01-11-13

the power went out tonight around 6:30, and stayed out for almost two hours.

the kids (especially dashiell and brennan) were quite worried about why there were no lights and we had to use candles.

after playing their ds for a short while, we decided to play uno together by candlelight

(although it was quite hard to distinguish the green from the blue!  they really ought to change the colors...)

 "take my picture, momma!"

01-10-13

interesting cave he made himself.
i had to pull a pillow off him to show where he was.

01-09-13

went to pick up brennan with my mom

they had a dinosaur bone hunt, and these were all the bones he found 

;-)

in his left hand is his "prize"

 heading home in the car...still happy!

01-08-13

doing some homework

01-07-13

so glad i'm just about done with my classes!  woo-hoo!

01-06-13

01-05-13

getting ready for the los angeles at night new year's half marathon

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getting to pershing square to park was a nightmare.  it took almost 1.5hrs to travel 0.5 miles...

if the race hadn't started late (9:15pm instead of 9:00pm) we would've been late.  we exited the car at 9pm!

there were no signs directing people where the start line was, and i felt bad for "regular" people who decided that it would be a good night to just go out...

there were also no visible signs to detour them out of the way of road closures.

getting ready to start!

 there were a lot of hills...
we ran about 4 miles to get to dodger stadium, then we looped around and in and about for another 4 miles, until we exited the area and headed back to downtown.

 this was inside dodger stadium, which looked like crap!
seats were pulled out, there were big gaping holes everywhere...
it looked really sad.

 braces twins!
oh wait, no, i mean it's a mom-and-daughter team
a girl passing out free naked juice samples commented to us post-race:
"did you guys run together?  cool!  i wish my mom would run with me"

 finally all done!
it was getting close to midnight by the time we were done.
after walking over to the post-race area and milling around for a bit, it was past midnight when we got back to the car...which was an awful 20+ minute walk away.  boo.
it was cold and windy by that time...
i vote for closer parking to the finish line as opposed to the start line.

01-04-13

last time to play in the snow before heading home this evening

 last books being read with grandpa...

 making green slime a la dashiell's book: horrible harry and the green slime

 brenny slept the first leg from missoula to seattle...
 (sorry no pic of him)

while dashiell crashed hard the second leg from seattle to los angeles

01-03-13

 swimming and playing at currents, the indoor pool/water play area

01-02-13

01-01-13

rattlesnake resolution run 10k this morning

it was a chilly 19 degrees outsides!  yikes!

 there were quite a few people there
(reported 300+ people for both the 5k and 10k)

i took this picture around mile 4ish...snowy trails, with noone really in front of me anymore.  just what i was afraid of...thankfully there was only one portion where i wasn't too sure where to go, but i apparently chose the right way...

 instead of a free t-shirt/medal at the end, we got mugs filled with piping hot chili~

December 31, 2012

made it out for a 13mi run this morning...
first time it didn't snow on me while i was running.
basically ran the kim williams nature trail (2.5mi length x 2 = 5mi for out and back) twice.
but it's all snowy trails...which led to blisters forming on the sides of both my big toes.  =(

December 30, 2012

brennan's really taken with this new app 'dragonbox'

he's learning how to solve algebraic equations! =)

 ...meanwhile, dashiell has the homework blues...

December 29, 2012