I LOVE RUNNING!!! I am now running 5 days a week, and three miles each time. My goal this week is to up that to 4 miles! It feels so good!! Tomorrow I am taking a friend running that is interested in getting into it. I am very excited! I worked today…it was nice to see all the kiddos faces. I actually worked in the Pre-K room, which was interesting considering I have very rarely worked in there. They behaved very well, and said some of the funniest things. They were so sweet, and just came over and hugged on me all day. I will be working in there again tomorrow, hopefully they will listen as well as they did today. The weather was gorgeous most of the day, but ended in rain, which is suppose to carry on into tomorrow. John bought a rode bike, because now he is interested in triathlons! He is loving his bike! Can I say how blessed I am to have a hubby with admirable and fulfilling hobbies and passions! Well that is about it for now, as far as the food front we have been eating a lot of left overs seeing as I made several meals that made quite a bit. We are still waiting on spring here in Montana…so COME ON SPRING!!!
So I am loving my new running shoes, and I am LOVING running!! It feels amazing, and worshiping the Lord while running is pretty much wonderful! The weather has been less than optimal lately for running, yesterday it rained/snowed. So I could have easily not gone running, but fortunately we have an amazing gym on base, so after dinner John and I went to the gym and ran the track. I ran 3 miles!!! It felt amazing, so I just had to sprint my last lap…LOVE IT!!!! John told me that I needed to take today off, because it is not good to run day after day. I guess it is a good day to take off seeing as it is April 22 and there is 5 inches of snow on the ground…wowsers Montana lighten up, literally…hahaha. On the menu tonight…pasta with broccoli in a lemon cream sauce..yum!!!
Well I went running yesterday, and it was awesome!!! I ran two miles, and stopped simply because I had met my goal, but I most certainly could have easily ran 2 more!!! I can’t believe it, I always thought I hated running, but I can’t believe how amazing it felt. And, of course John is very excited for me, and proud. he got me all set up with his running gear (running watch, ipod shuffle, and running headphone). I am so excited for the summer when it will be awesome running weather. I am acquiring some of my own hobbies…cooking, GARDENING, and RUNNING. Watch out John we will see who has more hobbies by next year…hahaha. We had minestrone soup and salad last night, and tonight is green chicken curry and brown rice…YUM!!
Wow, what a great time we had on our road trip! I got to stay in 6 different hotels, and I LOVE hotels!! It was so awesome to see family, friends, and familiar places. Our driving went great, John drove, I fed him snacks, we listened to new music, he listened to audio books (that immediately put me to sleep) Mexico was amazing. It was short but sweet, it was so good to see Granni and Papa, and Brendan and Sarah, and oh yes those beautiful girls. The range of vocabulary those girlies have is incredible! They are so fun and precious. Also…nothing can beat authentic mexican food! One of my favorite moments was the first morning that we were there precious Grace came downstairs and whispered to me “wake up, Ellen,” I then motioned to her to climb into bed, and she climbed in and snuggled with me. I love family. We definitely missed everyone in England. After mexico we drove up to Santa Barbara to visit old friends. That was great, and Santa Barbara is as gorgeous as ever. We most definitely got our fill of Chipotle! I got to do a little shopping which is always fun! We walked along the beach observing the “Art Walk” I fell in love with this beautiful painting. I waited for the artist to be done with a client and then asked how much it cost. For some reason I assumed that it would be cheaper than in a gallery, let’s just say I was most definitely wrong…haha. After a couple days of fun times with friends we made our way up to San Francisco. While there Peter gave us a 3 mile walking tour of the city it was so cool. I also had the best iced coffee EVER! Then that night we went to a giants game, which was a blast, minus the mind numbingly cold wind. Then the next day we were off. Up the PCH we went the Northern California coast in unbelievable. We drove through the gorgeous redwoods and spent the night in Fort Brag, CA with a beautiful view of the Ocean. The next morning it was onto Medford, OR. It was so cool to see all the mayer memories. What a neat town. We woke up the following day at the crack of dawn to drive to crater lake. Unfortunately when we got there it was blowing snow like crazy, we could not even get out of the car :(. So onto Seattle we went. What an amazing city! We had yummy sushi, then drove around town. Wish we had more time there. Then finally we made our way back to good old Montana. I must say it is so good to be home. I have realized that this big city girl, is really starting to see the sweet positives in a small town. So not jaded. It was wonderful to go to our church today. John ran the “Icebreaker” which is a 5 miler race here in town. It was snowing so that was a little kick to the race. Amazingly John still managed to run it 2 minutes faster than his goal…GO JOHNNY! Then we came home, and while John took a 3 hour, yes I said 3 hour, bath (he likes to read in it) I cleaned the house did the laundry, grocery shopped, and started putting together John’s lunch for tomorrow. All in all it was a very productive day!! So so good to be home. Pictures of our trip to follow!!
Well 3 weeks in Texas was awesome, the weather was gorgeous and hanging with friends and family is always amazing! I did lots of shopping, ate amazing food, made it to the beach, a farm, and the driving range! What more could a girl ask for?…HER HUSBAND! I so wish John could have come with me, poor guy was unheard of busy with the inspection on base. I made it home to Great Falls with just a couple days to teach kids church at a conference held at our church, clean, run errands, and PACK PACK PACK for the west coast!! Now I am sitting in our lovely hotel room in Salt Lake City typing this blog, and looking so forward to seeing my OTHER family and friends. Feeling very blessed. 