Happy H'owl'oween!!

Reid and I aren't much of a halloween celebrators but we do like to carve a pumpkin each year. Here are our pumpkins...

After a lot of debate about what we should carve, we settled on a "bat cat" from our carving book. However our pumpkin was only big enough to fit the head, lol.

This year Tara tried pumpkin painting with a friend. It was a lot of fun and way less messy!


Hope everyone else is having a fun and safe halloween weekend. We have struck out the last two years with no trick-or-treators so this year we did not cave in and buy candy because we didn't want to be stuck with all the left-overs.

Workout Buddies

As I mentioned earlier, Reid and I started working out together and have loved the results we've gotten. We got started on the P90X which is where we saw all of our changes. It was challenging at first trying to stay motivated/committed and fit the hour long workouts into our schedules, but now that we've been doing it for a while we have fell into a routine and can't imagine a day of no workout!

We started the program back in December 2010 (pictures on the left) and were off and on with it through July 2011. In July we re-started from the beginning and also decided to follow the diet plan that accompanies the workouts. The pics on the right were taken October 2011!

Tara has decided to take a small hiatus from the DVD programs and is currently working with a workout routine she created while Reid has started to tackle the Insanity program.

Aside from our new "love" for fitness, we stay extra busy working Snyder who loves the cooler fall weather and all the squirrels. This past weekend Snyder enjoyed a mountain bike ride and a trail run!! He fits right into our active family :)

It's Almost "The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year"

Well I think fall is the most wonderful time of the year but Reid would beg to differ. Anyways this year we made Amazon Wish List's for Christmas and wanted to share them...

Tara: http://amzn.com/w/YJH0BXJVDOQ3

Reid: http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/33X02LHHFCFNR

Purple Pride Weekend

This weekend Reid and I participated in a 5K mud race called Hell Run in Seattle. We found out a week or so before that our start time was the same as the K-State game time so we went for the K-State themed costume...

This race was much better than the 10K Dirty Dash we ran in Spokane earlier this year. Much more mud, better designed course and better obstacles to tackle. We enjoyed ourselves despite the chilly/misty weather

Posing with our muddy shirts...we were unable to get a pic right after we finished so this is after we rinsed off in the showers provided. We left the shirts untouched to you could see some of the muddiness we encountered.

K-State wasn't getting blown out by Baylor so we decided to drive into Seattle to catch the 3rd and 4th quarters at the alumni watch party. At first we were bummed we made the drive in because K-State fell to a 9 point deficit but they made us proud and pulled off the upset!! Should be a fun Thanksgiving when we go to Texas (my cousin and husband are Baylor grads)

Back to the grind this week though as Tara is finishing up her P90X program on Wednesday and Reid gets to look forward to his first midterm.

Snyder's Obsession

Fixated on the cat sitting on the neighbor's deck below us.

We're Back!!

I've decided to start writing again...now that I have more free time. And why do I have more free time? Well I am no longer coaching gymnastics. Ever since I went full-time with my job at LexisNexis, I didn't have enough time, or interest, to continue coaching. So I kept it up through the summer and recently coached my last class last week.

So what have Reid and I been up to? WORKING OUT!! We starting doing the P90X program and became addicts. Just recently in July we started the P90X program while following the nutrition guide and have both seen amazing results. We have never felt better about ourselves!!

Reid recently started his final year of law school (yahoo!!) and is keeping busy this semester with classes, extra-cirricular activities, interviews, work and much much more! I barely see the kid these days.

Well that was a brief (I mean really brief) run-down of what we've been doing. I'll be posting more frequently to keep you updated on our exciting lives (haha)...

Happy New Years

Well Reid and I didn't ring in the new year out on the town or even watching some celebration on TV. This year we decided to hit the hay and welcome the new year fresh off a good nights sleep. Yup...we were the "old balls" in bed at 10pm...woo hoo!!

But in other interesting news...Spokane had a snow storm that dropped 9-10inches of powdery snow. Reid and I have both enjoyed taking Snyder to the park to play in the snow. He loves digging his nose in the snow to hunt for the ball.

(This is the road in front of our house the day of the snow storm)

(Our backyard day of the storm)

(Getting out to run some errands...there is still all the snow on the trees 2 days after the snow storm)

Reid and I didn't really have any specific New Years resolutions. We both hope to continue our active lifestyle by finishing up P90X and getting out and doing more hiking. We already have plans for a trip to San Diego and Portland which we are excited for and we also may head to Phoenix with some of Reids law school classmates.

We are both very excited to see what 2011 has in store for us!! Hope everyone had a wonderful New Years!!