TURKEY TROT

We are LOVING Alabama!  We've made so many good friends so fast!  I love that they like to run too!  We all ran in the Turkey Trot today!  It was so fun!  I ran the 10k.  I was hoping so bad to place!  But I came in 4th.  BOO!!!!  It was a great race!  I kinda decided last minute to do the 10k instead of 5k.  Trevor really wanted to do it with me but he was pushing the girls in the stroller and wasn't sure how pushing 50+ pounds for 6.2 miles would go.  He wasn't too excited about running by himself and pushing the stroller but he was a good sport and ended up having a lot of fun running the 5k!  Yay for races!!

NATIONAL PEANUT FESTIVAL

Savannah has a new friend, Cindy.  She is seriously one of the cutest little girls ever!  They have so much fun together!  Their favorite thing to do is wear my heels.  They're so funny!  Cindy came over to play for a full day while her mom and dad volunteered at the National Peanut Festival.  I was super excited to have her all day to get a feel for what 3 kids would be like.  While we were getting ready to go to the festival, Trevor was putting the girls car seats in the car and I was in the house getting the diaper bag ready.  We didn't have our eyes on the girls for seriously no longer than 2 minutes and we lost them!  Savannah knows she gets in big trouble is she wanders off so we didn't think much of letting them play in the front yard while we were getting ready to go.  We ran all around the neighborhood looking for them and couldn't find them!  So scary!  When we finally found them, they had walked 2 blocks away and were playing with somebody's front door decorations.  Now I wonder, how do people have more than 2 kids without loosing them?  Ha! 

The peanut festival was so fun!  The girls loved the petting zoo and the rides.  There were some really cool animals too!  They even had a liger!  Savannah's favorite part was the horse show.

BUNCH OF SICKIES

This is what we've been up to all week.  Passing colds around, and getting new colds from friends.  Some how Tessa has a crazy awesome immune system.  Trevor, Savannah and I have all been super sick, but Tessa is still totally healthy.  We'll cross our fingers she's just not the last to catch it!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Halloween is so much more fun when you have kids!  I wish I had more pictures!  We all dressed up for our ward trunk or treat.  Trevor decided to dress up last minute and was wearing anything random he could find.  It's all from South America.  Allison, my friend that I ran the 5k with, and I dressed up as runners.  We're cool like that.  Ha!  Savannah was a Seniorita and Tessa was a bat. It was really fun!  Savannah loved Halloween and trick or treating.  Trevor made sure she said 'gracias' after she got her candy.  It was so fun watching how excited she was!  She was so excited to knock on doors and have them drop something in her little plastic pumpkin.  She didn't really care to eat the candy.  It was so cute!  Now she walks around the house saying 'trick or treat' and then puts whatever she finds in her pumpkin, then says 'gracias' to herself.  I love my little seniorita!

SPOOKY 5K

I have a new friend!  And she runs races too!!!  Woohoo!  I've never had a friends that runs races before!  I am so excited!  I've also never run a 5k before.  It was so fun!  I had no idea how fun short distances could be be!  I think Savannah is sick of sitting in the cold and watching mommy run though. 

THE FARM

We had a blast at the farm!  Savannah is so cute with animals.  She has no fear.  She walked right up to the goats and pigs and kissed them.  She loved seeing all of the animals, the vegetables and pretty flowers!  We had so much fun watching her.  She was in heaven!

SAVANNAH THE PILOT

Savannah was running around the house with water bottles held up to her ears, pretending they were a headset, yelling "I fly helicopter!  I fly helicopter!" while making helicopter noises.  She's so funny!  I seriously could just sit and watch her all day and be entertained.  I love her imagination!

Tessa still hasn't quite figured out how to eat cereal but she loves it!  She smiles and giggles the whole time she's eating.  I love my cute little girlies!!!!

YUMMY ROAST BEEF!

When Savannah was a baby I was the most anal parent.  About EVERYTHING.  I can count on both hands how many times she left the house before she was 6 months old, and that's including going to church and the grocery store.  I'm pretty sure I was on the less active list.  I didn't want her to get sick and heaven forbid she got off her schedule!  She was also not aloud to eat any solid food except vegetables and an occasional fruit in her first year.  Poor girl.  We got home from church today and were starving!  Daddy was so nice to let Tessa suck on his spicy cajun roast beef.  She loved it!  Good thing I've learned to relax a little bit, if he had tried this with Savannah I would have been in tears.

THE PARK!!

We went to the park with some new friends today.  It was so fun!  And so cold!! 

THE NORTH FACE ENDURANCE CHALLENGE

The race was awesome!  I forget how much I love racing until I'm doing it and then I wish I could race more often!  I think my favorite part of racing is beating people.  The Gifford comes out in me and I turn insanely competitive and aggressive.  I love it!  At the beginning of the race there are always guys in their early 20's that think they're the stuff (and usually haven't really trained).  They stand at the starting line jumping up and down, yelling, and are super obnoxious.  I always want to say "save your energy buddy.  You, of all people are going to need it."  As soon as the race starts they go sprinting off.  One of these weenies yelled at me to get out of the way.  Around mile 3 I passed them.  I yelled "SUCKAS!"  Ha!  Just kidding.  But I really wanted to.

I was super excited when I picked up my packet and I was in the fastest wave.  Which means based on my previous racing times, I was running in the wave of the fastest group of runners.  What runner doesn't like being told they're fast? The race was tough!  It was 13.2 miles.  So basically a half marathon.  It was a single track mountain trail run.  It was almost all up hill, running through streams, jumping over rocks and trees, and climbing over some large rocks.  The trail was super narrow so you couldn't pass anyone unless you or they moved off the trail.  When I got to the aid station at mile 11 I had so much energy left!  It was one of the few downhill parts so I was sprinting down hill and I tripped on a rock and went flying!  Oopsies!  My arm and leg were super bloody and swollen.  I mostly just felt bad I slowed the people down behind me because they stopped to help me up and make sure I was ok.  I didn't realize how bad I actually hurt it until I was done.  It was a great race!  By far the hardest half marathon I've ever done!