Turkeys and Tie Dyes

Thanksgiving time brings the Tie Dye and Turkey tradition out in my local Mom's Club and each year we get to go to Julie's house and her and her three girls show us how to tie dye a shirt and make cute little turkeys out of candy and cookies!  It is always lots of fun! here are some shots from that day!
There was a good turn out of kids too.. Some of the moms in attendance: Julie Schedler, Melissa Gettman and her kids, Tessa Laib, Carol Evens, Alice Edgecomb, Ann Porteous, Stacie ( I think) ....anyway there were LOTS of kids!

Here we are trying to make turkeys from Oreo and candy corn!

 Look some got made without being eaten!!

 Lots of silly faces going on too!

 I think Sawyer really likes Riley...maybe it was Rorey? (not sure :))

 Here is Ashlee's master piece turkey !!

 And Now here are some from the tie dye... Check out the enthusiasm on their faces?!!

 protective wear... very important! GLOVES

 Sawyer chose to do one swirl on his shirt!

 Now to carefully apply the dyes!!

 Ashlee chose to do a big swirl all over the shirt!

Here is a look at the finished products!  Great job!

thanks for the fun ladys as always!

Turkey Trot!!!

Turkey Trot!!! A 4 mile run fundraiser for the Oregon ZOO!

The Nagging thought on the eve before our race...." we are going to be completely miserable and get SOAKING wet"!!. But this morning at O'dark 30 there was NO rain! Yeah!

This was Ana's first race ever and I was hoping that it did not turn out to be a flop and miserable.  Because I always love to have more runners!

I wish I could show you all a map of the course but if you know the area around the ZOO it is HILLS everywhere!  Start at the forestry center and head to the Japanese Garden parking lot... The first half of the race went pretty well and pace was good too, but after the halfway point it was a out and back course and what was downhill there was a BIG hill back.... so our pace slowed.... but we made it to the end at the bottom of the zoo down on the concert lawn.  I was SO happy to see that we did it in 45 minutes! For being cold, not very well prepared and Ana's first race, we did GREAT!!!  ( and there was NO rain)!!


Thank you thank you! and EAT lots of turkey!!