A Very Busy Weekend!

The Heath's were on the go this weekend. On Friday night, Shane, Eric, Ashley and I went to a Halloween Party. It was a ton of fun hanging out with other adults that we haven't seen in a while. On Saturday, we had a Birthday Party for Nic, Garrett, and Jason. I love family get togethers. On Sunday we carved pumkins and then went to a Halloween Party for Ian and Anna.

Anna just loves her cousin Tate. I think the feeling is mutual. Tate does a great job with her and seems to love when she is around. The whole family had fun together. Since Jill has moved and Anthony is in college, it was nice that they were able to make it home for the party.

Uncle Eric was also home for the weekend. He got to help Ian clean out his pumpkin and get it ready to carve. in the third picture they are showing me the "icky" stuff all over their hands. Later it will be all over the table and floor and walls because Ian didn't like it on his hands.....so he wiped it off. The next picture is of Anna tasting her pumpkin (once again) to make sure it was ready to go outside. The finished products were pretty cool. Thanks to Aunt Kimmie, we had one of the carving kits this year. Ian's is a skeleton and Anna has a raccoon in a pumpkin.

The last picture is of Anna in her Cinderella costume. I took this because it is hard to get pictures of her now days and I didn't know that I would get any on Tuesday. Ian was dressed up for the party to but he is always willing to pose.

Slumber Party

When I was younger, Grandma Kunkel would have all the grandkids over for slumber parties. Those are some of my fondest memories. Staying up late, making tents under the table, flash light tag, eating tons of junk food, and just having fun with my cousins. Ian and Anna got a small taste of that this weekend. I say small because 1.) they don't have any cousins yet and 2.) Mema assured me that she didn't feed them tons of junk or let them stay up too late. If only I had a picture of the look on Ian's face when I asked him if this was true.

The other boy in this picture is Payton. He is the grandson of Mema's friend. He got to stay the night also. Looks like they all had fun. Thank you Mema for making memories with our kids. Hope there are many more "slumber parties" to come. Are you busy this weekend?

THAT'S MY TOY!

I got a glimpse of what is to come in the near future, I thought. I heard Anna in the other room screaming and to my surprise, this is what I found. Ian has been very good (so far) about sharing his toys with Anna. She did not seem as willing. Only time will tell!

I DID IT!

This past weekend Shane and I traveled to Columbus, Ohio with Matthew & Jill Buskirk. The purpose of this trip was so that Jill and I could run in a marathon together (26.2 miles). Now, Jill called this a vacation. I have another word for it...not vacation. This was my first marathon and I was ready. Our goal was to run it in 4 hours which is about 9 minute miles. Jill had another friend from Ft. Wayne that we met up with to run also. The weekend was anything but nice and relaxing. We ended up leaving Ft. Wayne about 1 1/2-2 hours later than planned. We took an unplanned route which took even longer than the directions we had. When we got to the hotel our rooms were not clean. We got to the expo just in time to RUN and get registered (we were the last ones they took). We wanted to find a nice place to sit down and eat and ended up in a very loud bar on campus where everyone was watching the Ohio State game and Florida game. Tons of screaming and yelling. When we got back to our hotel they didn't have rooms any longer. They had over booked. So we got sent to another hotel. We asked about late check-outs and they told us we had to wait until first shift came in at 7:00 a.m. to request this and there were only so many available. So we finally get to bed. We ate a quick breakfast at the hotel in the morning and it was about 5 till 7:00 so we thought we would just wait and be one of the first to request a late check-out (along with about 4 other runners). As we are waiting we over hear the guy tell another person they only had 15 late check-outs available and they had already given those out that night. Boy were there some angry people. Jill and I just left and went to the start. Later we found out that the manager came in at 7:00 to a ton of unhappy people and said anyone running could check out at 1:30 p.m. This made us happy. We started the race on time and were feeling great, keeping on pace until about the 12 mile when Jill's knee really began to bother her. She stopped to stretch and Catherine and I kept going...very fast. Neither one of us was much for pacing without Jill there. The 18-21 mile hurt so bad for me that I wanted to cry. At about 21 it was like a switch and all was well. I think I was just so numb and out of it by then. Lack of oxygen to the brain will do that. So I picked up the pace to finish this last simple 5 miles. That was the longest 5 miles ever. It truely became a head game. Mind over body.....who won? Well all I really wanted to do was stop running. Right about the time I really considered it I saw Shane and Matthew cheering me on. That was much needed motivation. I kept going and a short while down the way, Shane showed up at my side. He ran the last mile with me pushing me all the way. I really don't know that I could have done that without him. Shane and I finished my first marathon in 3:45. Catherine came in at about 3:48 and Jill had a PR finishing in 4:02. It turned out to be a great race and a great weekend. We had a good time with Matthew and Jill. For those of you who don't know, to qualify for the Boston Marathon you must run a 3:40. There is always next time.......

Smile

These are some pictures I took of the kids. I love taking pictures and it was a perfect Sunday morning. Ian is always saying "I love Anna" and you can really see that in these.

IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN PATCH

We went to the pumpkin patch this week and each picked out our pumpkins. This was a first for Anna. She tasted every one before selecting the kittens and dog that were there. Don't think she realized you pick a pumpkin. I don't know about any of you but getting two kids to look at you and smile at the same time is IMPOSSIBLE.

FREE FALL FAIR

The Heath family had the pleasure of attending the DeKalb County Free Fall Fair last week. Ian was so excited to get to ride on rides and play games. He is such a big kid. Look "no hands!" He had so much fun. Shane and I even got to have a little fun racing down the super slide and crashing into eachother on the bumper cars....we didn't want Ian to go alone!