becoming six

Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Christmas Card 2010

Even though I am N.O.T. about to show you our Christmas card (you will just have to wait till you get it in the mail), I will show you a few shot from our quick photo shoot today. And it was quick because it was about 20 degrees out.

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Thanksgiving Part I

It's 10:03 am and I am just sipping on my first cup of delish coffee and decided to blog a bit...

Like I said, for Thanksgiving we headed south to be with family and friends. The week began with a playdate. It is a unique playdate and I always enjoy it when we can be there. All the mommies went to college together, and began having babies at the same time. A couple of the mommies are already on number two!

We played A LOT...

and had yummy treats!

and even took a little time to pose for pictures :)

That week I also got to see my bff's (Clare we missed you!) from high school. There aren't many people that I keep in touch with from high school except maybe a hi here or there on facebook. It is always nice to be with these girlies. We snacked, chatted and watched Andi cook for thanksgiving. I love these two :)

How did I get to have such B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L friends??

That night we (along with Daniel's side of the family) headed out to see santa.

We were ready (the first picture on here I found and just wanted to post because E man was smiling)...

and we waited in line...

and played with Mia...

But when the time came to sit in Santa's lap...we weren't terribly happy!

more to come: Thanksgiving Part II

Monday, December 06, 2010

US

Most of our pictures lately (as in the last 11 months) mainly don't included Daniel and I by ourselves. SOOO at Thanksgiving I made sure to snag a picture with the man I love and call my hubby...

such a sweetie :)

Sunday, December 05, 2010

Who Took My Child??

Because there is NO WAY this could be him...this little fella looks waaay to old. I have a little baby right?

Okay in all seriousness when I walked in the room this morning after Daniel dressed Eli, I honestly just wanted to start crying. Fighting back the tears were hard. I saw this boy who is no longer a baby :(. 15 months old and so handsome if I do say so myself. I of course snagged my camera and started snapping away. He was so cooperative this morning!

On a different, we had our first snow. I would say that I was super excited and played in it all day...BUT (and I know this sounds crazy) I remember all that comes with snow and well...it makes it less fun. Yes it is B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L here don't get me wrong, I just remember how cold I was last winter and how snow can kind of --scratch that--IS a pain! But we went out anyway to get pics of big man in it.

Wednesday, December 01, 2010

It's December!

We woke up this morning to a beautiful sight...snow! I could hardly believe it, but I could feel it from the chill bumps I was experiencing.

Sorry for the lack of blogging. I promise to be back real soon with photos and stories. We have been fighting an awful stomach virus that I can gladly say is gone from us now!

But since it is December, our Christmas jammies (and other clothing) are coming out.

Friday, November 19, 2010

This song..

makes me ball for sure.

oh yea...and this one too!

Not being in the South has made me go back to my roots...country! Even though most of the music I listen to is on the Christian radio station, these two songs have caught my ears lately.

Grab a tissue, a chair & listen :)

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Look what came in the mail today...

That's right...My medal for the half. And guess what........................I GOT 2ND! Who knew I even placed?? We had to leave the race early to get e man. I was shocked! SWEET.

Sunday, November 07, 2010

Some have said recently..

That he favors me. I still have my doubts, but will take what I can get. I will leave that to you...what do you think?

yes if you are asking yourself right now "did she get a hair cut?" YES I did! And I can't wait to go back to her over Christmas!!! :) Message me if you are from my home town...she is worth it!

more to come this week. Its been super busy since our trip to Colorado

Saturday, October 23, 2010

13.1

I need to clarify here. We actually ran 13.22--it seems they messed up on the exact milage (I wouldn't second guess our garmin :))!

I am sitting here on the couch (RELAXING) and decided what better time to write our race story than now when it is fresh on my mind.

Alarm went off at 5:00am and honestly I wanted to turn it off BUT my hubby was up and at em'.

Scarfed down a bowl (half bowl actually) of oatmeal.

Left the house at 5:45am to drop E off at some dear friends house who graciously volunteered to watch him while we indulged in this thing called running.

Arrived at the race sight at 6:55am. The first thing both of us wanted to do was go potty (the nerves were kicking in). I waited in line to pick up our packets and race stuff while daniel went and used the porta potties. Then I went--I want to interject right here that those are THE. GROSSEST. THINGS. when you have a bunch of runners who are trying to "clear themselves out" before a big run. Eeew!

Now its about 25 mins till the race starts, so we basically stand around, stretch and people watch.

The weather wasn't great. It was chilly and suppose to rain.

like I said, we did a good bit of stretching...

Then we started popping some gels. I caught him in middle chew.

Yes this is my hubby. Isn't he a hunk? Okay don't answer that...I think he is though!

D wanted to get a little pre-race video too

Since we had no fans there :( here is our best attempt at a pre race photo of the two of us.

So race time. This was the first time they had this race at this certain place, so it was a little disorganized, but we didn't mind. They did groups of 25. Once our time got called, we headed to the line, looked at each other (with a half grin) heard the wistle, and off we went.

Honestly the first 3 miles went by so fast I didn't even know we were running. By mile 4 I was looking behind us thinking...we're already here? By mile 5 to 6 I felt my body needing another gel or two. That was probably one of the toughest times of the race.

Mile 6 was when it started raining. ugh!

Between mile 6 and 7 I saw the sign which said "mile 8" (you had to do 2 loops and I thought to myself, wow mile 8 sounds really good right now.)

Once we got to mile 8 we both seemed to be cruisin'. Talking and chatting the whole way (oh and listening to those running around us).

Popped some more gels about mile 9 and 10. Both of us seemed to have legs that were tightening at this point. Like I said earlier, this was their first race here and they had their markers all wrong. Thank goodness we had our garmin!

By mile 10 we decided to start picking it up. We seemed to be blowing past people who blew past us in the beginning. Once we hit mile 12 we were in full power mode. We crossed the finish line holding hands (awe I know :)) at 2:08:10. That's a 9:47 pace. We were hoping for a 9:09 pace, but we just didn't give ourselves enough time to train (5 weeks).

We snagged another runner to snap our picture after the race. Here we are 13.1 miles later. Wet and cold!

Sadly we didn't stay to get our medals because we really needed to head on to pick up big guy!

It was such a great feeling! We were chatting afterwords about how we are ready for the next one ;).

So that's about it.

We will (Lord willing) do it again!

Thanks for all the support!

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More from the park

I don't blog very much, but thought this was a cute video of the wife and kid.

-Daniel