a time to run.

the REX E LEE run for cancer research was on saturday the 14th. amazingly, morgan agreed to run the 5k although running is not his forte. he ran with cortney and paul and jeff and melissa (picture below). i decided to run the 10k. about mile 5, i was wondering why i had decided to pay five dollars more for 3.1 miles more running. 

luckily, i ran into mackenzie from home and kim from nursing school who both were also running the 10k. we were all grateful when we crossed the finish line as seen in our smiles. a bunch of us went to magleby's fresh for some amazing french toast afterwards which made my smile even bigger.

so while i usually leave the running thing to my division 1 athlete cousins, every now and then, it is fun to catch your stride, put one foot in front of the other, and remember the people who have been in your life who have fought cancer.

as many people will know from my mom's previous post, text messages, phone calls, and rumors, i indeed have a ring on my left hand. usually the best part of someone getting engaged is the story. this is the story through pictures minus the beginning where i was not going along with the plan and great measures had to be taken to convince me to go up to my apartment and find morgan on one knee when i opened the door at the end of this trail of firsts--the FIRST day of march, the FIRST time we played together, the FIRST time we met, the FIRST time we hiked the Y, the FIRST time we went to hawai'i together, and the FIRST time morgan actually enjoyed watching football and sang the fight song. and as morgan told me, this is the FIRST time we fell in love.

JNW just became JN or maybe JNWM

A name change? How is it possible? Oh, yay, that thing called marriage, flying the coupe, and cleaving. So now the dilemma...does JNWLemmon become JNLemmon or JNWMLemmon...I think I am going for JNWMLemmon. Jeff always wanted more kids and a son was on his order list. Well, Whitney hand picked one just for her dad (or maybe just for her, but he fits Jeff perfectly). Whitney is engaged to Morgan Taylor and they are planning a July 11th wedding in the Newport, CA Temple. We couldn't be happier for both of them and for the collective extended families. Whitney and Morgan first met when they were a year old and for the next several years logged many hours in the sandbox together. Time passed and moves happened and besides the glimpse of him at general conference where she saw him (a vivid memory for her and a no-recall for him), they did not interact for 15 years. They met back up at the end of their first semester freshman year at BYU. He left three weeks later for an LDS mission to Taiwan. There were some random letters here and there over the course of the next 24 months. After Morgan returned from his mission, he enrolled for Spring Term at BYU-Provo and Whitney enrolled for Spring Term at BYU-Jerusalem. So, they spent the next 8 weeks emailing. They finally got some face time in July 2008 and have enjoyed being together ever since.