2013 Virginia Run Turkey Trot

Chip, Emily and I braved some freezing temperatures on Thanksgiving morning to run in the Virginia Run Turkey Trot.  We were pleased both by our times, and that nobody arrested us or threw us out of the race as a result of Chip's driving.  Out of 3,223 runners, here are our times and places:

Dave 26:15, 643rd overall
Em 26:15, 647th overall
Chip 26:50, 738th overall

Not too shabby!  I did especially well in my "old guys" group.

Here is a post race pic of the three of us:

Me enjoying some post race refreshments.

Thanksgiving Day 2011

Random pictures from the day's festivities







The Chefs!

Turkey Trot 2011

So the family traveled to the JC this year for Thanksgiving. Donna and Jonathan came up from Knoxville, while the NoVa crew came down for a long weekend. A few of us braved the early morning chill on Thanksgiving day to participate in the Turkey Trot 5K in downtown Johnson City. Here are some pictures from the event (it should be noted that Emily, Lily, Caroline and I were the 6th stroller to finish the race....unfortunately we had to replace the wheels on the stroller after the race because we went so blazin' hot fast that they melted off!)

What's up Kappa?

Caroline was psyched out of her mind!

It may have been a little early for Lily.....

Two beautiful blondies!

Yep, definitely a little early for Lily.

The action shot! I clipped a guys heel with the stroller shortly after this...but come on, if you're letting a double stroller pass you when you were lined up ahead of us as a "6 minute mile"....whose fault is it really!?!?

Getting the hardware for being the 6th stroller across the line!

Lil' playah.

The whole crew that day.

Chip and Ashley (and Number 2)

Week 19: Thanksgiving

With a work schedule that I've been handed the last couple years, it has made us acknowledge that Thanksgiving is about just that, no matter which day you celebrate it (though I think working turkey day 2 years in a row is quite enough, thank you).
So we ended up having our 'Thanksgiving' on Saturday which was nice to have a little time to prepare and get a little shopping done in between (very little shopping, but successful nonetheless!)

The turkey Caroline is sitting with was made by my mom's mother ('Nonie' is what we called her.) We lost her many years ago, but she was lovely and I have nothing but warm, loving memories about her. The dress Caroline is wearing is the one she came home in from the hospital, it fits her perfectly now. It seemed appropriate as she is nothing but a blessing to us.




Lily was such a help in the kitchen this year. Luckily the dressing required a lot of crumbling of cornbread and biscuits...and I can't think of a better 'crumbler'! She loved every minute of it.



She also gave me a little help with my dessert...she was so excited to put her apron on. She was such a cutie-pie.


The spread.

The 'fam.'



'Classic' Lily set to help Daddy put up the lights.

Giving Thanks for Turnips?

Early this fall, Bob Mahan talked me into planting some turnips in the garden. We'd had fun with the pumpkin patch this year, and I'm confident I'll do better on the timing next year (one pumpkin actually did make it from July through November). Anyway, Bob said that his girls loved pulling the turnips out of the ground. Well, of course I labor under the delusion that Lily actually likes gardening as much as I do and would like to pull turnips. And to some extent, when we pulled the first of them today, she did! Now the challenge is finding out how to eat them....anyone got a good turnip recipe?

Family Pictures

Since Emily had to work today (second year in a row, but at least we're all well this year) we haven't really had our big Thanksgiving celebration yet....that will be Saturday with the Harkeys. But we have had some fun this week in anticipation of the holiday, and of course fun always follows Gran and Uncle Jonathan to town. Here are some pictures from the week.

Daddy's girls being cute and goofy.






Blowing bubbles out front.






Looking for a cozy place to take a nap....


Doing a little cooking in the kitchen with Gran....well, actually it was more of eating the ingredients while Gran tried to use them for cooking...

Thanksgiving in Knoxville