Mommy Brain!!

I cannot believe that nobody else caught the Freudian slip that I made in my last post in regards to the "Turkey Trot" that I ran on Thanksgiving Day!!!! Jamie, my friend who ran the "Turkey Trot" with me, just called to inform me of my slip-up!! Now you need to go back and see if you can figure it out!!!!

I blame the error of thought on Mommy Brain!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Wow, so much has happened since I last posted!! Our days have been so full and busy! We have not gone back to our Wee Movement class at the community center because Sydney just really does not like it. I think it's too much for her. She does seem to like her ballet class. We usually have a rocky start but then she loosens up and participates. So cute to watch her "dance". Sydney has seemed to grow considerably in vocabulary and sentence structure. We have complete conversations. She has no problem telling us what she wants and when and how!! Cute but sad at the same time - my baby is growing up!! I have tons of pictures to share with you all so enjoy!

Cuddling with all of her "babies".

Practicing her ballet!!

Our gratitude turkey. We had lots of fun making our first annual "I am thankful for..." turkey. A new tradition that we will continue forever - if the turkey lasts that long!! For the first day, Sydney called it a "Tankful Chicken".

On Thanksgiving morning, I ran a 10k Chicken Trot in Anthem. Greg decided to bring Sydney with. Here she is in the car eating her banana being silly!

The community of Anthem has the largest Christmas tree display - so big and beautiful!!

Sweetie helping Mommy stretch!!

Before the race. It was soooo cold with the Mountain morning air and wind!!

I ran with Tom and Jamie

Mommy and Jamie

Post race, Mommy and Sweetie!!

Thanksgiving day - Jojo, Sweetie & Mommy. Sydney was soooo happy to see Jordan again. She hasn't seen him since Aug. when he went back to school.

So Sweet!!

Sydney and cousin Brian

The whole gang!

The whole gang with Paps!!

So nice to have us all together!!!

Uncle Michael and Sweetie being silly!

We had a beautiful Thanksgiving day! I feel so blessed to have such wonderful family, a supportive and loving husband, an amazing stepson and my beautiful daughter! As with every holiday or special day I also must add - Mom, you were in my heart every second yesterday. I love you so much and I am so grateful that God blessed me with you. I love you...

Fire Station Tour

We went on a tour of a Fire Station today! Sydney had a blast! I had so much fun watching her run around as she took everything in. I am so blessed to be able to stay at home and do these things with her. We went with our MOMs group! She wasn't shy at all!! Such a great morning!!


My little Fire girl - badge, hat & all!!


The firemen were so nice to all of the kids! Sydney kept giving them all high fives!!


Here she is getting her badge from the fireman. One of the moms in our group works for channel 12 news and they were there taping it all.


Here Sydney is donating a new teddy bear she picked out. These are the teddy bears that the firemen give out to children at the scene of a fire. I thought Sydney would be upset once she realized that she had to leave the teddy bear there but the fireman did an excellent job explaining to the kids where these teddy bears were going and Sydney was fine leaving it.

Here the fireman is explaining to the kids where these teddy bears are going. Sydney was listening so intently!

Time to get into the fire truck!

She didn't want to get out of the truck!

She is telling me all about the inside of the truck!! So much fun!

This is one of the kids in our group. She is going through a stage where she wants to hold hands with little kids.

So awesome!

All of the kids holding the hose just like the firemen!!

Looking to see if Mommy is watching!!!

Sydney in the big fire truck. She didn't want to get out!

9 miles!!

I so dreaded today as I woke up at 5 am and it was still pitch dark outside, knowing that in just an hour, I would be starting my first of 9 miles!!! I was really nervous as I have never run that far before without some sort of break. At 6am, it was still in the 50's, dark, and drizzling out but that didn't stop us!! At mile 8, I realized that I only had one mile to go (I thought I had 3) so I kicked it up and sprinted with glee...I did it!!

Not a very big picture (I may have a bigger copy later) but here I am running my first 10K!!!

My Healthy Eater!!

Sydney started a with a runny nose last night when Nana was watching her. I am thinking allergies because mine flared up really bad yesterday. Mine went away with allergy pills so I gave her a little allergy medicine this morning. We will see how it goes!

I had to quick write about what Sydney is eating right now because it's quite remarkable! I made a chopped spinach & cabbage salad and added black olives, little tomatoes, kidney beans and chopped turkey with olive oil and vinaigrette dressing. She is eating it right now!! She loves these types of salads and they are so good for her!! She eats cabbage and spinach leaves without anything on them also! LOVE IT!!!

First 10K Complete!!

Well, 1st 10K is complete! I started out strong and then let my head get in the way and lost some speed!! I finished 769th out of almost 2000 runners - ran at a 8:59 pace - finished at 55:44 and placed 39th out of 192 people in my age bracket!! Not bad - but I am a little disappointed in myself because I know I could have done better!! This was my first run so now I know what to expect and what I need to do to improve! I am going to run my 2nd 10k Thanksgiving morning! That way I can eat everything I want Thanksgiving Day!!!!!


Sprinting to the finish line!!


Almost there!!


I did it!! Who would have thought that one day I would run a 10K!!

Halloween Pictures

Sydney is saying the funniest things lately - well, I guess she has for awhile now - but I seriously laugh all day at some of the things she says and does!! She says things like: "Are you kidding me!" & "Everyone stay here!" and so many more phrases. I need to write them down so I can remember them when I sit down to post on my blog! Last night she went to Nana and Paps house while I got my hair done. I came home with bangs - I haven't had bangs in many years! Sydney noticed right away and said, "Wuk Mommy, you have bangs like me!" So cute!! It's all she talked about on our ride home! We stopped to get some food to go and she had on her new sparkly gold shoes and proceeded to do a dance for all of the guys working behind the counter - so funny!! She loves to entertain others. Mostly, she just likes to flirt with males!! I hope that changes soon!!!

I run my first 10K tomorrow!! I am nervous because I have never competed in a running competition but I am also very excited! I have been committed to this running program since the end of Sept. so it will be good to be able to reap some of the benefits of all this work!

Below are pictures from Halloween night. It was soooo much fun trick or treating with Sydney. Oh man I love her so much!


Happy Halloween!!


Mommy and Sweetie (Zoey and Ziggy's bum)


So cute!!


Daddy and sweetie - can you tell how much she wanted to get her picture taken!!!

"Trick or Treat"

Full belly:)

Trick or Treating

Her little bag of candy got too heavy for her to carry!

Sydney and her friends from down the street.

The Princess's sweet piggy toes got tired - so Daddy rolled her home on her own personal chariot.

So sleeeepyyyy.....

One last sip of milk and off to bed to get her beauty rest!!!

What an awesome night!!!