Bahrman Bulletin

Winter arrived a bit early this year.

The view out our bedroom window…

Amy continued her training today for the Dublin marathon, running 23 miles along the Deschutes River Trail.

We are fortunate to live in such a beautiful place. One couldn’t ask for a more picturesque location to train. Well maintained dirt trails along the Deschutes River from SW Bend to Sunriver, passing at least two waterfalls along the way. Light hail fell as Amy wound her way through the aspens, ponderosa pines and lava rock fields.

Today marks Amy’s longest run in preparation for the Dublin marathon on October 26. Despite a little trouble with her knees, it appears Amy is ready. She’ll run a half marathon next weekend here in Bend–the Dirty 2nd Half–and then taper down from there. The hard work is now done; race day is the celebration for all of the training.

In anticipation of Halloween, we did a little shopping this past weekend. Every day since, our little mono has asked to wear her monkey hat (communicated by saying “ee ee” for monkey and tapping her head, which is the sign for hat). A preview of Halloween…

Becca is a senior at Summit High School this year.

One of the benefits of being a senior is that you get to submit individual photos taken by a professional photographer to the yearbook–as opposed to the assembly line photos which are typically used. Tom was honored that Becca asked him to take her senior portraits. But, before the photo shoot got started, little sister made a guest appearance.

Those shots won’t make the yearbook. But maybe one of these will…