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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Myrtle Beach Bound

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We are headed out later today for Myrtle Beach and I'm running around like a mad person getting errands, packing, etc. taken care of. On top of all that, I woke up to my dog having been sick in my kids' room...so that was an extra fun way to start this day!

I'm looking forward to my Turkey Trot 8K on Thanksgiving, I'll let you know how it goes! I'm hoping to do it in under an hour, but I haven't been training much the last couple weeks with the rain and cold {if I'm going to do a 5am run, it's going to be in decent conditions, mmmkay?} ;-)

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Have a very happy Thanksgiving! It will officially be DECEMBER when I get back to posting on Monday! WOW - 2014, where did you go?

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Turkey Day Run: Race Recap

Ok...so I have to officially say I hate the chip timing system. Hate.

I feel like my time is never logged right in the end. {Let's not forget last month's Race for the Cure when my time chip apparently didn't even log my actual!}

So let's hash this out...the race officially started at 9am. I was in the second wave which started at 9:03. So the clock had been running 3 minutes before I was able to start. When I hit the end of the race, I remember looking up at the time and seeing 34:54...then of course, due to bottlenecking, was unable to get my timer under the finish line until sometime after 35 min, apparently 35:09, because my time on the website says this:

BUT, if I go to my RunKeeper app, I show that I ran FURTHER than 3.1 miles {not by much} and know that my app had been running for at least two minutes before I actually started moving:

I suppose this chip time was close, but due to the bottlenecking at the start and at the end of the race, I'd estimate my actual time to be right at about 30:30 - 31:00 minutes. So pretty much the same as last month's Race for the Cure. My next run is the Reindeer Run, hopefully I can really push it then! I'd so love to see a time UNDER 30 minutes.

Going to trudge through with my half marathon training this week!

Monday Musings

How was y'all's Thanksgiving weekend? I tell you, it was soooo nice having four days off from work. Thanksgiving/My 5th Anniversary was a great day. I started out on a good foot by doing the Turkey Day 5K downtown. It was a great day for running, however, a bit cold waiting for the race to start! Before heading back home, I had a post-race beer {gotta love free booze!}

Our Thanksgiving dinner was very quaint since it was just the four of us this year. We cooked a turkey and a few of our other favorite Thanksgiving dishes and had a nice family meal. {Due to the cold, we didn't make it out to Breach Inlet for a beach picnic as I had originally hoped.} Here's my sweet boys enjoying their feast:

And yes, that is turkey he is holding {he gets just as excited for Thanksgiving as his daddy does}:

After dinner, hubby surprised me with my anniversary gift:

It was the Chance Chanel perfume...

I'm loving the fragrance. It's nice to wear a new scent every once in a while.

On Friday, I put up the Christmas decorations and that night we passed around the eggnog, turned up some Christmas music and decorated our Christmas tree.

On Sunday, we went to church and then that afternoon we headed to the cobblestone streets of downtown Charleston to have a long overdue family photo session. {Christmas cards need to be made soon!} I can't wait to get the portrait CD back later this week to show y'all how they turned out!

Have a great week!

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