...Hope...

We celebrated Easter all the traditional ways, but the real celebration came from the powerful messages of hope I was able to hear in church from 4 of my family members. My family has been thru some extremely difficult things and continue to endure trials, as I am sure many of you do, and it was wonderful to focus on the positive aspects of hard things. Knowing there are better things to come some day is the real reason to celebrate.

...I can FINALLY check this off my list...

Running a half marathon has been a goal of mine for a REALLY long time . I have trained twice in the past but had to drop out each time because of sickness-so I have never actually crossed the finish line of a half marathon. Well, yesterday was finally my day. Unfortunately, it was not my training partner's (a.k.a my little sister) day-she got sick this past week and was unable to run it with me. It was a lonely, cold run (it snowed the majority of the race) but I did it and I ran the entire race! Walking today is quite another story though...


                                                            ...My training partner...

I know these pictures of me are the most beautiful you have ever seen and yes those are hot pink ear muffs, but I had just run 13.1 miles so I don't really care.