For the last 4 1/2 years I have worked nearly every weekend at the hospital. While I am able to be home during most of the week, I still feel like I'm missing out on a whole world of weekends. I can just imagine all of the magic and rainbows that occur while I'm sleeping all day and working all night.
Well, a few weekends ago I was able to spend the whole weekend home with my sweet boys. My adventurous husband ran a MARATHON! Yup, he ran 26.2 miles. He traveled to Logan,UT for the race and because of cost my kids and I stayed home. Jake did amazing! he ran the entire marathon in 4h 1min. I can't believe it! I would still be running when they were taking the cones and aid stations down. I really admire the work he put into the marathon. It was amazing to see how dedicated he was. He NEVER missed a training run, even when we were on vacation. Great Job Jake Baby!
Morning of the marathon. Probably around 4am. Jake ran it with his sister, Trisha. She did an amazing job as well!
After the marathon. They DID IT!!!!
Anyway, I wanted to tell you what we did while daddy was away.
The first night we were able to make our own pizzas. I love homemade pizza and it tasted especially good this night!
Rolling out the dough
From front to back: Braden's, Cami's, Jordan's pizzas!
Cooked and ready to eat!
After the pizza was polished off. You can tell that Braden enjoyed his! We also watched The Tooth Fairy together. Both the kids were asleep before it was over.
On Saturday morning we went to Miller Farms in Platteville. It's about 1h north of Denver. We had a really great time. They had these old cars made over to look like the Disney's Cars characters. Here's Tow Mater!
Sheriff
Lightning!
Doc Hudson
Someone else....
There were so many activities at this farm: animals to pet and feed, a bounce pillow, corn maze, enormous haystack to climb, tractor trikes to ride. It was amazing. Unfortunately, our camera stopped working (which I am still trying to fix) so I didn't get any more pictures after the animals. After all the activities we met up with the Rodericks (all 6 of them) and went on a hayride to pick all of our food. We came out with around 100 lbs of food. Potatoes, corn, tomatoes, carrots, onions, hot chilis, eggplant, and pumpkins. I am still working on getting everything ready to store. It was definitely worth it! I feel like the food was practically free!
It was a great time!
Hopefully there will be many more weekends like this in the future!
