Baby Blanket

I have been busy lately making several baby blankets. It seems like everyone I know is pregnant. Here is one I finished a couple weeks ago.

My Birthday

This past Monday Josh and I celebrated my birthday. We went out to Olive Garden for dinner, and had cheesecake later that night. Josh gave me season 4 of The Office on DVD...

and these running shoes!

Hobble Creek Half Marathon

Back in May Josh and I decided to sign up for the Hobble Creek half marathon. Neither of us had ever participated in a race before and thought it would be a good place to start. I began training immediately but built up my distance too quickly and ended up pulling a tendon in my ankle. I was pretty bummed because I couldn't run for a month while my ankle healed. Josh didn't train very much because his brother let him borrow his road bike so most of his free time was spent riding his bike instead of running. By the time the day of the half marathon rolled around neither one of us felt prepared, but we did it anyway. We ran the first 4 miles together, then I couldn't keep up with Josh so he took off ahead of me. Josh crossed the finish line at 1:57:10 and I crossed at 2:06:22. We both ran the whole way and finished under our time goals.

Shooting

Monday Josh and I decided to go shooting one last time before he starts law school. We found a place up the canyon that was perfect for shooting, except we had to cross the river to get to the area. Josh was carrying all of our guns across the river when one of them got caught on a branch, causing him to lose his balance and fall in the river. He ended up landing on his handgun, and had to clean it before we could shoot it. Luckily he brought his gun cleaning kit.

Here are a couple items the previous owners left in the backyard of our home - we figured they would be perfect for target practice.

Here is another ham Josh got from his work that we decided to shoot

Shooting the ham with the shotgun (I slowed the video down to halftime)

The end result

Dinner With Friends

Last week I went to dinner with my friends Sara and Michelle. We were getting together one last time before Michelle and her family moved back to the east coast. It was a lot of fun to reminisce and laugh about old times.

Michelle and her daughter Isabelle

Me and Sara