May Mayhem continues 18th- 25th

Saturday May 18th the girls and I volunteered with a group representing Girls on the Run handing out medals at the finish line at a race called: Women Run This City. It was super fun, but also super exhausting 7am-noon! Phew. 

That evening, four of us attended the Minnesota United soccer game. Isaac and Mary weren't interested so they stayed home. 

We'd bought these scarfs back in 2016 (?) after going to a united game at TCF bank stadium - before they built this stadium. Fun to get to finally use them at a soccer game again. 

Sunday morning I had a 10K run. I haven't ran this far since 2010! LOL but it actually felt GREAT! I ran with a neighbor friend, who was a little mad at me that I was running faster than she expected because she expected me to 'slow her down' as she said. ::eye roll:: 

 

 

Monday's I work a shift at a local yoga studio cleaning up in exchange for a membership!

We had a batch of baby bunnies in our backyard we worked hard to protect from Oakley. 

Tuesday, May 21st Isaac got his upper expander out and a new phase of braces started. No teeth brackets yet but rubber bands to work on his bite. 

Oakley loves his woof ball. 

Thursday morning run with a snapping turtle spotting:

Oakley got neutered this day as well, May 23rd. The rescue we got him from covered it, so drove him up north that morning to drop him off. 

The girls had their well visit that day. Emma wanted me to take a photo in the spot that I had taken a photo of her last year: 

Then we did a 'quick' errand to pick up Kyle's anniversary/Father's Day present. 

Girls back to school, dropped off the new kayak for Kyle then it was time to go pick up Oakley! Still woozy from the anesthesia. 

Oh and Isaac had his last track meet that evening: 

Friday morning view on the way to swim. 

Saturday morning bike ride before our weekend excursion. 

First week of October

October started on a Sunday with the Twin Cities Marathon getting cancelled! We weren't running in it but had planned to head down to the end of our alley to cheer them on as they ran by. We live right about the 3 mile mark for the marathon. Kyle and I were sitting in our room talking about it being cancelled and he was texting with a friend that was to run the 10 miler when we heard lots of commotion. We ended up going down to the lake and there were lots of runners still doing it despite it 'officially' being cancelled. We stayed out there for about an hour or so to cheer them all on, it was fun. 

Thomas officially has this biking thing down! Took one day of being on flat ground to figure it out, a couple more days to get small hills and now he's great (except later this month he broke his arm which put a halt to bike riding... but it's been cold so good timing. There's next summer)

{I'll try to add in a video of him biking later}

The Sunday marathon watching caused a bump in with my neighbor and the following day we started a commitment to run together two times a week. We go out on Monday and Thursday mornings. It's been GREAT! I've never been a fan of winter running... but I am doing a triathlon early June so I have motivation to keep up my endurance. 

Beautiful sunrise before our run. 

Girls had early math club at school, Kyle was traveling so I drove Isaac to school and Thomas and I had some time to kill before he needed to be at school. We got in an old-fashioned coffee date :-) 

Monday (or Tuesday) night dinner down the road from where Isaac had football practice. 

Wednesday soccer 

 

Thursday morning run. 

More bike riding

  

Oh and our summer bucket list, I'd call that complete. 

The moment we'd all been waiting for HAHA. Chief's playing the Vikings! Kyle got tickets for Isaac and us a while back. Isaac and I were actually sick leading up this weekend but were feeling better and wouldn't miss this game! We had a sitter for the younger three, but went out for brunch after church all together before the big day. 

Made it to the big game. 

 

Then slowly made our way up to the nose bleeds, lol. 

 

Such a nice day they had a whole side opened 

I had fun using the binoculars on my phone camera, lol. 

Great game, fun time!

Quick color shine for the Chief's win on the IDS tower <3