Moo's first haircut

The time finally came after two years to get a haircut. We didn't get much cut off, just the ends to even up all of her hair. As you can tell by the picture, the first few minutes didn't go very well. Poor thing was nervous I think. However, once she was given a sucker from the salon owner she was as good as gold.

She did so good and sat so still for Ms. Jennifer. Everyone was very impressed with her.

All done and if possible she is even more beautiful than she was 10 minutes ago!

What Twinkie?

The plate grazer has struck again!

Abigail has a slight problem with eating off of everybody else's plate, even while they are still eating. It is not uncommon for her to excuse herself from her chair and jump into Hayden or Ethan's chair and start stealing veggies. The other day I came in from outside and found this.

Ethan had been eating a Twinkie for dessert and ran to the bathroom. I asked Abigail if she had eaten Ethan's Twinkie , and through a mouthful of goo she replied with some sound that faintly resembled the word "NO".
Trying to quickly get rid of the evidence

Happy 4th of July

We spent our fourth of July pretty low key. We hung out as a family and grilled out, swam in the pool, and shot off a few fireworks. The kids had an absolute ball with the sparklers. John was our designated sparkler lighter. The pictures really turned our neat how the camera caught the trace of the fire as the kids twirled them around. We did have big neighborhood party on Saturday. We had a slew of fireworks, great food, great drinks, and the 30ft high 75 ft long water slide. That thing is such a blast. We had a great weekend!

Baytree 8K

On this beautiful fourth of July morning, I ran the Baytree 8K ( about 5miles, 4.97 to be exact). This is the farthest race I have ran. I tried to talk John into running with me, it was a no go. We are planning on running another 5K together in August.. My goal was to finish this race in 45 minutes, which I totally surpassed. I finished in 42.46 minutes. I was so stoked. Being it was Independence Day and we are a military town, they had assigned numbers according to civilian status, active military, and veterans. I of course was assigned a veteran number for my prior service in the Air Force. Before the race started, the announcer guy pointed all this out and also stated that an anonymous donor had donated $100.00 a piece for the first male and female veteran to cross the finish line, and who do you think the first female veteran was to cross the finish line was??? Yes sirree, yours truly!!!!! I also won 2nd place for my age group.

Me approaching the finish line
Crossing the finish line
Me, my trophy, and Ben Franklin!!! Oh Yeah, Baby!