Hooray for the first snow!

The kids enjoyed the first snow of the season by making snow angles and having a snow ball fight. They haven't mastered the concept of not throwing in a person's face, so there were some tears but overall it was a lot of fun.

Border Clash

My best friend Jean is the Cross Country Coach at our school and two of her athletes, Meron and Jasmine, were invited to run in the Border Clash (WA vs OR) in Beaverton. It is quite cool to be invited as it means that you are one of 70 or so top runners in your state. So that fact that two were selected from our school was really cool. Jean and I went down the night before and spent time in Portland shopping and eating. It was fun, even though it was a little cold! The kids did really well. Meron got 14th and Jasmine got 32nd and both were very excited. Nike treated them to dinner, speakers, a tour of the headquarters, it was a great experience for them.

Happy Halloween!

This year Emma was Tiana from the Princess and the Frog and Owen was Ben from a cartoon called Ben 10 Alien Force, Scott was Caesar and I was Cleopatra. As always, we went to a billion parties and had our own. We had a nice crowd and after passing out some candy (which seems to be almost as exciting as trick-or-treating!), we went out and hit the neighborhood. There was a lot of people out and the kids came back with a lot of candy. Scott and I had fun dressing up also.