Race for the Cure 2011

Awesome day for a race! 67 degrees, slight breeze and clear skies. The race was back downtown this year and the timed runners started at 7:30am.  The course was super hilly, a little long at 3.19 miles and had about 25 turns!  I thought I might die the first mile with all the hills, but I pushed through it. Overall an excellent race, I surprised myself and ran sub 9 min miles. :)  This was almost a new PR for me, my fastest race time for a 5K is 25:30 (8:18 pace). It was great to see Team Rack Pack out there supporting the girls and all the timed runners came in under 9 min miles!!

Avg pace: 8:28
3.19 miles in 27 mins

Mile 1 - 8:12, Mile 2 - 8:40, Mile 3 - 8:50, last 0.19 - 1:18 (6:52 pace)

Renee's Rack Pack 11/13/2011

The girls 11/13/2011

The Wurst Time

Everyone had the wurst time at Wurstfest.  Can you tell?  :)  Ry was just too cool for school and stole the show wherever we went.  My parents said it was much different now than the last time they were there - 25 years ago!

Salute to Sausage! 11/5/2011

Yum - potato pancakes!

Watching the dancers in the wursthalla

Daddy please!

I can drink this year!

Such a ham!

Fall Family Photos

My co-worker sent me an email back in July with a summer special for Kaoni Norris Photography.  I had just returned from maternity leave and figured this would be perfect for a family photo session!  We set a date for the beginning of October at Mayfield Park and we couldn't have asked for a more perfect day.  At first I was a little worried as we couldn't seem to get Ryland to smile, however Kaoni worked her magic and was able to capture some great shots!  Gorgeous!  Click on the link to view all the photos.

Family Pro Pics

10/1/2011

 

Happy Halloween from my lil pumpkin!

10/31/2011

9th Annual Halloween Spooktacular

 Saturday Oct 22nd was our 9th Annual Halloween Spook-tacular!  The house looked even better this year than last, we had a couple new creepy layouts.  ;)  Malek was especially proud of his skeleton poker game setup. This year Ryland joined the fun as a flying monkey, Malek was the Scarecrow and I was the Wicked Witch.  The woods(wo)man from Red Riding Hood came outta the woods to partake in the festivities and rocked her worker boots, the french maid put away her feather duster and put on her cute party shoes and Princess Jasmine brought her entourage!  I think my favorite was Gary in his lederhosen.  ;)

Click the link for more spooktacular pictures from the party.

Pictures on FB

Tailgating - It's a family affair!

The tailgate

This past Saturday marked my parents and Ryland's first ever UT tailgate.  For an extra special touch our tailgate joined forces with Major Applewhite's family tailgate!  We arrived around 10am and began showing JuJu and Opa the ropes - you know, scouting out the location of the kegs, food and TVs.  :)  The food selection for this tailgate was slow cooked chopped beef brisket sandwiches and fried boudin balls.  YUM!  The MSU vs UofM game came on at 11am and thank goodness there were 2 TVs as the A&M vs. Baylor game was on at the same time.  MSU played an awesome game and spanked UofM, 28-14.  :D  Go Green!  Ryland had a blast and was a social butterfly.  He didn't want to miss anything and pushed out his nap time by almost 2 hours.  Can you tell everyone had a good time? :)

Wearing an MSU green and white hat - had to represent!

Happy baby!

Happy grandparents

Sissy and Ry

Like father like son

Someone's tired

22nd Annual La Dolce Vita!

We didn't attend last years wine and food festival as we missed the early bird special and I was preggers, so this year I made sure to buy tickets early (in June).  It was my parents first time attending the event, and they loved it!  The wine was flowing, the food was aplenty and we left feeling like little piggies.  :D 



10/13/2011



Ready and waiting for the gates to open

Bring on the grub!

How's that wine tasting?