The Race

I entered my first race today. Being almost 5 months pregnant my goal was to complete the 5K and not pee my pants.

160 people in the race. Including children, grandmas, grandpas and actual runners.

I wasn't able to run very much because it bounced my bladder around too much, but I finished in a long but exciting 45 minutes.

Barry won!!! Of course Barry won.

The guy in second place thought he won, but the officials informed him a guy pushing a stoller beat him. ;)

What they didn't tell him though was that same guy fell threw a roof yesterday. :(

We went on our evening walk yesterday -it being our last summer Friday-night together before Barry goes back to work. Turns out our elderly neighbors were re-doing their roof. Turns out it was a high priests activity with the Elders recruited. We sadly walked back home and Barry put on his work clothes and work shoes and rode his bike back.

I was proud of him for going, but I was sad we missed our evening together.
Ellie said we should pray for him to be safe. So we prayed he wouldn't fall OFF the roof while helping out.

He came home 3 hours later and said he fell THROUGH the roof. ACK! Fortunately he was able to catch himself with his arms before he fell all the way through. His legs went through their sheetrock, making a dandy hole in their house and a quite a mess.
(I should add in here that the house was old and wasn't built to code, or this wouldn't have happened)

Luckily he just seriously scraped up his chest, cut his arm pretty good, and got some massive bruises and a very sore body.

Perhaps next time, Ellie and I need to be more specific in our prayers, but we're VERY glad he's okay, We're also very glad that the home owner gave him a bar of soap to clean up with. A HOMEMADE bar of soap. I have found another soap maker. She has tons of stuff too, and says I can bring my kids over and we can make soap together. :)



I wish this was a better picture. This is often the scene when I look out my kitchen door, Barry and James working on some project together. Here James is learning how to light a fire with flint and steel.