September

Aiden and Isaac ran in the Newark Mile race this year. It’s a 4K. There were over 200 runners, so there was quite a crowd at the beginning, but it thinned out as people ran or walked at their varied paces. Aiden left Isaac behind pretty early on and ended up finishing in 21:31. I was so proud of him. That's an 8:37/mile time. He was in he 0-14 age group and came in before any of the girls in the 0-14 age group, but he was the 14th male, behind mostly freshman on the cross country team. He acted very winded as he came across the finish line, so we would all know that he ran hard, but two minutes later, he was smiling and telling me all about the excitement of his first road race. Isaac came in about four minutes later, also 14th in his own age category, 26-35.

We enjoyed the parade and some rides on dollar night.

We had our driveway ripped out and replaced with stamped concrete. We also replaced our poor fence that was literally falling over on one side and full of holes and rotted wood enough that the neighbor’s cat could walk through on the other. We extended the fence line a little on one side AND removed the giant cement pillars that were apart of the old fence line 50 years ago but more recently in our backyard.

Look! No random pillars!

So… the next step will be to step up our landscaping game. Yikes. Wish us luck!