Bee and Frankie made their own home made piñatas. It was nothing fancy. They just decorated paper bags then filled it with some candy and dog treats. You can see that Cho Cho appreciated the dog treats! Oh can also see that after many missed attempts, Bee pulled the scarf around her eyes off!

Unbelievable! This is what i read in the New York Times this morning:

BERLIN — Now added to the list of banned performance-enhancing substances for female distance runners: men. The world governing body for track and field [IAAF] decided in late August that records in women’s road racing will count only if they are set in women’s-only events

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The Beech Street Bulldogs fight to the finish. Bee and Frankie easily handed Cho her first loss this weekend in a tough fought victory. Poor Cho. Too many squirrels around to stay focused on the game.

Lake Superior (Presqe Isle Park, Marquette)

Lake Michigan (Near Manistique)

Lake Huron (Michilimackinac Park, Mackinaw City)

It is Sept 1 and that means alot of things!

*School starts! We will have a big 3rd and 1st grader this year!

*MSU students are back – so watch out for those crazy college kids!

*Football season starts (Go Irish!)!

*The Marquette marathon is here (yah!) and we will also get to dip our feet into Lake Superior, the only Great Lake that we haven’t been to as a family!

*And we can post our monthly progress towards our run to Spokane!

August was a fun running month, giving us another 198 miles. This is probably our last high mileage month of the year with the Marquette and Chicago marathons around the corner. We are also at 1599 miles on the year!! 412 to go! We are just 4 miles shy of Bozeman Montana! August just saw lots of miles around east lansing/lansing. The flooding took out the river trail for a while, but beautiful running on the northern tier trail and through the hay fields made up for that! Being morning runners we certainly notice the differences in morning sunrise and temps. We started the month with the sun creeping over the horizon at 6am (sunrise at 6:30), and now it does not creep over till much closer to 7 (with sunrise officially at 7:03). That means some change up in running routes. However the trade off is OK as morning temps are around 52, which is perfect running weather. Got to love September!

Our route took us from Hysham to Bozeman. We passed through Billings, MT along the way. We had to laugh when we saw that the marathon this weekend should give us the mileage to get to through Bozeman and onto Manhattan, MT of all places. Not the Manhattan we are used to, but not a bad place to hang out for a week as we find our legs again. Had to laugh at the town’s home page, as they feature “their skyline“. We’ve actually never been in Montana in real life and would like to trek through one day – maybe next summer.

Frankie made a very cute cut-out drawing of our wedding,

and this inspired me to make a very silly movie

Lets go fly a kite

Up to the highest height

Let’s go fly a kite and send it soaring

Up through the atmosphere

Up where the air is clear

Oh, let’s go fly a kite!

The girls love to sing this song. haha. Here we are at the park this weekend. It was not too windy, so you had to keep running to keep the kites up, but we sure had fun! The one of Frankie is in the backyard. She got up early yesterday and immediately ran outside in her nightgown to the backyard to fly her kite again! Sorry its blurry – she was moving too fast!

We were at the children’s garden on Saturday and the Eyeball Plants (Acmella oleracea) were in fantastic bloom! They are also known as the “toothache” plant because if you eat the flower, it is a natural analgesic. It also causes the production of excess saliva. Scott thought that they looked delicious, so he ate one. He had a fun time spitting all of that saliva! The flower is supposed to also have some antifungal and antibacterial qualities. Scott said it kind of tingled.

We had such a fun time yesterday having sack races at hannah center field. Im not sure what inspired it, but we grabbed a bunch of pillow cases and headed over on a cool michigan summer evening. No one was at the field, so we had it all to ourselves. We laughed so hard trying to get up after falling. Im only posting pictures of Bee and Frankie!!