Birthdays and Racing

Brett and I got to get away to celebrate our birthdays and one of our great college buddy's wedding a few weeks ago. It was so nice going on a date again and sleeping in in the morning!! Brett is struggling a bit with the BIG 3-0! But slowly is getting use to the idea. Here we are at the wedding reception having a blast!

And the architects meet again!! These boys pulled so many all nighters together during architecture school trying to meet those project deadlines. I sometimes am so amazed they got through it. They had so much fun goofing off again like they always did!

It is too bad we can't find more time to get together like we use to. Instead we all keep having babies!! We tried to plan a gathering for next summer at the Lake. Let's hope we can all keep it on our calendar. I'll cross my fingers!
After our St. Louis trip we came back to the Burg for a family birthday party. Pizza Haus pizza, cheesecake, and chocolate zuchini cake, can't get much better than that!! YUMMY!!

The following week I ran Race for a Cure with my great running buddies Lori and Shelly. Wow!! How inspiring! The race went great and I was really happy with my time! I'm really getting addicted to this running thing. Lori has done 2 marathons so she's a great trainer for me. The Des Moines 1/2 marathon is our goal for next year....... one mile at a time.

Wish me Luck!!!

Pumpkin Patch 2010

We kicked off October with our annual trip to Center Grove Orchard with Grandma and Grandpa. Every year the orchard adds new fun activities to do. This year this little train was a hit. Unfortunately there wasn't really a bar for Will to hang on to for the ride and he nearly fell off a few times. This made Brett really nervous, so we had to remove him from the dangerous situation. Poor Will!

We went out to the pumpkin patch right away in the beginning so we could get the pumpkins picked and back to the car. We had so many pumpkins between Grandma, Grandpa, Teagan, Tate, Becca and the Van Zee clan, that we had to pass on 3 different hay rack rides back to the farm because there wasn't enough room for us all! So we sat on the ground and sang lots of songs, basically making fools of ourselves to keep the kids entertained.

The corn pool is always a hit! I learned my lesson last year that corn can make its way into every little seam, pocket, and hole of each my children. So they were stripped down and shaken before dressed again and strapped in the car for the ride home.

Jumping, jumping and more jumping with Teagan.

This is the deer in the headlights look we had at the end of the day. You can't tell here, but when we got home we realized the kiddos were sunburned pretty bad on their faces. A quick little couple hr. trip actually ended up being a 5 hour full day event. The mommy award was not given to me that day as I for some reason didn't think you could get sunburned in October! The next day at preschool, Kate's teacher kept taking her temperature, thinking she had a fever because her cheeks were so red. Kate just responded with, "I feel good! My mommy just forgot to put sunscreen on me yesterday." Bless her little honest heart!!!