Just Call her Speedy!

My very good friend Elisha also ran the Seattle Rock n Roll Marathon. I just wanted to give her her own post because I'm so proud of her. She killed this marathon. She was a blur whenever I saw her. She is an amazing runner and I wish I had 1/2 her speed. She ran the marathon in 3 hours and 25 minutes. She qualifed for the Boston Marathon in April. Maybe as I get older and get more time to qualify I will get to run Boston one day. Congratulations Elisha, oops I mean Speedy! Love ya!

4:10

Well if you remember my Holy Crap post from below I was worried about finishing my marathon. I finished the marathon in 4 hours and 10 minutes. It was my slowest marathon, but I was happy with my time considering my injury and the hills. This was my 3rd marathon. Overall it was a good experience. The course was a little hilly and a little warm toward the end. The scenery was nice on the course. I had 2 friends running the marathon and I got to see them a couple different times on the course, which was nice. My aunt and uncle who I stayed with in Seattle came down to the finish. I think there were shocked that there were so many crazy people like me running 26.2 miles.

Here I come down the hill. Just before this at mile 25 was a hill. I thought I might die. Who puts a hill at mile 25? Thank you to Walton's for these pictures.

I'm smiling. That is a good thing at mile 26.

Oh Stop!

Becky, Elisha and Me with our finishing medals.

The Loot!

Hudson made out like a bandit for his birthday this year. He got a new bike, tons of puzzles, a desk and too many things to list. Thank you everyone!

Lola

For Hudson's Birthday Lola came out to visit. It was good to see her and Hudson loves his Lola! My mom also came out, but for some reason we didn't get any shots with her. You can see her in the montage below. Thanks to both grandma's for making Hudson's Birthday extra special. We appreciate you being here.

Happy 3rd Birthday!

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Here are all the photos from Hudson's 3rd Birthday. Some of the photos are repeated below. Hopefully you made it through all the photos, there are a ton. Happy 3rd Birthday Hudson. We love you!

More Birthday Pictures

The maracas.
Part of the Thomas theme.
Sombrero

Pete made some home-made banners.

We had several fiesta themed decorations hung through-out the room.

The cake. It was Thomas the Train pulling a freight car with a sombrero on top. Hudson insisted ont he Thomas cake. I had already picked a fiesta theme, so to tie the cake in we added the sombrero. We think it turned out well. This cake is from the same bakery we got our wedding cake from and Hudson's 3 birthday cakes so far.

Blowing out the candles.

The birthday boy in his Sombrero.

I love this picture of Ethan.

The two amigas, Anika and Krystal.

We had 2 games. This was the first, pin the tale on the Donkey. The kids thought it was pretty fun.

More Birthday Pictures

The pinata!
Getting ready to pull the strings. No whacking with a stick. Too bad, maybe we could have got a good video of Pete getting hit in the groin with a stick. :)

Each kid got to pull a string until the candy came falling down.

The loot!

The party guests, Erin.

That's Evy under there. So cute!

Ethan rocking his sombrero.

Hudson's 2nd Haircut

Hudson had is 2nd haircut on 6/6/09. He had to look nice and cute for his 3rd Birthday Party. Don't worry we won't post pictures every time he gets a haircut. :)

Before

After