Kids

More Running!

The Dallas Whiterock Marathon

Sunday, Zach, Nana and Kara ran the half marathon at Whiterock. It was a good day for running! Perfect race conditions. Zach had made a pace goal of 8:00 miles and shattered that goal with his 1:42 finish (7:45/miles!). Nana and Kara both beat their previous half marathon times; Nana with a 2:25 and Kara right behind her with a 2:27. Nice job guys! Way to represent the Parker family!

22,000 racers ready to run. So cool!

entertainment for the spectators!

around mile 4 1/2...look at that group of athletes!

We got to the 4 1/2 mile point in time to see Nana but we missed Kara and Zach

Zach's finish

Kara is coming in with this group of hundreds (orange hat, black shirt)

this is what it looked like just after you crossed the finish line. you had to wade through the sea of people to get your medal, t-shirt and refreshments

Reindeer Romp

Last night, Pops, Kara, Zach, Jodi, Sara and Soren ran in Denton's Reindeer Romp. It was totally freezing, but we all had a good time and finished well. Pops and Jodi had personal bests and Soren was the first 2.5 miler across the finish line. Good Times.

Wednesday Night Anglers for 2009

Congratulations to Granddaddy and Zach......the are at their peak on Wednesday nights!

Great Job!

17 inches and still snowing...

Happy Fall!

Just some pictures for your enjoyment!

Introducing Corbin (middle name?) Spangler

Yes, they are still undecided on a middle name. I think Debra, or Dianne sounds really nice. Oh, wait. It's a boy. Never mind.

Ya know, for all my computer skills, I'm not all up there with the other electronic stuff. My camera was set on black and white, so that's what we've got. But the child is beautiful. Yes he is. He kept us worried for a while, and then he decided to get here 7 days early. Little booger. I wonder what he has in store for us. Little children (Maddox) are not allowed in the hospital due to the H1N1 virus. Marlee was so disappointed about that.

But he is here, and I got to hear his first cry!! I my gosh. I have never experienced that in real life. How amazing.

Corbin has arrived!

Benbrook Women's Tri

Kuddos to Nana. She raced a triathlon in the pouring rain on Sunday! The race was supposed to be a 300 yard swim, 13.8 mile bike that included "nice hill" followed by a 5k run. To get to the main part of the bike course you have to cross over a creek, and with all of the rain the road was flooded, so they had to either cancel the race or change the bike course. The only option for changing the course was to ride as far as you could go before the road flooded (a little less than 3 miles) and then turn around and come back. So that is what they did, and they did two loops. The 13.8 mile bike became 6 miles! Pretty funny. But it was still a race and Nana did awesome, placing first in her age group! Woo Hoo! I don't know if she even knows this, but her bike average was 20.2 mph! Way to go, Nana. That is two first place finishes in a row so we expect nothing less than first place from now on :)

Sea World Pics

I put up lots of pictures on my blog...check it out by clicking the link below.

http://www.matmusic.net/blog/?p=544

Revo Big Bass on Lake Ray Roberts

This past saturday Zach fished the first annual Revo Big Bass Tournament on Ray Roberts. Unfortunately I did not get any pictures but you can go here http://www.basschamps.com/basschamps/newsBigBass.cfm?tournament_id=17&type=team&yearSelected=2009 to read about the day. During tournaments like these, anglers have a chance to weigh in every hour. Zach had a 1st place hour, a 2nd place hour and was .24lbs shy of winning overall. All 174 anglers were given the chance to compete for a $300 rod combo in a pitching contest, which Zach won!

Thank you Granny and Granddad for coming out in the rainy weather! Zach- Avery, Alissa and I are so proud of you!

Labor Day

Alissa made friends with this turkey.

She thought the turkey was so funny!

Just a little update from Aubrey. We all had a great holiday weekend. Avery and I loaded up on chocolate and headed to see G-force on saturday in 3-D. Pretty cute. Zach went dove hunting in the evening. Sunday was a day of relaxing for everyone except Zach who had to wait for an hour and a half at the Care Now clinic because of the poison ivy that was making his eye swell shut. Then he had to go mow and take care of a flat tire on his truck. The girls and I hung around the house playing in the water and doing laundry (me). We had a good day but missed Zach. After all the mowing he got to come home and clean his boat and truck and get ready to head out to l*ke fork on monday. That's when he discovered the dove he overlooked from saturday night. So, dead bird+hot truck for 24 hours=nasty smell. Febreeze does wonders. Zach was up and out the door at 3am monday morning. What a trooper. Avery, Alissa and I decided it would be a good day for the zoo. We got to the D*llas Z*0 (learned that from Sara) just as it was opening and had a great time. This was Alissa's first trip to the zoo that she actually seemed to pay attention and to top it off there was a little water area that we splashed around in before we left. Could not have asked for a better day. Here are some pics.

Estes Park Ride

Erin and I went for a ride last weekend. We were going to go from Estes Park to Lyons - about a 40 mile ride. From Estes Park, we had about 10 mile climb up hill for a total of 2,000 feet elevation gain. We were 30 minutes into the hill before the rain started. It was a light drizzle and we had no lightning so we decided to keep going. It was still drizzling once we reached the top of the hill, which made it a cold and slippery decent into Lyons. After a mile of wet, cold 35mph downhill, we reached a church and decided to stop. We called Erin's parents and they picked us up. We didn't reach our destination, but we got in a good workout anyway.