The Garden Spot Village in New Holland PA was my First 1/2 Marathon. Hopefully it wont be my last. It was such a fun weekend! In the picture from left to right is Heather, Holly, Jackie and Me. The race was about 2 1/2 away and started at 8 am so we went up the night before. It was a fun little get away! All four families came, We Carbo Loaded the night before, and then got up and went to the race. The families came a little later. It was pretty cold out. It was alot of fun when it was over! Not so much while i was running but when it was over it was. I am glad i can say i have done a 1/2 Marathon. New Holland PA is Amish Town! It was alot of fun to see all the Horses and Buggies, and had Real Homeade Ice Cream that was GREAT!!.
In February Moana and I went to Indiana for Michaels State Wresteling meet. His team took Third Place. While we were there we Got Aaliyah and Natalia Blessed. It was so fun to get the babies blessed together and it was special to have my family there.
For Easter this year we drove up to West Vriginia. We met Heidi and Mason there Jay is there now working, Heidi and Mason will be moving there real soon. It was SO MUCH FUN!! I wish i would have taken more pictures! It was a really quick short trip but it was FILLED with fun things for the kids to do. Most of which i dont have pictures of. We left on Sat early in the moring, and got there at about 10. Teagan was so excited to see Mason! Heidi Mason Teagan and I went swimming and played with some ball shooters, while Moana and Aaliyah rested from the drive. ( Watched Basket Ball.. MARCH MADDNESS ) Then we got out and flew some kites, Jay got off work So we went to Cabelas. I had never been there but it was basically a zoo of Stuffed animals :) it was cool the boys loved it! Then we went back to the Hotel and Ordered Carry Out which was perfect cause then i didnt have to worry about the kids being tired and crying at the restaraunt. We met David, Jays cousin that he is working out there with. He is a real nice guy. Then we just hung out the rest of the night. Then EASTER we got up in the moring AWESOME continental breakfast, some more swimming,and A fun Easter Egg hunt at the back of the hotel. Then we went to where Jay, and David had been staying and had an AWESOME Barbaque!! It was so fun! We Tailgated haha It was Great! Seriously the best location Ever! The boys played forever in the rocks. I didnt even worry about them running in the parking lot cause they were so into the rocks. After they did Some Bubbles with a cool Gun that Heidi Brought and we went into the hotel to watch a movie.. and then THE EASTER BUNNY CAME !!:) Heidi and i had So much fun putting together the baskets and Making a big deal about The Easter bunny coming. Their baskets were hidden in the bathtub. While Jay and Moana made fun of us for having so much fun:) They loved it !
This winter Maryland Set records with the amount of snow that we got. There were 2 main storms and i think two little ones in between. Durring on of them we Got 31 inches of snow and then two days later another 14 inches. It was Crazy!! Everything was shut down. We couldnt even get out of our parking space for almost a week. Needless to say we got ALOT of much needed Daddy time. Since he was forced to stay home, IT WAS GREAT!! Teagan Loved the snow! He wanted to be out in it all the time! One morning at the begining of all the snow. I got up and decided i wanted to go running ( Im pretty in to that right now ) every other morning we had been getting up so earliy that it is always dark and it just looked so pretty and white out side. So i went running. It was so pretty and cool running in the snow. First i had to do High Knees threw about a foot and a half of snow to get to the main road and then run the opposite direction of the wind cause i couldnt see, but after that it was fun. Since it had snowed so much so quickly there were lots of tree limbs that had fallen from the weight of the snow. I turned down one street because i saw a HUGE tree down and i wanted to go see it, I got about half way down and a tracker came HONKING at me. He then told me there was a power line that had fallen and is live burried in the snow.. I was greatful that he stoped me. That could have been Scary
I'm Not going to make any promises, cause i know i did that last time.. Saying we were back and i was going to keep it up. But this time i am really going to try. Last night i sat down and really tried to figure out the whole blogging thing and after like 2 min i realized it is almost the easiest thing in the world.. Then i felt kinda dumb for ever saying i hadn't figured it out yet.. So i made a list of things i am going to update everyone on and i am about half way threw (Thanksgiving to Feb) Sorry if there are repeat pics, My sweet husband had been trying, in his spare time( which is none). to keep our blog going. So, more will be coming and hopefully from here on out we will be back in business.
Moanas Best Friend from High School plays for the Bengals. While we were in NY the Bengals Played the Jets. Moana has gotten to go to quite a few games. He Totally Loves it but mostly i think he loves being back in touch with Jonathan. You know when your spouce tells you stories from high school.. well in almost everyone Jonathan Fanene is in it. So i am glad that he is able to keep in touch with him. I havent met Him or his better half Lori or their little boy yet but it will be nice to someday.
Right before we left to go to NY we got to meet Kiwi and Jessicas kids Deadon and Kalisi. They are so cute and smart. Dadon i think looks EXACTLY like Kiwi.
This New Years we went to NY with the Mckellars. Nicole's Cousin lives there in the Hampton s, we stayed with them. It was tons of fun to see all the NY stuff. Especially to be there right around NEW YEARS..We always watch the ball drop in NY on TV. SO this time even though we watched it on TV it was still fun to be there. We didn't dare take the kids down there for the ball drop cause we hear it is CRAZY but we went down the next evening and it was still crazy but we could manage. There are SO many Lights down there in time square. It made me wonder how much Electricity they use. The first night we were there we drove threw at like 2 in the morning and you would have thought it was in the middle of the afternoon with how many people were just walking around and how bright it was from all the lights. It was really fun!
Christmas was a lot of fun this year. Teagan had so much Fun opening the presents. Most of the time he didn't even care what it was as long as he got to rip it open:) I love the Christmas season. We did a lot of fun things most of which i didn't take pictures of. I will do better. :)
Thanksgiving was SO much Fun this Year!! Almost My Whole Family Came to Visit. My Parents, Micheal, Austin, Tanner, Heidi, Jay, and Mason, Nathan, Alex, and Natalia. It was so much fun!! Heidi Jay and Mason came the day before thanksgiving, In the morning Heidi helped me get everything ready. Since our place is really small we had it in the gym.. That was a First but it worked out perfect! The Mckellars and the Millers were there with us too So that totaled like 21 people. We ate and then the boys all played basketball afterwards. It was really fun! I cant find the pictures of Thanksgiving day:(
David came to visit. He had come for work training,and was here for almost a week. He stayed in Virginia somewhere so one night we went and got him and did some sight seeing. Since Aaliyah was still really small she slept like the whole time, So we did my favorite kind of sight seeing.. See as much as you can in the shortest amount of time.. Moana drove us around to all the sights, David, Teagan and I jumped out and took pictures, and then we got back in and were on our way. It was So fun to see David, I felt like i hadn't seen him in forever!
