Friends and Final 5K!

We had lots of fun last week...

First, an update on Lydia's big girl bed.

It's been a week now that we've been trying to get her to nap and sleep in her new bed and she just wasn't having it...at all! If Jake put her down, she was, for the most part ok. If I put her down, it was the end of the world. She screamed, she threw things, she hit things...it was terrible. But over the past week, she has slowly gotten over that (thank goodness)! Now when I put her down, she whines for about 2-3 minutes then she's ok, although she still falls asleep on the floor. In the picture below, she fell asleep on the floor after playing for 30 minutes. Notice the hold she has on her balloon, and even when Jake moved her to the bed she still wouldn't let it go. I thought it was the cutest thing!

On Monday, the Meyerson's invited us over for dinner/game night. It's been a while since we had a little cul de sac party. It was a lot of fun!

On Wednesday, 7 of the 8 women in my cul de sac went out for a girls' night out. We went to dinner at the Olive Garden, with NO kids! It was so much fun just sitting down to dinner and talking with my neighbor's. We had a great time and decided we should do it more often!

Lydia finally got to try out her new snow suit and boots. Although there wasn't much snow left, Lydia still loved running around chasing Larry and Tank! On Saturday, Melynda and I ran another 5K. It was at Wheeler Farm and animals were the cause, so you know I had to be a part of that, right? Besides the horrible smell of poop (there were about 200 hundred dogs that ran/walked the race as well), it was a nice run.

My time: 27 minutes 41 seconds

Pace: 9 min 24 sec miles

Place: 116th out of 350 people

I finished 10th in my age group, which isn't bad. I just wish I could've done better! Melynda was one person away from getting a medal for 3rd in her age group!

I was lots of fun and I can't wait to start racing again next year. I ran 4 races this year and plan to do at least 6 next year. I LOVE it...I just hope my right knee makes it :) Thanks Melynda for inviting me!

After the race we walked around for a bit and looked at the ducks. Wheeler Farm is such a cute place! Later that night I celebrated my weeks of running and training for the race with a big, fat cheeseburger and fries from "5 Guys" with my little family and our friends' the Watts! Love you guys.

Today was our stake conference and we were lucky enough to have Elder David A. Bednar speak to us. What an amazing speaker he is...I felt the spirit so strongly. Before we left for conference, I asked Lydia if she wanted to have her picture taken in her pretty dress, and to my surprise, she said yes. She couldn't stop laughing and I LOVED it. This little girl cracks me up. I can't imagine how it'll be when she can actully speak well. I'm definately looking forward to it. Love you Lyd's!