It's the most wonderful time of the year!

Thanksgiving has came and we have a new visitor in our house until December 25th. His name is Frisky and he is Wyatt's Elf on the Shelf!

I have many friends who have done this tradition with their children. Last year, I finally decided that Wyatt is old enough to actually get into and decided to get one. Well guess what, I couldn't find one! So we fast forward to Christmas 2013. I knew I would have to find one early and did just that!

 

When we got him out and read the book Wyatt's reaction was not what I thought it would be. He was not amazed or excited. He asked me if I was fibbing because he wasn't a real elf and was just a doll. Yowza! This kid is tough! So I just said he was and then dropped the conversation to see what he would do. Wyatt went and played for a while and then started coming back to tell Frisky information about him. So I guess it worked and he's convinced now! The tv show didn't hurt anything either. That is what Wyatt wants to watch 24/7 now!

 

 

The day after Thanksgiving we got our tree out and put up. Wyatt had a blast helping with the tree and loved every second of it. This pleases me so much. Although when putting up our decorations I have decided that I hate 90% of what I have for decor and just want to throw it away and start over. Thinking this will be on the books for the clean-up after Christmas. 

Another tradition we have started is celebrating Saint Nicolas' Day on December 6th. Last night, Wyatt put his shoes in the hallway to see if he will receive a special treat from Saint Nicolas.

I made sure to put an apple and a juice in his shoe. Of course I forgot last night and had to run downstairs at 5am this morning to get his shoes filled before he woke up. Luckily I made it in time!

He couldn't wait to tell Mike and was sad to realize that he had already left for work. (Mike has always left for work when we get up for the morning but I guess he thought he should have stayed for Saint Nicolas Day.) Wyatt made me take a picture so he could show Daddy what he got before he ate and drank it. Needless to say, this was his breakfast!

Do you celebrate Saint Nicolas Day? Have an Elf on the Shelf?

Winter Runderland 5K

I ran another 5k today. This one was in Manhattan and was in the afternoon, perfect temperature for the first day of December.

The course was one I hadn't ran before. I had taken the previous two days off since I had ran the previous four in a row. During the run I felt like blah. I just kept thinking about how my time was going to suck and I just didn't want to come in last place for my age group.

This is a common problem for me at races in Manhattan. Apparently everyone there is an elite runner and running 10:30 miles is too slow, for any age group!

Imagine my surprise when I saw that I didn't come in last place for my age group! Thoroughly impressed with myself and even set a new PR for a 5K race. I ran it in 30:43 and took 1:02 off my previous fastest 5k time!

Thanksgiving 2013

This Thanksgiving we spent in Paxico with Mike's family. We made sure to dress in our best so that we could get pictures taken for our Christmas cards. Mike's aunt Leslie takes great pictures and we always commission her to take our pics.

 

This year went well. We found out once we started taking pictures that the light was too bright and so most of the pictures we are squinting too much or the brightness is affecting the shading of our faces.  These were the best two.

We always make sure to pack a bag of extra clothes when we go for Thanksgiving. We take our four-wheeler, Wyatt's dirt bike, and the guns so we need clothes to change into for these various activities once we are done eating.

This year we had a great time and we got to do everything we set out to do. I even got a 3 mile run in! We headed out to the North 80 and got a chance to shoot our guns. Wyatt got to shoot the .22 again and loved it. He shoots is so fast that it sounds like a fully auto!

I even got to shoot my 9mm that I got for Christmas last year. It was awesome! I loved shooting it and went through half a box of ammo sighting it in. We went shooting as soon as I got my run done, hence the crazy shooting clothes!

This is the pose Wyatt was striking as we were leaving. During the family picture time he kept calling himself Mr. Handsome! Apparently we have a future male model on our hands! Ugh!!

 

 

What do you do for Thanksgiving? Gun owner?

Wyatt says...

Here are some Wyatt-isms from this past month!

At his school's Halloween party all of the kids were drinking their juices when one kid chimes in and says he is going to pretend his juice is milk, another is going to pretend his juice is a pop, and another says water. What does Wyatt say? He says he is going to pretend that his juice is BEER! Yep, my kid said that in front of everyone! When I told Mike about it his reply was that at least he didn't say a whiskey sour! Not helping, Dear!

This week Wyatt has been asking me how good he has been lately. Each day I have been saying how good his behavior is and how proud of him I am for being so good. The other night he started whining and I asked him what was wrong. He said he was tired of being good because it was soooo hard! He needed a break from being good. Ha, don't we all!

We watch a lot of college football. We root for KSU, OSU, and OU. Our house it quite strange, I know. Wyatt's latest thing it cheer for the team we DON'T want to win! He is very good at it because he will ask about the other team, their name and mascot and their cheer is. After you tell him he will then start cheering that so to go against the team you want to win! What fun!!

His school teacher asked me if we were moving the other day because Wyatt keeps telling her we are moving. I told her we weren't and she seemed shocked. Apparently his story was pretty good and had told her that we were moving to California because he daddy got a new job. He was even giving her a timeline of when we would be leaving.

Makes my heart melt!

This is what my hubby has to say about me and my running!

 

How amazing is he! I have been on him since this summer to run a race with me. He has blown me off each time saying he wasn't ready. He doesn't see himself as a distance runner but a 5k would be doable. He is obviously much faster than I am (I run a 10:20 min/mile) but the fact that I have inspired him to actually run a race with me is awesome.

 

I have already been looking at races we can run together for his first 5k. I think everyone's first race should be one where you get a medal, regardless of the place you come in. So the Diva Dash will probably be out for him. I'm thinking with his pace he will definitely be able to get a medal for placing.