Run for your life!

Halloween is just around the corner and I still don’t know exactly what I’m doing in terms of costume. I think I’ll probably go as Hermione again this year. I’ve got the costume, so why not? Ezra wasn’t big on the idea since I did it last year. He might be going as Charlie Chaplin again though, so I don’t feel too bad about using last year’s costume again.

Anyway, I thought “Run for your life!” was an appropriate title for what I’ve been doing lately. Running. And doing a lot of it. I decided a while ago that I wanted to be able to run a marathon, so I’ve begun training. Assuming all goes to plan and I don’t have any injuries or setbacks, come February I’ll be able to complete a 26.2 mile run all in one shot. My hope is that I’ll be able to stay in marathon shape throughout the summer so that I can register for and compete in multiple marathons. 2012 will be the year of the marathon!

When Ezra and I had first decided to get married and were discussing how we wanted to raise our family, we agreed that we wanted a healthy family. We were both overweight as children. Ezra lost his on his mission, I lost most of mine when I came to college. We want to have an active and healthy family and I feel like this is a good step for me to become the athlete I need to be.

I also really love watching the Biggest Loser. Their end of the season challenge is to run a marathon, and I figured, if these people who were so unhealthy before can end up running a marathon, so can I!

Welcome!

The most astonishing words came out of Ezra’s mouth the other day.

 “I want to start a blog,” he said.

“About what?” I asked.

“Us,” he said.

Confession: I love stalking my married friends and reading their blogs. For a while I’ve toyed with the idea of making our own, but I didn’t want to be at it alone. Now that I’ve got the Mr. on board (and he thinks it’s his idea!), I think we’re ready to start.

The Mr. (Ezra): From Washington. Studying art at BYU. Served a two year, full time LDS mission in Indonesia. Works 40 hours a week between the PCL (Provo City Library) and the HBLL (Harold B Lee Library). Enjoys drawing, rock climbing, and building things.

The Mrs. (Allison): From Oregon. Graduated from BYU with a BA in English. Studied abroad in England for a summer term. Works +30 hours a week at the PCL. Enjoys reading, writing, and doing wifey things (though I’ve discovered I’m a terrible housekeeper… working on that).

As a couple:

*Nerf gun wars and sword fights. I hope our neighbors don’t hate us.

*We love Doctor Who, so much in fact that the TARDIS was the top of our cake at our Washington reception.

The TARDIS, bike tire, book

wedding cake, designed by Darby Harris!

*We’re okay with sitting, staring at each other and making faces.

*We love our little home here but it has a lot of quirks, such as the refrigerator that we’re defrosting again (3^rd time) tonight, the bathroom that has no ventilation, the front door that sticks, and the humidity that likes to migrate to the bedroom and warp the books in there.

*We talk to and play with our stuffed animals as though they were our children.

*The Mr. is a furnace and the Mrs. is a block of ice. Together we’re a normal temperature.

*We love rain and miss the wet and green northwest.

Stay tuned!