Yesterday I ran a half marathon in Mesquite. It was my second time running a half, and I was hoping to beat my time of 2:04, but instead I came in at 2:09 and slightly disappointed. However, I've never been so happy to finish a run in my life. The wind was horrible, my knee was killing me and my feet had had it. I blame my time on the wind. Even though I'm not a huge fan of running half marathons, I feel like I need to keep running them until I get a sub 2 time and then I'll stop because I think that's as good as I'm gonna get.
(me, Emily and Jessica)
We're missing our other running pal, Lindsay, in this picture, but the four of us got up bright and early yesterday morning and drove to Mesquite. It was actually kind of fun and the temperature outside was perfect. Then the wind started picking up, the race started a half an hour late and it just started going downhill (not literally speaking) from there. My knee started hurting really early on but I'm thankful the real pain didn't take over until the last couple of miles. I liked the course and would do it again for sure if I can be guaranteed no wind. Wouldn't that be nice? The first 7 miles had some decent hills but nothing worse than what we have here and they didn't last long. Then the last 6 miles were downhill or flat and that was nice except the wind kept getting worse in the last half. Have I mentioned the wind?
Anyway, glad it's over and now I have another lovely medal to add to my little collection. Now for the marathon...
...who has a very unique sense of style.
...he likes to tuck his shirts in.
One last glimpse of her with long hair.
Abe with his embarrassingly wild mane.
Really the only thing we wanted to do on the second day was get the kids in to do the Jedi training. Kelly had worked with the kids the night before on the choreography (no kidding) so they were set. Fortunately, they both were chosen. It may have had something to do with us getting there WAY early and sitting in the front and Kelly showing off his guns. No, I'm just kidding.
They both fought Darth Vader and won. We were all so relieved. Abe was terrified and could barely move but Lilly was filled with the force and fought the dark side like a super jedi. She was so into it that when Darth Vader asks if she'll join him on the dark side, she shook her head no and boy, you could tell she meant it.
Although Lilly loves horses, this is the first time she (and Abe, too) had ever been on a full sized horse. They did great!
Let's start backwards since I uploaded the pictures in the wrong order. We spent Halloween night in California with family. I don't think Abe and Lilly could have possibly had more fun. They were over the moon as they played with cousins and O.D'd on candy. Oliver was beside himself with fatigue and so I stayed in my brother's house and stole their candy while Kelly took the big kids around with the family. Even though I missed that part, it really was a fun evening.
Here are Lilly and Abe at Lilly's costume parade at school. Abe insisted on wearing his costume and I pretty much let him do whatever he wants cause I'm afraid of him.
