Thankgiving

I am so excited to go see Benjamin's family for Thanksgiving this year. We are going for a week and it will be such a nice break. When I think of Thanksgiving I always think of several things at once: -Pumpkin Pie -Turkey -Football -naps -family -and the only snowy Thanksgiving I have ever experienced (or maybe the only one I remember). I think I was about six and we had my mom's whole family over for Thanksgiving dinner. It began with a HUGE snowstorm and we were not even sure if everyone was going to come over. Well the snow let up so on they came. As we were waiting for the food to finish cooking the power went off because of the storm. And then my sister (Jessica) threw up in my uncle's lap in the candlelight. A close second is the one where my mother put her hand down on the burner that she had just turned off. I call that one "Trip to the Emergency Room Thanksgiving. " Or the one where my grandmother forgot to take the wax paper off of the pie crust before she put in the pumpkin filling oh and she didn't add the sugar to the mixture. The look on my pa-pa's face was priceless. I love Thanksgiving.

26.2

We are home. We are sore. We are tired. But we did it. We both finished. Benjamin finished in just under 5 hours and I finished in 5 hours and 45 minutes. We both wanted to quit. Benjamin at mile 20 and for me it was every step starting at mile marker 15 and thru to 26.1. (that last .1 was a piece of cake) After we crossed the finish line we ate the most delicious sandwich cookie ever (it was vanilla and cheap and we probably wouldn't like them today but yesterday it was fantastic). Benjamin met up with a guy around mile marker 22 that he finished the marathon with. He then was so kind to hobble to the car and grab the camera to take some pictures of me crossing the finish line. Once I crossed the finish line and ate the amazing cookie and banana I then gave Benjamin a hug and started to cry. This was no little cry with just a couple of tears. It was a full on sob. I was so tired and so happy to be done. Needless to say we are both sore and walking around with a little bit of a hitch in our gitty-up. But we finished. And that feels so so good.