Catch Up!

It's December...one of the most fun times in the Hardy house! Buddy, our Elf, has returned for some fun surprises, the tree is up and decorated, the stockings are hung, Christmas pictures are being colored, Christmas music is playing, the wish lists have been made (they actually started working on those in November :)), etc! It is a fun time of year, but also a very hectic time of year. There is so much going on between school activities, church parties and festivities, shopping to be done, goodies to be made, etc, etc. I really do not want this month to fly by!!







Now that I've covered the beginnings of festivities for December, let's back track to October and November! :)
The end of October brought about Halloween, but also my 33rd birthday and my first ever Half Marathon! I trained for 12 weeks with some of the most amazing girls I've ever known. The four of us worked so hard together providing strength, encouragement, laughter, memories and new achievements all at the same time. I could not ask for a better group of ladies to run with 3-4 mornings a week. They have been such an amazing blessing to me! The four of us meet every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning at 5:30 am to run. While we were training for our half, we would meet on Saturday mornings for our "long" runs. Our Half Marathon was in Greenville on October 29. We traveled there on Friday for our race on Saturday morning. It was a super tough course since the elevation levels are much different there than they are here in Columbia. But, we did it and were so relieved! :)

My birthday:









Race weekend:






Halloween was a lot of fun with my Tiger, Gamecock football player, and Bob the Builder. We went to a fall festival at Lexington Baptist on Saturday the 29th and on the 31st we went trick-or-treating in our neighborhood. The boys had a blast and got lots of candy!!







In November we celebrated Robbie completing his Masters! He did a great job juggling a full time job, coaching and having a family! He even made it on the Dean's List every semester!!



Thanksgiving was fun with lots of eating and being with family. We went to Robbie's sister's for lunch and my aunt's for supper. It was a great day!