Disneyland post 3

The last part of our trip, be sure to look back at the last 2 posts for more pictures!!!

Disneyland post 2

More pictures from Disneyland

Love the Minnie ears!!

Here she is walking away from Mickey

Disneyland!!!

Avery stunned by Small World

This was pretty much her smile the whole trip!

A pirates life for me!

We went to Disneyland this past week because I was registered to run the Disneyland Half Marathon. It was my 3rd time doing it and I LOVED it!! It was 13.1 miles through disneyland parks, the streets of Anahiem, through home plate of Angels stadium, and then back to Disney for the finish! It was awesome and I ran hard the whole way and felt like dying at the end. Brandon and Avery met me outside of our hotel ( which was right by disneyland where the start was) and cheered me on, and then waited for me at the finish line. It is one of the best races out there!

After I finished, we went back to our hotel and put Avery down for a nap. I stretched and showered and we got ready to head out to the parks for the day. It was one of the best vacations I've ever had! It was so fun to see little Ave's reaction to everything. She loved all the rides we were able to take her on! Even the dark rides like Pirates of the Carribean she loved! She would put her arm out like she wanted to touch everything. One of the funniest parts of the trip was when we saw Mickey. She has a Mickey doll at home so before the trip I would say go find Mickey so she would know what he looked like. At Disneyland we saw him and waited in line to get a picture. Avery was staring at him and making ooooooo noises the whole time in line. When it was our turn we set her down and Mickey knelt down to her level and I backed up to get a picture. She stared at him expressionless and then turned around and walked away! It was so funny!!! We spent 4 long days there and had a blast everyday and we were so thrilled that Avery liked it and wasn't scared of anything and didn't throw fits! It was the best to be there with my daughter and my husband! I hope to have many more vacations there in the future!

More Pictures from our Shelby visit

My pal Amy

Grandpa Gray, Bubba, and lil Ave

My Family!


The girls out for lunch

A visit to meet baby Shelby

My brother and his wife just had their first baby and they blessed her on August 15. We were able to go down to Phoenix to be a part of it. She is so cute and the best baby! She sleeps ALL the time! I think somethings wrong with her......hahah, because Avery never slept all day like she does! Its so cute. Anyway, we were able to spend a lot of time together as a family and had a really good trip and was able to visit with our friends for a night out too! I love my family!!

Party!!

Avery was invited to attend a birthday party our neighbors had for their 2 kids. They went all out, with a pool, slip n slides, water balloons, hot dogs, and cake! Avery loved to be around all the kids and try to participate in the big kid activites! It was a good time!

Triathlon

finishing! (I can't get this pic to come last!)

after the swim, getting ready for the ride

This morning I did my first triathlon! It was a sprint tri so it was a 1/6 mile swim, 13 miles bike, 3 mile run. I was all lined up ready for the first leg which is the swim at 5:45am. Surprisingly the swim was easy!! In practice I would take a couple breathing breaks at the wall, but not today! I swam the whole way. Then ran to the transition area to get ready for the bike, I put my shirt, shoes, ipod, and watch on and took off for the 13 mile ride. It was a very hilly ride and I thought it was so hard! I thought, if there is one more hill I'm gonna walk it! But I managed to push through and made it back to begin the run. My legs were soooo tired by now but I slowly adjusted to the running and did well! I have no idea what I placed or what my time was, it was just fun to try a new challenge rather than just running all the time. I think this will be something I will continue to try to get better at!! Go Triathloners!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!