Our Weekend

If I don't post now, I know I will forget!

Matt and I had a fun weekend, we headed down to Nashville, TN to run in the Country Music Half Marathon. We were signed up to race with another friend of his, unfortunately we all got seperated before the race even started, so we each ran our own race. Mine went really well. I felt really strong and even got faster as I closed in on some of the final miles (usually I get passed by EVERYONE, except walkers, at the end, but this time I was doing the passing, yay!).

Here we are at the start:

Matt and I were wearing my old rowing gear since we were expecting some pretty severe stormy weather! Luckily the rain held off until we finished the race and hopped into the car!

The evening after the race we headed up to stay with some friends of ours from Germany. It was great to spend time with the Toth's, we had a nice time catching up them and another friend David, who lives close by. The Toth's kiddo's (who we'd only "met" in pictures) were truly adorable! I'm bummed we didn't catch a picture of all of us.

Thanks for having us Kristen and Kevin! It was great to have such yummy meals (I need that pancake recipe!), a comfy bed, and the opportunity to meet your darling children!

California!!

Last weekend I had a great trip out to California! I headed out there to celebrate my friend Julie's wedding. It was a wonderful day and Julie was a beautiful bride!

The days leading up to the wedding were also pretty fabulous. I was able to reunite with a wonderful group of friends, we were all on staff together, doing youth ministry throughout Europe. I hadn't seen some of them in 7 years! We had days full of girl stuff...talking, pedicures, lunches! Lots of fun.

I was also able to spend some fun time with Matt's parents. I spent about 2 days out at their place and it was a wonderful way to relax after all the events of the previous weekend. I was also able to go out on one of my favorite runs, it's about 10 miles long, so it fit in well with my 1/2 marathon training program. I love the scenery from that run, it goes pretty high up over their town and I was able to view the beautiful mountains and hills that are around their area, that along with running by beautiful homes. I stayed very visually entertained!

This is my first time doing the whole collage thing, I think it has made it that all of the text is centered, I'll try and figure out how to fix that one day! My understanding is that if you want to view a picture more closely on the collage, just click on it and you get a larger view!