Kaczmarek's

The Kaczmarek's hosted an "Activities Committee" Christmas dinner tonight at their home in Lago Vista. We had so much fun!

Will and Jackie

Lacey and Lexy

Caryn and Dean

Kate and John

White Elephant Gift Exchange!

It was cut throat.....

The steal.........

The look............

The last casualty...

Apples to Apples!

The "last night"

NO COMMENT!!!

...good times!...

Casa Ole

Terry and Randy took us out for a Christmas dinner at our favorite Casa Ole! We had a great time visiting with them and filling up on Tex Mex! The boys loved getting to open a Christmas gift early!!! Thanks so much!!

Marble Falls Walkway of Lights!

Let the taper begin.......

On Saturday, I finished the LAST long long long run before the actual race. Denise decided to change things up a little and we didn't run our normal route in our neighborhood. Instead... we dropped off coolers of water and gatorade on a HILLY country road between Marble Falls and Burnet. (Me, Denise, Courtney, Mendy, Wendy, Aimee, and Sherry were all there for the fun!!) We ran about twelve miles there and ten miles back.... Then Torry came and found us and gave us a lift back to our car. We had some watch difficulties, but we are sure we ran 22.5 miles, but it might have been 23 or more. All the way home, we were running into the strongest head wind I have ever experienced. The wind was so loud that I could barely hear my ipod. I forgot my sunglasses, so I was using my visor to block the sun.... but the wind was catching it and blowing it back...... grrrr!!!
This was a crazy, hard, hilly, exhausting, WINDY, long, fun run that I'm glad is OVER!! :)
Now I can taper until the marathon!!

Bethlehem

I'm late getting this on the blog..... but last Saturday, we met up with Nathan and Candace in Burnet for the annual Bethlehem experience! It is held the first two weekends in December. We have attended this event every Christmas since we moved to the area in 2001. The kids love going! Candace and Nathan rode a train from Cedar Park to Burnet. It was a perfect time to go because it wasn't really cold that night and we didn't have to wait too terribly long to get inside! Here are some of the pictures from the night...... I uploaded more to Facebook.... it takes longer to upload to my blog for some reason.