Lynse Leanne

so i have decided to begin training for a half marathon….actually a marathon but i will run a half marathon first and then move on to the big dog.

I call it a conquest because it is something i am going to conquer…it is a life goal of mine and what better time than now?

Tomorrow would technically be considered “day 3″ of training. We started on a Saturday and re did the schedule to fit our schedules. We are following a 26 week (186 day) training schedule because, well, we are both starting from nothing. We are taking it slow as to build endurance and such.

I am excited about this endeavor because I am doing it with someone. And not the “doing it with” like lets both train and then run in the same marathon or half marathon. The kind where we will train on the same schedule and at least together once a week. I am excited because i am not only going to get to conquer a life goal, but i am getting to build this relationship and get into shape.

here is a pic of the training schedule we are keeping to…dont make fun that the first week is “walk 20 mins”…we think its funny too so we are walking for longer than that.

(where i got the schedule)

So, tomorrow i will arrise at 5:45 and we will walk at 6am before we go to work.

have you ever ran a half or full marathon? any words of wisdom?

This picture was taking in High School…the summer between my Junior and Senior year.

The four of us were inseparable. We did everything together. We met at church…well, i met them at church, they were friends much longer than I was in the picture because we moved between my sophomore and junior year.

There were so many fun memories that we all had together. There were a lot of things we learned about each other, life and ourselves. Together we dealt with big life issues and played…usually in the same day.

These 3 girls made my last 2 years in high school enjoyable. They were the first friends to know my story. They loved me. We loved and still love each other.

- we would sneak out to fork our youth pastors lawn, video tape it, show our parents and then lie about WHEN it was.
- we shared some of our darkest moments.
- we kept up on each others lives through our spybooks.
- we had random photo shoots.
- we snuck in and redesigned Irene’s room, while you were out style.
- we went camping.
- we endured, each Sunday, the bible study we were in and affectionately referred to it as “torture.”
- tattoos before we were 18.
- we drove one early morning to Denver to see Hanson. Sat in the hot sun all day for a 7pm show. And Zac touched our hands. Irene and I cried.

That time in life felt like a movie. We all had different styles, different life stories, different families and different perspectives. But it worked.

We have all gone our separate ways…. Irene has 4 precious kids and an amazing husband who is in the Air Force. Rachel is married to her first love and she’s in nursing school. Becca is living in California and is beautiful as ever. and well, we know where I am.

i know i look back on those days with fond memories. Some fun and hilarious. Some tough and growing experiences. But all memories that have made me the Lynse that i am today.

Do you have those friends that you knew in High School that you still talk with?

After we moved here in March I threw myself in to the desire to meet new people and make friends and get attached here. I was trying to make it my home. I was making an effort to better mine and Chad’s relationship….and many of you know twitter, facebook and blogging has been something that hasn’t assisted in the bettering of us. so i kind of broke away from it for a bit.

I stopped.
I started a new twitter account for many purposes but mostly to simplify.
I was over the popularity contest that i saw brewing online.

It had become a lot like High School drama and i was getting stressed over it and i didn’t want to be. I didn’t want stress. Twitter, Facebook and blogging had been my stress reliever, it was the place i went like another world that took me away from the stress of my then job. It was my make believe world that i could escape to and find refuge in.

I went through i time when i really wanted to just focus on living in the now. I posted over on Elora’s blog while she was in Africa something that was making my heart beat at the time. I posted about how i had been living life through 140 characters and to a point i think it hindered my experiences. It hindered what i got out of the moment because i wanted to share it with everyone and break this sometimes magical moment that can never be recreated. You can read it here.

The last couple of weeks I have been wrestling with some things in life like who i am. what kind of friend do i want to be. where did i see me in 5 years. where do i see chad and i in 5 years.

And for me personally the best way for me to spend some time hashing things out is to write. I know i am not the most fantastic writer and i use “…” too much and write in run on sentences that make my English teacher friends cringe (sara and elora), but it is in fact my outlet. And i stopped it.

But i want it back. I want to write again. I want to share my happiness. My struggles. My fears. My failures. My successes. I want to share it with you all.

So i want back. I can not promise i will update daily, but i am going to try and update more often. And it may be more raw as i fight some things out inside of me. I hope that you will join me.

buckle up. it could be an interesting ride.

Hey guys. I would love if you helped a friend of mine out. She is awesome and her name is Mallory and i love her…and she is engaged to a great guy named Eric.

They made this video to be a part of Project Wedding Birmingham, AL. If they win they will get a complete wedding…how amazing is that?!?! anyone who has planned or paid for a wedding knows that it is insanely time consuming and expensive and this would be an amazing gift for them.

The way they win is for you to watch, rate and comment on their YouTube video. it is about 2 minutes and super cute, they are really creative. and it will help you get to know them a little bit more….

So, if you could watch the video, then go to their YouTube page and comment and rate the video…it would be AMAZING!!

How cute are they?!

Sunday night Chad and I stayed with Chance while Jenni and Brian were at the hospital with their other son Paxton.

during dessert Chad decided that he should teach Chance spanish…and this is what we got.