Merry Christmas Y'all

Keeping tradition alive with our drive to Indiana.  Four kids and three dogs smashed in our van as we headed to Little Rock, Arkansas for the Klove Christmas Tour concert.  The concert was great and the kids were troopers after sitting in the car for 10 hours.  Damon asked if it was over after the first song...concerts aren't his thing.  By the end of the night he was laying on the floor trying to fall asleep.  We left the next morning trying to get to Indiana before the snow hit.  The last 5 hours we drove through freezing rain, and we saw many trucks and cars off the road.  We made it there safely and woke up the next morning to 6 inches of snow.  The temp got down to -12...brrrr!  We actually got to go sledding this year and we did a little ice skating too.  We built our first igloo and the kids had a blast with it.  Damon spent a lot of time outside in the snow...he couldn't get enough.  Christmas was as usual.  After Christmas Don and I flew to New York for a little getaway.  We had a great time. Donnie and colbie are the only two who were sick this year...amazing!  Such a great trip as always.  View Album for more pictures.

Rock N Roll Half Marathon

Before the rain hit us.

Don and I ran our second half marathon in San Antonio.  My mom flew out for the weekend to watch our kids again.  This year we decided to stay at a hotel downtown near the start line.  That was the best decision we could have made.  Rain was in the forecast and we were trying to figure out what to wear.  We got to sleep in a little later and we walked to the start line with our garbage bags on.  It was a light rain right before the race started.  The weather was great for the first 6 miles...and then heaven opened up and let all the rain out for the last 7 miles.  It was pretty awful.  Our goal was to finish in 2 hours so we just kept running.  We crossed the finish line in one hour and 59 minutes!!  Crushed it!  As soon as we stopped running the cold weather with our wet clothes made us pretty miserable.  We had a short walk back to our hotel room...so happy!

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Hurry up...it's freezing!

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