Turkey Trot and Thanksgiving

I love Thanksgiving time! I enjoyed our first Thanksgiving together. We kicked off the Thanksgiving holiday by running the 10K Turkey Trot Thursday morning. Wow! I've never ran more than 3.5 miles at a time in my life, so 6.2 miles was pushing it for me. It actually ended up being really fun. A bunch of us Richardson's got together to run together. Jake and Jason took off and ran like mad men to the finish line. Sarah took off ahead of us slow pokes and ran the whole time! Becc and I had fun running together and taking little walking breaks along the way. I wasn't so much interested in my time as I was in just completing the race. Jake finished in 54 minutes and I finished in a whopping 79 minutes. The guy who won the race ran it in 28 minutes! Isn't that insane!?!?!?! He was like 4 minutes ahead of the next guy. What an animal! It was a lot of fun and we plan to do it again next year. I think it's funny that my sister, Cindy, was running her 10K in Idaho in 12 degree weather wearing layers and layers of clothes. Meanwhile we ran in short sleeves and sun glasses. Sorry Cindy.

We spent Thanksgiving with the Richardson side. We had some good eats and had a lot of fun with Jake's sister's and their families. All of Jake's brothers live out of state, so we missed them a lot. I made pies with my mom the night before to take to the Richardson's and had a blast with her. We made some mean banana cream pies- homemade crust and all. Mmmm! After Thanksgiving dinner we all just sort of hung around and relaxed from the Thanksgiving feast. Jake's nephews were being so funny. He has 3 nephews that are in kindergarten. I asked them if they could count to 10, and they did so without a flaw. I acted all astonished and told them how smart they were (positive reinforcement ;) ). I asked one of his nephews, Cameron, if he could count higher. He kind of gave an annoyed sigh and started yelling numbers all the way to 10. Between spurts of laughter I said, "No Cameron, higher." He gave an even more annoyed sigh like "I just did that." He then started screaming numbers all the way to 10. It was so funny! I love all of my "inherited" nieces and nephews. And I of course love all of my nieces on the Merrell side. If you want to see some dang cute girls, check our Ben and Cindy's blog and Joel and Lisa's (on my side panel).

Well, sorry for the great famine in blogging material here. I'll try and do a little better, but no promises. :)