11-29-15

i helped out with a snail's pace running academy today and helped pace (from left to right, excluding me): james, nicole and valerie
james and nicole had never run 16mi before, and james and valerie are training for the marathon.
james has his first, surf city, coming up on super bowl sunday.
they did AWESOME!

11-28-15

los liones with the divas!

tam got to join heather, shanon and i today!

 iup, up, up we go!

 yay!  we made it to parker mesa overlook!!!

 whew!  done!

 whee! my new OM gear came in

11-27-15

do you want a minecraft facepaint!?

YEAH!

 another walk today.
brennan joined us this time and had to be the one holding remi.
i took a solo 2mi run before this, too =)

 struggling hard to stir and mix the batter for daddy's birthday cupcakes!

 waiting while daddy takes a nap

 happy birthday!!!

11-26-15

a mnice 1mile walk with mom and remi to start my holiday challenge of running, walking or biking at least one mile a day between thanksgiving and new year's.  

help me when i get to montana over winter break.  yikes.

 pokemon face paint (again!)

 dinner is served!

 our three chefs for the evening...

11-25-15

while putting papers away while packing up to get ready to drive to immer's place, misty realized that snapping rubberbands were very interesting...

 a quick little face paint before heading out on the road

11-24-15

 our second day of fun!
brennan really wanted to ride his favorite roller coaster, the project x technic coaster
dashiell headed to the pharoah's revenge (play area) while waiting

 we made it over to the snow days section and the kids had fun throwing as many snowballs as possible in the 10minute period =p

 the singing rocks have santa hats!  cool!

 oops.  pictures are out of order.  oh well!

 back to the lego mindstorms for the second activity -- dr. heartbeat
again, he did just great!

 while dashiell meanwhile enjoyed his time at build and test and even won one of the 'official' races and won a ribbon

 look!  it's abe lincoln!

11-23-15

 our thanksgiving break legoland tradition continues ;-)
brennan got to try the lego mindstorms (because i fibbed a bit and said he was in the 3rd grade)
he did just fine!

 game time!

11-22-15

we returned to griffith park (but at a different start location) for the 10K today.

i was able to cut 3 minutes off last year's time -- which was definitely tough for me as my legs were tired and my calves were a bit sore from yesterday

 keira!

 a little mini-reunion with nici and dawn (teammates from our idyllwild trip)