Dad turns 71!

John Albert Holman turned 71! Mom the ultimate party planner hosted a great party. They rented a church building, bought a ton of pizza and set up a projector for playing games on. The cousins ran a muck, explored the old building and made a play. I love having family close even better family that I love. The Smiths obviously couldn't be there, which stinks because Mom and Lindsey are definitely the two biggest party animals. John's family bought dad the old "Mr. Bill" videos and doll..it was a blast from the past. We watched some episodes the kids were very amused. The girls bought dad a medal detector which seems appropriate for retirement. It was a grand nigh for a grand Dad ♥️

Two races complete in the first 4 days of the new year!

We had our annual Howe famly 5K on New Years day. Danny and Pete designed a new course which involved circling the neighborhood park, 4 laps around. This made it easy for little kids not to get lost in the neighborhood and for spectators to see more of the runners. This year a miracle happened... I won the race!! So what if some of the families serious runners were jogging with their kids...I won! My speech was incredible, it spoke of my journey towards the podium.. 

Then on Saturday Benjamin and I ran in The Run Around Tucson Relay. The relay consists of 8 members. There was us, Mike and Katie Walston, her brother Jeff, and Katie's friend Kashmir, and a father son team Brett and Aiden Omadal. It was a fun team each runner had a leg that was anywhere form 5 to 8 miles. Benjamin did the longest leg of 8 miles which was basically all up hill. My leg was mostly on the south side of town in the city. It was 7 miles. It was cool because I have never run in that area of town. I was frustrated because at mile 3 I had to stop for a traffic light and it killed my mojo. My foot had been acting up the last couple of days and I was worried I wouldn't be able to physically do it but my foot felt great. Mentally at mile 5 I was donezo. It was a complete mental battle the last 3 miles of the race. But I finished! All in all it was a great race and we got cool medals, a t-shirt and a free lunch. I use the word "free" loosely because you do have to pay to do the run :)

For Christmas Benjamin and I got new running shoes for each other. We went to the Fleet Feet store. Its a shoe place that scans your foot to check your arch, posture and foot measurements and pulls shoes that work best for your physical frame. The shoes have taken a bit getting used to but it felt good running in new shoes.

Family Photos 2019

I was so grateful Carlie and Seth came to town for New Years, because Carlie could take our family pictures in 2019! She is an excellent photographer, who knows how to pose people and who also is extremely speedy! We took the pictures by Sabino creek that's next to our place. We go to the creek several times a week during winter break and usually weekly during normal weeks.

 Isabella Jules 18

 Olivia Jane 17

Holman Jackson 15

Parkin Joshua 12

Adrianna Joyce 10

 Benjamin and Lesley 42 and 41

 Going on 22 years of marriage!