Last Saturday morning Brooke and I ran the Oktoberfest Bier run 5K to benefit the local schools and churches in historic Germantown. This was the first time Brooke had run that far (at least in her adult life), and she ran the whole way - no stopping! Afterwards we walked around the festival, drank our victory beers and watched Eli and Anna Rose get their faces painted. We also made - yes MADE, Derek buy the shirt he is wearing in the pictures at his grandparents house along with some prints of Nashville landmarks that we have been looking at buying for over a year now. We see this vendor at almost all the festivals and events we go to and really like their stuff and Derek always says he wants to buy something, but that he needs to think about it more and will get them later. That is what he said again last weekend. Remember, we have been living here for well over a year and are now leaving in, then, two weeks! I mean what later is he waiting for? You would think he was deciding what Kandinsky to buy not some $12 prints and a $10 shirt! God love him! I sure do.
The next day after Sunday school we went out to Clarksville to see Derek's grandparents one last time before we head out to Denver. We had a really nice time, but I was so tired from working late on Friday and then playing late on Saturday and getting up early every day that I wandered into the spare bedroom and fell asleep. I am sure all the food didn't help the situation either. I am not joking - every time we have dinner at their house I feel like it is Thanksgiving with so much good food. Actually, a Sunday dinner put on by Derek's grandma might even have more food then our Thanksgivings ever did growing up. That is probably an exaggeration, but I really wonder how the Eli's stay so thin - I need to remind myself that I do not have the same DNA as them!!!!!
Derek and Uncle Ricky
