Jennibelle's Nineth

In a blink of an eye... she is NINE!!!

We had a surprise party for her last week... the 7 "Liounis" grandkids and 7 of her friends.  It was a good time!!!  And she was totally surprised!  She will be baptized next week, which she's been asking to do for a year now!  She is definitely a middle child... she wants to play with the older and younger kids and lives to entertain us all.  She and Jack are very close... in fact she is the only one he'll really fight with!   She can be "lazy" and will spend more time with excuses than it would take to do the actual work.  She wants to snuggle and love!!

Waiting with our mustaches...

SURPRISE!

Mandy said we look alike!

We had photo props and the girls literally took 500 pictures with me camera!
I love Cole's photobomb...

Poppop organized relay races and helped them pick the secret person...

These two...

My First Mud Run

Cerebrun 2014 

We did it!!!  Today was our first mud run... hopefully not our last mud run!  It was fun, new, challenging, and an accomplishment.  I am not in good shape at all... I tried P90X a few months back, but it didn't stick for more than 6 weeks (Imagine that!).  I was nervous about being the old, fat, out-of-shape lady, but it was a relaxed, fun time.  We teamed up with Brian and Karyn Kashian and their friends Roger and Kelly. It was held in Delta and the weather was perfect... high 70's and sunny with a nice breeze blowing.  The farm was HILLY!!  There were about 6 mental challenges... memorizing quotes, replicating a Lego design, carrying a bag of 13-17 lbs up a VERY large hill, etc...There were around 12 physical obstacle courses...  I did all of them except I was too short to get over the last wall.  They were physical but fun and I felt a great sense of accomplishment at each one.  Grant it... not all obstacles were done exactly as they were planned.  Instead of trying to swing on the 20 monkey bars across the mud pit, I had Jason help me climb on top of them and then crawled across.  There is no way I could have done half of the obstacles without Jason.  Because we were in a group, we ended up walking more than we actually ran.  It took almost 3 hours to complete the course. Some bizarre running man was telling me that he took second place, finishing in 1 hour and 15 minutes.  I'm proud of us.  I went out 2 nights go and bought us spandex outfits from Walmart that we could trash after the race, but we've had no rain for a week, so the race was more of a "dirt run".  We'll save them for our next race!