Portland Shamrock 2018

On March 18, I ran in the Portland Shamrock Half Marathon.  I think this is my 3rd or 4th year running the half since they started it.  The weather wasn't horrible.  It was cloudy and cool, but it didn't rain, and it was a little sunny by the end of the race.  I set out to try to beat my time from 2 years ago.  Now that I am running with my new watch, I can gauge my pace a little better.  I started out keeping on pace through the first half of the race.  But it's the second half that gets challenging because of the hills.  I fell a little behind pace, but I thought it might still be close.  As I came to the finish, I thought I was a minute over my desired finish time.  And when I was done, I thought I had not beat my time from 2 years ago.  But when I got home and checked the time to beat again, I realized that I had beat my time from 2 years ago by almost 2 minutes!  I had remembered the wrong time or something.  I was very excited about my finish.  Now on to the next run!

Weekend at the Beach

A few weekends ago, we went to Manzanita with our friends Hannah, Ryan, Genevieve and Everett.  We rented a house there, not too far from the beach.  The kids had so much fun playing in the sand.  We enjoyed walks on the beach and walking through town.  We even had some nice weather.  It was a nice relaxing weekend.

Genevieve, Daniel, Sam & Everett

Hannah & I

All of the Kids

Jeff, Ryan, Hannah & Simon

Cup Stacking 2018

This year for cup stacking, all 3 boys qualified to be in the final competition.  This was Daniel's 4th year being in the competition, but it was Sam and Simon's 1st year.  We were all very excited to see all 3 of them compete.  And although Sam and Simon didn't get a medal or trophy, we were very proud of them.  Daniel did win the competition for 6th grade.  Here's a look back.

All 3 Boys After Competition

All of the students from the competition

Daniel receiving his trophy