"go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great and strong purpose in your heart. love life and look for its opportunities, and forever and always be loyal to the church."
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Thursday, May 29, 2008

He's Back!

My brother, Kevin, got home from his mission yesterday, so all of my family in Utah went up to greet him at the airport. We then went back to my parent's house for brunch and visiting. It's weird that Kevin's home - it seems like he never left, even though the two years he was gone seemed long!

Here are some pictures Karen took yesterday.

Waiting around for Kevin's flight to get in (it was twenty minutes late). His flight started in Jacksonville, Florida, went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and then came to SLC. He had to get up at like 1:00 in the morning Florida time to make it home!

More waiting: Nate, Tyler, and Matt. Sorry that your eyes are closed, Tyler.

Here he comes! He's the one on the left with his hand on the rail.

Picture with mom. (I don't know what they are looking at. Maybe Karen was slow taking the picture.) :P

Picture with dad.

The family all together again...this time with the addition of Tyler! :)

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Crazy!

Is anyone else surprised by the American Idol results?

Just for Miri

The subject of this post is somewhat old, but in honor of Miri, I'm posting something new. It has been a long time since I posted, so it was about time anyway.

On Saturday, May 10, Tyler and I and much of his family participated in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure 5k to celebrate Nancy, Tyler's mom's friend, who is currently going through breast cancer treatments. (I should also give a shout-out to my grandma and aunt who are breast cancer survivors!!) Although the race was a little earlier than I would have preferred (I'm not a morning person and we had to get up at 5:45 to meet everyone and get to the race on time), the race was great and I'm really glad I participated in it. My goal was to run the 3.1 miles in less than 30 minutes, and I did it! My official time was 29:30. Not bad - not fast, but not bad for my very first 5k ever. Jessica and Aubrey at work were telling me that there's a 5k in Orem this July, so I might run it to see if I can't improve upon my previous time.

Here are some pictures from that Saturday (and I apologize because I know many of you have already seen them).

The Jeffs.

I had a picture of my stopwatch taken to prove that I did indeed run the 5k in under 30 minutes.

Us at the beginning of the race. There were so many people that I didn't cross the starting line (the balloon arch in the distance) until 1:30 after the gun had gone off.

The runners! And, by the way, our shirts read, "Big or small, let's save them all!"

Us with Nancy.

This race is for such a great cause that I think I might make it a tradition to run it every year!