5K ...RESULTS!!!!

I freaking rocked it!!! I'm so proud of myself I'm still grinning from ear to ear a day later.

I dropped almost a full 2 minutes off of my best previous time.

Here are my results as copied off of the website. (Editing out my last name obvi!)

Bib Number        First Name       Overall Place     Division       Gender       Time               Pace



404                  PAIGE             1187                F2529         F               35:48            11:33

I'm pretty sure I'm going to sign up for another one in November. Anyone have any tips on how to drop even more time. My goal is going to be less than 35 minutes. :) (At least at this point who knows if I improve a bunch before then I may change it.)
My awesome supporters (for some reason I don't have a picture of my sissy's face.)





Me & Jenny - I'm glad I had a friend at my pace! This was just about a mile and a half.... feeling great!



It may look like I'm walking but I swear I wasn't! Just that weird point in my stride. I didn't walk at all!

Brynn wanted to run too.

Brynn was stealing bites of my banana.

Me, Jenny and Eddie -Eddie came in at about 22 minutes!



Peek - a - boo Auntie Paigey!



After the race we hung out at the zoo with Jenny and Eddie for a bit and then my BFF, her hubby and son met us there.
Here is Brynnie being fascinated by the dolphins.

Brynnie was trying to give my purse to her IRL boyfriend Graham.


So happy!
xoxo...P

5K..... TOMORROW!

I am so excited!

My 5K is tomorrow! I can't wait! And I have actually started enjoying this running thing. I have started telling Jeff how I wish we had room for a treadmill so I can keep it up even on bad days in the winter.

I'll be back to update on how I did but here is some pre-race fun for you.... my race shirt a map of the run through the zoo, my bib (#404) and my chip to register my time.  



next up.... 2 PRs last night...



My goal for the run was to break 40 min .... I think I can do it! ;) Now I feel like I need to give myself a new goal...

After the race we are going to hang out at the zoo for a bit. Jeff, Brynn, my mom, my sissy, Chance and my cousin are all coming to cheer me on.

xoxo...P

14 months! and 3 Years!!!

Where the heck has the time gone?

I am a terrible blogger, I apologize. Life has gotten away from me the past couple months and by the time I sit down at night I just want to do nothing or lose myself in a good book. I know excuses excuses. But I'm serious.

Well a few days ago Little B turned 14 months old. (Yes I'm aware I still haven't posted about her party I have the post half done and kinda just forgot about it.) Brynn is just a big ball of fun and I love almost every second I spend with her.
She cracks me up daily. Her laugh is completely infectious. My stomach hurts from laughing so hard after we head up to bed every night. J chases us up the stairs every night and she laughs the whole way up. She thinks it is the best thing ever. Except the last 2 nights... when he pops out from around the corner she says "Hi Da" and then laughs. She says Hi the whole way up the stairs so now J and I are laughing even harder than her.

B is 20 lbs 4 oz (I stuck her on the shipping scale at work the other day) and is 29-30" or so. I really should measure her.

We have been busy busy bees around this area for the last couple of months. The weekend of Brynn's birthday party we had a total of 3 parties and we have been go go go since then. We hung a swing from one of our trees and man does that kid love it. My mom, sissy and I spent a night downtown going to see Beauty and The Beast and went shopping the next day. We also had a baby shower for my cousin. The next weekend Jeff and I spent a night downtown just the 2 of us and had a wonderful night alone. We went to the pool at my parents country club a couple times. Brynn and Chance love swimming! We went to a wedding for my very first best friend ever! (And I made some custom accessories for her big day!) We went to the zoo twice and to Navy Pier and a White Sox game. We had a pool party for work and a movie night on a big screen in my parents back yard. And we have had a couple fun little photoshoots in there too. I'm sure I'm missing something in there too.


Now you may be wondering about the 3 years in the title...

3 years ago today J and I were married. 3 years!!!! Holy cow!!! Time has flown since then. This year was a rough one with a major surgery and quite a long recovery time for J and a HUGE job change for J. Despite all the hardships we had tons of fun and have experienced some of the best things ever with our little toddler. She is such a joy.

If you want to see a ton of wedding pictures here is a link to last years blog post.

And here are just a couple of pictures of my peanut! First one obvi from her party.

Enjoying her first PB&J!!!

A Couple pics from a photoshoot





haha. her "Fake Cheese'n" smile man she is funny!


And in case you are wondering my 5K training is going pretty well. It is 20 days from now and I will run 11 more times before that. I have 7 more training runs in my program so I'm hoping I do pretty well.

I promise my next post won't be 2 months away.
xoxo...P