Snow Sisters

Snow Sisters

Sunday, November 13, 2011

The Speedway in Lights 5K

This year we heard about a 5K that actually goes through the Bristol Motor Speedway "Speedway in Lights" display. As two people who have always enjoyed running and are always looking for ways to entertain our children while we run, we were very excited about this event! As it turned out, however, CJ slept through most of the race, and Lily ended up running quite a bit of it herself!

Here is Lily and Emily getting psyched up before the start.


Caroline buckled in for the ride.


Lily did a nice job running in this race, there were several long stretches where she held her own!



While Lily was doing all that running, Caroline was doing some QC on the bulbs.


Some action pictures!



Heck yeah we took the turns hard, we're not afraid of the grade! Eat your heart out Intimidator!


This is the first race we've run where they had roasted marshmallows at the end. As you may imagine, Lily was a huge fan....though she got tired of the roasting part and took out her bag of marshmallows cold.


A family picture at the spot where you enter the speedway.

Monday, November 7, 2011

Billfest

Bill's formal inauguration as the 15th President of Milligan College was the last week in October. As part of the festivities (affectionately known as "Billfest") I arranged to have a speaker come deliver a lecture on campus describing the role that business and entreprenuership have to play in extending God's kingdom. Michael Miller of the Acton Institute came and delivered a talk that was well received by the students and business community. Here is a picture of the three of us following Michael's lecture.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Happy Halloween!

Lily enjoys not only designing our Jack-o-lantern each year, she likes to name it as well. This year, we'd like you to meet Zella.


Gran got to make it up for the festivities!


The architect and contractor showing off Zella.


We took Zella out front to put her in the porch decorations.



While we were working on the porch, we heard a noise coming from inside the house...


Caroline was getting excited about this whole trick or treat thing!


Big sister found an even bigger bucket that she wanted to take trick or treating. After we explained that all the candy would be Caroline's since it had her name on it, Lily went back to the pink jack-o-lantern bucket! In the process, however, candy did get left in this Caroline bucket, which is where Thatcher found the Tootsie pops that he enjoyed eating. My best guess is that he got through 3 before I figured out what he was up to.


Our annual trick or treating crew was looking good on Halloween!


A daylight view of the fall display on our front porch....tip for buying mums, get the ones that have lots of buds but haven't bloomed yet....and water them (go figure).


Our very pumpkiny front porch was quite popular with trick or treaters again this year. In fact, one nice family stopped to take a picture on our front porch because it was their little one's first trick or treat ever!


Glow on Zella, glow on.