Crazy is as Crazy does!

Well, the title says it all, I'm afraid. I've been guilty of making my poor family go crazy in support of me all over the place lately. I like to be busy, but I think this has been a bit much!-well maybe not-okay maybe. You'll see...a few weeks ago my parents, sister & roommate, and cousin came into town for a few days. It was fun, but also hard because we are trying to sell our house. My most spoken phrase to my dismay was: "We need to clean up the house right now!" I even made them put their luggage in the car in the garage so that if someone called to see the house it would be ready. Alas, no one called and as Troy mentions frequently, I should have relaxed instead. Well we had a fun visit, my parents staying until just after the first session of conference and my cousin leaving after the second session, and my sister and her roommate leaving after both of Sunday's sessions. It was a packed (but amazingly clean!) house.

After that, Troy and I studied our talks for church the next Sunday which would be Easter. It was funny because I spoke, sat down, stood up and sang in the choir, then sat down and listened to Troy's talk, then got Sophy from Troy's mom (THANK-GOODNESS for LeAnn! We had almost forgotten to ask someone to watch Sophy while we were talking!), then get the last bit prepared for my Easter Relief Society Lesson. It was such a good day, but not much rest happened.

That same week prior preparing my talk and lesson for Easter Sunday, I decided it would be a good (at this point I had so much going on, why not add more?) idea to prepare for a half marathon in two weeks. I've never run 13.3 miles as you can imagine. The day after Easter, I parked my car at the Bountiful temple and ran all the way home to our North Salt Lake City home. The fact that one has to run through 3 cities to get from point A to point B did not seem to matter much to the dissappointing distance of 7.5 miles when I was done. Then I took Sophy out and jogged 2.5miles more to get to my goal of 10miles. After that, I decided that I could sign up to run a half marathon. Then I didn't run any further that week because that Saturday was the race. I was able to run with a friend/neighbor who helped me to keep a good pace and luckily not die throughout the whole race. To my (and Troy's) astonishment I finished and was alive at the end! My time was beyond my goal of just finishing at a reasonable time of 2 hrs 20mins. What a rush(not timewise, but adrenalinewise)!

If anyone hasn't heard from me lately, I probably have actually died. Meanwhile, Sophy hasn't slowed down and we've had many fun and exciting "poop sagas" which I will spare the details on this blog. Once you've heard one, do you really need to hear any others? I will just mention that we are getting the carpet from the kitchen, diningroom and livingroom cleaned presently... Thank goodness for a loving and hardworking supportive husband, family and friends. I frequently pile too much on, but when I do I am frequently reminded of the wonderful support system I have and know that I would not be able to be so crazy if it weren't for them. Thanks to all!