Thursday, December 27, 2012

Thursday's Three


1. I participated in the sock swap that Courtney at Third Time's a Charm Runner hosted.  I was lucky enough to have her as my sock sender.  Check out my great haul!  GU in Tri-berry and Mandarin Orange, Dove chocolates, a huge box of Gobstoppers, Sport Beans, 2 packs of hand warmers, Lindor Chocolates, cute candy cane knee highs and the grand finale was the Lululemon Brisk Run Headband.  I am so in love with it. 

My daughter had to pose with the goodies, mostly she couldn't wait to open the box of Gobstoppers.

"Like you could either, what of it? I also took the strawberry EOS chapstick, it was pink and should be mine"

2.  Christmas was good, we went up to the in laws in Ronan which is a 7 hour drive for us.  We were going to leave Saturday but with Rance and the kids both having a really bad cold we delayed a day so everyone could heal up a little.  Little cowgirl was about over it by then but little cowboy had it pretty bad all weekend.  I felt my worst on Christmas Eve and am feeling mostly recovered now., but am still scratchy throated and have the snot going on.  Joyous.

The kids and everyone really made out like bandits with lots of great gifts.  My little sister was awesome and filled the stockings at home and set out Santa gifts and left a Santa note so that when we got home it looked like Santa had been here.  My son had been so worried about that.  He did not want to go to Ronan for that reason.
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3.  We got home around 3 in the afternoon yesterday and this guy was so excited to see us


I took him for a quick 4 mile run.  I wanted to run longer but it was getting dark and I had lots to get put away, organized, and I wanted to play with the kids.  The picture of Cola is not from yesterday as we now have snow on the ground. It is from Saturday.  Pretty sure I looked all frosty like that too.

I took nearly a full week off from blogging and running and working out.  Feels good to have a break and good to be back!


17 comments:

  1. Cola has frosty eyebrows!! That makes me cold!!

    What great loot! That's quite the sock exchange.

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  2. Love Colas's frosty face!!!! Happy Holidays to you!

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  3. i had such fun with the sock swap too!!

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  4. That's awesome of your sister to be Santa. What a great idea!

    Cola is too freaking cute all covered in frost!

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  5. Glad you had a lovely Christmas :)

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  6. I am glad you had a great week off and a Merry Christmas too! Sorry that you got a cold- those are never fun to have. Especially during the holidays when you are busy.

    You got some awesome swag in your exchange. I love doing swaps! It is fun to connect to new people. I just did an ornament exchange this year, but it was a lot of fun.

    Very sweet of your sister to play "santa". Those are memories that your kiddos will have forever. They are both at the fun age for Christmas.

    Cola is so cute! Was Santa good to him also?

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  7. Oh my gosh! I love Colas frosty look :)

    Sounds like you had an amazing holiday- so sweet your sis was "Santa", I'm sure your kiddos were so happy.

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  8. Awww, Tals gets a frosty face like that too-- she came inside the other day and her eyebrows were completely white, along with her whiskers!

    Glad you enjoyed your CHristmas!

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  9. Glad you had a nice break:) Love Cola's frosty look!

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  10. Wow you really did make out in the sock swap. I love eos lip balm (I have 2)

    Its def refreshing to unplug from blogging and running I haven't ran in two weeks and today was first day I blogged in a week

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  11. Glad you all had such a nice Christmas - hope the nose stops dripping soon, Christy! Has Cola pretty much healed up now? He looks good!

    So glad Santa found the kids!

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  12. your daughter is too cute and cracking me up! cola's frosty brows are precious!

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  13. your daughter is SO cute! love the goodies, looks like you made out nicely with the swap! I've never done one.

    Oh sometimes it's fun to take some time away from the regular day to day things...makes you appreciate things more! glad you're back!

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  14. Your daughter is super cute! My boys would be the same way if I got a package like that:)

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  15. Super cute picture of Cola. I'm so glad he's healthy and running with you regularly again.

    Cute picture of the kids, too of course.

    I hope you have a fabulous New Year!

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  16. That picture with Cola's ear popping up is beyond awesome.

    Welcome back, and hope you have a great 2013!

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