Pumpkin Carving Time!

 Joe and the kids did the annual pumpkin carving activity...

...while I bathed Hannah.

After some dental reconstruction, this pumpkin turned out pretty well!

Good work!
Side note- That thing next to Rachel is her soccer trophy that she slid into the picture.  She's pretty proud of it.

Half Marathon

Last Saturday my friend, Megan, and I did the Cincinnati Half Marathon.  We made a family trip of it and stayed in a hotel with a pool (with a broken heat pump:().  I think the kids had a lot of fun, especially hanging out with Megan's kids.

We walked around the city the night before.  It was beautiful!  Rachel took all the city pictures.  These are actually from right after the race.

Megan and I before the race in our winter running gear...It was cold!

The guys brought the kids to the 4 mile mark right outside the hotel.  That was convenient...

...especially for getting rid of some of our warmer gear.

Unfortunately the finish line wasn't as close to the hotel and the guys had a rougher time getting the kids there so this is us 20 minutes after we got to the finish line:)  Apparently I'm just as bad as my kids at looking at the camera.  Thanks to Joe and my family for supporting me while I was gone on long runs and Megan for being my running buddy! 

Another Salato Trip

Rachel had fall break last week so I tried to make it fun by going to the Solato Wildlife Center.  We had a lot of fun.

All the kids by the bison exhibit.

Lincoln started talking to the deer below and this is what he said in his 3 year old, labored speech, "Hey!....Aminals!... What you doing down there?  Come up here!"  He made some high schoolers around us laugh with his conversation with the animals:)

You know it's a good trip when the kids falls asleep on the way home. 

Off to the Races

 We wanted to experience the Lexington culture so we went to the Keenland horse races.  It was interesting to see how everything worked.  It was a beautiful day.

This was the first horse we routed for.  We picked based on his name but it turns out that wasn't a good tactic.  He got dead last.