5K winner!! Plus some crafting ;)

Piercen participated in his Jr. High School's 5K race this week.  He was so excited that he woke up early several days last week to go down and run on the treadmill before school just to be ready.  He was nervous before the race, but excited.  Trent was able to work from home that day so he took a break and was able to come down to watch Piercen run with Maddie, Donsters and me.  There were a lot of kids running - including some really big 8th graders (that kids only an 8th grader??  SERIOUSLY??  Some of them are HUGE!).  We figured he'd do okay, but really didn't think he'd win.  The race course was just around the Jr. High school and field - 5 laps.  In order to prevent cheating they had to have their hands marked with a marker by a volunteer parent (it seriously slowed down their times - there's gotta be an easier way!!)  By the 2nd lap Pierce was in 3rd place, just behind another boy.  Then the 3rd, there he was just trailing the same kid, 4th - he was catching up.  We stood and cheered him on - letting him know how many laps he had left.  And while we were waiting we cheered on a bunch of his friends and other kids in our ward.  (I was suprised that there were NO other parents there to watch - just those who volunteered.  Kind of sad really!)  Then on the last straightway of the last lap we were screaming and cheering and Pierce sprinted and overtook the boy who was in front of him - totally blowing the kid out of the water!  It was FANTASTIC to see him do his best!  The only kid that beat him was one of those gigantic 8th graders...  He came in 2nd overall and 1st for the 7th graders  -   I'm so proud of him!!  Pierce had tons of friends come over to congradulate him.  It was fun to see Pierce in a different atmosphere - he's such a good kid.  There's a boy who has NO other friends.  He is really geeky - not that I'm being mean or anything, I was able to hang out with him for a little bit - he's very immature for his age (asking Pierce if he watched and liked Garfield and then telling him all about the last cartoon he watched.)  Pierce is just a sweetie and takes the kid around with him while he talks to his other friends.  What a good kid- I wouldn't have done that at his age.

 While the boys were out last weekend camping Maddie and I had a girls night.  We made pumkins out of 2x4's - she had a BLAST painting and gluing.  We watched Letters to Juliet (cute movie) and did a make-over.  I put curlers in her hair (this pic is from the next morning).  We pained her finger and toenails, put on blush, eyeshadow, and lipstick.  She has asked every night since when we can have another make-over night :)

I found this fireplace at the DI - it was a little banged up so I painted it black (to match my decor) and destressed it.  I think I like how it turned out - I may end up staining it too - maybe.  The kids just LOVE sitting in front of it already :)  Well  - time to get Maddie going on something more productive then watching tv.  Luv yr guts!!