Last Halloween Post

Unfortunately Halloween here was a pretty rainy day - and it gets dark here so early, so we took the girls to just a few houses on our street. They really liked it. At each door they would say "or treat." We are not sure where the trick went, but they focused in on the really important part - the candy. Which they LOVED! fortunately it was daylight savings time so the girls used that extra hour to burn off the sugar.

Life with Twins...

I think that this picture taken by my friend Renee sums up what life with the girls is like:

Halloween

Inspiration for the costumes (we have to go look at this everytime we go outside and of course frequently the bee is missing which causes great concern!):

Here are the girls in their Halloween costumes...

Halloweek

So I have totally gone overboard dressing the kids up in Halloween paraphernalia...I can't seem to help myself cause they look so cute!

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

We had a playgroup Halloween party on Thursday. Here are the girls with some of their friends: Ellie, Haley, and Lorelei. Then a final shot of Brooke who was being BEE-witching!

More Marathon

Riding the Metro...it was the girls' first time on public transport. They thought it was quite fun.

Cheering on the runners at mile 10....the girls were still excited and in good humor at this point.

The only picture of D actually running the race - he's the one in red turned around - this was at mile 16.

Walking to the finish line - the girls were exhausted!


Post race festivities - massage and photo ops

Best Week Ever...

for D. This Sunday he ran in the Marine Corps Marathon here in DC. The first 8 miles are pretty hilly and then for some twisted reason the finish line is also straight up a hill...to be honest, I was tired just walking to our various viewing locations. But I am digressing. This post is about D's best week ever.

D finished the marathon with a time of 3 hours 11 minutes and 48 seconds....so he reached his goal and qualified for Boston (for his age group you have to run it under 3:15)! So it looks like there will only be a tiny break in training as the Boston is in April (Stacy we will HAVE to see you then!!) He finished 399 out of 21,000 finishers. Crazy Good!

Here is D posing by his sad little Camry with his finisher medal (yes I made him do the photo shoot and poses!)



But wait....


Here is D posing by his shiny new Accord. That's right. The Camry is finally retired (seriously I would not even ride in it cause I didn't think it was safe - it had to go to 3 different stations, even after making repairs, just to pass inspection this year!!) Goodbye sweet gold trim!

Bathroom Remodel: Part 2

So time has passed and our bathroom is "finished." I use quotes cause it really isn't finished as the glass for the shower is on order and will not be in and installed until around Nov. 1. However, our contractor keeps talking about how they did a great job finishing on time. He is clearly insane as it is still not finished.

However, I am pleased to say that we are at least finished with the contractor. The atmosphere around here got a little hostile. With that said, the "finished" result is super nice. We moved the potty (clearly I have kids), got a larger vanity, moved the door, and took down the wall for the shower. The shower is supposed to be a frameless glass shower so the look will be pretty much the same as it is supposed to create an open feel.

Here are the pics:

Looking into the bathroom from the bottom of the stairs (outside our bedroom)Looking into the shower from above the potty

A close up of the vanity - there is a light fixture above the vanity that apparently did not make it into any of the pictures.