Mike's marathon and other events

It has been quite a while now since I've posted. There have been plenty of things to write about, but I either wasn't in the mood (pregnancy hormones), or because our computer was broken for a while. I will report on our most recent events and get back to other ones later.

I'm not going to post any pictures until it's finished, but we've been spending a lot of time lately on finishing our large attic bedroom for the boys to move into, hopefully this Sat.

This past Sat., Mike ran a marathon in Maryland on the rail trail. He did really well. No qualifying times for Boston yet, but better than his time last year at Baltimore. We saw him at mile 22 and he looked good. He came right when he said he would be there-I was so excited.

This is him running into the finish.

On Monday, Mike and Hayden were off school and Mike and I had scheduled the day to put up chair rail in the attic bedroom. So while we were doing that, Hayden prepared a family home evening lesson. It was about the Christmas story, and he had props for all of us to dress up and act it out. He did such a good job. He had pictures, a book on the Christmas story, and had everything planned out. Mommy was Mary (of course-and a very pregnant one!), Hayden was Joseph, Daddy was an angel, and Connor was a shepherd. It was a great family night.

Then yesterday I had an appt. at the hospital to get the baby turned around because it was breech (it was actually feet first which isn't great for natural childbirth). I really don't want to have a c-section. Thankfully the procedure was successful and short-it was very painful. Two doctors pushed and pulled on my belly, one grabbing the head, the other grabbing the butt. They gave me medicine to stop contractions. Most likely the baby will not turn around again. Other than that I am still doing pretty good, a bit slower and fatter these days. Being at the hospital yesterday got us really excited. Only three weeks left!