my brother, the ironman

Last weekend my incredible brother swam/biked/ran in a half ironman triathalon. It happened to be in Branson - which equals the hardest hills to run/bike on in the country! I think they said there were about 1500 people competing {wow} and Eric did GREAT!!!!! He's been training all summer and it sure paid off. I wanted to badly to be able to be there but I was getting play by play reports from my mom. Here are some pictures from the big day. I think the whole thing took him less than 6 hours! That was his goal, and he did it. I couldn't be more proud of him!!

1 mile swim in tablerock lake:

he's in there somewhere!

Then onto the 56 mile bike all through the Ozark hills. {they all said it was the hardest bike they had ever, ever done!}

 running 13.1 miles to finish the race:

with his biggest fans {mom&dad}! we're all so proud!! i love you so much brother! thanks for being such an inspiration.

So since Eric could do all that I figured I could at least run a 5k {race for the cure} this morning! Reese and I met some friends there and had a fun run through downtown Amarillo. Thanks for being my running buddy Reeser! 

five months old

Little Reesie boo turned five months old yesterday! She's sitting up on her own and is such a rolly polly rolling over from her back to her tummy! She's doing great at eating rice cereal, is so smiley, loves to laugh at herself in the mirror and laugh at Gunner dog. What a little sweetie. She's grabbing and playing with everything and loves to play in her exersauser. She still barely has any hair and we're so curious if it will be red! She also loves to be outside and look around at the trees and the clouds. It's so cute. Her favorite thing to say is "boobababoobooo" and blow bubbles at the same time. She laughs at herself when she does this too :) 

Happy five month birthday Reeser! 

This weekend we cheered for the bears as they played TCU. It was quite a sad game but I still taught Reese how to yell "heeeeey SIC EM BEARS!" {it really looks like she's doing it in this pictures :) i love it}

old/new

a few recent updates:

1.

I found this lamp at goodwill for $2.50 and spray painted it for my classroom. I also added a fun ruffle to the lampshade! I think it turned out so fun!

2.

finally got this old chair recovered (it was orange corduroy... whoa) We bought a painter's drop cloth at Home Depot and that's what it was recovered with!! It turned out so cute! I love it!!

{just to clarify... we had the chair professionally recovered, I didnt do it myself haha!}

travels

Labor Day weekend in Houston:

 cute tutu onesie :)

we had so much fun together!

reeser sure loves her daddy! she just lit up around him

Had so much fun with Nat and Jessie! I love this picture haha! Not sure if reese was scared or excited about the noises Nat was making at her haha

Sept 11th weekend in Dallas:

Reese and I drove to Dallas last weekend to meet Mark for one of his best friends' wedding (David Stewart - they have been friends since they were born! so fun). Mark was a groomsman and they put us up in the Galleria hotel and we just had the best time eating, shopping, relaxing and going to the wedding festivities. Reeser was such a trooper (as always) and did great the whole time! She got to meet lots of new friends and stay up way past her bedtime! :) It was also a special weekend because the whole Mason family got to be together! Unfortunately that doesn't happen very often, so we had a blast together!

ready for the rehearsal at Watermark

beautiful evening at the rehearsal dinner at the Filter Building on White Rock Lake

breakfast with my besties from Baylor (Whitney, Jordan, Kristen and Molly) so fun to catch up!

lunch with the Mason gang!

Ressie boo all dressed up for the wedding

the whole Mason fam at the wedding. so fun!!

mr&mrs stewart! So excited for you two!!! (reese was wiped out by this point!)

sweet reunion

Reese and I flew to Houston yesterday so we could spend the long weekend with this cute guy! so so so glad to be re-united after four long weeks