The Benz Family

Holland Happening

2009-04-25T17:00:00.000-07:00

I ran the Holland Happening 5K-here is Rochelle and I before the race.

And Brice marched with the middle school band-

Handsome

2009-03-24T20:50:00.000-07:00

Who knew we had such a handsome young man??? Now that we can see his face again under that mop of hair he had!!

Before

After

Nookachamps Winter Runs 10K

2009-01-20T21:09:00.001-08:00

I ran the Nookachamps Winter Runs 10K this past weekend.

Resolution Run 5K and Polar Bear Dive

2009-01-01T16:19:00.000-08:00

Brice and I completed the race this morning and we both did the polar bear dive into Lake Washington-42 degrees! You can read my complete race report here, and there are the non-wet pictures of Brice and I on that as well. Here are the pictures of Brice diving in.

Updated 1/5/09

Christmas Band Concert

2008-12-28T15:32:00.000-08:00

Ukrainian Bell Carol

Jingle Bells Around the World

Crazy Mixed Up Christmas Concert

December pictures

2008-12-28T08:26:00.001-08:00

Here are the links to pictures of the snow we've had this month, Christmas Eve with our wonderful family and us at home Christmas morning.

Enjoy:)

Merry Christmas

2008-12-25T09:48:00.001-08:00

Love,

Bill, Dawn, Brice, Corona and Jaeger

In Pictures

2008-12-21T14:47:00.000-08:00

Just a few pictures, will have more to share of the snow dogs, as well as the goodies I'm making today.

The whole family:)

Bill and I in in the snow-not your normal Whidbey snow, it's been here for a week has snowed 3 times.

Cookie men

2008-12-17T20:35:00.000-08:00

A commercial for cookies came on today and Brice said oohhh I'm in the mood for cookies now. I said ok, after dinner ya'll can make some. So Brice and Andrew gathered all the ingredients and did all the prep work and mixing and made some great cookies!

Andrew is 13

2008-12-06T14:15:00.001-08:00

We celebrated Andrew's birthday today...he's the last of the kids amongst my dear group of friends to enter the wonderful world of teenagers. We had a nice lunch at Applebees.

Andrew's manly 'grill'

Jingle Bell Run

2008-12-06T11:08:00.000-08:00

Brice and I, and my friend Rochelle, ran the Jingle Bell 4 Mile Run this morning. Brice finished around 38-39 minutes and I was just over 43minutes.

Brice crashed after the race.

Christmas Party

2008-12-05T21:45:00.000-08:00

Tonight was Bill's Christmas party and as par for the course, he wasn't home. I took my best friend, Elizabeth as my date. It wasn't the usual traditional party, but just a cocktail hour since there are so many people gone right now. It was a nice time-actually kind of nice that it was a short evening and to be home early. Here we are before the party-

Seattle Marathon Weekend

2008-11-30T14:49:00.000-08:00

I ran the 5K on Sat and the 1/2 Marathon on Sun.

Cause We All Just Wanna Be Big ROCK STARS

2008-11-30T14:46:00.001-08:00

The boys playing Guitar Hero-

Brace Face

2008-11-27T19:26:00.001-08:00

Brice finally got his braces on last week. He's adapted well and isn't too uncomfortable. He opted for blue and green on them to carry him through the new year(his next appt isn't until Jan).

Here are the 'before braces' pics-

And here are the 'with braces' pics-

We should do a countdown till we get the 'after braces' pictures and he has a gorgeous smile-2 years and counting.

Oh, and as a side note, check out the 'stache the boy has started-you can see it really good in the up close of 'with braces'.

Fowl Fun Run 10K

2008-11-08T16:52:00.000-08:00

I ran a Thanksgiving race today, read about it, and my 'scenic route' here.

Benz Boyz

2008-11-05T08:16:00.000-08:00

All four of them-

PACE Race 5K

2008-11-03T09:09:00.000-08:00

Read about my most recent race here.

Go Eagles

2008-11-02T20:37:00.000-08:00

Bill and I went to the Eagles-Seahawks game today. Last time we tried to go was back in 01 when the Eagles were in town, and they sent Bill on det-and he was almost gone for this one too, but we lucked out. Was a good game, the Seahawks fans weren't too mean to us...lol. Thankfully the weather held out, we had a bit of rain before the game started, but the entire game was dry. Oh, and we finally got to try the world famous garlic fries-which were every bit as good as we'd heard. And of course, Bill was extremely happy as his Eagles won.

Summer Fun

2008-10-31T13:14:00.000-07:00

While uploading the videos from last night, I realized I had some pictures from summer I had taken that were still on camera. It was from the end of summer BBQ that the kids had. The pics made me smile-a group of kids ranging in age from probably 8 or 10 to 18 all playing games like Red Rover together, hanging out and enjoying the end of summer food. Besides the Red Rover pictures, below is Brice, Charlotte and Matt-no pictures of Andrew other than him preparing to take down the line on Red Rover...lol.

Kreepy Kooky Concert

2008-10-31T09:28:00.000-07:00

Last night was the Kreepy Kooky Concert at the middle school. It was the 6th, 7th and 8th grade choruses, as well as the 7th and 8th grade band. When the 8th grade band finally got to play, they played the theme from the Addams Family, then Bats, Rats and Spiders. Their 3rd song-which is what the video is, was Music For a Darkened Theatre. It was a montage of movie theme songs by composer Dannny Elfman-it includes music from The Nightmare Before Christmas, Beetlejuice and Spiderman, as well as 2 others. Sorry about the camera work, but it was tough to hold it steady-and the band director kept stepping into the shot now and then as he was conducting.

Pumpkin Push 5K

2008-10-26T17:18:00.001-07:00

I ran another 5K this weekend. Full race report available here.