Malaysia

I'm in Malaysia right now and the best part is that Will and Jen are with me! We had decided that they weren't going to come here because I was going to be so busy with the conference that they wouldn't hardly see me anyway. But at the last minute I thought it would be fun to have them here so I called up Jen on Tuesday afternoon around 3pm and told her to leave to the airport at 4pm so she could catch the flight that day to come down to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. They got here really late, around 3am by the time they got to the hotel. Some of the other people involved with the conference also brought their families so Jen had some company during the long days that I was working and she was able to make some new friends. I had to work long hours but it was so much fun to come back to the hotel and have my family here! It was great. They also got to come along for some of the activities. Will was the star attraction at the conference. My customers loved playing with him and Will now has new friends from 11 different countries!

The meetings ended yesterday so today we got to take Will and go play a little bit. We went to a shopping mall and had a Cinnibon, awesome, and then went to a little zoo. Tomorrow we will also go play around before heading back to Shanghai on a late night flight. Below are a few pictures from my phone.

These are the twin towers in downtown KL. They were the tallest building in the world from 98-04'. They are 451 meters tall and remain to be the world's tallest twin buildings. Part of the Sean Connery movie, Entrapment, was filmed here.

We had dinner at the top of this building in a revolving restaurant that overlooked the whole city of KL. It was right next to the twin towers so we had an amazing view of the tall buildings.

Here is Will prarie dogging it at the zoo.

Here Will is thinking to himself, "Polly want a cracker?"

Anyone remember the cartoon called Ed Grimley from the 80's? Here is Will's best impression as he sports a great hair do and trying to show his new 6th tooth coming in. It is pretty hot and humid here and his hair has a little bit of curl to it.

Will is so excited to look at some of the animals. We've been reading an animal book with sounds to him recently so it was fun for him to go to the zoo and see the animals in person.

This zoo was just a small zoo. I think tomorrow we might go to the national zoo which is much larger. Hopefully we will get some good pictures.

Singapore

I'm sitting back in the Singapore airport today using their free internet kiosks. I have been to this airport many times, but today I did something different. I actually went outside the airport! Usually this is just where I transfer but today the layover worked out to be about 8 hours so I left all my luggage at the airport and went out to see Singapore. It's a pretty cool place. As the taxi driver told me it's "clean and green". He was right. It is a very clean city and lots of trees everywhere. The trees there are really neat, I haven't seen too many like them before. They would be the perfect trees for building a tree-hut.

I was talking to Jen today and decided that one of the next times I'm tranfering through here that I'll bring her and Will and we will go to Universal Studious and the Zoo. They also have the biggest WWII museam in Asia that I would like to go check out.

My flight to Malaysia boards in a few minutes so I'd better sign off.

UT.

Utah has been great. Our time is now coming to a close. Will has learned so much over the past two months. Thanks to Uncle Adam he can now high five. He can stand on his own, he eats lots of yummy fruits and veggies, and he likes to chit chat in his own little Will way. He loves to eat and will eat whatever is put in front of him, so I take advantage of that and fill his tummy with peas and beans. He doesn't seem to mind at all.

This past week we had a family reunion at Aspen Grove. We weren't so fond of the flu that was passed from the staff to the campers, but Tay and I did have one awesome run.
We've just started running again together. Heavenly. The one person I want to be with the most, doing what we love best.
We woke up and left the baby with grandma. I am so thankful for her.
I slipped on my Nike Lunar trainers...the best running shoe of all time.
And my new orange sports bra and 26.2 black running shorts. I'm feeling fast.
We hit the Stewart Falls trail neighboring Timpanogos Mt. trail, and head out for an easy 4.
Climbing high in the mountains, the dirt clouding over our white shoes as we glide on past groves of Aspen trees and fields of ferns. The view was something so beautiful never seen in Sh. backdrop of Timp, large and monumental.

Moments like these, I can't help but thank my Heavenly Father for this wondrous Earth, and such beauty never before believed. I just cannot help myself but to pray in gratitude, this amazing beauty, with the most amazing husband, feeling so ALIVE, and free! Running is like a drug. All of a sudden endorphins rush through my blood--a jolt through my arms, legs, feet, head. It's the drug that keeps me running. I think it was the Holy Ghost manifesting to me that God is the Supreme creator of Heaven and Earth, that He blesses us with talents such as this so we can know and share with others our true divinity, and I think to myself: This is how God intended us to be--running in the mountains, free, alive, happy, thankful.
I am filled with complete gratitude.
I share my epiphany with Tay, to which he replies

"You pray and then you get a drug high?....
I need to pray more."

I am just so extremely grateful I had that opportunity to run with Tay in the mountains. This was the reason I came to Utah, and I'm thankful for doctors who can tell me to slow down a bit and take in the fresh air, and tell me how to strengthen my body so I can have runs like this one.
I'm thankful for Nike Lunar trainers.
I'm thankful for Heavenly Father and that he knows each of us and allows us to experience joy in life through the talents he blesses us with.