Thanksgiving Here We Come!

For the first time T and I are hosting Thanksgiving for his family. I am super excited and super nervous for this. All day today we were preparing for the event. We went grocery shopping ( which is a whole other crazy experience ) and cleaned the house. When we got home we started preparing some of the food that could be done the night before: pickle wraps, green bean casserole and pumpkin pie. I think I purchased the hardest easiest pumpkin pie stuff. The crust and only the crust had to be covered with tin foil after the first 15 minutes. Sounds easy enough right? Not so easy. Both T and I were hovering over the hot oven trying to place tin foil on a very hot pie crust all the while trying not disturb the pumpkin filling. This was not working out so well for us every time we would get one piece of foil on another would fall off. So we decided to take them completely out of the oven. This definitely worked a lot better without the heat of the oven in our faces. After we finally got all the foil on T was trying to very carefully place them back into the oven and dropped one on the door to oven. I just thought this was so funny and T did not. After all this hoopla with the pies I sure hope the pumpkin pie that made it is sure delicious and worth the struggle!!! I love holidays they are always full of fun and unexpected disasters!

Half - Marathon Here I Come

For the last two weeks I have been training for a half-marathon that will take place on January 12th. For some now I know insane reason I let my sister-inlaw Angela talk me into running this. I guess it is not really the run that makes me nervous but the fact that when I agreed to run this I only had 10 weeks to train. My goal is to just run the whole thing. At first I thought that if I trained everyday I would be able to reach this goal but my last few runs have been discouraging. I started off running two miles and now I run a very challenging 3 miles. Tonight on my run all I could think about was that if 3 miles are this hard for me now how am I ever going to make 13 miles. Well I'm not one to give up, I am one to get mad and get her done! If I have to finish on a gurny with an oxygen bag I will finish the run!

A Little About My Family

This is my first blog so to start it off I thought I would share why I decided to start blogging. Some of my sister inlaws blog religously and I have several friends that blog and thought that it would be great way to try and keep in better touch with them. This new world of blogging seems like a lot of fun and I am excited to get started.