sneak peek!

My photographer from today (Gina Zeidler of Zeidler Photography) just sent me a few sneak peeks! SO, so excited to see the rest of the photos! I'm saving my family photo for the Christmas cards more than likely, but who knows. Maybe I'll do a collage, so just act surprised when you get your Christmas cards this year.

Ha, I love torturing him.

nervous...

We have family pictures this Sunday with this amazing photographer. I am SO excited for the output...but just so nervous! What if Connor is crabby, what if he doesn't cooperate, what if he doesn't nap well that day. Argh. But, I'm still really excited...because she rocks :)

Sorry for the lack of blogs lately. I have a few good pictures from Halloween night, it was super fun. Krystal, Ashlyn and my parents came over for the evening. Eventually I'll get around to posting them :)

Happy Halloween!

Thursday night we had daycare's Halloween Party. It was the same day as his 18 month appt with three shots...so we're blaming that for why he was crabby :) He refused to take pictures right away but eventually we tried again...but the only way he'd do it was to sit in an infant bumbo seat...he thought he was pretty hilarious.

The photographer edited the bumbo to somewhat more of a masculine, skeleton worthy color.

Oh, wondering about the face paint? He LOVED it. I drew a ghost on one cheek. He needed more. Drew another ghost on the other cheek. Needed more. White nose. STILL needed more so he got a ghost on his hand, then we just had to remove him from the face painting area. Ha. Who knew? He just kept coming back to sit on the little chair and would look at me like, what can I get now, mom? Too funny.

18 Month Appt

We had Connor's 18 month appointment this past Thursday. Week late, but that's ok. Everything seems to be 'on track'. Always nice to hear ;)

Stats:

Height: 31 3/4" - 25% (hey, last appt we were at 19% I think)
Weight: 26 lb 3 oz - 40%
Head: 19" - 76%

So, nothing much else to report. He's definitely starting to repeat words that you ask him to, doesn't always sound like it should, but he's trying.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Bring on the trick-or-treaters!

tickle monster...

I know this seems like we're torturing him...but I just can't get enough of his laugh! If you do it enough...he just shakes his head, out of breath, like, time out...I need a breather. So fun.

Free holiday cards!

No...I can't give you all free holiday cards...if that's what it would take to make sure you ALL order Christmas Cards from Pear Tree Greetings...as much as I'd love to, I can't. :)

However...if you take a picture of your kids (pets are welcome too!) in their Halloween costume and upload it to Pear Tree Greetings facebook wall in the next week...you'll automatically get entered to win a $50 coupon on any order from the site. Fun, right :) I thought so.

Random update from the weekend...it was great :) Spent Friday with my mom, Grandma and Connor in the cities, scrapbooked Friday night and most of Saturday (DONE with Connor's first year!), hockey game with Blake and Lindsey (Scotland roomie) Saturday night and errands with Anne on Sunday. Low key, relaxing and just nice! Have a video of Connor getting tickled that is pretty cute, will try and get it up soon.

Busy week ahead...scrapbooking night tomorrow, vball Wednesday and daycare Halloween party on Thursday. Fun, fun!

speed racer

This is something Connor has always done, well, since he could walk behind things, but, he's definitely getting faster.

Race Day

So, let me begin this offical recap of the half marathon with this:

This was one of the most challenging things I have ever done in my life, both physically and mentally. It was hard. So hard. By the end it was difficult to NOT focus on how amazinly painful my legs were (or the fact that I couldn't believe they were still operating), or that the balls of my feet hurt so bad I wanted to take my shoes off or that I just wanted to walk...SO BAD. So bad. I have to give a HUGE thanks to Bibs who stayed with me. Many times I told her to just GO...but she didn't. Then I finally told her that for how many times I told her to go ahead...I was so thankful she stayed :) I'm blaming the hills for most of it. However disappointed I am that I had to walk up some of the hills, it motivates me to find another half marathon. A FLAT half marathon, to see how well I can actually do. So there, that's that. None of us have ANY intention of running that particular course EVER again. :)

Now, for the pictures.

pre-race at Anne's house

Bibs, Anne, me, Erin

pre-race, just after getting our race bibs and trying to warm up, it was 35 degrees I think, but during the run, none of us ever felt cold. Some crazies were even in shorts and tank tops. Crazies.

Oh my gosh, did I mention we had FANS? Well, Erin had fans, but they cheered for the rest of us too. Not going to lie, hearing someone cheer 'Go Christy! Go Christy! Way to go, keep it up!!' at about mile 5 or 6 was AWESOME. Thanks SO much to Randi and Dave, Erin's friend and boyfriend, for making the trek down. Thank you!
(we made them act like they were cheering for this picture)

post-race...smiles of satisfaction

again.

moving around was VERY difficult at this point, our legs were killing us

Erin with her fans

Erin and Dave. So cute. Not going to lie, I think I dreamt that Dave proposed at the finish line...didn't happen, but would have been cute, ha.

So, that's that. The other girls have some more pictures that I'll have to get and post if there are some good ones. We are so proud of ourselves and are all looking forward to doing it again. (again, I mention we'll do it again on a FLAT course)

fall photo shoot

For a project for work I needed to take some Fall photos of Connor. So Friday morning we went down to Sibley park to see if we could get some. It was like 38 degrees and a little damp...he wasn't entirely thrilled, but oh well. It was fun :)

Hey Ma, are we done yet?

we did it!

OMG...we DID IT. We ran a half marathon. And WOW was it HARD. No lie. It was at a state park outside of Faribault, therefore for 11 of the miles we were in the woods in a state park running on wet, leaf covered trails with tree roots sticking up all over and HILLS. Oh my word were there hills.

So no, I did not achieve my goal of running the entire time. I had to walk up the hills, they were crazy, and they just kept coming. Not to whine or complain, but I did certainly not train for hills, even though I should have.

That said, I still did meet my time goal of less than two hours and thirty minutes. Ha, barely...came in at 2:29 something...can't remember. I was focusing on staying standing and not falling over my legs were so tired.

Pictures to come, just thought I'd update you all that we finished :)