You Can Do It!!

She might not finish first like this crazy looking chic from Romania, but tomorrow morning my wife will run her first official marathon. I say official because she's already had three 26 mile runs in training. Granted tomorrow will have quite a bit more pomp and circumstance, a few more observers and an actual medal. All of her other long runs have been followed by getting kids ready for school or at least having them around enough to keep her from stealing a nap. Her marathon training has been well documented through the Toenail Trials of Angie Elliott, and I can't bring myself to see another picture of them. So I won't ask you to either.
To say I'm proud of Angie is a huge understatement. About 10 months ago Angie hated running and would be the first to admit it. She also would admit that she couldn't run 2 miles, but she set a goal and started working towards it. Half marathon in March and now a full in DC. She's inspired my lazy butt to start running as well. Granted I still have a lucid mind, so I won't be running anything near 26 miles, but I'm looking forward to some 5ks, 10ks and I'm contemplating the 1/2 marathon in Albany. I'm pretty sure that after tomorrow she will have something that she can look back at for the rest of her life as a huge accomplishment. Liam, Emma and I are proud of you!

Oh and this is my first ever blog. So, yes, the seal is broken and I will now forever document my every mood, event and circumstance. Prepare yourself world.

Our little monkey!

We've known for quite a while that Liam is a climber. It all started with the skull fracture he received when he was only 1 when he decided to jump out of the buggy at Lowe's. We often find him standing on the kitchen table or standing on top of whatever he can find to climb. Lately we've been finding him in lots of crazy places...some funny, but some I'd rather not find him in. He's gonna be trouble:) but it's hard to get mad because he's so darn cute!

Bad Game..Good Weekend!

Yes, we lost the game but we had a great weekend with friends. We got to see our good friend, Jason, play his first show with his band "The Warm Fuzzies", got to hang out with some old college friends that we don't get to see enough, were blessed to stay with some sweet friends, Jana and Jason and got to eat at some of our favorite places. Wish we could do it every weekend.

Go Dawgs!!

We love football season around here. Brad starts counting down months in advance. Both of our kids have learned to "call the dawgs" around 1 year old. They both love to watch the bulldogs play on TV..sadly, they have yet to go to a game. (Emma has been to athens to tailgate but never into the stadium). And Liam loves to throw his arms up and say "touchdown". We're excited to be heading to athens for this first time this season this coming weekend. No kids...just me and my hubby enjoying some time together and remembering those good old days in athens. It's one of our favorite places on earth. It's gonna be a good game and a good weekend. Goooooo Dawgs!

Siblings...

Sometimes my kids surprise me. Most of the time when I have to rush to a room that they are in it's because one of them is screaming or crying about something. Or I'll turn around just in time to see one of them push or hit the other. But then there are the absolutely precious moments when you turn around and they are loving on one another or sharing with each other. Since I didn't have any siblings, I will never know what it feels like to have a brother or a sister. I can only imagine. And I longed for one growing up..and still do sometimes. That is just one of many reasons that it is such a blessing to watch my kids grow up together...hugging, kissing, loving and even fighting.
I came around the corner recently and actually found Emma sharing her snack with Liam. She'd arranged the chairs this way and everything.

ok, so that picture is a lot smaller than i expected it to be...but either way... my computer crashed! I lost everything. They (the computer people that know a lot more than me) said my hard drive went bad. They could not recover anything. So, everything is gone....pictures, documents, fonts, recipes, labels, ugh. i'm getting more upset as i type this as i remember everything that was on that computer.

i'm most upset about losing all of our pictures from the beach this summer. i think i took a little over 400 pictures. Yes, I know that's a lot. But I love taking pictures.

So, I've already had my 10 minutes of just sobbing after realizing there was nothing I could do. Now, I'm trying to figure out what to do next. I've been thinking about a Macbook. I haven't really ever used one, but I hear really good things about them. It seems that everyone that has one loves it.

So, I need some advice. If anyone has any on what kind of laptop I should get next, please let me know.

They grow up so fast!

Liam started "school" this week. It's just 2 days a week for four hours, but it still makes me realize how quickly the last 16 months have gone by. I can't believe he's big enough to be going already.

Emma also started dancing this week. She is taking at the same place that I took from age 3-18, so it's been really fun to have her start. She won't really tell me anything they've done, though. She says it's all a secret?

I just can't believe how quickly time seems to be going by.