5k

Back in March when we had nothing to do Colin started running with me a few times a week. He started out only running once around our small neighborhood but now we are up to 6 miles. It’s been fun having a running buddy to talk to as we run. Even when I’m dying because he sets the pace at a much faster run than I’m used to. But we are getting faster every week. 

I ran the Oscar Smith 5k last year and signed up the entire family to run it virtually this year. Joel and Brent trained together at night. 

Holly and I have been running together every Sunday since March which has been greatly needed for my sanity! So we decided to run the race virtually together. 

Norah and Emeline biked it and set a pretty fast pace.

Hollys parents were at the finish line with ribbon. We then took all the kids to Rita’s for Italian ice. The next morning Norah slept until almost 10am! All that biking wore her out. 

Instead of medals they mailed us masks which are actually more useful than a medal. 

Pool

The best thing we did the summer was join a pool about 5 minutes away. We had bought ocean breeze passes back in December but decided to defer those until next summer after the governor closed their slides. 

So the pool was perfect.  And even better was the fact that my co leader for Girl Scouts was a member so we met a lot at the pool this summer. 

We will definitely be joining again next summer. 

 

First week

We met some friends at the beach last weekend to celebrate surviving the first week of school. We are trying to hold onto summer as long as possible. And also needed to get out of the house. This virtual schooling schedule keeps us home bound all day long. We all prefer the loose schedule they had back in the spring. But we are slowly getting into our new routine. 

After a week of cloudy skies and rainy weather the sun was greatly needed.

I think it was Joel who told me last week that even the skies are sad for all the school kids that week! Ha! 

I think that might be our last beach day for awhile of actually getting in the water. Fall weather has arrive and as much as we like having windows open and cool evenings I think we’d all like a few more weeks of summer back. 

 

Beach days

We didn’t make it to the beach as much as I thought we would but we had a few families we would meet for some fun beach days. 

 The bay sunsets never disappoint 

For Christmas I got a paddle board so that has been a fun addition.

We made it to Yorktown beach a few times. That’s my favorite place to paddle board. 

Getting ice cream at first landing beach looks a lot different this year.

If the kids want to go far on the paddle board I have them wear a life jacket. I think we are the only ones wearing life jackets on our paddle boards but do you see Colin? He’s inside the black circle. I don’t worry about them and they have the freedom to go as far as they want. So they prefer wearing the life jacket.

Ant Ant joined us at Yorktown beach too. 

We hope to get a few more beach days in this year before winter.