Home for the holidays

The week at Alexandra's school before the Christmas break was so crazy! Alexandra's class had a different thing to do each day for example slipper day, pajama day, crazy sock day, and I just realized I only got a picture of pj day! She had her class holiday party Thursday ( I forgot my camera). The Friday before the break the school had a Jingle Bell Run to raise money for diabetes. So Avery and I went to the school to join Alexandra on her run. It was a fun week for Alexandra and made the week go by so much faster. I look forward to having her all to ourselves during the break!! We can't wait to spend lots of time with family and friends!!!























pj day






















Avery ready for Jingle Bell Run

Alexandra and her friends at Jingle Bell Run

13.1

My very good friend Sarah and I ran the Whiterock1/2 marathon in Dallas December 5th. It all started back in June when she asked me to start running with her. I laughed and said "I am not a runner I am a speed walker". She said "just try it, you will get addicted". Well, I did and she was right I LOVE running! Who would have thought. We began training in July and started running 15 minutes a day and then added to that each week. She is a wonderful trainer! We started out running 3 times a week and the closer it got to the big event we ran 6 times a week with early Sunday morning being our long runs. It really worked out well and was hard at times but we pushed through it and did a fantastic job at the 1/2 marathon. We enjoyed it so much we are trying to figure out when to do a full marathon! Call us crazy but it was an amazing experience I would highly recommend it to anyone, runner or not! We made some great memories during training and plan on making many more during our full marathon training.

Sara and I eating our Gatorade energy booster before the race

stretching

Sarah and I before the race picturing ourselves at the finish line!

My wonderful sweet hubby and my # 1 fan!

Alexandra on Cheryl's back

Papa and Avery

My family and friends! Thank you for your support!!

Me putting on my 13.1 sticker. Yay!!!!

New Thanksgiving Tradition

This year I started a new Thanksgiving tradition for my family. I ran in the 43rd Annual Turkey Trot in Dallas with a very good friend of mine. It was a fun experience! There were 30,000 runners/walkers who registered for this huge event. It was crazy madness but so much fun. Sara and I did very very well. We beat our own time by 8 minutes. It was chilly and the temperature kept dropping as we were running. Toby can't wait to run it with us next year! After the Turkey Trot, we went to Caddo to spend the rest of the day with family. What a wonderful day!!

Getting ready for the 8 mile run.

1/2 of the crowd.

Here we are almost at the finish line.

After we ran we loaded up on fruit and water and had our picture taken with the Turkey!

Watch D.O.G.S

Grace Hartman Elemtary has a program called Watch D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Studnets). Toby went school the entire day with Alexandra. She was so excited! Alexandra got to stay with him and help with drop off. Then they headed to the media room. Toby got to be on morning announcements with Alexadnra by his side. He had a schedule to follow all day. He monitored the lunch room and the school grounds. He was exhausted by the time he got home. Alexandra can't wait for him to go back and be a watchdog again.

50's Sock Hop

Tuesday Kindergarten celebrated their 50th day of school with a Sock Hop! I can't believe how fast the time has flown by. She had such a great time! They began their celebration with a rootbeer float and some sweets. Then they went to the cafeteria to have a Sock Hop! They danced to some great 50's music and had a blast dancing for the parents. What a great way to celebrate 50 days of school! Here are some pictures of Alexandra's best moves. Enjoy!

Go girl!

Limbo

Alexandra and Haley

My sweetie!!!

Alexandra and Mrs. Ward

Alexandra and her sweet friends!

Happy Halloween 2010

This year the girls chose to be Jesse (Toy Story series) and Abby Caddaby (Sesame Street). I do have to say they were perfect for their costumes! I think this one of Alexandra looks just like Jesse!




















Alexandra as Jesse




















Sisters.....

Avery as Abby Caddaby

Our first stop was to Cheryl and Vic's....The girls were so excited to ring the doorbell and say trick or treat.....they were given some candy at the door. We went in to visit for a bit and at their surprise were two adorable pumpkin baskets full of candy and treats. I was enjoying their

happiness so much that I didn't even think to get a picture....

After our wonderful visit with our sweet friends we were on to our destination Grace's and Preston's house. This year their neighborhood was having a hayride and then going trick or treating together. What a wonderful idea! We met at the house and then took a short hayride around the outskirts of Lake Ray Hubbard. Finally, it was time to trick or treat. There were about 15 kids in this group. It was fun to see them travel in this big pack running to get candy. Everyone had such a great time I am sure they will do it again next year! Thanks Jana and Nick for inviting us. We all had a great time!

Skeleton boy, snow princess, Abby Caddaby, and Jesse

The girls on the hayride

Trick or Treaters

Our family....

Jana and me

The girls trick or treating.....

The Night Before Halloween

The night before Halloween the girls and I took a walk with our flashlights around our neighborhood! We saw lots of great decorations but here were a few of the girls favorites. It was fun to see them have so much fun walking up to the decorations trying to figure them out. On the walk back to our house we ran into two high school boys with scary masks. They saw me and the girls and I was so thankful they removed their masks before the girls could see them. It is nice to know there are still young thoughful people in this world!

The girls with Frankenstein and the witch in the pot.

The girls and the big spider.

The girls and the skeleton on a motorcycle.