Marathon/fall break& a project!

My dad ran the Marathon this year again! It never gets old I love going to it and watching all the runners, especially with my dad running it! What an accomplishment! I say every year that one of these years I'm going to do it, I guess I gotta start running first :) He came in at 3:06, I think it was actually like 3:05:45. Emma loved clapping for all the runners! Good Job Grandpa! We are halfway done with the semester (yay!) and we had a little fall break on the 10th and 11th so we decided to go pine nut pickin! We went more for the experience than for the pine nuts and we had a lot of fun. We got quite a few considering we had a very busy helper with us. She loved it. She had a blast picking the pine nuts out of our bucket and throwing them on the ground, running free up and back on the trail, and sitting in the dirt! Yes this is how her hair looks most days, don't judge :) We have been going to the park lots lately. We are so lucky that we can just walk down the street and we have a great park right there! Emma loves it. That girl is fearless, she goes down all the slides all by her self and loves it! Oh yea how could I forget my latest project! I got the idea from Burlap and Denim http://burlapanddenim.com/2012/09/easy-tutorial-for-giant-chalk-art/ Pretty bold I know. Hers was for an industrial room and mine is for my entry way!! YIKES! I was pretty scared about it all the way through especially with Randan telling me it didn't look good. My mom helped me paint it with homemade chalkboard paint just a side note, if you want to paint a wall with homemade kind you have to use a brush a roller won't work! Then I got to work with the chalk. I'll trade the pumpkin out with the holidays! Randan and I built this cute shelf we saw on Shanty 2 Chic's website http://www.shanty-2-chic.com/2011/11/hook-shelf-for-the-entry.html. When I got it all done Randan said "I told you it would look good" he thinks he is so funny. :) (it was kind of hard to get a good picture of it, but you get the idea)