Alan Jackson Concert

Aleks and I are big country music fans and both love Alan Jackson! I got some tickets for us to go to his concert last Friday and we had such a fun time. He was a great performer and as I told Aleks, the way he sings his songs makes you feel like he's preaching country gospel! :) He has this habit of pointing out to the audience and nodding his head that makes you believe every word out of his mouth, haha, i dont know what I'm saying... in any case, it felt good to pretend to be cowboys for a night.

Park-in-the-Dark!

Becki, Aleks' oldest sister, and her two little girls, Mirabai and Neccessity came down for a short visit this Friday and it was great to see them. We havn't seen them in over two years so it was a big shock to see these girls grown up! They got here in the evening but they really wanted to go to the park still so we had a little"Park-in-the-Dark" adventure! They thought it was the coolest thing and the first thing out of Mirabai's mouth the next morning was, "hey remember how we went to the park in the dark!" followed by a long stream of giggles, so cute! As promised, here are some pics:

So I never wrote about our vacation to San Diego, CA two weeks ago. Instead of giving all the details, heres a rundown of the highlights...
1. Acting like kids again in Disneyland

2. Me conquering my fear (and nausea) of the tea-cups...

3. Visiting Aleks' great uncle Allen Layne and my great-great Uncle John Jensen

4. Date Shakes at the Date farm in Aleks' mission

(and posing beside our free-upgrade-Mustang! Thanks random Hertz guy!)

5. Seeing Aleks' mission area and visiting people/areas he taught

(Famous Old Town Rootbeer in Temecula)

6. A few lazy hours on La Jolla Beach

7. Shamu show at Sea World

8. Aleks and I deciding we want to change our careers and be Shamu trainers! :)
9. Great seafood on the beach
10. San Diego temple- most incredibly beautiful temple, inside and out!

It was a blast and a trip we'd been talking about forever and finally did. Needless to say, it made it hard to come back to work!

Need a laugh?

If you need a good laugh, go play tennis with someone in the dark...better when that person is Aleks and he is super determined to hit it!

"I'm not as good as I once was, but Im as good once as I ever was..."

(I think this is 2nd on my dad's list of favorite country song lines, right behind "She thinks my tractor's sexy"! haha, he makes me laugh...)

It pretty much sums up my 5K I ran this Saturday in Enid. Actually it was a ton a fun and although I thought I'd just run it for "fun" I realized that although I've let my endurance slip, my competitiveness always comes out! For only running a couple times a week I surprised myself and ran a respectable 20:22. Not quite BYU XC standard, but considering the tradeoff of getting to run less than 10 mi/week compared to 50, well, I'll take it! It put me first in women but two women were ahead of me and kept going to do the 10K! :( But wow, let me just say that was a long 3.2 miles! After it was done, I went home, took a shower, ate some cookies, and slept for an hour!>

Switching subjects... the painting for Aleks was supposed to be my "stay-busy-when-Aleks-is-gone" project but since I finished it early I started another one:

Its a pretty different style than I usually do but it was fun to do something a little abnormal and maybe a little weird. Fun to do, but its not my favorite.

Oh ya, and Aleks only has 1 week to go!!! Yay!

Hick-town, USA

So I happened to walk down the "wedding deco" aisle in Walmart and saw these...

These alone made me laugh, but then I realized they are the only cake "toppers" they carry. Simple supply-and-demand! :)

Speaking of marraige...kindof...

Aleks had a great flight today with his new IP so thanks to all that have kept him in your prayers!

Update on Aleks' painting. I got a bit carried away tonight and worked on it for about 6 hrs! I'm still trying to decide whether I'm going to call it done yet but its close...