I am a baseball mom till July

Well, we have started another season with the KC Crushers. This is a truly terrific team with awesome parents and the boys are so fun. Every kid on this team can hit. It is going to be a fun season. Watch the following blog to see all the pictures and the record for Ethan's baseball team. http://crusherskc.blogspot.com/

Happy Birthday, Charlie!

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Sharon and Elvis Birthday Party!

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Happy New Year from the Muirs

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Hunters

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Ethan wins 1st place in the race!

On Oct. 10th Ethan participated in a kids fun run and obstacle course and he WON!!! So proud of Ethan! It was a very cold and windy morning. I may have a future racer on my hands.

Ethan started Kindergarten!

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Ethan's family picture art

Ethan drew this picture of our family. Can you guess who is the one with the Red hair? Ethan is in the middle and I am the other one with very long legs. A child's perspective is very fun to see!

Sharon gets good news at the doctor!!!

Thanks to all of you who were praying for my health concerns. I am praising God today for the good news that the cysts on my ovaries are going away so I will NOT be having surgery any time soon! Yea! Well now that my health concerns are over I can move on to my future work opportunities. Please keep praying for me and my family.

My last day, March 13th and Ethan's comments

Just thought I'd send an update that my last day at Sprint will be on March 13.

Here is Ethan's perspective on where I should get my next job...
Rob told Ethan that I won't be working at Sprint anymore and that I will be looking for a different job. Rob also said, "We need to pray that God will lead Mommy where she needs to go next." Ethan asked, "Do you think God might be leading Mommy to work at Game Stop so we can get some free video games?" Kids say the funniest things!

So many questions from you guys & here are the answers for now...

I am leaving Sprint because I have been layed off. My last day there is March 27. Don't worry I have a nice company separation package. I will still get paid for a while. But I do need to find my next job.
This is truly a blessing and answer to prayer. Our family has been praying for God to lead me where I need to go and looks like the door at Sprint is closing but surely there is something special waiting for me. I plan to get in a lot of work out time in the gym and road work for race training. Looking forward to that.
Let me know if you have any job opportunities that I could explore. Please pray for God to show me my next opportunity. Thanks!

Leaving Sprint

I will be leaving Sprint at the end of March.
Please send any email communications to my personal email.
Check my blog for my next steps.

Love to Run 4 mile

Here are my friends who were tough enough to do 4 miles in the cold on Valentine's Day. Maria Purtle, Johnna and John Perry.

I gave in to my cravings...

Today I had the option to eat out for lunch. I made bad choices. My head told me I wanted a loaded breaded chicken sandwich with cheese and cheddar bites with ranch dressing. I ate that while driving in the car and doing errands at lunch. After eating that my body said, "Yuck, I don't like all that fried food!" My body is punishing me this afternoon for my moment of weakness. My lesson learned is there are some cravings that we should NOT give in to.

Valentine's day race coming up...

Hope you will join me for my next race on Valentine's day at the downtown KC airport. See the following link to sign up.

My 2008 Goal is acheived!!!

Well, my friend, Mandy and I completed the goal of doing one race a month for the entire year of 2008. Whew! I'm glad that is over! That was an ambitious goal. Glad I had a fun and positive person like Mandy to do those races with. I think this year I will just choose my favorite races to return to and add a few new ones. Looking back I think my favorite races were the January Groundhog Run in the caves, Trolley Run in April around Brookside and the Plaza and, of course, the Nike Women's Marathon in San Francisco. I'm thinking about traveling out of KC for a few races in 2009. Also want to do at least 2 half marathons this year. No, I am NOT gonna try for a full marathon! I am too slow and would probably come in last. I will just stick with what is working for me which is 5K's, 4-milers and 1/2 marathons. Any of you in KC area who want to train with a group can check out this blog to train with ladies in the Northland. Northland Women's Walk/Run Club - http://www.nwwr.blogspot.com/

Last Race of the year!!! Resolution Run 5K - Dec. 28

Today was the Resolution Run 5k. The participants are pictured with this post. Johnna Perry is so creative and she developed the route starting at the Liberty Community Center and in the surrounding neighborhoods. All participants were given a tote bag with the race logo and Johnna's creativity came through again with all the fun activities that were planned during the route and asking all of us to donate $5 to Harversters. On the route we had to answer healthy food questions and add a canned good to our tote bag then at the finish line we got points for how many food questions we answered correctly. Johnna made up challenges for us to do during the race. You had to randomly pick a piece of paper that had a physical challenge on it. My Challenge was to do 20 Front Kicks (10 left and 10 right). Others had things like do 3 cartwheels or do 20 lunges or 30 seconds of jump rope. All the fun things that we did made us forget about how cold and icy and snowy it was out there today. Cold and fun is what I would say about the Resolution Run.

Long Grandchildren Christmas Picture

Nanna Kay asks for us to get a picture from Stephen's Photography every year to be used for photo Christmas cards for Charlie and Kay Long. The Long Grandchildren and ages are Blake Long age 17, Nick Long age 12, Kennadie Kay Long age 10 and Ethan Muir age 5. I can't believe how this picture makes them all look so grown up and tall and like models. Wow! My brother, Paul, and I are so proud of our kids. Merry Christmas!

Long Family Thanksgiving in Bolivar, MO

Ethan and I went to Bolivar for Thanksgiving and stayed with my brother's family. We had fun keeping the kids busy so they would not fight. The kids painted Christmas decorations and we took them to the park to feed the ducks and play. EARLY Friday morning my sister-in-law Brenda and I went to the Black Friday sales in Springfield. We got up at 2:30 am to get in line for our first sale at 4 am. It is a fun tradition that Bren and I love to do. Ethan got to help Uncle Paul put Christmas lights on the house and place the nativity scene on the yard and reindeer on the other part of the yard. Where was Rob? He had to work at the fire station on Thanksgiving and Friday so we hung out with the family while he was working. Hope you had a good Thanksgiving holiday.

Jingle Bell Run team called Cardio Crusaders

Here is a picture of my Cardio Crusaders team from the Arthritis Foundation Jingle Bell Run. The race was on Nov. 23rd at Zona Rosa in North KC, MO. Ethan likes to get to be involved in my races and he always gets to come to the Arthritis Foundation races. My goal of one race a month in 2008 is almost complete just have to do one more race in December.