are adorable!

Today, Princess Catie had tea and crumpets for Princess Bailey's 4th birthday. The girls were treated to beautiful ball gowns, jewelry, and of course, were crowned with tiaras. Steve was Catie's chaperone for the event and was WAY out of place as he had to help dress our little "princess." See the video below to witness Catie's walk down the "red" carpet....