The Hanks are in DC!

Naomi and Kevin made it!

I've been hearing about this awesome couple for forever.

Kevin is one of Eric's best friends, and cousins

and Naomi has grown up with Eric since elementary school,

yet we weren't able to meet this naturally loving family until last night.

Now how to remove them from Chicago and transport them next door...

Mr Smith just wants someone to share tools with =)

Yes folks, the weekend has finally arrived, and you know what that means? The Rock & Roll Marathon. Our lovely husbands are trying to expire their aged years. Well, at least mine is. Just kidding honey! kinda-but-not-really.

Mr Smith is always in fit shape (I keep him as a great role model), but a marathon is a little above and beyond the every day wear and tear of the knees/joints/feet/arms/muscles etc... I'm so proud of him though. One day I'll make him proud. Although a marathon will never be in my future (I'd might as well start picking out a coffin), I'm thinking a half marathon is a great one-time goal.

ANY WAY - although they are crazy, it brought the Hanks into to DC with their darling girls, princess Brooklyn and Princess Lily, who sometimes take on the roll of kitty cat when the stage needs it.

Pictures to come: complete exhaustion (Mr Smith at the finish line) and beauty (the blossoms are in full bloom)! I may have to balance myself as marathon cheerleader and photographer. Not of the runners (although surely I will be creeping on people too tired to care), but I have a couple who wanted some engagement shots with the blossoms and due to this awesome, but inconvenient, warm weather, the trees bloomed early!

Happy freakin Friday y'all!

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