4th of July Running

This year, we celebrated the 4th of July by doing the typical stuff, plus something new.  Since the 4th was on a Monday, our town had their fireworks celebration on Saturday the 2nd.  The festival was sorta lame and seemed very.....country, to put it nicely.  But we live in a small town in southeast GA so what can you expect?  Cambria LOVED the fireworks, and I just enjoyed watching her watch them.  Ever since that night she'll randomly say "fire-works BOOOOOOOM!!!" It's precious. 

trying to convince Cam to get her face painted...did not work

we love that boy.  yes, I'll say it 1000x

me and my man

they're big because they're the CUTEST COUPLE EVER

watching the fireworks

little sisters

Kyle's skills

On Sunday we headed up to Atlanta for a short visit with Ashley and Phillip.  We made the trip because Kyle, Ashley and myself participated in the 2011 Peachtree Road Race this year.  It's the world's largest 10k that Atlanta hosts each year on the 4th of July.  We ran through downtown Atlanta on Peachtree St.  It was an awesome run and there were so many people.   

Phillip's grandpa Grigory, the sweetest man

mama with her {3} babies

My stats according to my Nike+. Time 57'52" Pace 8'44" Distance 6.62mi.  I think the difference in distance has to do with where on the road I actually ran.

proud to be DONE

GRRRRR.  Btw, Ashley is about 18 weeks pregnant, GO HER!

the finish line. the people just didn't stop coming!

creeeeeeeeper in the background

The race was a total blast and I was so pumped up before and after.  I get such a "runners high" when I run in a race like that.  We hope to make it our new tradition every 4th!  My parent's came up and watched Ezra and Cambria and I was so thankful they did that for us.  Thanks mom and dad!! :) 

***Over 55,000 people participated in the race this year.  I came in at #9506! See here.****

Atlanta in pictures

We went to Atlanta this past weekend and had ourselves a good time. 

 

(From left to right then down)

Gas prices are high so getting gas kinda hurt...

  Ezra and Cammy lounging in the car. 

Kisses from Aunt Ashley at Ikea. 

Cambria playing in the children's section at Ikea. 

Little cutie making a silly face....again, at Ikea.

This Ikea trip was not very successful and was accompanied with crying from both the kiddos.  We had to venture back on Sunday to get everything we needed, again there was more crying...

 On Saturday, we went to the Dogwood Festival in Piedmont Park for the third year in a row.  Two years ago I was pregnant, last year Cambria was 8 months, and this year we came with 2 kids!  Crazy how things change.  

Me with Clark Howard.  My sister took this so I was excited to show Kyle the picture, but he wasn't too impressed...

 

Cam playing hard at the park--->

<--- I love nursing pictures, but I especially like this one because you can see Ezra's feetsies :) 

This may be one of my favorite photos of Ezra yet.  Everyone is looking away except for him and he looks so handsome in his plaid shirt and jeans! 

<------------- Amber and Mateus = lovebirds ;)

 
2 of my pretty sisters -------------------->

Getting some shopping in at Trader Joes.

Visiting the Watsons.

Elodie + Ezra = lovebirds too :)

Being silly after her bath.  Because we got in late both nights, Cambria hadn't had a bath in two days, she was reeeeeealy dirty.

The current baby of the Dashevsky household, little Noah.

My man, lookin' cute, driving us all back home to Sa-van-van.

We had fun and look forward to our next visit in July for the Peachtree Road Race!