So, I guess it's pretty obvious that updating my blog hasn't been #1 on my priority list. I think I've pretty much been in survival mode these last few months. Me and Mike have been taking turns having strep throat, cold's and allergies while the kids have been dealing with having to do breathing treatments and having ear infections. I really thought that our family was pretty healthy overall, but after this last month I'm beginning to wonder. Even as I sit here and type, I can hardly breathe out my nose, so I wonder what I'm going to het this time! I'm a little baffled by this because I usually never get sick. I guess I should just accept the fact that this is how the winter months are going to be. ANYWAY...

about the picture...This is me and my sister Rhonda after we finished running the Turkey Trot 10k on Thanksgiving. I must say that I had no plans of running a a 10k just 2 months earlier right after I had Jacob. I actually did not have this plan until about 2 weeks before Thanksgiving when I was talking to Rhonda on the phone. She told me how she had just ran in a 10k the day before in Las Vegas (where she is living right now). I was very suprised because I had no idea she had been training for a race. Well it turns out she hadn't been training and had only gone out for a few runs before the race. She knew she wasn't even close to being in her best shape possible, but she did it anyway. Then that's when she said she was planning on running in the Turkey Trot when she came here for Thanksgivng and was totally convinced that I should run it with her. I shot that idea down right away. Now Rhonda was an awsome mid-distance runner in track and cross country in high school. I however, was a sprinter in track and had never even ran more than a mile at a time in my life. I always thought that I was never meant to be a distance runner. So I tried to give her every excuse I could, mostly how I was in the worst shape ever and hadn't moved faster than a catepillar in over a year. Well somehow after I got off the phone, those thoughts of doubt I was having turned into wanting to take on this challenge. I felt really curious to know how well I would do running 6 miles with only 2 weeks to train. I'll leave out alot of the details and just get to the race. I was so sure that I would'nt be able to keep up with her the whole time and that at some point she would take off without me and that I would end up walking half the time. Well to my suprise, we stayed together the whole race and we only stopped to walk at the 5 mile mark for about 2 minutes. I even ended up finishing about 15 minutes faster than I thought I would. I was so proud of myself! I learned a big lesson here, that is that I think alot of times we set limits for ourselves and don't even think we're capable of certain things. I'm just glad that I pushed myself to step out of my comfort zone (along with some pressure from Rhonda )and now have a great memory of me and my sister.