Happy Thanksgiving from Mike, Emily and one of the best reasons we have to be thankful for this year!

Last Sunday (10/18) I got to run the Columbus Half Marathon. It was a beautiful, brisk morning and the 13.1 mile run through downtown Columbus, Bexley and German Village was gorgeous. There were live bands along the way and tons of people came out to support the runners – 15,000 in all.  Aside from some [...]

On Thursday we took advantage of some beautiful Fall weather and headed out to Lynd Farms in Pataskala to do some apple picking. In addition to stuffing 14lbs of apples into a 10lb bag, we had some fun taking some shameless pictures of Noah in the little displays they had set up. Enjoy!

A couple weeks ago we had our good friend Ashley of Henry Photography do Noah’s 3 month pictures. She sent us this family shot yesterday and I can’t wait to see the rest of the shoot!

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Wade, Sharon and I ran the Labor Day 5k at Worthington Hills Elementary School. My time was 23:56. I had been shooting for 25 min. so I was really pleased with my time. Wade and Sharon did great in their 5k walk. All in all, a great Labor Day morning.
Here’s the link to the overall [...]

Did you think Noah had already met all of his grandparents? Well, there was one set left to meet: grandma and grandpa Bashore. The Bashores are Greg Bashore’s (my college roommate) parents and are like a second set of parents to me. They made the drive out from Pleasant Hill today, along with Aunt Monica [...]

Emily posted about it a couple weeks ago, but I finally got my Hoefer Family Reunion pictures up. Check them out in the slideshow below:

Mike, Noah, and I traveled to Tuppers Plains, OH, where the Rice family gathered for our family reunion.  The Rice family dates back a zillion years, and the family land is located on Rice Run Road (named after our family, of course).   The  farmhouse still has the logs in the walls from the log [...]

So a few weeks ago we went on our first family vacation.  Emphasis on FAMILY!  We had not one, but TWO family reunions rolled into a trip to North Carolina.  First stop- Blue Mountain, NC, where Mike’s family rented a lodge for the week.  All 40 of us.  It was so much fun to see [...]

On our way back from vacation (many more pictures to come) yesterday we realized that we would be driving past the Bob Evans Farm in Rio Grande, Ohio. Noah really wanted to go and see it, so we made a small detour. He really enjoyed himself as you can see from the sideshow below.