4hrs 30min 17sec

I finished my first marathon!! I didn't run as fast as I would have liked and I am very sore today, but I finished.

This first picture is taken the day before the marathon at the expo.

These last 2 pictures are at the finish and after the finish. See how pretend happy I look. I was actually in a lot of pain. Running 26.2 miles is a lot of work.

My Hobby

While Ben is away (which he is, deployment day moved up to late October), my favorite thing to do is scrapbook. Since not too many people (okay, no one) comes over and asks to see my scrapbooks, all my hard work sits in the book. So now for your viewing pleasure, here are the pages I've recently completed for our trip to Hawaii.

First Fruits

More like first vegetables. One of the best things about having a house is the fact that I can have a garden. This year my garden is thriving! I have already canned 8 pints of green beans (and that doesn't count the numerous evenings I walked out to my garden and cooked fresh picked green beans for dinner that night). Below is a picture some of the other vegetables I'm growing. See how small the carrot is? I think I'll let those grow some more before I pull any others out.


I also am growing corn. The stalks are about 7 feet tall, but not quite ready to pick the ears yet.

Phase 1

Before: After:
I painted the trim on our house the past couple weekends. There still are a lot of updates we want to do, but it's nice to have the red gone.

So proud

I know this is a silly post but I don't care. I found this recipe and it sounded so good. So I went to the store to buy shrimp and noticed the noncooked shrimp was cheaper. So bought it and learned how to devein the shrimp. It was then marinaded in this spicy sauce I made and then put on the skewers with the vegtables. They turned out so tasty I just had to show the pictures of the colorful dinner we made.

Uncooked...

Cooking...

Eating...

Back to real life

While we were gone we had a tree cut down. The mess was waiting for us when we got home. With the help of my parents, Alan, and a chipper, here is the work we were able to accomplish in 3 hours.

This is the ugly tree that is left. In the long term plan, this tree will come down also.Here is how big the stump is that is left: The big pile of branches my dad made before we got home:

The pile is gone!

From Hawaii

Currently I am sitting in our condo in Hawaii and decided to make you all jealous by posting pictures of the fantastic time we are having here.

Just a nice beach we snorkled at.

At the Luau.

The brothers.

The ocean that claimed the life of our camera (why do swim trunks have pockets?!?!)

Shaved ice is so good!
Another beautiful sunset in paradise.