Air Quote Crawling Air Quote

Here's Reagan's current mode of transport. She's been doing the exact same thing for a week. Also still doing her Pilates with a side of rocking back and forth on her knees.

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Come On Ride That Train

Over Thanksgiving, we took Britton and Reagan to Stone Mountain, which is a local attraction that I grew up going to over the summers, mostly to see nightly the laser show.

The "theme park" has grown since I was a child (now costs a whopping $27 to get in), and Christmas is one of the best times to visit. We rode the train, which has a real conductor and circles the mountain. Britton was in total heaven! I wish we could've made it back, but don't worry, Britt's overwhelming excitement convinced us to buy season tickets, so now we can go for the next 12+ months.

Here are a few pictures. It started raining just after dark, so we didn't get to sit on Santa's lap. Oh well...there's always Bass Pro for that.



















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Location:Stone Mountain Park, GA

Baby Pilates

No, if you wonder, I don't usually subject my children to naked pictures, but it makes this that much funnier.

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Rock N Roll Savannah 2011

I haven't blogged about this too much, but We Are Marshall has been in training for my first half marathon and Justin's first full marathon for the last few months. Justin has done countless 4am wake up calls, and I've run just about any time I can fit it in (treadmill at gym, with single or double jogger, early morning weekends) to train for the big event. We figured if we were going to do it, we'd better do it right and try to be competitive. I followed Hal Higdon's Beginner Half training program, and Justin followed the full training program plus some additional cross training.

We traveled to Savannah, along with the Foxworthy family, Ashley and Mike, and my mom and stayed in an awesome beach house on Tybee Island. The Shaws (Justin's boss) and the Chalmers also went along and stayed down the road. Our entire group has been bitten by the running bug over the last few years, and all of us trained pretty darn hard for this race. Justin, Adam, and John ran the full, and the rest of us ran the half.

I'm not going to bore y'all with every single detail, but this entire weekend took a ton of planning (let's just say nursing a baby and being gone for 8+ hrs to run 13.1 miles is not exactly something I'd recommend for comfort), but we pulled it off perfectly. Everyone was SUPER happy with their run. Based on my training, I knew I could probably break 1:55, but I felt awesome during the race and went 1:49. Justin, who had many of his long training runs in this Florida heat go horribly, surprised even himself and went 3:51. Adam pulled a 3:12 (that's like 7 min miles PEOPLE!) out of his butt and almost qualified for Boston.

Justin says he's officially DONE with Marathons (it's really the training that sucks the most), but we both agree that half marathons are something that we'll keep on the calendar a few times a year. I think we both have a lot to live up to compared to the first time euphoria, but we'll see how it goes!

Here are some pics from that weekend. After all was said and done, I realized Justin and I didn't even get a picture together. I'll blame it on him...he was way to nervous pre-race, and way to sweaty post-race...

Ashely and me about an hour before the race (it was FREEZING!!!!)

Ashley and I post race (she went a PR 1:58!!)

Reagan was 6 months old that day!

Sitting like a big girl (and yes I forgot the seat cover...)

Attempt at a family picture on the porch of our beach house...

Halloween 2011

We had a great Halloween this year...Justin didn't have to travel and the weather was beautiful. We have a wonderful neighborhood that is very family oriented, so Britton was Mr. Friendly with all of the kids and parents. Reagan is going through a "thing" (she goes through lots of "things" these days), and she refused to sit in the stroller, so we basically used it as a candy holder for about 90% of the night.

Britton was "Whitning McQueen" as he would say, and Regan was a cougar (found on clearance rack, but turned out cute). Here are some of our favorite pics from the night.

With Dad...

With Mom (like my Walmart fall decor??)...

The stroller lasted about 5 minutes...

On the Move...

My sweet little kitty...

Scouting out future prom date...

Gotta love the houses that leave the full bowl out for the taking (even dad go in on that action)!

Which one to choose first?

Such a girl, already going after the chocolate

We only hit up about 25% of the houses, can you imagine what heaven I would have been in if I'd made Britt go longer?

And she's done...

Reagan Can Sit!

Reagan has been doing the tripod sit for a while, but she's finally looking more in control of herself this weekend! This is just about the first glimpse of a real sit we've seen.

October (so far) in pictures

Not up to too much these days. Can you tell we spend a lot of playtime in our family room on that UT blanket? It's like my adult lovie...makes me feel safe, haha. Here are some favorite pics from the last few weeks.




Random Japanese food from Aunt Courtney




I think Ray Ray looks like Aunt Ash in this pic




Being sweet (rare occasion for a 2 year old boy)




Watching Saturday morning cartoons




Game day in a be-dazzled romper.




Bad self portrait, but wanted to show my new 'do (Reagan is glued to GameDay).




Self-explanatory




Park time, pretending to be all nice.




I just loved this outfit, do they make it for 30 year olds?




We make him stand like this 4 hours a day (kidding people!)




He really looks more like this 4 hours a day...




BUMBO!!




Soccer practice (discipline early y'all!!)




Her "cute" face (and chubby arms).




Just a little lovin'...

Almost makes our life look easy-peasy, right??

8 am Dance Party

Typical Nick Jr morning for We Are Marshall. Britt's working on his dance moves.

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Fun with Far Away Friends

We just got back from a week in Atlanta, of which I will attempt to write about at another time, but I just had to post this cute picture of lunch with Jenny, my best friend from college.

I know you read the blog from time to time Jenny, so I just wanted everyone to see how adorable your little family is, and how much it means to me that you can take some time out of your crazy life to spend with us. I highly doubt I'm qualified to judge, but you are a fantastic mom!

Pictured from L to R...Justin, Britton, me, Reagan, Benjamin, Jenny, Jason.

Happy hump day folks.

Caught in the act

Been trying to catch Ray Ray rolling for weeks. She's getting good at getting herself up on her hands. Here she is today...

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Spread 'Em

Just had to post some funny picks real quick. My happy baby loves grabbing her toes. Her thunder thighs are too chunky, however, to get her toes in her mouth at this point.








And one more since she was in such a happy mood this morning...



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These are a few of my favorite things

Been slacking a little with blogging. I had to get a new phone this week and re-download everything. A gigantic thanks to Apple for actually having great customer service and giving me a free replacement...I dodged a huge bullet there.

Reagan is obsessed with her new Sophie Giraffe. I read about it on a few other blogs I follow and decided to splurge and buy it for her ($18 baby chew toy, what??!!). It was a great investment though.









And Britt wanted a piece of the action...




Reagan also is a big time thumb sucker (as noted before). She's taken to a lovie that our neighbors actually gave to Britt as a newborn. It's a cow, and she loves to pull him to her face while she goes to town on her thumb. (Sorry for the sideways pic, I'll try to remember to fix when I'm not posting from my phone.)





Happy Labor Day weekend!

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