The Turkey Trot.......and Thanksgiving!!

This year after having Sam, Mark and I decided it might be "fun" to start running. I have tried to become a runner before, but it didn't really work. This time....I decided it was going to work!!! So we started training for the Turkey Trot that happened on Thanksgiving. Mark ran the 10K and I ran the 2 mile fun run. Both Mark and I decided our goal was to just run the whole thing. I originally wanted to run the 10K too, but with my baby weight still on, 2 miles was good enough for me. Here is me and my mom before running!! She ran the 2 mile fun run with me too!!


Here is Mark, our bro-in-law Russ, and our sis-in-law Allie. They all ran the 10K!!!

Here is me and my mom finishing!!! I ran 2 miles without stopping. I know for most of you that's nothing, but for me this was HUGE!! It was hard, especially cuz at one point of the race there was an incline, but I did it!!!!! But I wont tell you how long it took. ha ha. The winner of the 10K ran it in about the same time it took me to run 2 miles!! :)

Lovely......thanks for the flattering pic Dad. This is me when i stopped running.

Our "Finisher" ribbons!!!!

MY biggest cheerleader!!! AWWWW! Can you even stand how cute he is?

I can't get enough of him!! He is so cute in that beanie!!

Baby Sam and Grandpa Sam

Here is Mark finishing the 10K!! That's 6.2 miles for those of you who don't know. His goal was just to run the whole thing but he was pretty sure it would take him more than an hour. But he ended up running it in 58:39!!! Even when we trained for this, the most he ever ran was 3 miles! Can you believe that? My hubby is a stud!!!

Mark and Russ. They did it!! Russ' goal was to finish in under an hour. He ran it about a minute faster than Mark. Go Russ!!!!

The new running couple. I am actually starting to like it!! I hope soon it starts getting some of my baby weight off too!!!! GO US!!!!

The rest of Thanksgiving was wonderful. We spent all day at Mark's parents house and then spent all day Friday with my family! It was a great week!!! And if you didn't notice, I finally learned how to write captions above the pictures!!! It only took me about 3 years to figure it out!!! ha ha!!!!