April 13, 2014
Hi Family!
Jim’s home! Thursday,
I went to the temple, then went to the airport to get Jim.
Our AZ house did close on Wednesday! Yay!
We don’t need to worry about that anymore.
The other big news of the week is that I passed the Praxis
math test that I studied for. It was
pretty tough. Part of the problem is
there are 50 questions and a two-hour time limit. I’m a bit slow, so I skipped over the
questions that I knew would take me more time and in the last 5 minutes, I
guessed on about 8 questions that I didn’t have time to look at.
Yesterday, Jim and I drove to Cape Girardeau to run in a
color run. It was a lot of fun. There were a few sisters from our ward who
also ran. Two of the husbands came and
watched kids. Afterwards, we went to
Olive Garden to eat. We were pretty
colorful! Jim and I brought a change of
clothes, so I felt a bit cleaner, but still had color on my face and in my
hair. We didn’t get as colorful as when we did the
Run or Dye in Tucson last year, but it was still fun.
Friday was my birthday.
I celebrated by swimming 40 lengths at the pool…that’s 1000 yards. I don’t think I’ve ever done anything like
that before. I was pretty tired
afterwards and left me feeling tired for the rest of the day. Jim and I went out to eat for dinner. My dinner was awesome, but unfortunately,
Jim’s wasn’t as good. I got some new
tires for my quad and a beautiful picture done by Jon McNaughton of a mountain
stream with mountains in the background.
I continue to train for the triathlon next month. I’m down to less than 5 weeks now. Hopefully Jim will be able to get my bike
working in the next couple days so I can actually ride my bike, rather than the
stationary bike.
I just received a new call, or actually it’s an assignment,
to be the girls’ camp cook. I laughed
when I heard that because I am not crazy about spending a lot of time
cooking. I’ve been to girls’ camp for 1
night in my entire adulthood, so I am very clueless about what is going
on. Apparently, I really don’t have to
cook for the entire camp, the wards do their own cooking, but I need to help
plan menus, buy food, and give food to the wards while at camp. I’m guessing there will be a few more things
that I will be doing, but hopefully I’ll get it all figured out before camp
starts. The stake camp director is in
our ward, so it will be easy to work with her.
My only regret is that I will be gone one of the weeks that Jim is
home. At least he will be home to take
care of our dogs and the camp isn’t far away so, he’ll be able to come
visit. Maybe we’ll put the dogs in a
kennel for one night so he can come and stay the night.
Have a great week!!
Meriden/Mom
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