Yea, I know once again I am a little behind. I just cannot imagine why? Oh yea, three kids, tons of activities and traveling out of state just may be why :) I cringe when I look at our calendar. We have something going on literally everyday until Christmas. I am busy trying to figure out in my mind how I can fit everything in. It will get done, trust me and this year I vow to have the kids visit with Santa before Christmas Eve!
Rewind to Thanksgiving weekend. We happily drove to Kansas City on Wednesday morning. The ride went so smoothly that we made it there in record time(passing my sister and brother in law who left an hour before us:) As soon as we got there, the kids were on their scooters and rollerblades hanging out with the neighbor kids. The couple who live across the street are orginally from Fairbault so they had 10 family members arriving from MN as well. It was nice to finally meet them and their family arrived shortly after us so we shared travel stories.
Thanksgiving morning, I woke up bright and early to meet my girlfriend Erika in Overland Park to run the annual Turkey Day 5K. The morning was 50 degrees and sunny. It was a beautiful day for a run. When we got to the site, I was overwhelmed with the number of people who were there. There were over 1,000 runners! So much for getting a PR on this race! If you have ever run a jam packed race you will know that you spend the majority of your time and energy bobbing and weaving in between people to try to keep your pace up. Long story short, it gets annoying and frustrating if you just don't let it go. My phone crapped out on me halfway through the race so I was assuming I was running at an 8 min/mile pace. The course was very challenging and full of hills and turns so I took everything in stride. At the end, I was thankful it was over. Erika and I had a great time hanging with each other and doing the race. We are thinking of doing a different one next year. My official time was 25:22 and I got a really awesome tee shirt to show for my efforts.
When I got back to my in-law's the party was just about to get started. I got ready and by the time I got downstairs again family members had started to arrive. One of the things that my mother in law does is randomly select who sits where. I love it because there are two big tables and you get to sit with different people each year. Chadd and Andy drew pictures of turkey's and pilgrims and feathers and leaves on each place card and then Avery drew the names and placed them. This year I got to sit with a few of my favorite people. After dinner, we sang some karoake, played pool and watched the kids have a blast. It was a wonderful holiday!
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