Monday Musings / Weekending

We got back yesterday from our Thanksgiving vacation in Myrtle Beach. It was a lot of fun. The kids were all very good for the most part and they had a blast. The house layout couldn't have been more perfect - a room with bunk beds for the kids, three other nice-size rooms for the adult couples and four bathrooms. Farrah of course slept in her pack-n-play in our room. I'd definitely rent that place again! The view right off our deck was nice too.

The house was right on one of the campground lakes.

To keep the boys busy, there were playgrounds right on the beach, an arcade that was just like any big arcade, an indoor pool {for wintertime} and put-put. The kids loved winning tickets and trading them in for small toys. We also took them to a War Bird park where they had real life planes from wars...and we took them to see the Christmas tree lighting at the Market Commons shopping center.

 

I ran my 8K on Turkey Day! An 8K is 4.97 miles. I am glad I had MapMyRun going on my iPhone because their course was actually a tad longer and their timer read 58 minutes as I crossed the finish. But on my app, I hit 5 miles at 57 minutes. My goal was under an hour and I did it! I joked with my husband that my racing number was his first Thanksgiving {he was born in Jan 1978}.

Farrah, the poor thing, cut her first TWO teeth while we were there. {I think she was trying to cut some in time to enjoy the Thanksgiving feast!} Her nose was runny, she was spitting up a lot, drooling and running a mild fever at times, yet, she was still as sweet and happy as ever. She has been such a good baby.

We did manage to finally get some family pictures taken! I brought my DSLR camera and had my sister-in-law take them. In exchange, I took her family's. Not a bad deal to get some semi-professional looking images. Here are my faves:

So I was able to get my Christmas cards ordered yesterday!

Have a great week! December already...wow.

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Thoughts For Thursday

Linking up with Home of Malones and East Coast Chic for Thoughts on Thursday again...hope y'all are having a wonderful week!

I hit the ground running {literally} this week with my workouts. I have added in running to my regimen to help speed this postpartum weightloss thing along. Monday was a good day...but it was chilly, so Breckin complained the whole time {even though I dressed him warmly}, but being cold season, I didn't want to keep them out, so I ended it pretty early.

But, I am on a mission, so when Jake came home that evening after work, I took a quick run to make up for it.

On Tuesday, I went again to Cardio Craze class {think circuit training similar to Insanity}...it is a hard class, but I am loving it. It's that kind of stuff that really makes the difference...it forces me to push myself.

I mentioned before that I am signed up for the Turkey Trot 8K in Myrtle Beach while we are there for Thanksgiving, and that was going to be my first race since having Farrah. However, my friend Anne asked me to join her for the Color Rave Glow Run they are having here in Charleston on November 1st. It's a 5K and it's an evening run. I have wanted to do one of these races, so I am stoked! Being signed up for races keeps me motivated to keep on running in my spare time. The plan for now is to run in the evenings when Jake comes home, until DST ends on November 1st and I can run in the early AM.

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I already told you about my neighborhood wine night's costume party this past weekend, but someone posted a group picture {this is actually not all of us that came that night!} and I had to share.

I was impressed, everyone had great costumes. I look forward to our wine night every month!

Also wanted to share this fun little picture of my littlest guy and me...he has such an awesome personality...he's only 4, but I swear I'm talking to my equal sometimes. He's trying hard not to smile in this picture, you can tell in his smirk.

I hope y'all enjoyed my outfit posts yesterday and last week...I've got a few more planned in the next couple weeks and I plan on keeping it up. I'm having fun with it and it's really something I've wanted to do for a long time on the blog. Tanner is great at helping me by being my photographer, and I am taking advantage of the timer setting on my DSLR camera so I can snap some myself. So they're not super-professional, but I'm pleased so far. Hope you are too! Would love feedback on the posts when you see them!

Have a great rest of the week!

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