That's Our Girl!

Well at the beginning of the year Savannah said in our goal planning family home evening that she had some goals she wanted to accomplish in 2010. If you know Savannah very well at all these won't surprise you. She wanted to read the whole Book of Mormon, get a six pack (Ab's that is), grow to be 6 feet tall, and run a half marathon. We all said okay Savannah that sounds awesome! She comes up with some big ideas sometimes this didn't shock us much, but the shocking part came about 3 weeks later when she decided to run the Texas Half Marathon at White Rock Lake because she didn't have time to train later.Track is coming up and her coaches told her she would decrease her vertical for high jump if she ran a lot of miles during the week. So she decided to just find the next half marathon she could and run it. Then she got the throw up flu real bad for two days, then the head congestion flu. This whole time Lance and I kept saying "you don't have to do this Savannah, you can pick another one at the end of the year or something". Oh Noooooooo, she was having nothing to do with that, she had it in her mind she was going to just go run two days after the flu and " get it over with". Well the night before the race a huge cold snap came through north TX and I though for sure that was the end of that idea because Savannah HATES to be cold! Nope! We were up at 5:30 a.m. on our way to the Texas Half, awesome! Well I was a little worried about her I have to admit. She was running all alone, never trained, never ran this far before, and it was extreme weather. We get there and find they had to have special permission to continue the race because the wind chill was in the single digits. Didn't even phase her. So all we could do at this point is cheer her on and hope for the best. So Sydnie and Savannah's best friend Ari and myself followed her as much as we could in the car and got out to cheer her on at different miles. Well she made it and accomplished her goal. All I can say is WOW- that's my girl!

And she's off with all the other hundreds of runners......

She just kept running..............

and running................

This was her one and only stop for a potty break, she had to get all four layers of clothes put back together before she could start running again.

And she made it of course, we had no doubt, she is one determined girl and we are sure proud of her!!!!! Great job Savannah you have inspired your sister and I.