On Oct 7, Nyia is 7!!!

I got a call yesterday morning.  It was Nyia who was thanking me for the birthday card and the $7.00 that was in it.  She also told me it was going to be a great day - she and her mom had made delicious cookies that she was taking to her school.  We talked a bit and then I thanked her for calling me.  She thanked me for answering the phone.

Looks like it was a great day after all.

We did it!!!

Olivia and I finished our first 1/2 Marathon...13.1 miles of it!! 

  It was fun - a statement I never thought I would make about running,
let alone running anything beyond 400 meters! 

Beautiful day -could not be more perfect. 

Flat course - mostly. 

A lot of things to see and, therefore, distract you from doing what you are doing -

which is running an ungodly distance. 

And, then...

there is the finish line

ah sweet finish line. 

O did it in 2:35

I did it in 3:00

both of us did it faster than we thought we would.

Crystal and Roger were there at the end
which made the finish line even sweeter.