Grandma Cathy Visits Athens

This past weekend Grandma Cathy came to visit.  She spent lots of time with the boys.  But I think she spent the most time with Björn playing Uno!  He loved it and played until the very last minute when we had to drop Grandma Cathy off for her flight home.

Athens Half Marathon

Momma did it again...ran the 1/2 marathon and again with lots of support from the family!  The boys were great at cheering all the runners including mom!

Here's the running group at the start!  Channette and Monica (both in red) ran with Momma and Leslie and Gabriel ran/walked.

Here we are at the finish with Odin sneaking in!

And here's the group of kids!  After the race we all came back to the Holman house for a lovely brunch!  I was a great time!

Good friends, big fun

Whew...lots of playdates and fun this weekend.  Started on Friday with Alex, Lila, Milan hanging out with Odin and Bjorn after school.  Milan and Bjorn helped Momma make cinnamon rolls

and everyone helped to eat them!

On Saturday we went to a birthday party at the firestation.  Kids loved playing on the firetruck!

 We also went to the kids museum and Bjorn got to ride a motorcycle,

On Sunday we went to the corn maze with Ben and Max.  (Ben is covered in corn and Bjorn is keeping him under!).

Today is a day off school for Odin, so we are starting the morning with Lila and a little (ahem, I mean a lot) of minecraft while Momma tries to work (or rather updates the blog;-)

Bjorn is 4 + 1 day;-)

More pictures of our big 4 year old!

Special climbing time with Milan.

 Birthday cake!

Bjorn's 4!

Bjorn turned 4 on Sunday!

He wanted a spider man mask!  

But, when he opened gifts from dad...he decided he wanted to be Thore instead!  (see the hammer...).

Odin and Demetrius Birthday Celebration

For labor day weekend we traveled up to Raleigh to see friends and Grandma.  While in Raleigh Hope threw a birthday celebration for Odin and Demetrius.  Definitely a special time for all.

Odin turns 7!

This was Odin's birthday weekend.  We are still crazy unpacking from the move so a big party wasn't in the cards...but we did have a super fun weekend.

Friday we played with our friends Lila (in Odin's 2nd grade class), Milan (in Bjorn's UCC class) and Lara (super-fun mom).  Lara brought over coconuts and we busted into them.  The kids really enjoyed getting crazy with the hammer!  And tasting the coconut milk too.

Moms enjoyed it too!

On Saturday we also went to Hurricane Shoals.  A very cool place with water, rocks, playground and lots of mud to play in.  My favorite quote of the day:

Lila to Odin:  Want to make mud balls and throw them at each other?

Sunday we had a small b-day party with  Kristen, Craig, Ben and Max.  Odin spent the entire day waiting and waiting to see Ben...;-)

On Saturday we also got to do some pottery at another friend's b-day party (Addie to the left of Odin, from Odin's second grade class.  Lila is on Odin's right).

And Sunday morning Mom went running with her gal running group...8 miles!