St. Louis Pumpkin Brew 5K

Last weekend, I took a quick trip back to St. Louis to see some friends.  All by myself.  Traveling by myself was easy and painless.  But I felt like I was always forgetting something or someone.  And it was quiet.  LOL.  I had a great time.  

First of all,  I love St. Louis.  Just look at this amazing arch.  Love it.

And I talked Kelly & Cheryl into doing this fun 5k race with me.  I had never ran with either one of them, so I was excited.

Kelly wanted to finish in around 30 minutes and Cheryl had set a goal of 28 minutes.  I was just excited to run.  So, we set off and ended up running a lot faster than originally planned, but I felt great.  Kelly was thinking bad thoughts about me the entire race since I told her not to bring her iPod and that I would talk the entire race.  Oops, sorry Kel.  We got separated at the start.  However, Cheryl got to listen to me talk for the first 2.5 miles.  Here is how I finished: time of 25 minutes and 28 seconds.  I came in 6th in my age group, 68th overall out of 438 people.  It was a pretty flat course and a lot of fun. 

After the race beer...YUM!

Then I met up with some of my favorite girls for margaritas and Mexican food.  What a great night catching up with everyone.

 Such a fun weekend catching up with friends and hanging out.  I sure missed my boys though.

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Good-bye St. Louis...

Connor enjoying his cheesecake dessert. Yum.

Cheryl and the kiddos.

Connor & Noah playing with puzzles and reading books.

Mady giving Dylan kisses. So cute and so sweet.

Kevin hanging out with Dylan.

Daddy & Dylan working the keg...way to go boys!

Well, we are finally all moved out of our house. It was a little hard to know that we will never see it again. We will miss so many things about it, but we have created many wonderful memories in that house. It was where we brought home both Connor & Dylan, it was our first home and the only home either boys have ever known. We spent several holidays there, birthdays, hosted baby showers, Bunco nights, BBQ's. and lots of family (and friends) visitors in that house. We were so excited to have found a wonderful home in a such a great neighborhood where we met some amazing people.

We had one last get-together with all our wonderful friends, people from work, neighbors, and fellow Cougs . We have been so blessed to meet such wonderful friends whom we have spent holidays with and have truly been our family.

This weekend we were driving on Hwy 40 and went past where Dylan was born (on the side of the road, of course) and the hospital where Connor was born, which is where we spent the first nights with the boys-it was a little sad knowing that we wouldn't be able to share that with them on a regular basis. But on the other hand, we are very excited to start our new adventure.

Good-bye St. Louis---we will miss you!

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