The picture on the left is Cody and Quinn with Santa last year. Christmas is Codes favorite holiday for obvious reasons, but the less obvious is that he loves the pageantry. He genuinely loves our tree, all the decorations around the house, the lights around the neighborhood, the Christmas songs, holiday music at the stores and all the special events around town. When someone comes over to the house he very promptly runs into the living room and in his very loud (hearing impaired) voice announces, "Merry Christmas!", while extending his arms to the tree he helped decorate. He calls out every Santa Claus sign he sees on the road, same with elves, trees and anything else that says its the holidays. This sometimes makes for an annoying car ride. Especially as we get closer to Christmas and it's been almost three weeks of constant calling out of everything Christmas. Not to mention he won't stop calling it out until you acknowledge that you see it. Without even realizing it Knikie, Quinn and I take turns acknowledging him. Seems almost comical when you look at the whole picture.
We have already raised nearly $695!!!! Way more than I thought we would see during the holidays. I will start another big push in January and am considering some other fund raiser events along the way. I am really excited with the great start we have gotten off too!!
On the training front, I haven't been exactly setting the world on fire, but I have been trying to do my off season maintenance. I have been riding and running with a great group of guys on Tuesday nights. We get in about 18-25 miles on the bike and then follow it up with a hard as you can 2 mile run. Last night I had a great 8 mile run. Felt great on my feet and really think my running is going to get better this next year!!!
I still have several blog ideas, but I was wondering if any of you have any suggestions or questions you guys would like me to answer in the blog or offline??? Simply add a comment at the bottom, you can even do it anonymously if you want.
Hope your Holidays are 20X better than ever this year!!!
Cale
