Today I ran my 2nd 5K run. I am really proud of how much I have improved in 1 month. I decided to start doing 5K's to help me get motivated ( Thanks to my cousin Sarah suggesting it as an idea for keeping motivated.) I never thought of doing them before, but now that I have started, it keeps me training and wanting to improve myself. When I started, I was as far out of shape as you can imagine. After training for 1 month I ran my first 5K on July 5th. I did not get a very good time and I had to walk about 1/2 of it, but I finished the race.
Today I was able to run the entire 3 miles including a steep hill twice without stopping. I am not sure of my time, but I think according to Terry who was sitting by the people clocking the times, that it was around 36 minutes. If that is true, my time has improved by 5.5 minutes.
I still have a long ways to go to be as fit as I want to be, but I am proud of what I have done, and I will keep trying to improve.
The best part of the whole run was seeing Terry and my boys cheering me on at the finish line.
Landon gave me a big thumbs up and all of them gave me a big smile.
I hope that they will see me caring about my health and want to do the same.

This is a drawing of the Brigham City Temple. I am so excited to have a temple in this beautiful city. When they announced in conference that they were going to build a Temple in Brigham, I couldn't help but get emotional. It truly feels like it belongs there, when you drive past the site where it will be built. It is going to be across the street from the Historic Tabernacle that is already there ( which in itself is a beautiful building.) I think that the overall feeling of the spirit will be overwhelming when driving down Main Street between the two buildings.
I read in the paper tonight that the temple was partially designed after the Salt Lake Temple and that on the outside walls of the Brigham Temple they are going to etch peach blossoms, because of the history of the town with Peaches. I am very excited to have this Temple in Brigham and I hope that I will be more faithful in doing Temple work.
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Allergic, No Soliciting, and Sweet Rewards

Tonight Landon didn't like the dinner I made, so after begging me for something else, he proceeded to tell me that he was allergic to it. I laughed and said "Landon, if you were allergic to it you would know it! Your skin would break out in red spots and your throat would start to close so you couldn't breathe. He then pointed to a scratch on his arm and said " Look I'm getting red spots, then he grabbed his throat and said I can't breathe mom." Must have been pretty desperate!
Then earlier I let him have a squirt gun fight with some friends in my front yard. I was in the middle of cutting Terry's hair when the door bell rang. When I answered it, there was a man from Winder Dairy standing on my porch and he was being plastered by two of the kids ( one of those belonging to me of course). I told them to stop and apologized to the man. He gave me his brochure and started walking away with a pack of boys chasing him down the street and spraying him the whole way, until they heard me threaten to take the squirt guns away.
Later I was thinking about this and thought I could really make some money hiring my boys out for soliciting control :)
On Sunday, my boys and I went to Terry's parents house for dinner. Logan came up to Terry's mom and told her that he would really like to sleep at her house. She told him that he could. Later Terry's Dad asked him if he wanted to sleep there forever, and he said " No, not forever, I love my Mom and Dad too much- I think just for tonight. It made me feel good to know that despite my imperfections as a mother, he still loves me. I think all parents need that reminder sometimes. Parenting can be really hard, but when we get these little rewards, it makes it all worth it!!!!!!!