From my house to yours, Merry Christmas!!

I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas! 

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Livin' and Lovin' Life: The Color Run

We are Livin' and Lovin' Life: The Color Run

 Before :) 

My son and I had the BEST time on Saturday doing The Color Run in St. Petersburg, FL. It was truly the best day! After what happened on Friday at Sandy Hook, I, as a teacher and a mother was feeling shattered! It was so unimaginable... unthinkable. I was glad that I had an escape on Saturday. 
To be honest, I know that I enjoyed Saturday more because I knew that I had to stop and smell the roses!

before

after

all smiles!

Funny faces!

blowing color off his head!

even our elf was ready for the color run

If you have a chance to do this run, do it, especially if you have kids! My son thanked me all weekend for signing him up.  We still had color on us on Sunday, and I am not even going to tell you about blowing blue out of my nose (LOL) but it was THE BEST~

A Day of Silence for the victims at Sandy Hook Elementary

This effort was started by Carrian Cheney of Sweet Basil (blog) & graphic was created by Nike Peterson of Nike Peterson Designs (blog).

I Survived Tough Mudder!

I Did It! I survived Tough Mudder! 

That means I can do anything!

I still cannot believe that  I did it! It was really tough and I conquered some serious fears! I still have one fear that I couldn't beat, so next year I will try again.

Climbing the wall to get to start!

It was really surreal pulling up in the parking lot and seeing signs that reminded me that I signed a "death waiver!" I had serious butterflies in my belly! You have no idea!!! I decided that I would go with my usual hair in braids and a hat! I was sure I wouldn't lose that! LOL... um... sure! I lost my hat in the ice bath!

Well to even get to the starting line, I had to climb a wall. I just remember thinking, oh boy here we go. When I jumped down, I realized that my achilles wasn't ready for me to do all that jumping. Oh well!

Ready to race!

The end of the race! OUCH!

We were so excited to start! When you look around and see that EVERYONE there is fit and strong and proud, it takes your breath away, especially when you are in the process of becoming all of those things. So honestly, right away, I began my self-sabotage. I started criticizing myself in my head... "Why haven't you lost more weight?" "Why aren't you are faster runner?" "What makes you think you can do this?" Ugh! Not good! Thankfully I have really supportive friends who pushed me through and made me feel pride!

Gangham Style!

There were so many obstacles that I cannot bore you with all of them, but on our way to the Arctic Enema (the ICE BATH) I did have some fun dancing to "Gangham Style" knowing that I was about to plummet into ice! That ice bath was insane! And  I did it! The other shocker that I did was the Shockers!!! And I ran up Everest and made it the first time! Well there was also the plummet into the water...  I have no idea how high it was, but it was much higher than it looked!!! (see the first photo)

Shocking my booty!

 I still can't believe I did it. I am in shock! Well, maybe I am still shocked!!! :)

I did have to skip the underground tunnels due to my Claustrophobia.

I need to thank Polar for sponsoring part of this race. I also need to thank Harold R. Without their help, I wouldn't have been able to run this race! 

Let me just tell you that I have a long way to go in this journey, but the girl who was sitting on the couch eating McDonalds at this time last year would have never seen this coming.

If I can do this, ANYONE can!!! Conquer your fears! Be proud!

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Here are some of her other shirts :) 

Winners and calorie equilvents changed to burpees??

Would life be better if this were true? I think I would be A LOT thinner!!!

Thank you for Mizfitonline for finding this picture!

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Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner and Instagram Challenge!

Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner!
Congratulations to Joanna Broadbent! She is the winner of the Polar Sweat Wicking T-shirt! Joanna, I hope you will send us a picture of you in your new shirt!

Join us in the #Holidayaday Instagram Challenge!
You can join in at any point! It's okay if you missed the first few days~

Check out my beautiful, blogging buddies who created the challenge with me:

Kat from Sneakers and Fingerpaints (IG: katsnf)
Gina at Noshing on Asphalt (IG:AsphaltNosher)
Abby At Back at Square 0 (IG Backatsquare0)
Sarah from Mom Running On Empty (IG: momonempty)
Mindy at Road Runner Girl (IG: roadrunnergirl)
Kate from Run With Kate (IG: runwithkate)
Rebecca from Rebecca Roams (IG: RebeccaRoams)

Today is work it, so here's me working yesterday at Tough Mudder! I will be writing a blog soon. Bear with me, I am not feeling well right now, and I am way behind on school work.

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