Resolution Run 5K and Polar Bear Dive

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

Ukrainian Bell Carol


Jingle Bells Around the World


Crazy Mixed Up Christmas Concert

In Pictures

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

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!

Jingle Bell Run

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.

Cause We All Just Wanna Be Big ROCK STARS

The boys playing Guitar Hero-

Brace Face

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'.

Benz Boyz

All four of them-

Summer Fun

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

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.