6 miles on the icy sidewalks and in the freezing cold...DONE!

White Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas. Christmas Eve we celebrated with my Dad and then a few hours later my aunt, uncle, grandmother and cousins came over and we celebrated with them as well.

Me and Hayden at my Dads

Hayden and Kayla at home putting milk, cookies and carrots out for Santa and his reindeer

Sleepy heads seeing their things from Santa Christmas morning



Then we all got dressed and went outside to play in this! Here in Alabama we don't get much snow and this is the first white Christmas I have ever had.

Our first snowman. We have had snow before but never enough to actually build anything.

I miss it...

I miss my primarily weight loss/workout/attempt at weight loss, lol blog....it is what I think about constantly and well I miss it:(

So, I am going to talk about what I said I wasn't really going to talk about on this blog. I have been training for a half marathon on February 13th. It has been hard and this past Saturday I was supposed to run 6 miles for my long run but made it 2 miles and had to call Ken to come get me because my calves were cramping up....yeah...probably due to too many Diet Pepsi's and not enough water. So, the longest long run I have made it through is 5 miles. Let me tell you that running in 20-30 degree weather with the wind and even snow has not made it fun for this girl. I have asked myself what I was thinking a million times. Last nights "short run" of 4 miles was much better and I am curious to see how my long run of 6 miles goes this weekend. Yeah, I have to run 6 miles either Christmas Day or the day after...fun....not! I really don't know how in less than 2 months I am going to be able to run 13.1 miles...I really think I have lost my mind!

Teenager in a Minivan

16 years old (and the lighting just makes me look tan...I wasn't) and now 31 years old

For some strange reason in the past month I have been told several times that I look like a teenager and if you are one of my facebook friends sorry this is a repeat but I find it interesting...actually sometimes embarrassing because I have a 7 year old and a 4 year old and I don't really like people's preconceived ideas about what teenagers with kids are like. I'm 31 years old and plenty old enough to have my kids and don't want to be treated like some young thing that doesn't know anything! For goodness sakes people I drive a minivan...not the bright red convertible I did when I was 16!

Thanksgiving Weekend-Saturday

Saturday morning I woke up early and headed to do the Kaiser Realty 5k...it was a fabulous flat course and I beat all my previous race times:)

Saturday afternoon we grabbed lunch at Doc's and then took the kids to the local arcade...we always try to hit up this place while we are down there. The kids LOVE it!

Then we headed to the beach one last time for this trip.

We went to dinner at the Oyster House and took the opportunity for a few pics with the animal props:)

Thanksgiving Weekend-Thursday and Friday

We spent Thanksgiving at my Mom's in Gulf Shores. We had lunch at the Grand Hotel in Point Clear and then headed to the beach:)

Friday it was cold and rainy all day so we basically just hung out inside but I had to go find out where my race location was for a 5k I did Saturday and pick up my packet. Packet pickup was at Tacky Jacks a local restaurant so we just decided to eat lunch there and then headed back to Mom's to watch the Iron Bowl....WAR EAGLE!!!!

Weight Check...

This is strictly for me...I always like to compare myself and see how the running/weight thing is going...this is a phone pic in a mirror that obviously needed cleaning on Friday night before I went to a friends reception...she asked that we wear jeans so that explains that:)