Disney Marathon

Gordon and I flew down to sunny, warm sleeting, freezing Florida to see Venita and family and to be volunteers at Disney World's Half Marathon on Saturday morning! We got up at 3:30am to get there by 4:30am. We were at water station #6 :o) There were 17,102 finishers on our race! WOW!
Unfortunately, I forgot to take my camera, so Venita took a picture of us volunteers after the event. Venita came down with the flu so she didn't feel well enough to go with us :o( I was so sad for her. It was because of her efforts that we were all signed up for the event! There was Sarah, Tim, Gordon and I. We were layered up to the gills! I had on a sweater, fleece jacket, ski coat, plus the wind breaker and a rain poncho they gave us. It was COLD! What ever happened to going to Florida in the winter to get away from the cold up north?


Gordon and I each came down with the flu too! I got sick Sunday morning and Gordon got sick Monday morning....ugh! But we still managed to have a good time :o)

The missionaries came for dinner Monday night. I took some dipping chocolate with us, so we had a great dessert of dipping all kinds of goodies into dark Belgium chocolate....yuummm!

Thanks Venita and Tim for a good time :o) Next year, same time?....but with warmer weather please?

Tim and Venita visit

Tim and Venita and their family were here in Maryland visiting Tim's mother a week ago. They came over for dinner (we BBQ'd chicken using Grandpa Larson's famous chicken recipe!). We also had homemade icecream....raspberry and peach! Yum!! Tricia, Brent, Amy and Joey came over too. We had a nice evening. After dinner the kids played crochet out on the back lawn...unfortunately, Lizzie got stung by a yellow jacket. Darn that bug!! Poor Lizzie :o( Of course I forgot to pull out the camera!

The next day, after a doctor's appointment I met Venita and the family up at Gettysburg. They have a new museum up there. They had already been through it, but I told Gordon that we need to go back up there to see it. But anyway - we went over to the outlets and had lunch and proceeded to do some shopping! It was fun just to hang out and visit with them. We then went to Tim's mother's favorite restaurant and I had my first soft-shell crab sandwich! Interesting is all I can say! At least I can say I have had one.

Later that same week, I hosted a meeting for my longarm quilting group. I made this fruit tart for the first time. It was sooooo good! Plus it was pretty too.
I cut these flowers from the side of my house. Look how big they are!