Ragnar Relay Race

Last weekend, a team of 12 friends and I ran from Santa Barbara to Dana Point (about 180 miles) in the first Los Angeles Ragnar Relay Race. We had a great time, with each team member running three legs, ranging from 3 to 10 miles.  Our team name was Beauty and the Beasts (1 woman, 11 men); Beauty was our 2nd fastest runner! We placed 11th overall, 5th in our division. We were very pleased with our results. 

We had a brief rest-stop in Palos Verdes at the Thomas home (11:30 p.m. - 5:00 a.m.). And I had a couple of special friends meet me a the finish line (see below)! 

Ready to run my next leg of the race

Another leg completed 

Dinner stop in Malibu

At Huntington Beach, Brookhurst Ave.

At the finish line -- we did well!

Fun to have Bill & Arlene there to greet me!

Earn that breakfast!

Saturday dawned clear, coolish and beautiful. We chose to ride our bikes as a family to a landmark restaurant in Redondo Beach for a late breakfast. Eat at Joes did not disappoint! It was delicious and bounteous, so we counted the meal as breakfast and lunch. We burned off a bunch of the calories with our over two-hour bikeride. It was lovely to not have a soccer match on Saturday!

Stiches or not???

I couldn't decide if I should have stitches on this gash, but ended up not going to the ER. Didn't want to waste my Saturday there, and didn't want them to shave my hair. Vain yes, but I also didn't think it was deep enough. It bled a bunch, as all head wounds do, but stopped pretty quickly.

I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and managed to get in the way of a log that was coming down the hill that took a bounce and went the way Mike didn't expect it to go... We were trying to clear out a dead tree that had fallen during the crazy winds recently. I will have a headache for days, I'm sure!

Final Cotillion

Blake is ready for his last Cotillion of 6th grade!

Did you notice that the cast is gone???
Garrett's ready for his last 7yh grade Cotillion!

What gentelmen!

Yummo!

Garrett rolling out the dough...

"this ought to be good!"
One of Garrett's electives this year is a class called "Chef." (We called it cooking when I was in school). He is learning how to follow recipes and how to work safely in the kitchen. This week he made biscuits in class, so he made some for us this morning. They were yummo!

Galaxy day

Landon Donovan just signed the back of Blake's shirt!

Landon Donovan signing Blake's cast!
Blake and Thomas at Galaxy Day!

The Galaxy came to PV for an afternoon this past Sunday. Blake met up with Thomas (from his select team) and they did a few drills together before getting to meet the players. Blake's main goal this day was to get Landon Donovan to sign his cast. Landon talked to him, asked how it happened, signed it, and also signed his shirt. Classy guy. (For those of you not so into soccer Landon Donovan is the most well known of the Galaxy - we don't actually count Beckam because we've never seen him play for the Galaxy).