Thanksgiving point Half Marathon

I signed up for a half marathon in November. I thought if I signed up, it would motivate me to run all winter long. Well.. It sorta did. I did train more this winter than ever before.. however.. not enough to say that I was prepared. So I am nervous... to make matters worse.. the day before my race.. it snows. Nothing that stick on the ground though.. so I am a little more worried about this race than I was before.

Saturday morning I get up at 5:30 am.. and there is 2 to 3 inches of snow at my house, and its still coming down. I was sick to my stomach... But I got up.. and got ready.. and went to the race.

Here is a a picture about 10 minutes before the race starts. The sky is clearing up.. But its still SO SO SO cold.


The race was so hard. This course had lots of ups and down. Not my favorite course, but it was beautiful! Running through the tulip festival, with the snow on all of the flowers.. and the sun coming out. I could smell the cherry blossoms, and the air was super clear. It ended up being a pretty fun race.

Here I am.. closing in on the finish line.



And crossing!!! I made it! The time on the clock is not my real time. Its a chip timed race.. which means that your time starts when you cross the starting line. I did not get to the starting line right at first.. so my real finishing time was 2:44. That is 20 seconds faster than my time on the halloween half! And this course was tougher!!! I did awesome!!! So awesome that after I crossed the finish line, I started to cry. It was such a great moment!!



After the race.. with the finish line in the back ground!!


Around mile 5 I feel a blister coming on... I did not want my life to be miserable. So I named my Blister.. that way I could talk to it, and hopefully not get a bad attitude. A bad attitude, with 8 miles left to go.. could be disastrous. I would like you to meet... ANDREW the blister.



In case you could not spot him above.. I circled him... Biggest blister I have ever had..



I am really glad that I signed up for this race, and that I finished it. It was a true race against myself. And I won. :)

Motercycle Date

Tyes friend let us borrow his bike for a day! It was awesome! I cannot wait to get our own bike. The helmet that I used was a little too small for me.. if you look in the picture below, you can see how it squished my cheeks. :) But I would rather have squished cheeks than a squished head any day. :)


Here we are together. :)

Paiges Creative Side

I was given a dresser. Well... as you can see.. its pretty old. So I gave it a quick face lift last night as I watched Tangled. Here are some of the before pictures.


And here are the after pictures. Its a little busy.. but I love it!

Trip to Moab

I had such a great time in Moab!! I will admit that I got a little scared on a few of the jeep trails, but I believe that next time I will do much better now that I know what to expect.



One of the main reasons we planned this trip is so I could go down and run. I ended up changing my half marathon to a 5 mile run and I am so glad that I did. My shoes are kinda old, and my legs started to go numb about a mile into my run. Guess my shoes were done.. I was able to finish the race and I was so happy to be done, and get those shoes off of my feet! They have been retired, never to be worn again!

My drive to work.

Here are a few pictures from my drive to work the other day.. It was awesome.

Puppy Love

Here are some pictures of my doggie. I personally believe that she is the cutest doggie in the world... so I find myself taking pictures of her all the time. Here are a few of my favorites.

She loves to play in the snow. But her fur is so long, that it sticks to her.



Tye did not want to get a dog.. but I kinda got one any ways. Here he is playing with her. He might not admit it, but he is glad I got a dog too. :)


My nieces when to pirate island for dinner a while ago.. and they got eye patches. I decided to see how Shiesa would look as a pirate....

I gave her a hair cut the other day. This is a pretty bad picture of her, but you can tell how un-fuzzy her face is. She looks like a new dog, but still pretty darn cute! You can see her underbite in this picture.

Sledding with the Nieces

We decided to go sledding a few months back, and we had a blast. There was not much snow on the ground, but just enough that we could go.

Here are the girls at the top of the hill. It was quite a hike to get to the top. Madison and Avery said that its the "Best sledding hill EVER".

The hill was so big that Livy decided to be the photographer.



When we got there it was beautiful, however there was a storm that was coming in. We only sledded for about 30 minutes. Here is the mountain before...




Here is the mountains when we left.. the storm blew in fast.