A day at the beach

Sorry, Abbie. You had to work, but we had FUN!

Chase's Portland-To_Coast Run

Chase ran a good race. He was car sick on the last leg, but ran anyway. Endure to the end? His team took 1st place in the High School Portland-To-Coast Challenge. There were 50 High School teams! Needless to say, he was a little spent when it was over. He crossed the finish line around 8:00 a.m. then spent the day at the beach. The race took 14 hours to complete a distance of 126 miles. His mile average pace was under 6 minutes, the team pace was 6:36 per mile. GOOD JOB!

Garden Update!

Just so you all can see...here are the fruits of my brother's labors! We are actually getting a lot of stuff from our garden this year. And our trees are starting to produce fruit. In fact, just the other day, my dad had me try this stuff that was like an odd, small, watermelon tasting thing...it turned out to be a fig from our fig tree. Real figs taste much better than fig newtons, that's for sure.

Portland to Coast

Today is the day! Chase and some members from his cross country team are running the Portland to Coast marathon. He left today at 4:00 pm and will arrive in Seaside sometime tomorrow. He really does enjoy running and is really quite good at it. This will be the second time he has participated in this run. Last year his team took 6th out of the whole race, which is really good considering they had one team member who had the stomach flu the whole time they were racing. He runs the last leg of the race so everyone is going to Seaside to watch him cross the finish line...except me because I only found out three days ago and now I have to work. : ( Not fair. But I hope they take first place! This is a picture of them before they left for their race...we'll see how it turns out afterwards....

Sugamo Girls

Well our friends Tomone and Moemi left on Monday. It was very sad because we had become very good friends over these last couple of weeks. We have their addresses and stuff though so we'll be able to stay in touch. They are in Disneyland right now and then tomorrow they go to Universal Studios and then on Wednesday they go back to Japan. We had a really good time with them.

Ian's Broken Arms

Well...we must say Ian is sure a big dork!!! This week he was running through a field at night, and then tripped over a curb and ran into a wall...breaking both of his arms. And nobody felt bad for him at all because he had just been making fun of a boy we know who broke both of his arms on a bike. He said, "How could he break both of his arms on a bike?". And we said, "How could you break both your arms running into a wall on your feet?". We don't feel bad for him at all. : )