Things going on...

So we've had a few things going on recently. I ran my first half marathon on January 7th. It's called the Red Nose Half Marathon. I wish it was cool enough to get a red nose! It was raining and turned out to be in the 60's. The only good thing was by the time I finished it was only starting to get warm. I might try for another one in May, but after that I'm going to have to wait until after the summer. I don't do well running in heat and humidity. I did the 13 miles in 2 hours and 20 minutes. I was hoping to be closer to 2 hours, but I decided beforehand that if I could finish under 2 1/2 hours that I would be happy. I trained for a couple months before, but not like I should have been and the week of Christmas really ruined my routine. The night before I was just hoping that I wouldn't finish last! After the race Quinn decided that he wanted to try another race. He's not into running much, but I guess it motivated him to want to compete a little. I signed us up for a "Sweethearts Relay". It's on February 11th and Quinn will be running about 2 miles and I'll be doing 1 1/2 miles. He's fast, but I'm not great at short distance running. I used to be a sprinter in high school, but the farthest I ever ran in a race was 800m. I don't really know how to run a mile an a half at a fast pace without hitting a wall too soon. Either way it'll be fun and we get a gift card towards dinner after so that'll be fun. I've been having more trouble with our church for the wedding. I almost want to write them a letter after the wedding letting them know that in the beginning it was very important to me to get married in the church, but after all the headaches I've had to deal with during this process I don't even want to attend church anytime soon. It's not like they're doing us a favor. We have to pay to get married there so you'd think they would work with us a little more. Ugh. It's frustrating. I've been trying to get approval to use a song for months. I hadn't heard anything so I got the program template approved and sent an email to the musicians with all the music for the ceremony. Then I started printing out the program. No lie, the next day I got an email asking if the song I wanted was approved. UMMM last I remember that was your job to find out AND I asked over 3 months ago. I figured that since the program was approved and nobody had said otherwise that the song was also approved. I emailed back requesting them to get it figured out and let me know as soon as possible so I would know if I had to reprint all of the programs. That was over a week ago. I still have yet to hear from them. They have another week and then I'm printing and putting together the programs as is. Too bad. Whew. Sorry about that. It's been super frustrating to me and since we still need for them to marry us I haven't been able to let them know how I'm really feeling about the situation. Other than that we're at just about a month left until the wedding. Last April I thought the wedding was soooo far off. Now it's kind of like crunch time for me to get everything done and figured out. We're still waiting on a lot of response cards, but hopefully within the next week we'll get them all back. We don't have as many people coming as I had hoped so that's kind of sad, but it'll still be fun. I just hope the weather cooperates otherwise there will only be a handful of us there. I'm putting myself and Quinn on a more restricted diet starting in February. We've been trying to watch what we eat since the new year, but we still indulge on the weekends. Neither one of us are overweight, but I know we'll both feel better if we drop a couple pounds each. Well that's all I have for now. I know it's a lot of complaining, but hopefully in the next couple of weeks everything will work out and I won't feel so stressed. It's been a fun process and I've enjoyed it. The little things are what I could do without. Oh well. 33 days left!!!