You might think were crazy. . .

Kathryn has expressed an interest in running. So being the good parents we are :) we decided to train and run a race with her. Or at least a fun run. Immediately I thought of a fun run that is being held to help my cousin with medical costs. (Chemo is not cheap.) Eventually the deadline to sign up rolled around so I made myself stay awake long enough, at least until 10 pm, so I could sign. For some reason I never got around to signing up when the kids were still awake. I even ordered shirts for all of us so we could have matching shirts. It was going to be so fun and I knew we would be so cute.
Training was inventive to say the least. Once I took Kat and Jace on a run around the block twice just before bed. And, Kelly started jogging with Kat the long way to school. He enjoyed teaching her from his vast running knowledge. (He ran cross country and track in high school.)
Well the week of the race started and I for one am excited. I kept mentioning that Saturday we would be running. Then the kids come home with fliers about the school district's Red Ribbon Run. Being drug free is great but we already had a run to do, so I told the kids we couldn't run it. And, things were still as I planned. . .
Until, Kelly saw the fliers a couple days later. He really wanted to do the Red Ribbon Run and his main reason, "We can get performance shirts for just 5 dollars." So in October 15th, Kathryn and Jace did their first and their second fun run.
I'm really glad they did. They did great. Kat ran the first one in about 10 minutes and Jace was only a couple minutes behind. And, Kat was able to run most of the second one. Jace spent most of the second one telling me, "I didn't want to do THIS one." Kat's best line was half way through the first one, "A mile is a lot longer than I thought it was."
Kelly also likes that everyone gets a ribbon with the drug free run. Way to give the kids a sense of accomplishment.
We made it!!!

Quilts shouldn't take this long to make.

It all started because a friend gave me this great fabric with horses and horses paraphernalia on it. Jace loves horses so I thought it would be perfect to make him a quilt for Christmas. Plus, there was a big sale around Thanksgiving to buy Kat fabric for her quilt. So for Christmas, I'm not telling you how long ago, they got quilt tops, batting, and fabric for the backs. The one bonus to this plan was that Kat helped quilt them together. She got so good I can't tell which blocks she did, Kelly did, or I did. Here blanket has quilting around the flowers and Mickey Mouse shapes on the other squares. Jace's has quilting around the horses. I think they turned out alright for my first quilts. Thanks to family and friends that helped me know how to do it and loaned me the quilting frames.

Achievements!

Warning: this video contains shrill sounds.
Alek is already too big for me. I love how excited he gets about life but really can he be excited and just stay put for a minute. :) He turns six months old tomorrow and this video was taken a couple weeks ago. I thought he might crawl before I got around to posting this but he is still not quite there. He can pick up one leg and one hand but doesn't know what to do with them.