Thanksgiving Day 5K

I ran my very first 5K this morning in a Thanksgiving Day Feed the Hungry Run. It was very fun, very cold, and very tiring. It was about 17 degrees!
I ran with my two sisters Jeanette and Diana. Diana and I ran together the whole time and Jeanette smoked us both!
Here is us before the race!



And afterwards, where I look very flushed! Need to do some more training before my next one!

Update

We are in Idaho. It is a little bit colder than in Arizona. We have had to buy a coat and other things for Lily while we are here.
I am super excited for Thanksgiving. My sis and I are going to do a 5k in the morning. I think it will be fun, but I am going to freeze my patootie off.
Rob is studying away. We are hoping to to take the test sometime in early December. Then, after Christmas, we are headed back to AZ to get our stuff out of storage, and move to Carlsbad. It should be a good time.

Sidenote----I just went to a craft fair with my mom and my sister. Apparently if you don't have 100 cute bows and headbands for your little girl, you are a crappy mom! Just kidding really...but man, there was probably 20 booths that just had hair bows. My sister Julie is actually good at making some, so we are going to have a bow making day next week so I can put cute little bows on my little lady's head.
Some people's strengths are crafts...I am almost positive that that is not mine.

A new job!

So, we have a job! We got the job in Carlsbad, New Mexico. New Mexico definitely wasn't our first choice of locations, but it has a ton of PROS about this company. The help with student loans is AMAZING, Rob will be able to become a certified hand therapist in 5 years, and it is just a great little town. So, this job will get us to where we want to go!
It is very exciting.
We are headed to Idaho Falls in 1.5 weeks for the holidays and then will move to New Mexico after Christmas. Rob has to study and take the boards, so we decided we would rather be in Idaho Falls for the holidays instead of in our tiny stinky apartment!

TRIP TO CARLSBAD, NM

Here are some pics from our trip to Carlsbad, NM.

Here are some highlights:
Great job opportunity
Beautiful river in Carlsbad
Lily did AWESOME
Met a General Authority in the airport while waiting for our flight out of El Paso

Lowlights:
Flight delayed out of El Paso for 2.5 hours
Lily cried all the way from the Phoenix airport to Cottonwood

Cutest Bear Cub....ever?

Here is what is going on with us...
We went to Hobbs, NM for an interview last weekend. We didn't get the job, but it was a good experience and gave us some pointers for the next time. Here is what happened while I was packing for our trip! This is the fancy basket in our hotel room from the company and Rob all spiffed out for his interview! It was exciting!
We are leaving tomorrow to go to Carlsbad, NM for an interview. We are excited and hopeful.
We also might be going to an interview in Lewiston, ID next weekend. And, then Rob is done with his rotation, so we don't really have a clue what we are going to do after that yet. It is an interesting feeling to not know where you will be in 2.5 weeks.

We are excited for Rob to be so close to being done with school. It is pretty exciting. We have probably gotten calls/e-mails from 125+ companies and recruiters. We are doing our best to follow up on which ones we think might be good. It is very overwhelming, but there are a lot of opportunities out there...we are just checking our options and doing the whole process.
Sorry for the blurriness---our camera is dying.

We took Lily to a trunk-or-treat tonight as a little bear cub. She LOVED it.

Random Thoughts

I am feeling random....so here are some random thoughts for your Thursday along with some random hilarious photos of my goober. I promise she doesn't always look so rag-a-muffin-ish.

We are all suffering from colds in my house. I am just hoping and praying that it doesn't turn into a flu type of sick. Not fun. There are no sick days for moms.

We have applied for 20+ jobs and gotten 30+ calls from all over. Rob is going to have a few phone interviews tomorrow and try to figure out what to do from here. It is exciting and very nerve-wracking. Trying to decide where to move for our future is a hard one to make.

Rob only has 5 weeks left of his rotation here in Cottonwood. Then, our future is very up in the air. It is making me nervous to not really know where we might be in 6 weeks time. Weirdness.

Lily is a huge crack-up. She runs everywhere and is into everything all the time. She cracks herself up a lot. She loves to play on the couch and on our bed. We got her some playhouse balls and she loves getting in a box and playing with those balls. It is weird to think we have a little person running around our house all the time. Newborns don't stay newborns for long.

My cute child