2013-2014

2013 - 2014

Mollie's Wedding: Fairhope, AL
June 2013

Deep Sea Fishing Adventures
Pensacola, FL
June 2013

Bryan's Big Catch
Pensacola, FL
June 2013

Cousins!
Kingwood, TX
September 2013

DRC Half Marathon
Dallas, TX
November 3, 2013

Team Turkey Trot
Rockwall, TX
November 2013

Thanksgiving
Richardson, TX
November 2013

Christmas
Austin, TX
December 2013

Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Dallas, TX
December 2013

Urban Acres CSA
January 2014





Deep Ellum Brewing Company
Dallas, TX
January 2014

Animals Inside Out- Perot Museum
Dallas, TX
February 2014

Xtreme Xperience- Porsche 911 Turbo
Ft. Worth, TX
February 2014

Xtreme Xperience- Ferrari F430
Ft. Worth, TX
February 2014

Valentine's Day
February 2014

Austin Half Marathon
February 16, 2014

Wisdom Teeth Removal Day
March 2014

Air Power Expo- Blue Angels
NAS JRB, Fort Worth
April 2014

Hibiscus
April 2014





Ward Family Easter Egg Dye
Beaumont, TX
April 18, 2014

DRC 5 Mile
Dallas, TX
May 3, 2014

5 Year Anniversary
PappaDeaux, Dallas
May 31, 2014

Ryman Auditorium
Nashville, TN
June 2014

Country Music Hall of Fame
Nashville, TN
June 2014

Father's Day
Cochranville, PA
June 2014

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If I don't have words, at least I have pictures for the past few months...

Junior High Friends! Jonna, Amber, & Ginny 3.11.2013

Murder Mystery Theater Dinner in Grapevine, TX- 3.29.2013

Jonna's First Time Fishing- Beilman Ranch 4.21.2013

Mitchem & Marcy Boles' Wedding 5.3.2013

Jonna's Work Fam  5.29.2013

Susan G Komen 5K

Today we ran the Susan G Komen 5K in Dallas.  We've run quite a few races but none of them could even compare with this race.  If you're looking for a running race, this probably isn't the one for you.  I did feel slightly bad for a client that ran it as her first 5K ever, but I hope the overall experience for her was one that she will always remember.

As I found myself running by myself, behind the group that I had helped organize and trained to get there- I couldn't help but remember how much I had distanced myself from breast cancer awareness throughout the past years.

It was too hard to face as a kid- losing an amazing Aunt to breast cancer mixed with being relieved to see a dad that had been deployed overseas but got to come home because something awful happened.  It was such a mess in my mind at the time.  And then saying goodbye to him again.  Not because the pain was over, but the days had passed and it was time to go back.  Nothing was okay about what was happening in my 15 year old brain, but I didn't know how to process it then.

I've been working hard to face problems lately and trying to get to the root of them instead of burying them deep within my soul only to have them brought back up years later.  In the middle of running, I could feel it- the tears and pain were a little overwhelming.  I knew I had signed up for this race for a hidden reason.  I needed to feel something bigger than myself.  And I certainly did.

My only reason for writing any of this down is so that I can remember how I felt today.  It wasn't like a normal 5K that I'm used to training for.  It was so much more.  I felt my eyes opened to my surroundings that even when I feel like there's so much out of place right now, I'm so blessed.  I hope I remember the feeling of looking around and seeing what hope actually looks like.  I had lost the hope for so long when it came to cancer and didn't realize how much I needed the glimpse of hope back in my life.    

        

Garland

"Live. And Live Well. BREATHE. Breathe in and Breathe deeply. Be PRESENT. Do not be past. Do not be future. Be now. On a crystal clear, breezy 70 degree day, roll down the windows and FEEL the wind against your skin. Feel the warmth of the sun.

If you run, then allow those first few breaths on a cool Autumn day to FREEZE your lungs and do not just be alarmed, be ALIVE. Get knee-deep in a novel and LOSE track of time.
If you bike, pedal HARD… and if you crash then crash well.

Feel the SATISFACTION of a job well done—a paper well-written, a project thoroughly completed, a play well-performed. If you must wipe the snot from your 3-year old’s nose, don’t be disgusted if the Kleenex didn’t catch it all… because soon he’ll be wiping his own.

If you’ve recently experienced loss, then GRIEVE. And Grieve well. At the table with friends and family, LAUGH. If you’re eating and laughing at the same time, then might as well laugh until you puke. And if you eat, then SMELL. The aromas are not impediments to your day. Steak on the grill, coffee beans freshly ground, cookies in the oven. And TASTE. Taste every ounce of flavor. Taste every ounce of friendship. Taste every ounce of Life. Because-it-is-most-definitely-a-Gift." -Kyle Lake

Garland Obituary                      Garland Carepage

It's been a month since Garland passed away.  He made it to heaven just in time for Easter, which we're sure included an "all you can eat" buffet.  

Still here...

So much has happened since my last post, but I don't know where to start/how to get back into blogging and I find that I just keep putting it off more and more.

updates:

Ran our first half marathon together (DRC Half) in November.

Joined a small group through our church late November.  I very rarely have the feeling of "this is exactly where we're supposed to be in our lives right now..." but it's so nice that BOTH of us feel that way about our group.

Jonna- Job promotion to Fitness Manager in Rockwall, TX on December 6th, 2011.  Mid-December to March(ish) is the craziest time in the gym...hence lack of blogging, social life, etc.


Tomorrow we turn a quarter of a century.  where did the time go? and where will it go the next quarter?  It's weird to say that I don't know the answer to either of those questions and I can't be more excited about not knowing what the future holds.