Wonderful Weekend

This weekend was a very special woman's birthday. It was hub's meemaw's birthday! She requested that everyone go to church with her Sunday morning, followed by a birthday get together. So, that's what we did!

Sunday morning we woke up bright and early, got ready for church, then drove 40 minutes to attend the 9am church service. There were so many of us that we took up 2 pews! It was amazing! Then, we drove out to the family land out in the middle of nowhere (seriously) and grilled out, rode 4 wheelers (there were 4 there!), shot guns, played games outside, and played a game inside. It was the most fun we've all had in quite some time! I know she enjoyed it and so did the rest of us.

Also, I made my first decorated cake. It was 2 tiers of French Vanilla cake with Buttercream Icing. It tasted really good and didn't look too badly either! I really need to practice on my writing though. :) Cake decorating is a lot of work - it took me 3.5 hours from start to finish! Plus, I made brownies, too! I took a picture of the cake with my phone...so you can't really tell what the designs on top are.... ooops.

How was ya'lls weekend?

Edited to Add: I made the Buttercream Icing - even the blue icing. That jar that you see has stiff consistency icing that I used to secure the cake to the board. So, yes I had a powdered sugar mess all over my kitchen :)

Thank God For Trucks

Well, yesterday was one of THOSE days. Seriously.

I left work due to some personal issues.

Then later on that evening, hubs and I decide to drive over to the walking trails to have a little stroll. While sitting at a red light, I hear tires screeching on the pavement. I looked around to see who was about to get plowed...when we get hit. That's right, we were sitting in traffic at a stop light and got hit by a car that was going around 40 mph. We're fine and the other car occupants are fine.

I wont go into details nor show the pictures just yet. I'm going to wait till everything is over and complete. I will say that our 2010 Toyota Tundra took it like a champ and the only thing messed up is the back bumper. The Nissan Maxima that hit us - not so much. I'm pretty sure their vehicle is totaled - their air bags even deployed.

This morning hubs and I are just super sore. God was definitely protecting us yesterday.

FF 5k Race Recap

Remember how I haven't really ran in about 6 or 7 weeks? Remember how I signed up for a 5k this past weekend? Yeah, about that....

It sucked.

I guess I'll elaborate...

The race started at 7:30am and it was a balmy 76 degrees with humidity somewhere around 68%. Ugh.

Mile 1- started off decent. I thought, okay, a little slower than usual but still not too bad.

Mile 2- I'm still running with my friend which is a good sign.

Mile 3 - Told my friend to go on. I was exhausted, hot, and thirsty. Plus, the last mile was a slow incline.

.1 - Thank God, I can see the finish line!

So, here are my splits from my Garmin (from memory). The official race results are gun timed, so I'm not even going to go look at the results.

Mile 1 - 10:54
Mile 2 - 11:28
Mile 3 - 13:29 - um, ouch!
.12 - 10:24 pace

My Garmin time - 37:09. Ew.

So, I've signed up for another 5k that is on the 17th. It's a new course and a race I've never ran before, but I decided that I should do another one because this one sucked so bad. I might even train a little bit for this one. Maybe.

I hope ya'll did better in your races this weekend than I did!

BTW, the winner of the race came in at 13:36 - seriously! 2nd place was a 13:43! And, yes, I think they were both born in Kenya, but live in AR. The race had a $1000 purse for 1st place.