We have enough interest that the Peep Show will go on! It will be smaller than previous years, but that is okay. :)
All-O-ver, Ol-i-vore . . . we're learning that Oliver's name has some fun mispronunciations.
Also, ask him what is name is and this is what you'll hear: "My name is Oli . . . Oli . . . Oliv . . . Oli . . . I don't know."
Here I am at SFO. Again. What should have been a 40 minute layover has turned into a 5 hour layover with merely a possibility of getting on the red-eye at 10:30. Flying standby. And if I don't get on the standby flight . . . they tell me my next shot at JFK isn't for 24 hours. Yeah. So let's hope that doesn't happen. And if I don't get on standby, well, there's got to be another way home.
S: Oliver, Is Mom a child of God?
O: Yes!
S: No, Mom is a grown up!
The one night -- ever -- when Micah and I get to bed at 10:00 and could, feasibly, get 9 hours of uninterrupted sleep, Simon wakes up crying inexplicably at midnight and can't go back to sleep, Oliver falls out of bed, and we're all out a couple of hours of sleep. Clearly we need to never try to go to to bed early. It's the only way to get a good night's sleep around here.
Click here to see goofy pictures of the two of us running the marathon back in June.
And also, because I know you are curious, No, we did not hold hands the whole time. We did when they let us know they were going to take a picture, largely because as we were training a lot of people asked us, “So are you going to run hand-in-hand?” Of course, they were asking if we would stay together the whole time, but now (almost) all the evidence points to us being a really cheesy couple.
My favorite part is that Micah looks like he is about ready to die at the finish line and I look like I just took a walk in the park. It was a conscious effort. And please, pay no attention to my midriff. I wore the most modest shirt they offered, but it was obviously too short.
If you didn’t hold Micah’s hand the whole way, then who’s hand did you hold? I have to say that I really enjoyed those pictures. How could you both look so happy at the end? I watched the Boston Marathon this year and everyone looked so pained going that last block of the race! I must say that it was inspiring. You guys are inspiring! I plan to do a marathon too sometime in my life. However, instead of having a picture of me holding hands with someone, it would be me piggy-backing on someone else. That is the only way I’d survive!
I did participate in the Canyonlands 1/2 Marathon. That was fun!
You guys are great!
Natalie Snow
Oh…I forgot to say that in the half marathon I had to drop to participating in the 5K instead. Oh…and with that I did a super job of walking the 5K run! Hee hee!
Natalie
Yeah Liz, you look amazing. I can’t even tell if you’re sweating. You can be sure that if I had just ran a marathon, my face would be beet red, my hair would drenched, and you would be able to see dark pools of sweat under my arms. This is why Sarah doesn’t run marathons.
Face it, Liz, you guys ARE a really cheesy couple. But it’s in a really cute, newlyweddy kinda way.