Super good way to start off the day......:)

This morning I ran a 5k with my friend Karen. (Go Red Head Power!)

She wanted a running partner and I wanted a new t-shirt (since Rob has "strongly suggested" (forced) me to part with two lately "because they [had] more holes than fabric").

Here's us waiting to start...enjoying the opening speech from the "Rodeo Royalty."

We (as in me...not so much Karen) thought it would be a silly idea to start off in the front (you know...with the really serious/competitive people).

For a whole 2 seconds we were in first place.

It felt awesome!

What a fun way to start out a Saturday!

I had a good time.

After a healthy round of encouraging yips, hollers, and high fives (no worries...I sanitized afterwards) I looked on toward the finish line where my dear husband and children were waiting.

In honor of the "family circus" (what I "lovingly" referred to jogging with my dad and various siblings in my youth) and a longstanding tradition of embarrassing myself and those I run with, I ended the race with a cartwheel finish (thinking of you dad). :)

TWO THUMBS UP FOR US!

(Way to go Karen....you did AWESOME!)

Life...and HOPE!

Sometimes my life feels like a crazy whirlwind...swirling out of control with no end in sight.

But....

The sun still rises and sets every day.

LIFE GOES ON!

Even when it feels like it wont.....

it does.

Some days it's "all" worth it...

and

some days it's not.

But....

It does goes on.

Some days I get the dishes done...and some days I don't.

Some days I remember that I am married to the most incredible man I know (whom I love very much)...and some days I take that most incredible man for granted.

Some days I stop pulling my hair out and sweating profusely in line at the grocery store while my children run around like wild boars long enough to realize that I am truly blessed to have 4 BEAUTIFUL boys who are sweet (albeit rambunctious) and who are children of God.




So...my thought for the day....

HOLD ON to those moments!


HOLD ON to those times that MAKE IT "ALL" WORTH IT!

They may be few....

they certainly feel far between...

but there IS hope.


In hope there is Faith.

In Faith there is Jesus Christ.

And he is aware of me (and you) at every moment of every day...and he wants us to be happy.



"Adam fell that men might be...men are that they might have joy."