Experience of a Lifetime

I don't even know where to begin this post! The last weekend of my life was the craziest whirlwind you can imagine!
Last October, I ran the St. George marathon with my friend Jamie. You can read about it here.
Jamie's mom happened to read my post and she was very touched by the part about the little boy that handed me the popsicle. She also happens to be on the board of director's for America First Credit Union and decided to use my story in a training meeting. She wanted to talk about the boy with the popsicle and how we can all be that person who doesn't have to help people but do because we can.
I guess this story has been passed around quite a bit within America First. They have decided to make the green popsicle a sort of icon in their company this year and someone thought it would be great if they could get a production company to film a little movie about it that they can use within America First as a sort of motivational thing.
Jamie and I got a call from her mom on Wednesday. They wanted to fly Jamie and I to Las Vegas for the weekend. There was a marathon going on by Lake Mead and they thought it was the perfect opportunity to film this movie about us.
The stars somehow aligned and we were all on board. They paid all of our expenses; food, hotel, flight. It was quite an unreal trip. I am telling you that I could get used to the life of a movie star ;)
Saturday morning was spent filming Jamie and I re-creating my marathon experience. It was a total blast! We had a riot. There were tears from laughing so hard and tears from remembering. We will each get a copy of the finished product. I am excited/nervous to see it!
Who would have thought that a blog post could take me on such an unforgettable experience. Thank you to Linda Carver and America First for taking the best care of us and to Ross for hanging with our boys this weekend. I can't wait to tell my grandkids about this someday. :)

Be Happy!

"I am here tonight to tell you that despair, doom, and discouragement are not an acceptable view of life for a Latter-day Saint. However high on the charts they are on the hit parade of contemporary news, we must not walk on our lower lip every time a few difficult moments happen to confront us. …

“Knowing what we know, and living as we are supposed to live, we really have no place, no excuse, for pessimism and despair.

“In my lifetime I have seen two world wars. … I have worked my way through the Depression and managed to go to law school while starting a young family at the same time. I have seen stock markets and world economics go crazy, and I have seen a few despots and tyrants go crazy, all of which causes quite a bit of trouble around the world in the process.

“So I am frank to say tonight that I hope you won’t believe all the world’s difficulties have been wedged into your decade, or that things have never been worse than they are for you personally, or that they will never get better." -Howard W. Hunter