7th Annual Thanksgiving Team Haneman Turkey Trot

And by Turkey Trot, I mean Bucks Co, PA 5 MILE race.

Since 2003 (or possibly before) a number of my family members have participated in a 5 mile race. I have run 4 times over the years. This year, my dad, Aunt P and Aunt D chose to participate in the 1 mile Fun Run/ Walk instead of the full 5 miles. There were 13 others who ran the 5 miles. They placed from 3rd to 740th.

Pictures courtesy of Aunt D and myself.

To start the race, one must wear the proper footwear:

The consensus? Hot electric shoe colors help you run faster.
Stretching is the next recommended step:

Start by looking at your feet, then sit on the ground and contort your body into strange, abonormal positions. Like J there. Or you can do it like normal people like C.

Choose your running buddies:

Photo by Aunt D.

The intrepid 1 milers!

Start the race:



Ready!





Set



GO!!!!!





Somewhere, you run, as fast as you can, and then you come back to the starting line.

Photo by Aunt D



Crossing at 25:XX. Baby K finished a
half second in front.



Later, get the results posted:

P Haneman - 3rd place 27:39 (sorry no picture)

C Haneman - 239th place 41:28



N Haneman - 263rd place 42:19



K Hanemen - 271st place 42:30

B Haneman - 378th place 45:2

R Patterson - 429th place 46:50

Photo by Aunt D



B Haneman - 432nd place 46:55



I Reid - 531st place 49:29
(He's in orange with his arms up)



D Hanemane - 556th place 50:12













T Haneman - 627th place 53:03













J Haneman (in blue) - 655th place 53:52













C Haneman  - 663rd place 54:13



M Haneman - 721st place 58:14



J Reid - 740th place 1:01:38













All the racers, minus P
He was eating a bagel
















Happy Thanksgiving!

The Third Trimester!

Yay! Yesterday was 28 weeks. We've made it to the last third of my pregnancy. I am really excited about this. January is right around the corner. And while I don't expect Baby K to make her appearance until close to February, I just feel like we are in the home stretch.

Since I last posted (about 8 weeks ago) there have been some changes. Most notably: my size. =) And how much I can feel when she moves. R can now feel her moving if he just puts his hand lightly on my belly. If you're looking for the movement, you can sit there and watch my abdomen move when she's kicking and squirming. I still say there is no doubt that this girl is R's child. She bounces and dances and LOVES sugar.

Here's a couple of pictures from the past few months.

September: P, J and G came to visit. We told P that Baby K was the size of a banana. Here he is talking to his cousin Baby Banana.

October: R's idea of a nice picture... you can't see it, but I'm barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen.

We braved Hurricane Sandy...

And celebrated by feeding the baby ice cream for breakfast the next day.

And we've made it to November: here we are a few days before 28 weeks. Please forgive the open dishwasher in the back. R was lazing on the couch instead of cleaning up.

I'm planning on posting the nursery.... but we all know that the best laid plans of mice and... well you know the rest. =)

Enjoy the colder weather. I know we are!

20 weeks

I'm terrible at keeping up with my posts. Sorry about that. So here's an update:

We made it to 20 weeks on Wednesday.

Last week, we had our anatomy scan. Everything looked great. She had all her arms and legs, fingers and toes. The coolest picture that the sono tech took, but we didn't get a copy of, was her spine. Being able to see every individual bone in her spine was awesome. 

Here she is. Sorry about the reflection in the photo.

R is quite excited to be having a daughter. I have no idea what he plans to do with her once she's here, but he lets everyone know that he can't wait to hold her.

At 20 weeks: she measured about 10 oz. Her due date was estimated at Jan 28th, one day before the due date from my doctor. Her heartbeat was averaging 151, which matched the one the doctor got at our appointment the day before. She was moving her arms around and kept her legs tightly crossed at the knees. I have a proper little lady already.

I've been feeling her move since week 17. Right now it feels like marbles bouncing around deep inside. She likes to tap dance near my bladder though not directly on top of it yet.

The whole family is quite excited about the little girl. My mother-in-law has already gotten us some cute pink hairbands and hats. =) My mother is working on a quilt.

Even P has changed his mind about being allergic to baby girls. He loved that fact that she is the size of a banana or a cantelope. He decided that she was a baby fruit salad.

Here he is "talking" to her. He gave kisses and hugs too.

I love my family =)

We've come so far in two years

Two years ago I attended the baby shower for a dear friend from highschool.

Here we are:

This weekend I got to see these lovely ladies for another baby shower... hint: it's the one in the middle.

The baby I am holding is the second daughter of ER... she's on the right.

Here's a few more pictures beacause everone was so cute!

Here is baby I. I got to hold her before she was partied out and had to go home. Very cute little girl. 

The baby-momma. She was laughing about something, I can't remember. At least I got a good picture where she wasn't making a strange face. (Sorry QE2)

This desert was fantastic!!!! Oh my goodness. I wanted to eat three more of these and I was full before lunch was even over, thats how good they were. The shower theme was Bumble Bees as you can see. But at the bottom of my tea cup was a cute little buggy painted on the cup. I thought it was adorable.

Yay for babies!

I got my fingers crossed for July 4!

He did it!

Friday marked the end to a rather long journey. R got hired for a new job at the beginning of February. For the past eight weeks he has driven 70 plus miles to the training academy for Montgomery County, known by me as MoCO. He would get up around 4am every day, pack his lunch and leave, making the drive with a fellow hire who lives even father away than we do. But Friday was Graduation Day. I was joined by R's parents and two of his close friends from QACo. We got to listen to the MoCO Pipes and Drums and a few speeches.

The recruits were sworn in and then received certificates for completing the academy.  It was a very exciting day for everyone involved. 

Congratulations!!

Happy Birthday Grammy

It was my mom's birthday yesterday. She got many well wishes from her children, but these take the cake.

Here's a Birthday Story:

Its time for a change

About a month ago I realized that I would be spending the next eight weeks in a house by myself. What was I to do? I could laze around and re-read all my trashy novels (done this already once) or I could make myself a project. I dumped my plans on R. I was going to paint the house! In a WEEK! Oh, and I was going to hire my brother who would be on spring break. After a few months of trying to pick out colors (I didn't want to paint my house green to match my green couch and chair) we settled on a turquoisish-light green for the living room and hallway and a periwinkle blue for the kichen. I wanted to have each room a different color since our house is so small. I needed the separation. K came on monday and we started with the ceiling. We painted all day and even had to call in back up in the form of my mom and youngest brother. It was his first painting experience and we let him do the ceiling all by himself. For the most part. We finished the day by starting the cut-ins for the green walls. After three days of painting, the ceiling was done, the walls were done, the trim was done, and half of the doors were done. I spent all day Friday putting the house back together and putting the pictures on the walls.

Here is our kitchen before. Forgive the fact these are from 2008. I forgot to take "Before" pictures. Some things have changed. Alot.

The laundry/ Kitchen after

The hallway. Very bare and blank and boring.

The hallway after.

Because I had to actually go to to work and stuff, and K decided that after a week of being home he really wanted to go back to school, I didn't finish everything in a week. It took me two. But if you counted up the days I actually spent painting, it was five. I finished the doors by myself and by bestest Fellow North County Gangsta came and helped me with my bathroom. I managed to lock us in the bathroom. Good thing there was a window cause we would have been stuck there till six pm when R got home and could let us out. Yes, I jumped through the window to save our lives. It was only five feet off the ground. N kept painting. We giggled about it later.

I painted the last bathroom by myself. It took me three hours. But now I am done. .... Until I tackle the bedrooms. Ours is painted. The other two are not. But they are full of office stuff and bedroom stuff and will not get painted for another three to five years, I'm sure.