One day when I was at work there was a lady at the nurses station that was looking for me. I was in a patient's room and I was watching her dialogue with a co worker. She was strangely familiar, but I could not place where I had met her. She was a plain woman, but was very beautiful. I came out to the nurses station and met her. She told me that she was a patient in the hospital a couple months ago and I had taken care of her on another floor. She had been thinking about me and the kindness that I had showed her when she was sick. She had been looking for me through the hospital so that she could show her gratitude by giving me the a beautiful quilted bag. She had been quilting the bag and remembered me when she was making it, and wanted me to have it. She was full of gratitude and praise for the care that I had given her. I could not remember her name, or her illness, but she was fondly familiar, and this strange feeling overcame me. I thanked her and hugged her, I looked down at her beautiful craftsmanship and looked up and she was gone.
I know that angels are all around us, and I feel as the Lord brought this lady into my life that day to give me some encouragement. I am thankful for this lady, whoever she may be, and I am thankful for the Lord for the little blessings that he brings into my life when I need them the most.

Today marks the very first time I ran with others to support a cause. I ran with a good friend from work to support Breast cancer. I cannot even tell you how many people were there, even though we tried to guess. There were multiple events and the 5K walk was is where the numbers of people baffled us. However, I was so excited for my even the 5K run, I could hardly sleep last night, and when we were standing behind the start line the feeling didn't change. When the starting horn rang, Diana and I weaved in and out through the masses of people. I was amazed that the more people that we passed, the more people were still in front of us. We were jiving to our music, and I was smiling like a fool at all the support and love the people I was running with had for people that they had known with breast cancer. When I reached the two mile mark, I did hit a low, we had been speeding our pace at the beginning of the race I got a tremendous side ache and slowed my pace way down. I had to play a mental game with myself, because I had been training and looking forward to this race for a long time and I did not want to stop. This game lasted till the last quarter mile of the race. I reached for Diana and said in needed a second, we walked about ten steps and I told her that we need to keep running. We started to run and turned the corner, there it was the huge pink finish line, with crowds of people lining the last stretch of the race. I looked at her and said, "Lets book it the rest of the way," and we did. We sprinted to the finish line. Our final time was 36minutes, which she had done this before and was thrilled with her new time, and this being my first made me filled with joy!!! It was an amazing experience and I am thankful to Diana for encouraging and pushing me through the entire race. Check back to see more to come on the running front.

P.S. I dedicated this run to all my patients that I have served that have had breast cancer!

Last week we headed out west to beautiful southern California for Bryan and Nika's Wedding. Josh and I were able to spend some quality time with the Bride and Groom at Disneyland and it was a very special time that will cherish. The festivities included A Bachelor Party, Rehearsal Dinner, A Wedding and an Awesome dance party. Josh and I were able to spend time with great friends that we miss from the Northwest. We were able also to spend some good and refreshing time with just each other. All and all this trip was to support and cherish the marriage of our good friends!! So Congrats Bryan and Nika, we love you and thanks for the excuse to have an awesome trip to California!!