Everything Is Coming Up Roses......: November 2009

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

More Birthdays!!!

Vann turns 5!

Katie turns 9!

Rose family celebrating Jack, Beau, Katie, Vann and our cousin Griffin's birthdays

My sister-in-law Jana, made these great cake for the boys

Well, we made it through another year of the multiple birthdays in a row! We have a tradition of letting the kids pick out their breakfast so Vann asked for homemade chocolate chip muffins and Katie wanted pop-tarts. Works for me. We then celebrated all 4 of the kids who have had a birthday in the last three weeks along with my nephew Griffin, who shares a birthday with Vann. It looked like Christmas with the 5 of them opening presents. We are heading to Georgia today to celebrate Thanksgiving and some more birthday bashes down there too. May you all have a wonderful holiday with your families!

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Brian did the Half!!

Brian has been training for a marathon since last January, part of his bucket list. He has done a few triathalons and his next sight was focused on a marathon. Unfortunately, half way through his training he developed some type of hip/muscle pain that took him out of training for a little while. He almost scrapped the idea of running at all, but his hip began to cooperate(thanks to a little physical therapy from his #1 fan!) and he was back in the game for a half marathon. Our good friend Barry was also training too, and they ran the Indy 1/2 last weekend in the most gorgeous weather you could ask for in November. Brian beat his goal time of 2 hours and ran it in 1:57. We also got to stay at our friends' house over the weekend which was basically a giant slumber party and we had the best time! Brian is trying to convince me to run the 1/2 in Evansville in April and I am considering it....we'll leave it at that for now:)