At the finish line and beyond...

This is the beautiful view of the Willamette River that Abigail was running by this morning at Bryant Park in Albany

Here she comes down the shoot!!

Not a pretty picture but this is what you look like when you are 22 out of 190! She ran her PR today at 23:01, shaving 22 seconds off of her last race

I don't have time for you guys I have to go and do a cool down run, this is what my lovely child says when we come and watch and cheer her on....

Don't worry we had a nice long conversation when she came home tonight

All smiles and kisses now!

While Abigail was running her tail off we did this...

Jack and Isabella were both hamming it up this morning while waiting for Ab to run!!

Jack loved the flags, kept running back and forth and pulling on them. Almost clothes lining himself several times

My favorite Pic of my little girl!!!

Playing in the flags

Now I know it appears that he has fallen down and can't get up, however he is simply laying down in the wet, muddy grass!! Free will and being 15 months old will get this for you.

Ready, Set, Run a 5K...

Abigail and her teammates warming up before the BIG race today, JV CC had 190 runners competing today!

Pumped up after an inspirational team meeting...game face on!

Still waiting....warmed up and ready to go

Look at all of them, a trampling we will go

There they go!!!!

Rainy day out at Sip N Kranz

Isabella loves to pose for pic's this one came after a couple of others that were random. She is such a little ham. We had such a nice time having coffee this morning and playing with the kids up at Sip N Kranz, Heidi usually takes the kids there when i am sleeping but today the three of us went by ourselves.

Look at all the kids to play with!!!!!

Jack and Mommy self portrait!! I have wonderful friends who do this all the time, I guess it is high time that I learned to take photos with my phone too.

Jack thinking about getting into the water at Jamison Square, while Isabella as you can cleary see had no problem wading right on in again. We were hoping for some rain to play and dance in but it held out until we were in the car. We even came prepared with a fresh dry set of clothes this time. Bummer

Jack was very fascinated by the water cascading down the face of the rocks.

Workshop at the Oregon Zoo

A group of co-worker and I attended a very inspiring Advanced Preceptor Workshop today at the Oregon Zoo. I think that we all took a great deal of new tools out of the conference and will be able to implement these into our practice. We did also take a little walk over our lunch break to see something else that was new!! The baby elephant...who's name I can't remember! But next time we all go to the zoo I will be sure to ask again and place it in my memory, that is not like an elephants right now. Here are a couple of pic's from my phone.

First Word

Jack has entered the world of words, yep, that's right...he is talking. OK, well he says mama and now he says BALL too. So really it's like talking to the dog, "where is your ball?", "go get your ball". Not really the same but phrases like "bring it here" and "go get it" sound really similar when you think about it. We are very excited about his new word, mostly he still babbles and makes all the noises that boys are born to make. Grunts and motor boats...