TaeKwonDo

Owen continues to thrive in tae kwon do.  He’s earned his green belt, purple belt, and working towards his blue belt. He absolutely loves his classes and his teachers. It’s great to have been able to find something that he loves.

DisneyWorld

Nate and I got invited to Disney World with Travis and Beth Rood. We had talked about going together for the food and wine festival at Epcot and we actually made that conversation come to reality. The four of us flew down to Orlando and we spent three full days at the Disney World parks and one whole evening at Magic Kingdom for the Halloween event. Of course we had so much fun and got to spend a lot of time together to foster relationships and friendships. We designed our costumes for the Halloween event to be Alice in Wonderland characters. Travis and Nate were Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Beth was the queen of hearts, and I was Alice. We had a blast! The food and wine festival also was amazing. We went all around the world at Epcot and tried Snacks and drinks from each country.  Lots of fun!

Purdue Half Marathon & 5K

The high school cross-country coach planned to do the Purdue half marathon down in Lafayette. He decided to sign up the entire cross country team. A half marathon in high school! That is an incredible accomplishment. So we decided to make a family trip of it since Jaxton is in Lafayette as well. Cooper and Kayleigh ran the half marathon with the cross country team and their coach. Dawson Nathan and Owen, Nate and me all ran the 5K. 

Owen is such a funny guy, he wore crocs that day because he did not plan to run at all. He was not interested and not excited about what we were doing. Once he got there and there was so much hype and excitement at the starting line he flipped the switch and changed his mind. He wanted to run and took my bib number. Then he took off and I could not keep up. He beat me by far in the 5K and was so proud to have run in crocs and gotten a metal! Nathan got second place in his age group. 

Kaylee and Cooper did fantastic in the half marathon. Kaylee received second place in her age group. Cooper finished in one hour and 27 minutes. Kaylee finished in two hours and 12 minutes. Amazing accomplishments!