Guatemala Mission Trip: Canceled

It's taken me awhile to write about this post. Mainly because I'm not sure how I feel about it. A few weeks ago I backed out of the mission trip. There were a few underlying problems including me getting MAJOR anxiety about it but there is something that has came up in our lives and I had to look at both of the things and decide which was more important at this time in my life. There were other things too..... like my husbands 30th birthday and me wanting to run the Minneapolis 1/2 marathon again this year interfering with the trip. It seemed like everywhere I looked there was yet another road block to conquer.


I can only hope and pray that I will have an amazing opportunity like this again and even though I feel like God was calling me to go on this mission trip, I feel him calling me to this other "priority" much, much more.

I hope that I don't regret this decision but I know that God has a plan for me in all of this and am so excited to see His plan unfold for me!

SO yes...on a side note I have decided I am going to try to run the Minneapolis 1/2 marathon again this year! I'm really still struggling with the whole IT issue in my right knee but am hoping I can conquer it and have another successful training and race. So excited to train my body for this challenge again!!! I will start writing in my running blog: www.anneburau.blogspot.com when I start my formal training in April.

Hoping we have an early spring this year too!!!! Have a very Blessed day everyone!!

Puerto Vallarta 2011

We're back! Ross and I had an amazing time in Puerto Vallarta but missed the boys like crazy! We spent most of our trip being lazy by the pool but did venture out downtown and walked the boardwalk one day, went snorkeling on the island of yllapa, and went to a few hockey games at the local pub. The resort we were staying at was about 80% Canadian, so we met a ton of fun friends that say "eh" a lot! We were the only Americans at the resort that we were aware of. Crazy. They nicknamed Ross "Minnesota."

The food wasn't the best at our resort so we found ourselves venturing out a lot to eat. At the resort, I settled for rice and beans for pretty much every meal! I'm so sick of rice and beans I never want to eat them again! At least for a long, long time. We had Burger King one day for lunch and it tasted the best but was so expensive! Ross paid $9.00 for his Whopper meal! Crazy!

We can't wait to go on another trip!!