Turkey Trot

Today was the Turkey Trot, which is a 5K/10K race.  The cub scouts from our ward hand out the water to the runners at the half way point of the run.  This was the second year that the girls and I helped out with the race.  Ben is usually playing football and Rad runs it.

The tables ended up divided and on both sides of the road.  The cub scouts were on one side and we were on the other.

We ran out of cups.  After all of the 5K runners were through and the 10K were still going and looking hot, one of the leaders got a couple cases of water from their car and we handed out those 48 bottles.

We had a sea of people at this point.  (That is Adam, 782.)  The race had online registration and same day registration.  They said they weren't going to sign anyone in the day of the race because they reached the cap of 700.  They ended up registering almost 200 more.

There's Ben running his first 5K race.  His time was 35:08.  I don't think that is too bad given he doesn't run and didn't make any effort to train for it.  Rad is proud of him for doing it.

After we were done at the water station, the girls and I set off for the country club to find Ben.  We ended up with a police escort.

A picture of Ben and Adam that someone in Adam's family took.  After the run, Ben went with Adam's family to play football.  He came home 20 minutes before the food was served.  Perfect timing.

I had the kids pick their "must haves" and w ended up having turkey, stuffing, peas, corn, squash, mashed potatoes w/ gravy, rolls (new favorite recipe), sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce.  Dessert will be pumpkin pie and cherry cobbler, although I'm not sure anyone will be up for dessert.

One Month

Ben got a single rose to give to Gianna for their one month anniversary of dating.

Scouting for Food, CiCi's, Battery

I took these 3 lovely ladies with me to a couple of areas to pick up the food people left out for Scouting for Food.  The crazy thing is, one community we dropped bags at the week before, the gate guard wouldn't let us into for the pick-up.  One of our leaders spent 20 minutes on the phone and finally, someone gave the authorization to let us in.  Our group of scouts collected a lot of food, more than in previous years.

After we did the collection for Scouting for Food, I needed to go to the Scout Shop to pick up an award that was overlooked at our court of honor.  We stopped at CiCi's for lunch.  This is one of Ben's plates.  He had several plates, not quite as full as this but he was a bottomless pit for lunch.

The battery is dead.

Veterans

Each student of the fifth grade class at the elementary school made a poster of a family member or friend to have displayed along the drive into the school.  The posters have the name, rank, where they served, and honors/medals received.  I was impressed with how focused the school is on Veterans.  It seems like every year they do more and more but it may be more that each grade does something different so they experience and honor it in a different way each year.

Halloween Candy

I don't recall where I saw this first but my understanding is that Jimmy Kimmel asked his viewers to tell their kids that they ate their Halloween candy, to video it, and upload it to youtube.  The entire clip is about 4 minutes long but someone has cut it to the best part, just over a minute.  This cracks me up every time and I have to admit, I've watched it more than once.

Tidbits

A couple of things worth noting.

Ben's last game is this week.  We are all excited to be done with another season.  He says this is his last year of band.  I met his history teacher and I love her.  She is the type of person you want to be with.  Ben says she is pretty cool.

Becca has been invited to be a part of the all-county honor choir.  They will be performing at the end of January.  Next week is the Reality Store.  Becca's profession, based on her grades, is CEO, she noted they make more money than the lawyers and I believe doctors.  I'm helping out with "housing" again this year.

Jessica was chosen as the alternate for the annual Geo Bowl at school.  Stephanie is keeping us all in line.  They hung the signs that each student in their grade made outside the school for Veteran's Day.  I hope to take a picture when I'm there for strings.  I knew their school focused on Veteran's Day more than any other we've been in.  Each year I learn how much they really do bring the attention of the students to the day and honoring those that have served and those that are serving.