San Dimas Turkey Trot

Time to burn off those holiday calories!!  On Saturday me, Jeff, Danny, Brooky, Kalea and Dad all headed out to Bonelli Park so I could run the Turkey Trot 5k and Brooky could run the Kids 1k.  This was my first race running solo and I was a little nervous. 

I lined up pretty far in the back so I could hang out with Jeff until the race started. 

As soon as I passed the starting line I saw a majority of everyone.  One of the perks of having a car full of people. 

One of the best things about this race is the view.  If you’re going to run, running by a lake is not a bad thing.

Another perk about Jeff not running with me, I saw him (twice!) on the course! 

Lots of people dress up for this race, it’s one of the things that makes the time go by faster.

I wasn’t feeling too hot the week going into this race so I decided to do a run/walk.  I felt great but man it sucked when the 10k-ers began to pass me.  Yep, they finished 6.2 miles in less time it took me to finish 3.1.

I finished 12th in my age division and 215 overall, but noticed that they went by gun time vs chip timing…uh, what’s the use of using chips if you are going to rank by gun time?

After the race we were treated with tiny cups of water (the one major fail for the weekend, I just ran 3 miles – I want a whole bottle of water) and delicious pumpkin pie. 

Next up was Brooky’s race.  We waited for about 45 minutes before the start, the men & Kalea towards the middle and me at the finish line.

After about 3 mins, Brooky came down the final hill, waved at Jeff & Chloe and then cruised in to the finish line.

I prepped her ahead of time that they were going to clip off her timing chip and she waited in line like a pro.

Her second medal!

It had been weeks since Brooky did a practice run (other than typical 2nd grader running around the playground stuff) and she was nervous about it at the start.  Danny even said that she mentioned she didn’t “practice”.  Danny said about half way through she saw him, veered to the side of the course and started to slow down to stop.  He jumped in to pump her up and ran with her until it was downhill.

She finished 19th out of 36 kids, only 4 kids younger than her finished ahead of her.  She’s already asking if there is a Christmas race after seeing a flyer for a Santa Run.  Girl likes the bling!

Jeff finished his second triathlon on Sunday…more to come!

Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!!  What happens when you try to get a bunch of kids to take a group shot…

This is the best one we got.  Everything below are the outtakes. 

 

And then this happened #bigkidatheart  #wheredkaleago

We brought Chloe this year, love her!!  She did good the entire evening and hung out in the backyard for most of the evening.

Little Mousie Model was happy to pose. 

Kalea was not.  I swear this girl’s frown is perfected.

Around dessert the littlest cousin arrived, Mallorie!

At the end of the evening we picked our secret Santa names.  Guess who Jeff & I have….

Happy Thanksgiving!

I’m thankful for my favorite cuddle buddy! 

Club 33

I love Disneyland during the holidays!!

My work has a membership to Club 33 which allows us access to the restaurant in Disneyland!  The terms are changing next year so we decided to go one more time. 

We decided to head to California Adventure first to check out the new Cars Land.

The ride was packed so Jeff and I decided to skip it this time and catch everything else.  It was a pretty empty Saturday morning so the most we had to wait was like 20 minutes. 

We made our way over to Disneyland after finishing at CA. 

I love all the holiday decorations, especially the castle.

Around 11:00 we made our way to New Orleans for our reservations. 

Club 33 offers a lunch menu of about 6 courses (including crab stuffed lobster, filet mignon, salmon) and then an appetizer all you can eat bar.  My appetizer plate…

Jeff had three times my plate.  For my entrée I had the chateaubriand, so good!

And Jeff had the salmon with gnocchi.

There is also a dessert bar.  I got the cookie, mini éclair and pumpkin cheesecake pop < the best of the three.

After lunch we went out onto the balcony for some pictures. 

For a break we took the train around the park. 

We had a great day!!