BREEZY FIELDS

Yesterday Mike and I ran 8 miles. While it was a stroll in the park for him, that is the farthest I have ever run. My heart felt fine, save it be for the slight incline I like to call a hill (Mike was kind enough to humor my definition). However, my hip flexor is flexing its power over me today AND I have two blisters (I was wearing my new shoes that I have only worn on the treadmill for a few miles). The blisters are in areas where I have some lovely calluses and they should be fine very soon. While I am in some pain today I do feel more confident that I will get there- to marathon status. Sawyer wants to play. Time to go.

A Tale of Two Yorkies... and a Rat Summation- We decided (that would be Mike and me and not the voices in my head and me) that after Jane's unfortunate 6th grade experience we would take the opportunity our move provided to "redo" 6th grade and make Jane older for her grade from here on out. Jane was pretty overwhelmed, hopeful, and heartbroken. I had to do something- I threw a dog into the bargain. A Yorkie to be precise. Jane researched and discovered that Yorkies were cheaper in Germany than in the States- by alot. We picked out a cute little Yorkie puppy that was supposed to grow to be a hefty 6-9 lbs. I know that little 3 pounders are all the rage but I could just see Ellyn or Sawyer reenacting a disturbing scene from Of Mice and Men. A month later we picked out a little friend for our young pup, also with the potential of reaching a whopping 9 lbs. Just so you know, Yorkies were once bigger dogs, they began to breed them to be small up in Scotland, so the wee l...

Life, for right now... I have had an awesome weekend so far. Well, technically it is only 2:11 on Saturday. We went camping last night at Henry Coe State Park, or something like that. It was so much fun. Rebecca came too, to help with Ellyn. Even though it was freezing and windy when we got there, we stayed in our somewhat warm-huge tent and had stew, then played a board game. The dogs, in my opinion were great!!! They are so fun to have, even if sometimes they are a pain in butt. Ellyn loved the camping, however Sawyer did not. He just wanted outside of the tent and then he was SCREAMING in middle of the night and my wonderful, strong mother had to take him to the car. I swear, he was happy for about 15 minutes the whole trip. I am having a hard time at school, social wise. There is this girl, that was my BF and now she has done this thing, where she randomly decides, "oh, I am going to make Jane's life miserable," Well, we have made up about four times. The problem is, ...

Near San Jose -- Post From My iPhone

What can I say? Life is so normal, so unimaginably good right now. I feel like I should pinch myself all day long. I have a husband that works way too few hours to actually broadcast on a blog (Don't worry, he'll be slaving away in two months and he did just work 24/7 for 15 months, your tax paying dollars are not being wasted) so for now he's home to play with me and help me all evening and sometimes even in the afternoon. I absolutely adore his company. There is a reason he is my best friend. Ellyn's program is being put together even as I write and she is much happier as of late. She even said "more" twice this week. She is so loving and you can't help but smile when you see her (unless she's freaking out of course:). Jane gave a family home evening lesson last night (long story about missionaries being an hour and a half late Monday due to a hike and no cell coverage) that brought tears to my eyes AND her father's as well (okay, more lik...

I am back to school now, after the wonderful weekend I had at the warm beach. It was SO hot today, I liked it though. I am more of a warm weather person. Tonight we are having the sister missionaries over for dinner. Today was not really that interesting, but I felt bad because I have not blogged in a long time. I am in MS success and tomorrow and this week we are talking about Autism and the six pillars of character. I am pretty excited about that,one day we have to be "handicapped". I am reading Gone with the Wind, it is really good so far. Well, bye.

This weekend was heavenly. I mean it. I loved every minute of it. Friday night was date night and Mike and I opted to stay home for a change. We fed the kids dinner and then sent them all to the other side of the house. Rebecca was here to watch Ellyn and the girls had Sawyer. Luckily our living room and the little ones' bedrooms are all behind the family room door. Mike and I grilled steak and shrimp, ate dinner out on the deck, came in, and played three games of Pandemic. Here's a little plug for Pandemic, a great cooperative game where you work together to stop the spread of disease across the world. It can be very tense (I know Ellynn- we are dorks. It is pretty much all Mike's fault). We won two out of three times, phew that we were able to save the world. Just call us "Legend." We finished our games and then came back to the living room and visited with the girls and Rebecca while we watched a short documentary about life in Iraq (I know the per...