Scenes from a birthday

One of my birthday wishes was to have some time to sew, so I finished Auggie's rain pants!

Our friends Jim and Darold hung out with Auggie so we could go out on a real date. I will not mention the last time we went out on a date. It was so long ago that it's embarrassing.

Dinner at PaaDee Thai. Some of the best Thai I've had. Plus the company was pretty good.

 Moonrise Kingdom at the Laurelhurst Theater. Wes Anderson hasn't disappointed yet! This was our first movie out together since two nights before Auggie was born, when we saw Win-Win at the same place (that may or may not have been our last date night). We even sat in the same seats.

 My hot date.

Being 33 has been pretty great so far.

Columbia Gorge Half Marathon

The halfers

Our cheering squad, Alexis and Auggie

We're off

Ze boys.

Eliser waiting (nervously, I think) for me to arrive. It was his first race ever!!

I did it! 6.5 miles!

Trying to get the chip un-velcroed from my butt where my bib shifted when I took my jacket off.

He's flying!

I am tired. And happy. Auggie wants my gummy bears.

Check out those awesome finishers medals. Ceramic and made by local folks!

As an awesome bonus, I ran into Austin, a friend from Albion who I hadn't seen since graduation! Just eating some tacos with his wife at the table next to us. They came in second in the relay and live just one state over. So fun.

 Oh, did I mention that it was supposed to rain all day? It poured on our drive over from Portland, and all the way home, but we had a few hours of glorious fall skies with some sun peeking out here and there. Just enough time for us to run a little half marathon through some yellow-leaf-strewn woods and along one of the most incredible rivers ever. And up some ginormous hills, but we won't focus on that. We finished 9th out of 35th teams, which was mostly due to Eliser being so fast. What a fun day!

A few fall faves