DISNEY MARATHON!

Well I did it! I completed the marathon in 4:10 minutes and we had a great trip at Disney World. The race was so great regarding the cold start. I had so much fun running through the most magical world! I ran through Epcot, Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom and Hollywood Studios (MGM).

I have to admit that I was pretty nervous/anxious about the race. I was scared about my foot hurting, not being able to finish and freezing to death. But I had a great supporter. Bill has been such a great supporter and encourager through the whole training process and throughout the race itself. I couldn't have done it without him! I also had a little surprise the morning of the race when some of my other supporters showed up! My parents drove through the night to be at the race. It was such a great surprise!

Besides the race we had a blast inside Disney World. It is by far the happiest place on earth and we can't wait to go back. Here are some pictures from our trip!

Who is ANGEL 760B?

Bill and I adopted a Salvation Army Angel for Christmas this year. It was lots of fun purchasing clothes and toys for this little 7 year old boy. After we went and purchased all of his new present it really got me wondering who is Angel 760B?

I wonder where he lives, where he goes to school, what his hobbies are, or if he has any siblings? It even got me wondering what his family is like, and if they go to church but most importantly I wonder if Angel 760B knows who Jesus is? My prayer this Christmas is that Angel 760b understands the real meaning of Christmas and that he experiences the love of Christ. So Angel 760b where ever you are out there we wish you a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!!!



Here are the items we purchased for our Salvation Army Angel!

Christmas Tree/Decorations

Here are some pictures like I promised!

Christmas is coming!!

I absolutely love this time of year! I love being with family, family traditions and remembering the real meaning of the season. I have been extra excited about this season because this year starts the begining of several new Christmas traditions. I will not only experience my normal Christmas traditions with my family but Bill will get to be apart of them and I will also get to be apart of his family!

Saturday really kicked off the Christmas season for us. It was so great to have nothing to do this past Saturday. Bill and I relaxed and went shopping for Christmas decorations. It was such a blessing to do this together. We went to several stores and picked out ornaments, a wreath and of course the Christmas tree. It is a day I will remember forever. It was so special for us to purchase our own Christmas decorations to start our families collection. We also spent a little while going through Christmas decorations from both of our past. It was neat seeing the ornaments that Bill and I made and had while we were kids. They are precious things we will share with our children one day.

Pictures to come soon! My camera is dead today!

War Eagle Hey!

This past weekend we wrapped up the 4th home football game with another win! It was another wet weekend on the Plains but we did have a good time. The Hines and my family joined us for a small cookout at our house. It was lots of fun and Bill cooked some pretty good hamburgers!

The best thing about the whole weekend is that Bryson came down for the game. He loves football and wants to play for Auburn one day. Bill and I love spending time with Bryson. Here are some pictures from the game!

Bryson and Me before Tiger Walk

He loves his Nonna!

War Eagle! Cheering with Poppaw!

Homemade ICE CREAM!!!

So Bill and I got this really neat homemade ice cream maker for a wedding present and we thought we would try it out last night. We left for Winn-Dixie and purchased all the right ingredients for vanilla ice cream! I was super excited and couldn't wait to eat ice cream. Well we combined all the ingredients like the recipe said put the liquid mixture in our new machine and turned it on. It was really simple! The ice cream maker instructions stated that in 20-25 minutes you would have great soft ice cream. Well after 25 minutes we still had liquid. I couldn't figure out what we did wrong.....we followed the recipe exactly....and we used all the right ingredients.



So we thought we would just put it in the freezer for just a little bit to help it harden a little. Well after an hour we still had liquid. By this time I was a little frustrated and got the instructions out for the new machine. Word by word I went through trying to figure out what was wrong. After reading through a couple of paragraphs I found it. We forgot to freeze the freezer bowl. The freezer bowl is what the liquid is poured into to churn into ice cream. What a great discovering huh? So we didn't have ice cream last night but we put the freezer bowl in the freezer and hopefully we will get to enjoy our ice cream creation tonight!! Guess I need to start every kitchen experience by reading all the instructions a little bit more carefully!! :)

The Training has begun!

This week I started training for the Disney Marathon which is in January. So far not so bad but I know it is going to be a challenge. The hardest part will be the long Saturday runs before I go to work at the football games but it will be rewarding when I am finished. Bill has been really encouraging so far and I know he will keep encouraging me through the 18 weeks of training!

The trip to Disney will be lots of fun and we can't wait to get to Orlando with the Fox's!! Until next time I will be running.....