I decided I needed to do something hard. And lucky for me I have a friend named Lori, and she does hard things. She won me over with a video she made. It was 20 weeks of training. The first day of training was to run for 15 minutes......and I almost died. I'm not even kidding, it was emabarrassing. I told her if I could run the least amount of miles I was in. Long story short, it was a lot of awesome and a little bit of miserable. Kris did it too!! Running approximately 196 miles in roughly 36 hours. We had two teams of 12, in 4 vans. My van had to be in Chattanooga at 5:30am, I think we slept a total of maybe an hour and a half. We had a baby in our van, I was worried, but honestly he couldn't have been better. I ran 10.5 miles total. First and second legs were awesome, I ran faster than I trained, felt great. The last one I cried, and wanted to quit, and wondered why in the heck I was doing this. It was the lack of sleep talking. Luckily for me, I have an awesome husband. I rounded that last corner thinking, "I just need to go in the parking lot, have a good cry by myself and I'll be fine." instead I was greeted with my hubs and my friends making a tunnel for me to run through cheering for me. I cried different tears. It was so hard for me. I need to do hard things. I need to push myself. i worked so hard, and I felt so proud. i didn't even mind that every single person in my van was A LOT faster than me. They didn't care either, they were so supportive and enthusiastic and positive. I love them.
Kris was a BEAST!! I was really worried because between work and school he had no time to train, and he was running 17.9 miles!! The longest he had ever run in his life was 4 miles. I was relieved every time I saw him. He had so much fun too. We are planning on doing it again. Probably because we're crazy.....
So I am finally able to upload photos from 6 months ago and while trying to redo somethings, I have lost my blog list, and nothing is how I want. I am about over blogger, and you know when you are angry to tears? I am there. But alas, I need to print this all out before I lose it-so here it goes.
We made it to the pumpkin patch...
..and that night we went to see "Hotel Transylvania" after having some Angry Bird Pizza/Cake with some buds.
Abram declared it the best birthday ever. It was oddly laid back. We have had each boy over for playdates and they are running up and down the stairs yelling, being loud boys. Abram had got an Angry Bird game that you build and play. The boys just sat around quietly building and playing-it was really bizarre, but they had fun. I would talk about how hard it is to believe that my baby is 6, however, it has taken so long to get this all down he is almost 6 1/2! I love that boy though, I tell you what he is the sweetest, mopt tender hearted kid you'll ever meet. He is completely obsessed with animals, Angry Birds, and video games. Most days his brother is his best friend. He tells me I am the prettiest girl in the world. He is smart as a whip and says the wittiest things. I am proud to be his Mom.
