Lost Wages

After a week absence, its time to update. Last week we were lucky enough to take a trip home (aka Lost Wages) to witness the marriage of 2 of our good friends (to each other!). We took a week off so we could try to make it a vacation instead of a whirlwind trip for a holiday where we drive back and forth across town a million times to visit family. It was nice to go home when we could enjoy the slower pace, we even had a day where we didn't do anything. The wedding was absolutely wonderful and Tisheena looked amazing. Its so cool to have 2 more people we went to high school with end up together, that doesn't happen very often unless you were in our graduation class it seems. Anyways, these are the things I was so happy to have in the last 2 weeks:

• Hydrocortisone cream - Enough said.
• Friends that are neighbors - It is so exciting to have people we love so much live so close to us. I have to remember not to take that for granted. Its great to have people so close that I trust so much to take care of our kitty family when we are gone. They do such a wonderful job that I never worry about them. Its also so cool to be able to walk across the street to go hang out with them, eat Gene's delicious pizza, and help break in their new chairs. Seriously, I'm so lucky to have them.
• Hotels - Please don't misunderstand me, I LOVE our families. They are great and we like staying with them when we visit. Now that we are older though, we can afford to get a hotel for our trips home. It is great for our relationship and it helps us feel like we aren't favoring one family or another. Plus, it makes it feel like its really a vacation.
• Yardhouse - So awesome! We ate there like 4 times when we were home. They have 110 beers and they are all on tap. Some of them you can't get anywhere else on tap. And they have great food, their tuna poke stack is awesome! And they have sports on like every TV and they will play what you want them to. So needless to say, there were a few occasions where we enjoyed good food, good beer and baseball.
• Love - There are so many different kinds of love and love between every couple is different. Not all of them are the storybook, head over heels love, but that doesn't make it any less special. Spending an evening with all the couples from high school, it was very interesting to see how different everyone was and how they all loved differently. It was really kind of cool. Love is an amazing thing and those of us who are lucky to have found it already, we need to remember to not take it for granted. Its so easy to get lost in the day to day drama that we don't take the time to enjoy the love in our lives.

I'm looking forward to enjoying this weekend. I only have a short run this Saturday and next Sunday is my race. It has totally snuck up on me this time. I hope you all have a great weekend wherever you are!