This one is a doozy!

(finishing my first 5k in Martinez with my mom)

So as of now I am officially feeling like the laziest girl in my entire family. My mother is constantly running races and riding her bike or hiking. My sister Janae just finished a half marathon and Ashley has ran in numerous races as well. Myself.....I've done two 5ks. Both which I didn't really train for but did for fun. My mom and I were talking on the phone the other day and I was telling her how I feel like I need to train and run for something so I can stop feeling like the fat lazy girl in the bunch. And so.....we came to the conclusion to run the Provo Caynon half marathon. THAT'S 13.1 MILES! holy moly. I don't know if I am physically capable of this but I sure am going to try.

How am I going to make it.....baby steps. I woke up today and ran 2 miles. That is 2 miles more than I have ran all month. Tomorrow I plan to run three.

I'm making this post so you can all hold me accountable. Don't let me quite on my goal.

Also if you have any training tips or good songs for my ipod please comment them.

.BABY STEPS.

making it work

With the MCAT just around the corner Dave's free time seems to be all consumed with studying and projects. I just keep needing to remind myself that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. MAY 1st, then we will be free to spend time together, free to talk to eachother freely without interuppting studying, free to do fun things on the weekend, instead of studying. Last night Dave seemed pretty worn out from his repeating daily schedule of just constantly studying so I woke up and pressed snooze for him, gave him a 5 minute back scratch and then made bacon and eggs for breakfast. I know there isn't much I can do to lighten his load but I am trying to give him a daily doze of joy to help lift his spirits. Any ideas of sweet somethings are welcome.

Girls Just want to Have Fun

My wonderful cousin Heather (on the right) arranged for all of the girls in the area in our family to get together for lunch at Zupas the other day to celebrate and catch up. It was so fun just so sit down, us girls, and have Ashley and Caitlyn show off their new engagement rings and share their stories. Then Aunt Jeralee, being the thoughtful and creative girl that she is suprised us with Valentine Cookies from Dear Lizzie's, which is a cute boutique I have yet to step into in Alpine. Then 15 minutes later Heather, being the thoughtful, creative/homemaker that she is whipped out homemade sugar cookies for each of us. Can't wait to do it again next month.....I feel the need to bring something delicious to whip out then...so I will be plotting.

I'm greatful to have such awsome ladies to call family!

Peer Pressure

The little girls I nanny are pressuring me to have a baby....keep in mind they are five and seven. ;) They are always asking me what I'll name HER...(apparently they only want a girl baby), and they ask me how big my belly will get and how much longer I am going to wait. The other night after dinner I had a short talk with the girls about why a woman's body changes so much when they are "growing a baby". They giggled, told me that I should have a baby allready and then dissapeared into the laundry room while I did the dishes. a few minutes past and I began to hear giggles getting louder and louder...so I finished up and then went to investigate.

I then opened the door to find THIS....

BaHahahaha

They then proceeded to waddle around the house with their hands on their lower backs pretending to be a prego Megan until bed time.

I love my job!

I just hope they don't make fun of me when I actually do balloon up to grow a baby.

Dancing through Life

I came across this video this morning while goofing around online. Little did I know I would end up in tears. Blame it on the birth control.

Make sure and have the volume on first.

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

I felt so inspired by this video and had a rush of thoughts and emotions while watching it. Yes we are all so different but we all have the ability to find Joy and we should all be doing it together. One person's decision to be happy can have a huge effect! Sometimes I feel like I shy away from people that are a little different from myself, I am challenging myself to embrace them a little more from now on. I'm also challenging Dave to dance with me like this tonight after work.....because that would bring me joy.

I think this might be my favorite Utube video of all time.....what's yours?

My Valentine

Valentines Day is next week. A day I look forward to all year in hopes that Dave with do something outlandishly romantic for me..... Dave is not a particularly sentimental person. He would much rather show me he loves me by how hard he works and small acts of kindness like doing the dishes for me when I'm exausted or making dinner.....which I know he likes to do just because he's better than me at it ;). But when it comes to holidays like Valentines Day I don't think he likes going BIG! It's just another day to show me he loves me. This year we decided we would definately be going to Tucanos, our favorite Brazillian resturaunt that is too expensive to ever go unless there is a fine occasion. When I called to make the reservations today they said they are having a Valentines special where they will cover our table with a cute cloth and a candle, include chocolate covered strawberries and roses. I was delighted to hear this and decided I am not going to nag Dave one bit for the next week or say one word about Valentines Day... but will secretly plan my outlandish act of love alone to suprise him. My ultimate plan is to spoil him rotten with love and food! Every Valentines Day I will get more and more outragous and then one year he will top it....I can wait for that year! And just incase I come off as ungreatful for Dave and his subtle acts of love I want to set the record straight that I would take a whole year of knowing I am loved every single day than one Valentine's Day with a big hoopla. I'm lucky that we get to have both.

Anyhoo...I am just really excited for next weekend and hope you are all thinking of something special to do as well.