child at heart

It seems I have come down with the funk that dad brought home with him, so I am a little lazy today. Mainly because the thought of eating, or moving, or the act of either sends me into waves of dry heaves and other bodily expulsions that I will just leave to your imaginations. So that leaves me to be pretty lame today. Perfect time to put on some music and type up a blog I guess. This past weekend was crazy eventful to say the least.

Friday through Sunday we had a missions conference. It was nice for me to really think through going overseas and evaluate myself. It was amazing. But, that is about all I can say on the subject.

Friday night, Caleb and I went to Montgomery’s first Zombie Walk and Prom downtown. It was to raise food and awareness of the Food Bank here. The slogan was something to the effect, Hunger is real – Zombies are not. It was beyond entertaining to say the least. We started off at the fountain on court square and then walked, following Hilda – of Montgomery Haunted Hearse Tours – to the alley. There we had the zombie prom. Of course they finally played Thriller, and then we left because it was getting a little raunch. The best part of the night were the people who were in the alley on a date that obviously had no clue what was going on. Their reactions were the best. We had a couple celebrities join our festivities. We raise almost 1500 pounds of food, and this will deffinately be an annual thing so you should really check it out next year. Here are some pictures:

Saturday morning I then ran the Montgomery Marathon 5k with some friends from church. It was a beautiful day outside, and the weather was amazing. I was able to take 4 minutes and 16 seconds off my time from last month making this race a new personal record. I ran/walked it in 34.22. Not to bad I don’t think. Since my first race in May I have gone from run1/walk1 to run3/walk1 and I have shaved off 10 minutes from my first race. Joy and her sister ran and for Joy’s first 5k she was only like 4 minutes behind me. Those long legs of hers seem to help. :)

I think I have become addicted because I planning on running the turkey burner in november, the jingle bell run in december, and am going to try for my first 1/2 marathon in March if I can get myself trained enough. Here are a couple pictures her husband snapped of me during the run.

Lastly, dad came home on Saturday night. I was crashed and in bed when they made it home from the airport and he has been pretty sick but he is home. He had some bloodwork done yesterday and today an upper GI. Good news: no ulcer. Bad news: why is he then still so anemic? Doctor’s appointment this afternoon so hopefully they will have some answers. He has another week off to get back into the swing of things and feel better/get his health figured out. All in all everyone is slipping back into a normal routine. We are just happy we didn’t get a call on Friday saying his flight had been cancelled/his date changed/ or some other funky issue going on.

Hopefully this junk will go away so I can go back to the kids tomorrow but I am also not going to rush it. I don’t want to chance getting them and their families sick either. So I may be laying around the house tomorrow also. We shall see.