It's beginning to look a lot like...

well, Thanksgiving anyway. No snow on the ground by Halloween, but close.

Monday

• 7 mile run at lunch with Joe, Todd, JVD and Eric. Faster paced run today.


• Lilly and I built a fort to hid in when mom came home.


• Holly took Lilly to her first "Abrakadoodle" art class at Franklin Elementary. Lilly found a friend Lexie and they had so much fun they didn't want to leave. Lilly brought home some modeling clay - "it's like silly clay!" Here's the artist and her work:
  
  
  


• Holly rode the trainer so I joined her on rollers for a half hour. It really loosened up my legs from all the running I've done as of late.

Tuesday

• 7 miler at lunch with JVD, Eric and Nelson. John started fast and it was a decent pace the whole run. Eric and Nelson said, "See ya later," about 3 minutes into it.


• Lilly likes jumping on the bed also:
  
  
  
  


• We had Jacob and Amelia over for a while after dinner. The kids were more interested in jumping off of the table into the Jumpoline rather than checking out the awesome Lincoln Log house I built. :)

Wednesday

• Reading buddy.


• It was "safety day" at Lilly's swim class. They talked about water safety and even had them jump in the water with sweatshirts on to simulate what it'd be like to fall in with clothes on:
  
  
  


• Talked a little more to Mike W at swim. He said there's always a lap lane open if I wanted to do some laps while Lilly is in class. Cool.


• Holly went for a run (after dinner in the dark) and felt pretty good.


• I took Boo for a walk. They've started dredging out the Rum River. Next summer we'll be able to take our boat up to the docks in downtown Anoka. Certianly a novelty since we can walk there in 5 minutes.

Thursday

• 7+ mile run at lunch w/Todd, JVD and Eric. (48:50)


• Read to Lilly's preschool class. Olivia and Hungry Hen. A little bit of a surprise ending in the last one when the hen eats the fox.


• My own mini duathlon. Rode 1hr on rollers, ran 4 miles. (1:25)

Friday

• 8 miles at lunch w/Joe, Todd, Eric C, Eric H, JVD. J, J and J (me) took the longer loop to make it 8. Eric lost his watch.


• Rode for an hour to Harry Potter with Holly. She did two hours. Good for her!

Saturday

• Ran to the dam and back (13+ miles). The dam is closed so I did the Anoka side there and back. Good run. Listened to Greg Boyd sermons for most of it.


• Worked in the yard. Finally got all the leaves up. And cleaned out of the gutters. The kids "helped" for some of it too.
  
  Tackle her!!!
  
  
  Huge leaf pile!
  
  
  In lockup.
  
  
  Hailey is under the tarp. She thought it'd make a good parachute. It didn't. But she still liked jumping.
  
  


• Had dinner, played puzzles, drank some wine, watched The Illusionist and went to bed.

Sunday

• 2nd time at Mt Olive


• Lilly and I rode a lap in the park. She was bundled up in the trailer. The trailer makes me work hard and go slower which keeps me warm. My fingers and toes were cold by the end (and so were Lilly's). Some cocoa helped.


• Lilly and Holly went to the library and bowling while I stayed home to work from home and to cook beef stew. When they got home we were all working on a computer. I was working, Holly was doing foundation stuff and Lilly was playing PBS Kids. She looks like she's ready for an office job:
  
  
  


• The stew was great! Lilly wasn't. And neither was dad.