Thankful for our health

We started out our Thanksgiving holiday by joining many others for the 10K Turkey Trot. It was perfect running weather! I started out the race fairly strong but got a really bad stomach cramp and lost my breakfast between miles 4 and 5. Needless to say I ended up walking a mile of the race. But even with walking a mile and throwing up in the middle of the race, I still managed to come in at 1:01. If I had known how close I was to beating an hour - I might have pushed a little more that last mile also. But there's always the next race! I think I didn't drink enough water on Wednesday which resulted in my sickness.... lesson learned. Don't be too scared of this picture either (this is what my hair looks like when I don't straighten it - scary!). We probably should have taken a picture before but we were booking it to the starting line since we had gotten there a little late.

After the race it was naptime for Ellie and Rob while I finished making up a pie and a couple other things. We headed over to my Uncle Vern's home for Thanksgiving dinner and had a good time. This was the first time in 10 years that I haven't been traveling for the Thanksgiving holiday! Besides the fact that it has been rainy and cool this holiday weekend and everyone always told me about their 80+ degree Thanksgiving dinners in Arizona....it's been nice to have a more relaxing weekend without the hassle of traveling. We did see a beautiful rainbow the other afternoon also. This picture only shows a small glimpse because it was still raining and I didn't want to get my camera wet!

Rob and I watched a movie and were getting ready for bed when Ellie woke up last night. I just put childproof doorknobs on her door to prevent her from getting out of her room at night but she managed to get it open. Not 2 minutes after I had put her on our bed to sit with Rob for a few minutes did she start throwing up. Rob changed the sheets and I gave her a quick bath. I checked her bed and sure enough she had already lost the rest of her dinner in there so I stripped those sheets off as well and started a load of laundry. Not sure what triggered it but neither one of us have thrown up today so that's a good start! I'm grateful she was able to get out of her room last night because I would have felt completely terrible if she had slept in her crib full of that last night.

I did a little Black Friday shopping this morning (some online and some in stores) and I'm about 75% completed with my shopping. This might be the first year ever that I will have my Christmas shopping done early!! Rob installed a screen door on our sliding glass door today which I'm loving already. And Ellie has been keeping herself entertained with the dog cages again and other crazy things.


Tomorrow we will start decorating the house for Christmas and get our tree! I can't wait.