Fall Festival Run

Victoria is in the Sealston Running Club this year and she particpated in her first 1-mile Road Race as part of the King George Fall Festival 2012. She did fantastic. We are super proud of her. Her offical time was 9:20! YAY Victoria!

 

Off to a great start!

Coming back down the hill!

She sprinted when she saw us waving!

She could barely breathe but smiled wide!

Victoria was so happy to get her finisher's medal! YAY!

Fall Festival Parade

Victoria got to be in the King George County Fall Festival Parade with her Sealston Chorus Team. Temperance and I were super excited to watch her walking with their float and signing songs. Victoria had a GREAT time and loved being in the parade! I look forward to many more years of parade happiness! I even had the chance to take a quick photo of her walking (note I was taking real photos and video at the same time!!!). Enjoy!

 

 

 

The donkey totally made my day even better!!!! He was at the actual festival after the parade!

ALzheimer's Walk 2012

Victoria and I participated in the Fredericksburg 2012 Alzheimer's Walk. It was held at the University of Mary Washington. It was Victoria's first experience participating in a walk/run. I got super emotional several times.

 

 The yellow flower is Victoria's. It is for supporting someone who currently has Alzheimer's (Grandma Inman). The purple flower is for someone who has died from Alzheimer's (my Great Grandma Letts).

 We wrote on the flowers and then turned them in when we started the walk. The volunteer's "planted" the flowers into a garden and when we finished walking we got to pick our flowers and bring them home with us.

Alzheimer's Walk

I am doing the Alzheimer's Walk this year. Please pass the word along. I would like to raise at least $250. Here is the link to my page! I hope you can contribute as every bit helps.

http://act.alz.org/site/TR/Walk/VA-GreaterRichmond?px=6675386&pg=personal&fr_id=1772

Thank you all!

Fishing!

We went fishing last weekend down on the Rappahannock and Victoria was the only one to catch a fish! I was so super proud of her. She did a really great job and she even touched the fish when he was swimming in the bucket! Before Victoria came back from Texas, we went fishing with just Temperance and she caught 2 turtles. We didn't get a chance to photograph them though because they would release and fall off right before we could grab them. But here are two photos of Victoria and her fish!

Our Home!!!

Larry and I finally took the plunge and bought our first house.  It is beyond amazing. It is everything we wanted and even more than we thought it would be. We were truly blessed to get the house and we are thankful every day. We had an amazing realtor and the whole process was actually pretty smooth. I have to give props to Larry for picking the house, doing the hard work and making it all possible. As soon as we get Victoria back home with us, we will post a full family photo out in front. For now, here are some photos of us doing a little work on it and of course, the SOLD photo!

I spilled a soda in my lap on the way to VA to see the house. Ruined my phone but got this amazing photo. Hah

SOLD!

I was never so happy to take a photo as this one!

Larry changing out the door lock on the front door

Just us

Starting to paint in the living room

Larry re-painted our mailbox post and added the new numbers. It looks awesome.

Front of the house after yard work was completed

Living room after carmel color added to the walls

My double wall ovens!!! I LOVE THEM!

My cooktop. It is gas and I love cooking on it.

The dining room.  We are not done in there yet, but it is a great start!

Victoria's pool party blue room.

Temperance's sugar plum and purple room. She picked the colors herself!

As we continue on the house, I will be sure to upload more photos. At this point we are focused on unpacking and getting things together. I look forward to being in this house as long as possible. Larry and I not only love the house, but we really like our location.  King George is a great place to live and it will be a wonderful place to raise our family!

First Civil War Reenactment

This past weekend, Larry, Temperance and I went to a civil war reenactment. It was our first family outing here in Virginia, but we were missing one of our family.  Victoria is still in Texas waiting for 3rd grade to end so she can come join us in our new home.  It has been weird to not have her here.  There are so many things I want to show her and then I will remember she isn't with us. Temperance misses her the most though, she found a photo of Victoria the other day and started crying pretty hard over missing her big sister. Victoria will have a Temperance attached to her when she first gets to Virginia.

Anyway, back to the reenactment, it was actually really cool and I highly recommend attending one if you ever get the chance.  Everyone was in proper attire and the battle was pretty awesome.  Guns blazing, cannons roaring and horses charging. Possibly the coolest part was that Temperance enjoyed herself and had a really great time.

Temperance is a huge fan of the camera, but only sometimes.  Other times she refuses to have her picture taken.  I was happy to take her photos before heading out the door to the reenactment. Isn't she cute?