The Last of 2008 Thursday, January 15, 2009

Some of my favorite things about 2008:

1. New community and involvement with Christ Community Church
2. Our travels in EUROPE
3. Rootclip officially launched, and was featured in the Traverse City Film Festival
4. I officially started Grad School full-time, working toward my Nurse Practitioner Degree
5. Ran my 1st 1/2 Marathon
6. President-elect Barack Obama - hopeful future for our country
7. Many of our friends brought new little lives into this world in '08, plus a few via adoption!
8. Erik and I celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary

I'm sure there are many, many more awesome and amazing things that God allowed me to experience in 2008, but these were just the highlights.

The last few weeks of December were filled with visits from friends and family - much laughter and love all around. Here's a link to our photos chronicling all of the fun :)

Local Runs Thursday, August 23, 2007

I love finding new places to run. Lately, I've been feeling like I've pretty much exhausted my options in Knoxville for new trails. Then, a couple of weeks ago, I stumbled upon this beautiful road called Melton Lake Drive. It has a running trail (Greenway) that runs along the bank of the Lake for about 3.5 miles. So, you can get a good 7 miler in by running out and back. It's absolutely beautiful! I ran it this morning, pretty early, so some of the thick fog was still hanging around, just on top of the water. Everything was completely still. Even though it's been ridiculously hot here, this morning there was a nice cool breeze coming off of the water.


The cool thing about this Lake is that it's actually a part of the Clinch River, which is one of the best rowing venues in the United States. A "rowing mecca", if you will. The Greenway runs right along the starting point for many of the rowing competitions, and you even get run right under the judges tower. Erik still hasn't run with me here, I need to get him out there! We've been training for a race in Chattanooga which is this weekend.