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So last weekend I ran another 5K with Chelsea.  It was a little bit colder than we've raced in a while, although our first race, the frosty 5k was the coldest, but for some reason the cold on Sunday bothered my throat?  I slowed down at the only water stop and wonder if it helped or hurt my time? Would I have been slower not having the water?

But I am grateful I was able to do another race with...

Ah yes, finding things to be grateful for, I'm going to like this!
today I was grateful to be able to meet my daughter for lunch, vote,  pick my son up from school and get ready for the Bertram Weekend.  
 

I've seen this on several people's blogs and did a search for it myself.  There is a facebook page here and a blog here and I have so much to be grateful for.
So while I'm starting a few days late, one thing that is weighing heavily in the gratitude list is how grateful I am that Chelsea was okay from her accident.  I feel like so many times things have not had a good turn out for me, and this...

H is for Halloween and I can't believe its already here!  Next thing you know it will be Thanksgiving, then Christmas!

Here I go again with the mini books.  I've had this one for quite a while, got it when we were on our trip to the NOVI convention and was inspired by the stickers in the Work in Progress kit


I started it before Chelsea had gotten in the accident on a melancholy day thinking about Ryan, life, etc...

thinking about my dad and how he always told us "life's not fair"

and how fast life...

Who says its too early to start crafting for Christmas?  Certainly not me, especially when today I got inspired and had some time to play and made a couple of these mini's in no time!

I saw this post over at one of my favorite creative blogs Poppie paperie and decided to give them a try.  Her directions are awesome and they went together quickly!  

I can't wait to make more as gifts for...

Did you do it this year?  Either the project 365 or the Project Life from Becky Higgins?  I got one for myself this year and for my sister.  She is loving it and filling out those cards daily.  I'm finding it like another chore.  
I like doing the picture part and for the most part get a picture every day, but now I'm having a tough time writing about my day.  Trying to keep up with the...

Chelsea always got the talk from her father... "watch for deer" whenever leaving the house, so often she joked about it because she said according to dad its always deer season.
On Friday night after coming home to work a shift at Giant Eagle she headed back to college.  At almost 10pm when things were quieting down at home and I was ready to grab my kindle and do some reading the phone rang...
It...

Yep, we still do it!
It's an evening of family fun and this time Joel picked up the camera!




he did pretty good capturing the event, a fun night for sure!

All I wanted was everyone to safely carve their pumpkins since images of my sister cutting her fingers almost off years ago kept flashing in my mind...


Zach the artist had another idea of carving pumpkins!

G is for Ghosts    

a ceramic ghost I painted many years ago!