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Dear reader...

So today I started working out again.  Last Summer, before the wedding, a group of my favorite women and I did the Color Run in San Francisco (a bunch of them are doing it again tomorrow!).  I ran every day and worked out to different videos.  Ok, to the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader videos, moving on.  Since we got married and moved I think I've ran twice.  Not having a job and not having a lot to do (and little motivation to do anything other than play with my dogs and watch tv and cook) other than eat three meals, plus snacks, a day means that my once toned butt, legs, arms and abs have reverted back to a state of neglect.  Sad face.  

Hence the newly renewed attitude to get back in shape.  Plus our ball is in a month and I'm planning on wearing a snazzy cocktail dress that shows my legs, which means I need to do this.  Wish me luck!

Dear husband...

When you get back get ready to be working out with me on the weekends! Aren't you excited.

Also, thank you for letting me go dress shopping with the girls and for wanting to take your wife to dance.

Dear family...

Have fun at the run tomorrow!  I'm so jealous of you all and wish I was there!

Dear puppies...

Oh Ripley and Abby...I love you, but you guys need to get along so I can actually do normal things without having to watch you.  I need a dog break sometimes.

Dear MIL...

Happy Birthday!! Hope you have a wonderful birthday weekend!

Dear cottage...

I walk around you every day and see all your potential for being such a cute place.  I wish I had money to fix you up all pretty like I dream about.

Let's do this thing!

Another year is coming to a close. Is it just me or does it seem like time speeds up as you get older?

This year has been chalk full of ups and downs, good memories and bad.

I went back through my posts and found some that I really loved looking at again.

Being inspired back in January by Meg and still needing to remind myself that my "book" has a birthday, I just don't know it yet.

Going through a rough point in February and reminding myself of the sometimes and all the time things that need to happen in life.

Being a host family to two precious little girls and being inspired to help somebody in March.

40 at 400 in April!

Also in April, a look back at being a nanny and a wonderful wine filled day.

Running the Color Run in July with my most favorite group of women.

Getting married on August 18th to my best friend.

Life flinging a deer my way in September...just a few days after moving across the country.

I hope that everyone has a great New Years and a wonderful 2013. 

I can't wait to see what it holds for my little family!

Literally the happiest 5k on the planet

Warning: Photos Ahead

Today was our Color Run in San Francisco.

It was such a fun day and I don't think I stopped smiling as I ran (almost) all of the race without stopping.

Pictures are worth a thousand words so I'll just let them do the talking for me cause I'm beat.

Let's

Oh hey July! How does it feel to have one week over and done with?

I was a little mind blown when I woke up today and realized how fast this week has gone by...

and how fast the rest of the month is going to go!  

Next weekend is our color run in San Francisco. My jet-setting sisters will be in Arizona, Mexico, and Nashville over the course of two weeks, while yours truly will be here finishing up wedding details.  Then our family and our friends are going to be camping at our favorite lake for a week and when we come home we have TWO weeks until the wedding.

I'm slightly panicking about the amount of things we still have left to do.  I know that I need to start delegating and getting more people on board, but my control freak self just wants to make sure everything is done myself.

Suffice it to say, this summer is shaping up to be a whirlwind one, but I think it's probably going to be one of the most memorable yet.

back on track

I've been slacking on my running...oops.

I went from going every single day to just a few times a week.

This is typically what happens when I get in a "work out" mood.

Well, I'm snapping out of it today.  We have a little over a month until our color run and I'm going every day until then. Ask me how I'm doing ok?

weak in the ankles?

The Color Run is in a little over 2 months!  Some of my fellow bloggers have been posting about their color runs all over the US and every time I look at their pictures I get 10 times more excited for ours (look at them here and here)

However, I've hit a snag when it comes to running and it's super annoying.  This past Saturday some of our team went and walked/jogged/ran on our local community college's track.  Before then I had only been running on pavement which was working out for me just fine.  I wasn't hurting afterwards and I was getting to where I could go farther and faster each day.  After Saturday though my ankles are killing me! It hurts to walk and it really hurts to run. 

What gives? Did running on a new/different surface mess me up?

 Any fellow runners out there want to weigh in?