KP Corporate 5k Run/Walk

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This year Brian and I did the KP Corporate 5K run/walk with my company. We've done this same race in the past, but we missed it the last 2 years. It was fun to go out and run around downtown and see coworkers doing it too.

It was even MORE fun this year, because I'm in better shape than I have been in the past. In the past I'd say that I walked more than I ran. This year I ran almost the entire thing! We estimate that I walked about 0.5 mile of the race, but we averaged about 11 minute miles, finishing up in just over 33 minutes, which is great for me!

Now I need to start doing 5Ks at 30 minutes and run the entire race. :)

Soon I'll post about my "improvements" to my Military Fitness Test. Next week or weekend I'm going to retest myself on my 2 mile run time, sit-ups and push-ups. I haven't been working out as much as I should have been, but I know I've at least improved on my push-ups and running. I'll attempt to do a pull up, but I haven't really been working on that strength at all (oops). :)

Dining Room Project!

Two weekends ago we spent the weekend painting our dining room. The room we think was a bright pink or red that was painted over with a white or cream before we bought the house. When we bought the house the room was a slight pink hue. Needless to say I didn't want a pink dining room.

Here's what it looked like before (I forgot to get one before we started taping off).:)

We also painted the chandelier in the room (which came with the house). We didn't really like the silver with gold specks.

We rigged up a paint booth for Brian to paint the chandelier. :)

Then here are our "final" pictures of the space. The chandelier is now a dark gray color. :)

And the room is two tones of gray. :) We already had great molding and chair rail, so we just avoided getting gray paint on it.

We want to add window treatments in a bright yellow with a yellow/gray/black pattern. We found some fabric we like, but it's quite expensive...so we'll see what we find.
We are happy with the result. One day we might buy furniture for in there...

One another note, we're getting really excited about going back to South Africa!! If you want to be on our email list for updates on our trip (and prayer requests) just let us know.

~Lindsey