Rugged Maniac

Thanks to these two who ran (or climbed) it with me. Not sure what I was thinking other than "It's only a 5k, I can do that no problem!" Well... I've never done a 5k, UP HILL. When I say up hill, I mean, this was at a ski resort, so up hill really means a 45 or more degree angle up hill. That is definetly what sucked about the race. I was worried about the ice cold water but it wasn't too bad.

 



Crawling Tunnels- This one we went down a tunnel into a mud pond that we had to crawl in because there was barb wire above us. Then we had to crawl back up the tunnel. Luckly there was a rope to help us, not sure I could have made it with out the rope.

 

Balancing Maniac- This one we walked over a pool of water balancing on a 2x8. Jason had a mis hap with this one and was cleaned off for just a minute or two.

 

Cargo Climb- This was climbing over a cargo net. It was pretty tall but it was easy enough.

 

Manic Baracades- There were several of these. Most were pretty easy but there were two that if we didn't have Jason to pull us up to the top, not sure I would have made it. It was jumping on top a 4x4 and balancing enough to grab the top of the baracade. I couldn't balance without the help.

 

Tire Jungle- Pretty easy, running in tires on the ground while dodging tires swinging.

 

Prometheus Leap- This was jumping over the fire. We thought about hanging out there for a bit to warm up.

 

Rugged Rope Ascent- We could only get over that hill by pulling ourselves up with a rope.

 

There were several more, mostly more baracades and lots of crawling in mud, some with water waste deep and others just enough water to made it so muddy you got stuck with every step. 

My battle wounds. They don't look so bad in the picture but they are even swollen. They will be really pretty in a day or two. I didn't even know I had bruises until I went to Mom and Dad's to pick the kids up and thought, "my shins hurt"... There'd be a reason!

 

It was a fun day but if I ever think I want to do it again, someone remind me that it needs to be in Western Kansas!!!!

Pumpkin Patch

This is the pumpkin patch near Hiawatha. It's much more geared toward littler kids but they have a lot less than good ol' Renyers. So, both are good, just different stuff at each of them. The kids love this little air plain but by the time Lillian got on it, they left.


Since the Will is old enough to kinda do his own thing as long as someone is keeping an eye on him, I stayed with Lillian... This is why most of my pictures are of her. Sorry Will!


Logan and Will.


This girl, loves to color. She sat there painting that pumpkin for well over an hour. AND.... SHE SPEAKS! I asked her to repeat me with the colors and she said, yellow, blue, and green. I couldn't get her to say red but I was floored she said that many words!


Painting a goat. I'm sure most of them were half yellow by the time Lillian was done with them!


I love the colors of peacocks. They are so gorgeous!


Feeding the ducks... See those green buckets? I think the ducks got 4 bucket fulls of corn! There good for a week!




This boy, could play on this for an hour! Especially if he had a dump truck...



These are just from this week, she found this outfit I have gotten for pictures, that I have yet to take her 18 month pictures (and she's well over 19 months now) and she wanted to wear it! So she did.



I thought this was her own doing. After I took the picture, Will advised me that it was him to blame for this. God bless washable markers!


And I only got one word on video so proof she speaks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVUB9XLgJek

Hi there!

Here's a fact... I don't blog when I'm in a bummed out mood...

Might be why I haven't had a blog post for a month! Sorry about that. October is even my favorite month out of the year! It's just been kinda bla. I didn't have much to say at the end of September and then October came and my Grandpa Strahm died. He got an infection and after a week and a half took him off of everything to see how he would do and he passed that night. That certainly doesn't make people in a good mood now does it?! So, I thought I'd just drop by and say HI! I haven't forgotten about you and I will post more in the coming weeks. I promise! Until then, here's my adorable matching children the day of the funeral. Since they were dressed so cute and matched, I tried my best at getting a picture of them. They were not enthused about it, but we got a few smiles.