Ready, Set, Go...

First things first...

Sweetest girl EVER!!

I love love love this chick!

Wouldn't you??

My favorite Temple is closing :(. I spent a day there the week after it closed...I am going to miss this place. Good thing there is so many more around us!

Ogden Marathon!!

Last minute I decided to run the 5k in the Ogden Marathon (my mom & sister ran the half). I got one of my wonderful migraines the week before and pretty much did notraining. Wanna hear the good news? I ran the entire thing! Never been done before...yeah! I ran it in 36:44. Not to bad. I have come to the conclusion that I have a slight addiction to running in races but I absolutely hate training... weird huh? I think I am to the point where I don't really need to train to the 5k so screw it!

Please don't mind the ugliness of me in the pictures below:

My mom got the stomach flu the night before. I thought there was no way she was going to be able to run but she ran the whole thing. She is a mighty mom!

Day 19 - Nicknames you have; why do you have them

MelBel is the most commonly used nickname.

Story: I use to babysit The Lund family. Their Dad always called me MelBel but was really the only one that did. One day their kids were at our house getting their hair cut and one of the older boys was sitting on Gavin who was about 4 at the time. All of a sudden Gavin yells "MelBel help!"...it was so cute and funny everyone started calling me that. Even people who aren't super close to me who hear that will start calling me that.

Other names:

Mel, Melanie Felanie, Melanalani.... Awesome, Beautiful, Princess, Your highness, etc... the usual :)

Books & Music - Episode 9

BOOKS ONLY


Today is a book only review. I haven't gotten much music lately but next time there will be plenty!

A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini

Rating: MMMMM(out of 5)
Amazing book. This was my second time reading it but I don't think have done a book review before. We read it for book club and I was so excited to read it again. It is sad, very very sad. But oh so good at the same time. Its about the life in Afghanistan and pretty much how crappy it is over there. It follows the life of two totally different women who end up merging together. So good. About a week or so after I finished, Bin Laden was killed. He not only did awful things to our country but also to his own country and this book show that.



The Schorch Trials (The Maze Runner Series)
by James Dashner

Rating: MMM1/2 (out of 5)
I don't think I ever did the review on the first book (The Maze Runner)...it has been awhile since I read it. This is about these boys that get dumped into this place that is surrounded by a maze that is filled with creatures that can kill them so they always stay inside the gates. At the end of the first book they escape and in the second one they find out they are part of an experiemnt and there is also a group of girls the same thing happened too. They than get put into the Scorch Trails which is yet another maze for them to escape. I actually really liked this one. These books are pretty out there but it really keep me attached and I enjoyed it.

The List
by Melanie Jacobson

Rating: MMMM1/2 (out of 5)
This is a book by a LDS author. It is so cute! It's about this girl who goes to California for the summer and tries to complete items she has on her List. This is a list of things she wants to do before she gets married. But like life a boy comes and starts messing things up. A really cute boy. I feel in love with the boy but I was slightly dissapointed with the ending. It ended good but I think it could've been slightly better. This is Melanie's first novel so I sure hope she writes more!

Aww Man...

Q: What is more embarrassing than running after the train in a dress, in a blizzard, having everyone on board watch you, only to have it leave you behind?

A: Walking down the stairs in the train, totally missing the last step and falling flat to the ground. Twisting your ankle, bruising your knee, in a dress, and having some lady freak out about it and make a scene.

Pure luck!

Day 18 - Plans/dreams/goals you have

You may have recalled from a previous post my goals for 2011. One has offically been meet: get a new job. The rest are being worked on.

I have decided I need to travel this year though, also enjoy being outside every minute I can. With my new job I can't really take a lot of time off so I will be creative, but here is the plan:

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  Get a Lagoon Season Passport
  


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  Disneyland! (end of June)



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  YSA activity (end of July...kind of forced to go with the calling and all but I will get to try new things and enjoy a vacation..)


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  Arizona to visit two of my best friends who live there (end of September)

Thats the plan and I am going to do everything in my power to do these things! oh yeah!

TO COME IN THE NEAR FUTURE: A great book review and finally pictures of me with my shorter hair...even though it is pretty much grown out but i will post pictures!

...Sorry about the spacing on this post, I don't know how to fix it.

Record Table Makeover

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all those Mom's out there. I love you!

(My Annual Mother's Day potted plants)

Day 17 - Someone you would want to switch lives with for one day and why

This is a tough one... there is not one person in particular I would want to switch but I would love to spend a day in one of my friends shoes. Those ones that are married, have their own homes, and kids. The kid part doesn't excite me to much but I can't wait till the day I have a best friend to always talk to and a home of my own to make beaut-i-ful! I would love to spend a day with that stuff to see what I have in store for me in the future.

It's funny the way life can work on ya. I was just realizing as I was contemplating in church today that on a scale from 1 to 10, I am about at a 6 to wanting to have children soon. Last year I was probably at a 1.5-2. As I have grown so much as a person this past year I have realized what things really mean something to me and what things I can live without and don't mean so much to me. To be honest I don't look forward to the young years, I think I am looking more forward to the years of about 8 and up. I want to have skater boys (watch I will end up getting nerds!) that don't like to date until at least 18... and than when they do they realize the cute, ditzy girls are so not worth having as girlfriends. They will realize average looking, nice girls like there mom are the way to happiness. I want them to be gentlemen to everyone around them and I want them to serve missions and come back having an amazing appreciation for there mom (me) and do good things with their lives. I want girls who are driven and head strong. Who like there mom, don't sit around waiting for Prince Charming to come and then realize there is no Prince Charming and find joy in the imperfections of men. I want them to be smart and don't let others take advantage of there kindness. Headstrong girls and funny smart boys. Thats what I am talking about...

Ok, no idea how this post turned into that but it did... :)