prancing through fields of flowers..sort of.

on the way to the manti pageant a few weekends ago we passed by mona, ut where we saw a sign displaying a 5K that would occur on the 10th of july for the Young Living Lavender essential oils. sarah, jasmine and i automatically knew we wanted to participate. a few weeks later the race popped into my head and we looked into it further. making a dream a reality we all registered (but did no prior running in the week hah) and got our race packet all picked up the night before. waking up at 5 30 am we got dressed, stretched and made our way to mona. the race started at about 7 and we were off RUNNING THROUGH LAVENDER FIELDS. glorious? i would say so. there were over a thousand people and the spirit of the race and the smell of lavender surrounded us. upon finishing we devoured the most delicious blueberry cinnamon muffins (i will be googling that recipe). the left picture is me looking like a mom with my capri spandex and jacket tied around my waist before the race. to the right is during the race with the beautiful sun coming to say hello (of course i took pictures while we ran) the top photo is right before the start of the race, just getting excited(and trying to fully wake up) and the bottom is right after we finished; feelin' good and strong :) it was an awesome experience and felt so good to be up early and out in nature with two people whom i love so very dearly. i've made it a goal to participate in more of these kinds of things and dare i post this, i want to do a 10K and ultimately a half marathon. that is my limit i am afraid and even a half i'm not sure is doable with my old woman knees. but we will see :) i feel so blessed to have modern medicine that enables me to participate in experiences like these. because i am blessed.

patriotic people.

so i look extremely vain by posting these pictures BUT i just had to and laugh because here in provo july 4th was ALL weekend. saturday, sunday AND monday were a holiday here. hence the three different outfits. for a girl who doesn't own much red i did fairly well. (i had to rock the old navy overalls at the parade; it's like a sin to not wear old navy around the 4th!) saturday was the stadium of fire, sunday people camped out (picture above) on university to get good spots for the parade (and just because it's a fun adventure to do so) and then monday was the parade. the whole weekend with my roommates and friends was exactly what i needed. so grateful for them and for the caliber of people who surround me. because i am blessed.

first friday art stroll.

so my buddy nathan told me of this art stroll thats going on all year long down center street. different businesses get involved and every first friday of the month they open their doors to artists and pedestrians who wanna come check it out! it was extremely interesting and there were so many different, amazing pieces. i love that i live in an area where things like this happen all the time and have friends who are artsy fartsy like me :) because i am blessed.