running thoughts

I went running this morning. This is what ran through my mind...

• I really do not like running most of the time
• How do I make it in the snow?! I have only been here 6 days and I have fully adjusted to the warm life again. Can I go back? Guess I don't have a choice.
• I am going to sit right here in the sun for 10 minutes and reward myself for all the running I did (I really sat down and enjoyed that!)
• Wow...I am so white, So very very white. Gross.
• Are my thighs jiggling?! Gotta fix that.
• The city does trail events. I love the City of San Marcos. Holds a dear place in my heart - my very first employers.
• I really need a haircut. Maybe some bangs...
• Houses on the side of Emerald Heights - beautiful. But how practical is it? What if your daughter has a play date with a friend who lives on the hill. Do you drive down and then back up the same hill to drop her off or do you make her climb through the brush?
• I hate this hill...
• I have only passed one person running. If I were in Provo, I would have passed everyone!

Mostly, I get way more distracted running here than I do in Provo. Maybe it's because I don't have Alison to keep me going. Or maybe I am running during the day so I can actually see things around me. Mostly I think it is the sun and how much I love home. I want to be outside.

Sundays' at home - my favorite

I love lists.


Why San Marcos Sundays' are so great:

1. Starts with the Palomar ward. I miss my awesome friends back here. Sometimes it's nice to feel popular :)
2. Even if there's no sun, it's warm.
3. Zach and Zak's farewells were amazing. All these little boys growing up...I feel old
4. Babies! Everyone and their babies. I love the ladies in my ward and I never get to see babies at church in a student ward.
5. T.O.V. It is always home to me
6. Amazing amazing musical numbers throughout the meeting
7. New pews and carpet. So bomb and maroon and they smell nice too!
8. The beehives and mom's lesson on steps to achieving our goals. Can you guess where I'd like to be in 5 years?!
9. Watching The Green Mile (on TV and clean of course!) with my family. I cried. Life changing movie? Yes.

Well, I have been home for 5 whole days. [Two more and then somehow things worked out so that I go up to Boise to spend New Years with P-Town and Kels gets to be in Salt Lake with her manly man. SOOO EXCITING!] That was all a side note. Now, back to what I have been doing the last 5 days.

Christmas was awesome, as you would expect it to be. I love my family. Mom and I made it through 3 hours of P&P before we watched the Lakers lose (booo) but then enjoyed a great Chargers game. Then Hannah and I went to Oceanside Pier. That was BEAUTIFUL.

The 26th was spent with the Thorkelson bunch. Lots of fun...Definitely lots of fun :) More cute babies and always a good time with them. That evening I caught up with some of my very most favorite people in San Marcos. I know they all get bored just sitting at my house, or attempting to play Snorta, but I love every minute of it.

The end of my BYU football career

I am home! Oh how I love San Marcos. Hannah and I went on a run (really, just turned into a walk) this morning and I forgot how beautiful it was!



This last week has been crazy. Monday night Kelsey, Preston, Kathy, and I left for the longest, but greatest trip home. We stayed Monday night in Santa Clara with Reese and Markay. I love them. Those kids were so much fun and seeing Preston playing wii with my little boy cousins was adorable. That was only after I knocked him out in wii boxing :)



Tuesday morning we left for Vegas. Preston had bought us tickets to the BYU bowl game for my Christmas present. Despite the cold (freezing cold) and windy wind wind, we had a blast! BYU was playing amazing and Preston and I made it to ESPN. I did have to leave with about 4 minutes left though...Kelsey and Kathy were kind of just stuck wandering through Vegas while Preston and I enjoyed the game. He was leaving to go back to Provo with friends after the game. So Kelsey called and called and called. I already knew we were going to win, couldn't I just leave? She sure doesn't understand football and how I have to stay until the end, but I eventually had to give in (she was beginning to whine...)

Being home has treated me well. I sit at home. I nap. I make my flower headbands. But I have redeveloped my cough. It's nice to have mom here to take care of me :)

Also, tomorrow is Christmas! I wish you all a Merry Christmas. I love this time of year. I love hearing Hannah play and sing to Silent Night. I love hearing my siblings laugh and talk in all their loudness. Most of all, I love my Savior. I am so grateful for this time that we get to spend celebrating His birth.

SNOW!! The good and the bad

So the first real snow has come. It is beautiful to look at. Absolutely gorgeous and it finally feels like Christmas (weird that I said that since I have never had Christmas and snow together...). But I guess what I mean is that it finally feels like winter?

What I have decided..

• I like looking at it
• I don't even mind walking in it
• I DO NOT LIKE driving in it AT ALL - I feel like I was better at it last year.

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Well let me just tell you about this weekend because it was wonderful (besides the fact that I was sick...)

FRIDAY - We had our last Adaptive Aquatics field trip to BYU. We only had one who was prepared for swimming so we just all stayed in the gym and had a blast! Preston came and I just love when he does that. Then - my lame phone died. Won't charge. And I spent from 4 to 6 at the Verizon store with my wonderful sister. She helped me pick a new one...it's the new chocolate. I know, another chocolate, but I seriously am loving this one. It's a touch phone and I was iffy about that...but it's been tons of fun. I made Kelsey drive home because I definitely had a fever. Preston went to the store and got me medicine and powerade. What a boyfriend, right?! It was an early night due to sick me.

SATURDAY - Still recovering but feeling better. Preston picked me up at 1 and we watched his uncle dominate with other BYU alum in a volleyball tournament. Then we drove up to Draper and got lunch with Kelsey. This was followed with a triple date to the BYU vs. San Fran game at the Energy Solutions Arena. Kelsey went out with Jordan Mann (a good friend of mine from the ward last year) and then Todd (also from my ward) and his date. We had a blast. Lorena also had her Christmas Boutique - a give and buy adorable craft bazaar raising money for a family without Christmas in Argentina. I brought a few headbands that I had a made. We went back to spend the night with Lyman, Lorena, the girls, and Kels. Lots of fun and a fairly late night.

SUNDAY - First of all, my ward is amazing. I love testimony meetings with them. That was great. Right after church, Preston and I left for Salt Lake where we went to the Christmas Devotional. I hope you all got to see it because it was fabulous. (You can listen/watch it here) After the devotional we went to his aunt and uncles house where we ate, ate, ate.

What a weekend!