Busy Weekend

To start off the weekend, my mom and I attended Time Out for Women. This year the topic was on Infinite HOPE. It started on Friday night with Virginia Hinkley Pierce and Ardeth Kapp speaking. There were also many amazing songs with Jenny Oaks Baker on the violin. She was amazing and had so much talent. She had been playing since she was 4 years old and eventually played for the National Symphony Orchestra for seven years. She was wonderful!
It continued all day Saturday with many speakers along with Mercy River providing the music throughout the program. The main Presenter was Mariama Kallon from Sierra Loene, Africa. She spoke of her childhood and having to flee from the rebels who were taking over the city for the diamonds. (if you have heard of the movie blood diamond (I have only seen previews)- that is where she grew up). She had witnessed he parents and sister killed by the rebels. She told about her conversion story and she eventually ended up serving a mission on Temple Square and has been in Utah ever since. She is an amazing person. We had a great time and it was a great escape from the daily stresses of life. Thanks MOM!
Greg and I also participated in the annual BLOOMSDAY race here in Spokane. It was a lot of fun and there were over 52,000 people that participated. We went with a lot of the staff from Plato's Closet and we had shirts made to advertise our store. Due to my awful disease (many of you may not know this)- but I suffer from a disease called extreme laziness or maybe we should call it my fear of excersise and overindulgence of chocolate, or need to make brownies when I should be going for a run (if there were such a thing, I would definitley have it) .... so of course, I did not train for this 7.5 mile race... however, I did finish it it 2 1/2 hours... walking ! YAY for ME!

(Greg and I are on the bottom row- left side)

Greg, however, did great. He has been getting back into running lately and he finished in 1 hour 7 minutes. Way to go babe!
Here is a picture of the streets right before the race started. They do a big clothing dontation and you can toss your coats in the street so you don't have to run with them. I thought it looked pretty cool.

There were SOOOO many people it was crazy!
We had fun, and yes, I was sore for the entire next day :)