Capitol 10K

[Russell Posting] Today was Bryce's first race...the Statesman's Capitol 10k. This year happened to be the 30th annual one...so it was particularly crazy. About 18K people lined the streets of downtown to suffer through 6.2 miles of heat and humdity. The rain threatened, but managed to hold off. Normally that would be a good thing, but the weather was so gross the rain would probably have felt good. I pushed Bryce in the jogger and Paige ran with our friend Michelle (the blond below who isn't Paige). Other than the pictures to commemorate the event, the race itself was forgettable. Bryce was obviously unimpressed with my efforts to zip through traffic so he decided to take a nap. I wished he would have chatted or cried or something b/c when he was talking...it sort of acted like a horn and people got out of our way. Once he snoozed...it was back to bobbing and weaving. Paige and Michelle did great! They were both a little zapped at the end, but hung in there. Everyone was rewarded with sandwiches from Schlotzky's for lunch. Here are a few before shots...perhaps if the official race photos turn out, we'll get some action shots.

Happy Birthday Papa!

Papa was 81 today and we went to my parent's house to celebrate.

Holy Crap! It's a house!!!

[Russell Posting] Well...things move fast when the weather is good. Paige, Bryce, and I took a drive down to the new digs to see how things were progressing. Well, when they say the early parts go up fast...they weren't kidding. Geez...the whole frame is up, some of the roof is done, and well...it looks like a real life house. We were really happy to see how big the backyard will be. It's funny how the shape of the lot is different w/ a house on it. The rear elevation shows how high the foundation is...much higher off the ground than we though. So...the new idea is to try and add a deck or something off the covered patio. This way we get some more entertaining space...and more importantly, I don't have to trim any more hedges. Not sure if the descriptions will come through, but I wrote some descritpions if you go to the actual picture trail site, perhaps you can read them there. So...we're off and running. Since we had some rain early on, looks like we'll probably list our house the end of this month. Luckily, Paige has already started packing...and I've only had to take Bryce out of 2 boxes ;-)

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