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Celebrating another year with my wonderful family and friends. Loved my special treats.... especially the red surprise from my honey and BFF!

SPAHHHHHHHHH!

Mother's Day Retreat!

Erin and I enjoyed a day at the spa to include a 60 minute Swedish massage, Spa manicure and pedicure as well as a gourmet lunch! We topped the day off with shopping. HEAVEN is all I have to say!!

A special thank you to my wonderful hubby for watching all 4 kiddos while we enjoyed our day at the spa.!

31st

I won't lie, I've been missing Jeff a lot these last few weeks. Traveling, Christmas, New Year's and my birthday, all family holidays that I love to share with my super sweet hubby. However, I'm very fortunate to have such wonderful, supportive friends and family that helped me celebrate my 31st birthday. Thanks to Kim and Larry for a relaxing dinner and my FAVORITE strawberry cake. Another special thank you to my friend Erin for a delivered home cooked birthday dinner. You ladies are the best!

I am amazed every day that I'm actually surviving this deployment. I never take for granted how lucky I am to have such an amazing support system. Thanks to everyone for all the birthday cards/gifts, flowers, calls, emails, posts.... it made me feel so loved!

Jingle Bell 5K

SO...I finally did it!! I signed up and actually ran a race. Since Jeff has been deployed I have been running to keep fit (and insane). I have always wanted to run a race, but never felt I was a true "runner". Well, with some encouragement from Jeff and my friends I accomplished a goal today. Michelle, ran with me and we had a great time. Since it was a Christmas themed race, we all wore jingle bells and everyone was decked out in red and green. There were lots of Santa hats, elves and reindeer, it was truly a festive event to support Arthritis. We had beautiful weather and lots of people cheering us on. It was a great first race and motivation to keep me running. Thanks to Michelle for running with me and taking some fun pics during the race.

Finished at 32:00 minutes

Discovery

Some warm running tights and my doggie...I do like running in cold weather!