Travis' FOURTH marathon

We travelled to Charlotte this weekend for the Thunder Road Marathon, one of the hilliest courses in the US! Travis is in the best physical shape of his life and he was very prepared for this one. Anji spent the day being a water bottle, banana and gel sherpa. And yet I managed to wreck Travis' car only once by backing into a pole!

I am so proud of Travis for finishing this race - I think its one of the most grueling things you can do to your bady and Travis has done it 4 times now - and plans more for 2009! I am positive I could never run a marathon, so that makes me even more proud of Travis seeing how hard it really is!

I only got pictures of Travis warming up b/c it was so hard to get pictures along the course, and then I messed up at the end (probably because I was nervous about telling Travis I backed his car into a pole)! But even warming up he is serious (and cute!)

Happy Birthday Travis!

Last night we went out with Sonal and Matt, aka The Halburnts, and had a great time celebrating the holidays and Travis' Birthday. I am especially excited because for the next six months I can accurately claim that Travis is OLDER than me!!!

I know I look like I have been drinking in this picture, but I was actually the DD!

Brothers gotta hug, man! This picture was taken after a VERY INTENSE "discussion" about who is the leader of the aerialbots. Thank goodness they agreed to disagree otherwise they were going to go into fisticuffs!

All 4 Bhutas = 2 tall white guys and 2 small Indian girls

Basketball Practice, Playing with Sister, and Stupid Cat

Basketball!

Jason had his first basketball practice on Saturday! He is so cute with the other boys out there and was actually quite good. His team is the Bears. Other teams in the league are animal names too like cheetahs, lions etc... then I guess they started to run out of animal names because they actually named a team the Horned Frogs - thank goodness Jason's not on that team.

Jason and the Bears stretching (don't they look so intimidating?)...

Some one-on-one time with the coach

Trains = sweet moments

Then, that afternoon, Travis and Jason set up the train set in Jason's room and we witnessed a rare few moments of the kids playing together. Normally Sammy is too little for Jason's things but this time he took her under his wing and invited her up into his bed to "drive the train."

The setup (Travis has already planned the upgrades to the set - additional track etc.)

Cute moments of a loving brother and sister playing peacefully - don't we wish this happened all the time!?

Stupid Cat TV Wills

On another note, I think we have the dumbest cat on the face of this earth. We got him 3 years ago when Jason insisted on naming him TV Wills (appropriate, huh?). The cat hates me and LOVES all kids, which is unusual.

In this picture he let them paint him. The crazy part is the cat let's the kids paint him all the timeAnd in this picture, the cat wouln't move while I was making the bed, so I put the sheets on anyway.

Despite his apparent lack of fight or flight instinct, we keep him around because he is great with the kids and ADORES Jason!

Tranji's Night Out

Travis' company had their annual holiday party on Friday. Unfortunately BOTH of us were battling sinus infections so our big night out was an early one.

Tranji all ready to go (after a caramel macchiato and mucinex)

And a picture with Travis' boss and wife.

Its beginning to look a lot like...

A few more pictures from the past week as we are starting to decorate and prepare for the holidays!

Granny Teri helping the kids make a "candy house" They really enjoyed this project!

Black Friday Shoe Shopping. Sammy was so excited about her new pink shoes with green flowers and then she willingly posed with a life-size dinosaur outside the store! Notice the "posed" hand on her hip!

Then we got the Christmas Tree and Decorated it

Check out our silver balls!

Sweetness! Jason got excited when he found this ornament of Sammy as a baby!

And Sammy felt the need to do her Tai Chi while decorating the tree. I think it has something to do with toddler feng shui they are teaching her at daycare!

And then of course there was plenty of relaxing afterwards

Just so you know, this is how Jason relaxes... he shapes himself like a rocket and "takes off from the couch." We are so proud. It is this type of activity that keeps the Western Wake Emergency room as our #1 on speed dial. All of you who have boys know exactly whay I am talking about - holla!!