Winter Festival

Joe and I took the kids to the Winter Festival on Saturday. We went on a hay ride, jumped in the bouncy castles, watched the professional trampoline jumpers and local youth snowboarding and last but not least Joe and Mason tried Paintball for the first time.

Yesterday, Joe and I did the Partners in Pain 5K run in Spokane. Our babysitter came over at 7:15am so that we could be there and pick up our tags etc before the race. As we got a little lost, it was a good thing we gave ourselves so much time. The race was very well attended. We ran it in 35.20 which is great (for me). I had hoped to do it under 45 minutes so I am very happy. Afterwards, Joe took me to a great lunch at the new PF Chang in Spokane. It was fabulous. We loved the vegetarian potstickers, wedge salad and the stir fry eggplant. Yum. So nice to do something I've been wanting to do for a long time with my hubby. We got home at 12:45 and the boys were napping so we crawled into bed and watched two episodes of LOST before they woke up (we are still on Season 1).

I had a great study date with a gal from class who also has boys 2 & 4. They all played together really well so hopefully we will do that again sometime.

This morning the boys were being really cute and cuddly with each other. I couldn't resist taking some photos. Mason and Talan were kissing and hugging each other. Just adorable.

Oh, our new thing is to pray before each meal. Mason is adament about this. We are ok with it. A family that prays together stays together, right? Tonight I made him lead the prayer and this is what he came up with "thank you God, amen". I told him he'd get better with practice. Mason's other new thing is that he says "for the love of Pete". I think he's heard me say "for the love of God" when I am irritable or missing something and just changed it to Pete. Its very funny. Its totally out of context and nonsensical but cute nonetheless. He knows I get a kick out of it so he says it frequently to me.

I've been a bit of a bore today. My exam is tomorrow so I have been studying a lot for it. Can't wait to get it over with. :) Then I will have a better idea how I am doing in this class. The great thing is that my results will be posted tomorrow night so now weeks of waiting to see how I did. Cool!