What a treat! Thank you Nana for hosting such amazing tea party! Of course nana wanted to tend to her precious granddaughter and have everything perfect. And was it perfect! It will take me a lifetime to learn from this amazing and hard working woman. Not only what we ate was beautiful, but it was beyond delicious. Thank you again Nana for hosting one of the best parties yet! We love you!
Nutcracker, the show Bella waits for all year long and lights up each time we talk about it. What a treat for our little girl, but what a treat for her mama and nana haha. We love going to see The Nutcracker and this year we got to go with Barry, Lilya and Katya (Lilya’s niece) The performance was absolutely wonderful and the girls did great most of the time. Once the end started to approach, they were ready to eat and drink and run around. Thank you sweet “O” for getting us our annual tickets! It’s such a wonderful treat.
If someone told me I would run this marathon, I would tell them “no way!” The biggest reason for that answer would be the cold and potential rain. I am not a big fan of running in the cold or the rain. As much as I love to run, when it’s freezing outside, “no thank you!” But, God had other plans and I ended up running it. Not only did I run it, I ran it with my love : ) Him and I both wanted to run a race together and this one was way too convenient, being at home, having my parents watch the kids, it was too easy to pass it up 😉 I will not lie, I signed up for this race as soon as I found out that Big Sir sold out, so it was more of a rebound situation which turned into a great thing…. How great you might ask? Ha! It was 22 degrees outside. Yes, it just happened to be one of the coolest mornings yet. Was I miserable? For sure, did I regret the idea while running it? Yes! Was I relieved to finish it? YES!!! For the first 15 miles, I could not feel anything from waist down. Simple answer, “shorts” I wore shorts in this freezing weather. I had to, and I will not get into details why, but it was quite a run. Definitely glad I did it, definitely glad I got to share it with my better half and extremely grateful to my family for taking care of the kiddos and to the sweetest brother and sis-in-law for being there all the way! The biggest praise goes to the one and only God, without whom I could not finish this race. Not only did I not properly train for it, mentally I was done at mile 9, until He sent a miracle. Thank you God for running it with me and helping me complete it.
On the side note, I have improved my time from Big Sir and finished in 4:14, so not too bad for freezing weather and not training as much as I should have. Barry came in just behind me at 4:39. Great run honey and thank you for running it with me! “Death Ride” is our next goal 😉 Love you!
