New Year!!

This past holiday season was extra special; We had so much family to celebrate with!  And of course, you can't have this much family together without doing some pretty awesome things.  Like paintball.  And downtown New Years Eve festivities.  Like I said before, awesome.

 

Somebody was tuckered out by the end of the night!  He didn't even wake up to get his food from McDs!

 

Mamacita

For my birthday, my mom took me on a hike to Chimney Rock.  It was awesome.  Well, the stairs were not awesome, but the views were!  Usually there is an elevator that takes you up to the top part of the hike...otherwise you have to climb about 1000 stairs.  Well, littleknownstous, the elevator was "out of order".  Suffice to say that I was holding onto the rail for dear life on the way back down to keep my legs from collapsing.  Other than that, the hike was nice.  :)


You know...some of this...

And a little of this....

And some more of this...

Until finally!!!

Bailey, of course, had no trouble at all climbing the gazillion stairs.

Bailey did not want to take the picture.  I think the waterfall was making her nervous.  What lab doesn't like water???

Woohoo!!  Made it to the top of the stairs!!  

Did you notice the hat??  Ryan got it for me for my birthday.  It says RF for Randi Frazier, not Roger Federer.  Just to clarify.

Working Out

I hate don't like working out.  It could be a combination of waking up early, wearing non-cute gym clothes, and walking into a room full of sweaty, muscle-bulging people...but mainly I'm just lazy.  I can find much better things to do with my time...like sleeping!  Or eating!  Or playing angry birds on my Nook :)  Thanks Handsome Tay.

 And then you get "The Greeters" who have been awake and alert since 3:30 that morning just waiting to say hello to you as you stumble into the gym.

Uuugg.

Gyms need to have a "light weight" section for people like me who can't lift over 20 pounds and don't want people who are lifting over 100 pounds staring at them.  

However...I just discovered ZUMBA!!!

I might just be going to the gym more often now!  Thanks Zumba for saving my workout!!

I don't run.

I don't run.  Actually, I prefer to swim.  Handsome Taylor, on the other hand, is a spectacular runner.  It usually takes me 2 weeks 3-4 weeks to really get back into swimming shape...and swimmers know, in order to stay in swimmers shape, one must swim...year round.  T can pick up running like it's nobody's business and excel in races and such.  I would drown if you threw me into a pool and told me to swim a mile.

So this past weekend, Handsome Taylor and Bruce decided to run a 5k which roughly estimates to about 3.1 miles.  Blah.  But, being the fabulous girlfriend I sometimes am, I went out to support them...and of course, take pictures!  It was not easy sitting out in the sunshine taking pictures, but somebody had to do it.

So excited to be here!!

Waiting in line while all the people congregate...

Take off!

Handsome T came in first in his age category (20-29)!  Next time, I would run walk try to make it with him.  Well, we'll see...

23 minutes!!  Go T!

After the race--pooped!