Five Kilometers? Are We There Yet?

Last year our Stake had their annual Family Walk/Run, at a gorgeous park in Papillion. I was in my first trimester with Reid, I pushed Zeke in the stroller, and I got shin splints. Matt got second place out of his age group, and I got third out of mine. This year we had it again. I've been looking forward to this for a couple weeks. I pushed the boys in our double stroller. No kind of training can prepare you for that! Matt did the 5K in 26 minutes, but he had more competition so he placed fourth. I did it in 51 minutes, which was six minutes faster than last year. I placed third again. Ezekiel and Reid got participant ribbons, and I didn't get shin splints!!!!!

Directly after the race Matt dropped us off at home, and went to help a sister move. Upon his return, we went to Anita (Galagher) Larison's husband's baptism. Sadly, we couldn't stay for the whole thing because I had an eye appointment. A handful of you might remember the story of how I broke my last pair of glasses. Zeke and I were messing around on the floor near our balcony door which was open. I took my glasses off and put them behind me so that he wouldn't do anything to them as we lay there. Well, I look up and on our screen door sat a HUGE preying mantis! I panicked and sat up fast putting pressure on my glasses and braking them. Still needing to use them, I taped them up basically. I am so so so excited about the new pair I'll get. A pair that I'd never have picked out on my own (automatically assuming they'd not look good) wound up looking great on me (I think), and we got them. Here are some more pictures from the 5K:Ezekiel and Reid enjoying the fruits of their labors

(Oranges and watermelon)

A collection of the many participants


The event organizer and giver of the awards

I got my pupils dilated at the eye doctor. I had already had a headache developing from waking up early for the 5K. So on top of that the eye appointment made me woozy. After the eye appointment, we went to our Elders Quorum Activity. It was held at another lovely park here in Omaha. our ward's namesake. I tried to be good. There were too many ears to listen to me complain about how poor I felt at that point. They were too good to me by listening! I had finally had enough though, and we went home. On the way home my stomach gave way. What an appealing evening.
Friday night I went to the temple. I wound up in a session with both mine and Lincoln's stake president and their spouses. One of the matrons upon knowing my last name asked, "Do you have in-laws in Scottsbluff?" Sure enough it was Sue Hatch(?) who knows Matt's parents. We saw her again waiting for her husband on the couch in the foyer at church. Brother Hatch is a counselor in the Rockbrook Ward bishopric.

Here are a couple of other fun things I've wanted to share:

A thrift store find, those spongy letters and numbers are a huge bath time hit!