My grandma is visiting for the week so I took her to the Denver Botanic Gardens yesterday. Good thing we went yesterday because today the ground is covered in inches of snow! The gardens were absolutely beautiful but will be even more fabulous in the summer!

Joe and I joined some of our friends from church to celebrate our friend, Rachel's birthday at a corn maze. We broke into 3 teams to see who could find all of the check points first. Our team won but let's just say I had nothing to do with that win. For some reason I have no sense of direction, I really just followed the group around and was nothing more than an extra body. For those of you that don't know I got a B in a hiking course when I was in New Zealand and I think my instructor gave me a B to be nice! I don't know that I care to do another corn maze in my life but it felt very festive and fall like so that part was great!

I think I can say that I've had a fairly accident free life. I've been to the hospital once (to get my appendix taken out) and have never had stitches...until today. After church, I was looking through the Sunday paper, cutting out coupons. In between cutting, I dropped my very sharp Kitchen Aide scissors and my natural instinct told me to try and catch them. As I reached for the falling scissors, the pointy tip stabbed my pointer finger. I didn't think it would be that bad until I looked and saw the yellow bubbly fat oozing out. Then, I got a little freaked and got my husband. Joe frantically ran around the house trying to find a bandage and a local urgent care. He was practically out of breath as I reminded him to, "calm down, everything will be alright."

I ended up going to Urgent Care and $100 later. I got 4 stitches and a tetanus shot. I'm sad that I can no longer say, "I've never had stitches". : (

We had our young married group on Saturday and did some pumpkin painting. I was impressed by the creativity of the couples and this was so much easier than carving! Don't you love the prom style picture we took on the staircase? It brought back memories...LOL!

It's official, I'm going to run a marathon. After running the half marathon about a month ago, I couldn't imagine running that same distance all over again but I got inspired and just finished week 1 of training. Running a marathon is something I want to do in my lifetime and I couldn't think of a better time but now. Joe is being very supportive and realizes that this is going to take sacrifice and commitment on his end as well. I never want to be someone who asks, "what if..." so come January I can be a part of the 1% of the population who can say, "i've ran a marathon". I'm apologizing ahead of time if this is all I talk about for the next four months. : )