Mi Amigos Turkey Trot!

OK! I totally forgot to post about my first race ever- the Mi Amigos 10k!! It was crazy hard- I had just started to get this nasty cold that I STILL have, and the first 2 miles were killer (a 10k is 6.4 miles, can you believe it??). I was getting cramp after cramp and my throat was killing me! I started out with Lauren but i told her that there was no way I was going to keep up with her (she's training for her triathlon now and after that she's going to run her second marathon!!) and I waved her on ahead. I pushed on, with many walking breaks of course, and around mile 3 my wonderful cousin Dani came up behind me and gave me a  'hello' pat on the fanny just like she said she would if by chance we saw each other there! I was so happy to see her, and we had an awesome last half of the race. I didn't know how helpful it was to run with someone!! We were able to stay at a good jogging pace almost the whole race! But when we saw that finish line we both just started bookin it-- I wanted to get there as fast as I could!! Dani's husband, two little girls and some more family and Lauren were there cheering us on. It felt so good to finish that race!! I even met my goal, which was to finish in under 1:30! Yeah I know, that's slow, but I was not gonna make myself sick trying to keep up with Lauren and Trisha, who both finished around 42 minutes lol I have to work up to that!!

But some way more exciting news: Curtis and I are waiting to be pre-approved for a house we found in Mesa! It's a shortsale that belongs to our 2nd counselor in our Bishopric; they lived there for 12 years and love it, but needed to upgrade and I guess they couldn't keep up with the payments after they had to strip it out and re-do all the wiring and tile when it got mold a couple years back. But now it is newly tiled and carpeted, with a new bathroom and WASHER AND DRYER that comes with the house!!! YES!!! I cannot tell you how happy having my own, very nice and brand new, washer & dryer set IN THE HOUSE will make me!!

Oh and I will have pictures up of my very creative (if I say so myself) and very cheap Christmas decorating soon!!

Lindy-Hop

Here are just a few pictures of Lindy post-bath that i just love!

some overdue pictures of my girls I nanny and their cute hairstyles i find online

sofia with long hair

now her short hair! she rocks any style : )

elena being mischevious as usual

fun with clipies!

oh and Splash Mountain pics lol

alex made Ian ride in front for some reason and it took him a while to recover haha

Yay!

Fake Running

Soooo instead of running that 5k, i was just in the Mindy Gledhill music video. I didn't get the memo that if you opted into the video there was a big chance you weren't gonna have time to run! But it was still way fun during the takes : ) I got to meet Stephanie Nielson and her 2 girls, and of course Mindy! And I made a lot of new friends too : ) here are some pictures i snapped while waiting between takes

Mindy & Me!

Stephanie's girls are so cute!

Waiting....

Accidental pic of the main guy that looks really cool actually...

Mindy's Shoes

Stephanie & Me! She is so incredibley nice!

oh and this is my narly bruise!! I ran into the coffee table at

Mike & Jeanne's house trying to beat up Curtis : ]

5k Run!!

Alright, I may be crazy, but I decided to run a 5k at the Hohokam stadium right by our apartment. I said to myself- 'Self, you should run a 5k.'
Then I read Stephanie Nielson's blog and there was the perfect opportunity to get some good exercise and donate to a good cause!!
As well as be in MINDY GLEDHILL'S NEW MUSIC VIDEO!!!
haha ok so I love Mindy--and after all the did for the Nielson family after their accident, I love her even more.
Plus-- STEPHANIE NIELSON herself and her 2 daughters will be there!!! I will be so star-struck.

Oh, and I'm addicted to frontierville on facebook.

I'm so excited for life for another reason too!! We have a very good chance of getting into a house THIS January or soon after that!! Curtis' dad Mike will help us look, and since this is such a good time for buyers, I fell confident that we'll find a great deal! But it depends a lot on if Curtis can get into a new department at University of Phoenix before then. I'm praying reeeeal hard!! Getting into a house will be a dream come true for me and Curtis!