Thanksgiving & 30th Birthday

I started the holiday (Thanksgiving & my 30th birthday) off with a 5K race at the park behind our house. I ran with my friend Joni and I wasn't out to break any records because I had a cold, but we ended up beating our previous 5K time by about a minute! My time was 25:37. We were pretty excited to see the clock when we came into the finish!

Thanksgiving was at my mom & dad's house this year. My mom put out a little kids table for Kate, Michael, and Brooklyn. They played with playdough before dinner started. I was in charge of green bean casserole and jello pretzel salad this year.

Thanksgiving Dinner was SO yummy. I have so much to be thankful for in my life!

After dinner we headed to the theater to watch the movie BOLT. I thought it was pretty cute. If anyone has seen it my family knows the guy that does the voice for the hamster. Mark Walton was a missionary in our ward when we lived in Albuquerque. He came to our house the first night of his mission and drew disney characters for each one of us.

Kaitlyn LOVED the movie and loved being in a theater. That was her first movie theater experience. Michael spent most of his first movie theater experience out in the hall with his dad.

Today is also my niece Brooklyn's birthday and my 30th birthday. I can't believe I'm 30! It just sounds old, although I can't really say that I feel much different than when I was 20. It was fun to share my birthday with a 2 year old. We had a pinata, cake, and presents. Kaitlyn & Brooklyn didn't have a chance a breaking open the pinata, so we decided to take some karate kicks to it!

My mom didn't even attempt to put 30 candles on the cake...it would've started the fire alarm. I still had to blow really hard and get a little help from Kate. Well, here's to 30!
Some of my girl friends surprized me last night and took me out to dinner and to the movie Mamma Mia. Thanks girls--that was a lot of fun!