I CAN DO HARD THINGS!

This past Saturday the wonderful ladies I run with and I decided to do a 10 mile run. This run is in preparation for a 1/2 marathon we decided to sign up for about a week and a half ago (the 1/2 is on Saturday). Pretty crazy but the 1/2 marathon is in preparation for another crazy race we signed ourselves up for. Anyway, it has been a while since I have run that many miles so I knew I needed to get a good nights sleep. Dave and I went out Friday night but we got home at a decent time after eating a carb enriched dinner. After I got back from taking the babysitter home I went to check on Ella and I heard the most distinct and unmistakable cough...the croup. She didn't feel warm and she was still sleeping so I put the humidifier in her room and figured she would wake me up if she needed me. As I was just drifting off to sleep at about 11:30 (much later then I planned) Ella started calling and crying. And this is how the rest of my night went...

11:30 - Get Ella and bring her in my room.

11:45 - My sweet hubby takes Ella into a hot steamy shower to help her breath so I can get some sleep.

12:15ish - Our fire alarm goes off. When Dave opened the bathroom door all of the steam set off the alarm.

12:30ish - Dave finally gets the alarm shut off.

1:00 - Ella drifts off to sleep.

1:15 - Dailee comes in our room in a panic over Ella being sick and the fire alarm going off (very understandable).

1:30 - Dailee calms down and sleeps in the chair in our room.

1:30 - SLEEP!!!

3:00 - Aurbrey wakes up and is barfing in our toilet#@#!!??? Dave, again to the rescue as I lay in bed wishing I was asleep dreaming about the 10 mile run.

3:30ish - Quinn wets his bed.

4:00ish - Just try not to think of anything but sleep.

5:45 - Alarm goes off!!! Put on those running shoes!!!

6:00 - 7:30 - RUN 10 MILES!!!

Yes, I did it and I proved to myself that I can do hard things, at least physically anyway. I just hope I'm not barfing Saturday morning...

Before I totally regret not posting anything about Christmas...

Christmas was wonderful as always. Christmas Eve with my family, Christmas morning at home and Christmas day at the Jackson's. It works out very well and we are very blessed to have all our family so close to us!! Here are pictures to prove it in case you don't believe me (in the order that they happened).