Our Busy Weekend

Last weekend was a busy one! I felt exhausted after it was over. But nowhere near as exhausted as McGee felt I'm sure, because he ran in the Broad Street Run on Sunday! It's a 10 mile race, and he ran it with his sisters. We had to be awake at 5am to drive into Philly, and the race started at 8am. I was terrible about taking pictures, but luckily McGee's mom was really good about it and she sent me some! We were able to see McGee and his sisters around the 3.5 mile mark, and then again after they'd finished. They all did so great! I'm sure McGee would appreciate it if I mentioned that he was the first one to finish out of the 3 of them... haha :)

Here's me and McGee and his sister Maureen (aka "Mo"). And yes, it was cold enough for a fleece that early in the morning! But it warmed up a LOT as the day went on. 

Here's a bunch of people running! The race went all through Philly. 

Here's a picture of McGee at the 3.5 mile mark! Luckily Mrs. McGee took this picture... Because I was too busy high-fiving McGee to be able to work my camera correctly! 

Here's Mo! 

Here's a great one of Mo, McGee, and Kathy (aka "Mook") after they'd finished the 10 mile race! 

And here's one of me and McGee's mom. We did an excellent job of cheering on all of the runners, if I do say so myself! It was a lot of fun cheering for everyone and giving everyone high-fives. And we ended up walking about 6 miles that day - so it's pretty much like we did the race too! Or not really... 

And here's McGee's Dad standing with the successful runners! 

Another big thing (well, sorta...) that we did last weekend was we finally changed out the cabinet knobs in our kitchen!  We still need to change out all of the hinges (as you can see in the pictures...) but other than that our kitchen is pretty much done, aside from the terrible task of ripping off all of the wallpaper and painting. We'll do that soon I think... We're going to get a few paint samples for a few rooms this weekend. It'd be great to start getting some paint on these walls! We also need a new refrigerator and dishwasher, but we hope those can wait until we've rebounded a bit from paying for the Air Conditioning install. The refrigerator is starting to act up a bit though, so please keep your fingers crossed for us that it hangs on for at least a few more months!  

Here was the before... Not only were we not a huge fan of the color, but they were also chipping and in very rough shape. 

Here's the after! They're black iron. We still need to change the hinges, but we have to find some that are the right size.

I tried to get a good up-close image... But it's hard to see because of the weird lighting (I probably should've taken the pics during daylight hours... Whoops) 

Here's the stock photo of the knob, so you can see it more clearly. It does look a bit darker than this, but not quite as dark as it looks in the pictures I took. 

I think this weekend we're going to do MORE yardwork and work on those terrible vines that are trying to kill our trees, so I'll take lots of pictures outside! We have lots of beautiful flowering bushes (I have no idea what any of them are...) so I'll take pictures of those too. All of our trees are finally getting leaves! It's making it so beautiful, and giving us lots of privacy from the road and our neighbors. 

I hope you all have a great weekend! We're almost there!