You just have to ride the ride!

Happy Memorial Weekend Everyone! I hope you all enjoyed your weekends :) I know I sure did, it was a very fun and busy weekend, but I loved every minute of it.

On Friday I was listening to everyone at work talk about all of their fun plans for their long weekend and I felt pretty left out. We weren't going anywhere because we had just gone to California last weekend. And I was on call so I couldn't really go anywhere anyway so I was kind of bummed. But luckily I have super sweet sisters and I ended up going to Cracker Barrel with Valerie, Mike, Jackie and of course Luke. It was super yummy and we had lots of laughs and good chatting :) It was a great start to my weekend.

Then on Saturday Luke and I decided to buckle down and finish our talks....sort of. Part of buckling down included a Pirates of the Caribbean Marathon because we had planned to go and see the fourth one on Saturday. So we watched the first one and got distracted and didn't work on our talks at all. Then I started the second one because if wanted to watch all three before we went to see the movie there was no breaks.

But, we decided we really needed two computers to both do some research for our talks so we decided to go across the street and use my parents computers...however we got distracted by Bones...and we didn't work on our talks STILL! Then when we had started the last bones before we had to go to the Pirates movie I got called in to work for a few hours...so Luke brought the computer and hoped to work on his talk for a while....no such luck. So by the time we got home from work it was about 9:30 and we only had a little done on our talks. So we decided just to write down some stories, scriptures and quotes and wing it on the stand. Now, to give you some quick background I have found out recently when I get nervous...it's bad I start to get all clammy and sweaty and feel like I'm going to throw up kind of like the flu. Recently this happened when I was standing in line with Luke to ride ghost rider at Knotts Berry Farm. But as soon as I was on the ride and after I felt fine....So as we were sitting on the stand I really felt like I was going to throw up, and I asked Luke if he thought it was okay if I went to the restroom even though the meeting was about to start. He said, what did you do to make yourself feel better for the roller coaster? I replied, well I just rode the ride. So he said with a smile, well you're just going to have to ride the ride. I love my Lucas! According to everyone else our talks went well and I'm sure glad that it's over...phew.

On Sunday night Valerie, Mike and Logan came down to spend the night at my mom's house and they wanted to see me do the 5k the next morning. I kept on saying that I wasn't going to do it if it was pouring since it was free and it didn't really matter if I crapped out. But on Sunday night Luke made me decide so I said no matter what I was going to do the race in the morning, I don't think Luke really believed me but I was determined! So we got up at 6:00 on our day off and got all ready and walked over to the park. It was pouring, hailing and cold but I did it! My first 5k and I did it in 47.:28 seconds. My family was nice enough to come and cheer me on.

Then we decided instead of standing in line for a breakfast at the park in the cold we would go to Dee's...it was super yummy and fun. Thanks again for coming to support me.

After breakfast and warming up a little bit we headed over to the cemetery to visit our darling Lexie's grave. We miss you!

Then we went up to the Roy Cemetery to visit Grandma's grave, I miss her so much and it still just doesn't feel right not to have her with us. I can't wait to see all of our loved ones again.

Last of all we went over to my sister Ker's house for a yummy BBQ and games. As you can see we all rock at Volleyball! :) All in all I am very glad that we have such a great family and we all live close enough to get together.