Independence Day, 2008

July 4th was relaxing, maybe too relaxing. Doug and I were bored and antsy for the day to start. Kate came over around 4pm and we made hamburgers and had a nice dinner. We hung around, watched a movie until 7ish. We took off, headed for Excelsior with some friends, Ryan, Molly, and Phil.
We found a nice spot to watch the fireworks around 8, and just hung around until they started. We even got some delicious ice cream at Licks Unlimited! Yum!

The fireworks were pretty neat, I'm glad we went!

EARLY MORNINGS

So, I'm turning into my mom. As the months progress I keep getting up earlier and earlier, and the thing is, it keeps getting easier. Even on saturdays. Adam called me at 5:40 this morning (by accident) , but I heard my phone because I was sort of awake already. Of course I didn't actually get up until 6:15, but still.

Here is a photo I took this morning of my cute, noisy, meowy kittie.


And here's me.

I LOVE ROOTBEER, ACTUALLY, POP IN GENERAL


There really is no purpose to my post, other than proving that I can take an artistic photo. My goal for this year is to take more interesting photos. Even set up some photo shoots with friends who actually don't mind being photographed. I've been wanting to do a photoshoot with my BFFs wearing 50's/60's dresses, all dolled up. We'll see if that happens this summer or not.

VISITING EAGLE GROVE

Saturday morning Maren, Aaron, Amy, Laura and I ran the Greg Harris Memorial 5K. It was the perfect weather for a race. I have been training for a few weeks and was pleased with my time of 33 minutes. That gives me an 11 minute mile average, which was better than I had anticipated.



Wayde & Erin came to visit, we ate lunch at the deli, and then showed Erin around town. We even stopped at the local park to take some photos.

PERFECT DAY FOR A COOKOUT

After church we headed over to Jonny's in St.Paul, where we had ourselves a nice little picnic cookout event! We had burgers, hotdogs, brauts, chips, potato salad, beans, and desert! After lunch the ladies chit-chatted while the guys played Frisbee. Altogether a wonderful time with dear friends.

Two More Weeks to Train


Ok, so I know the above image is sort of gross, considering my belly button sweat a heart shaped area on my shirt. But I do love running, it makes me feel like I've achieved something.

I'm feeling pretty positive about running the Greg Harris 5K in 2 weeks time. I'm currently running a little over 2.5 miles in about 33 minutes. That's not great considering that gives me about 12 minute miles and I ran 7.5 minute miles in High School.

I'm going to up my route to 3 miles this week, so at least I'll know I can run that far for the actual race.

Out with the Old, In with the New

Before
After


Sorry for the lame shots, i had to take them myself!