I got an email the end of August for a 5k at the Great Park of Orange County and the sign up fee was half off. So I signed Christian and I up for the 5k (Dan was working so he couldn't do it with us). Here is Christian Finishing the 5k, his time was 30.30 which is really great especially since he ran by himself. I finished in 41 mins which was just ok!
The day of the race my Mom brought Megan and Ryan down to watch us and so I signed Ryan up for the 1k kids run he was so excited. Well after he had taken off (Christian ran with him) the announcer told us that the course was marked wrong so the kids were actually running a whole mile instead of the 1k which is about .6 of a mile. Ryan finished in 12 mins and was so tired!
I was so proud of Christian and Ryan for running so well. It was such a fun day, I really love watching the kids run and they love being involved in the race. We all got these cool medals and then they opened some of the rides at the Park for the kids to do so we went on the Carousal which Megan loved.
For the Mud Run it was Johnny and Jessica, a friend of mine Brittney and then myself. We were a four member team and our team name was Anna's Warriors. We had such a great time. I absolutely loved the obstacles and running through the mud. I would recommend everyone run a mud run at least once in your life. 
All clean and ready to begin
Here is Jessica and Brittney finishing the race.
Johnny at the rope swing with me right behind him.
Doing the rope swing.
At the end of the race all muddy and gross. I look a little cleaner than the rest because a huge fire hose sprayed me toward the end of the race.
A couple of weeks later Ryan started preschool. He loves it so much he goes to preschool Tuesdays and Thursdays and goes with his two buddies. Also he started taking a speech class at the elementary school on Wednesdays to help with pronouniation of words. He doesn't love being gone 3 days a week he wants to just stay home (like his Dad :) ) but it is really good for him and he has grown so much since he started.
While the boys are away the girls will play. I have loved having alone time with Megan it is so nice to only have one for a couple hours a week. She had a really hard time adjusting at first. For the first week she cried and screamed while we dropped Ryan off but she quickly got over that and now enjoys hanging out with her Momma!
Well Life took a drastic turn in August when we found out that My Sister Anna was diagnosed with Stage 3 Breast Cancer. She is only 34 years old this was not suppose to happen to someone so young. My Grandmother Garthe had breast cancer so we all knew that we could get it but I don't think any of us thought it would happen so soon and we were not expecting it to happen to Anna. She has a very aggressive type of cancer and luckily at the time they were doing a clinical trial so within 3 weeks of diagnosing her she was starting chemo and taking the additional clinical drug. She has to have 6 treatments of chemo every three weeks. It completely wipes her out it is so intense I don't know how she does it. As a family we have been able to ban together to be there through it all. We have made dinners, done grocery shopping, cleaned her apartment and been at all her doctor appointments. Through our faith in the Lord's plan and our prayers we have been able to cope with this life altering situation. 
Ryan was messing around and decided to try on Anna's Wig.
Afterwards they went to a burger joint called Ho Dad's that serves monster burgers. Christian said it was so cool!
Then about 2 Ryan woke me up saying he didn't feel good again and I found him completely swollen again and this time he had hives all over his body as well. So I quickly got dressed and rushed him to the ER. We checked in at 2:47am and by 5 they still couldn't get the swelling to go down. It was so miserable to see him like this and there was nothing I could do about it. They had given him 2 doses of benadryl had cold packs all over his body and even tried another antihistamine. So finally a pediatrician came in and said that he need a steroid to help him and lucking with in 20 mins of the steroid he was feeling and looking so much better so we were discharged at 6:30 with medication in hand. 
When Ryan and I got back from the ER he slept for about an hour and then he was feeling much better so the boys decided to go see the Queen Mary. I was still really tired so I kept Megan in the hotel with me and we watched a movie and took a nap. They had a great time and loved exploring the ship and seeing a submarine. I was so glad Ryan was feeling so much better and able to join them in the adventure.
