2018 is the YEAR of new LIFE beginnings! Watch what is in STORE for our family and all the FUN adventures to come!

ENJOY LIFE!! 

After all the political negativity spewed across Facebook. All the un-wanted ads that appear and add noise to our life. The Lancaster family has chosen to disconnect from this avenue of connection. Relationship is important in life, and this is the path I choose to share my life with my friends! So follow me on this path, I won't add unwanted adds to try and sell you stuff and everything I post will remain positive! Lets purposely add positivity into our lives to overcome all the negative!! 

Happy Tuesday💛💛💗💗

I'm looking for sponsors!!

Go Fund Me!!!

This link will take you to my fundraising page!! Thank you for all your support!!!

4 amazing angels sing A cappella Point of Grace "King of the World" Moth...

My Girls!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXcbWeK31JM

Pageant Pictures

I finally added the pictures my friends and family took during the pageant!!! Thank you to everyone who supports me during this adventure!!!

15 days and counting

It's so crazy to think I'll be leaving for Olympia with my family in 15 days!! I'm so very excited to get to represent the Spokane Area! What a blessing it would be for the next Mrs. Washington to be one of our very own Eastside ladies!! I've been sticking religiously to my training routine so that I will be physically prepared to be on stage!! So shortly I will post some pictures of my wonderful supporters, stay tuned!!

New Goals

I think back to when I started this blog. Yes it's been a few months and I started it for many different reasons!! To stay in touch with co-workers, be held accountable for my training, empower others, show my progress with the Mrs. Washington pageant, etc. As I look back on the pictures it reminds me of the joys I had training and running the big runs!! The pageant is a month away, I know isn't that crazy!! I'm so very excited to make this new journey in Olympia! The past year running with the title of Mrs. Mead I feel I have made a huge personal growth and also touched many peoples lives in the process!

So the point I'm getting to..... I've decided that 2013 will be the year of PR's (personal records) I'm going to recreate all the runs and get MUCH better times, hopefully I will be running for Mrs. America (positive thinking) and then also making sure I check many more items off my bucket list!!! I still haven't danced on a table at Big Als with my girl Bekah or yes I'm gonna say it Bekah......... Sky dived or even white water raft!!!

Life is full of ongoing challenges and I am going to push through all the fears and baggage I still carry and be the best me. So this blog yes started out as my determination to run a Marathon.... well I've done that and in 2013 I will do it even better!!! You never know 2014 will be the beginning of my training for the IRONMAN!! Yes I'm going to set my sites high and you can continue to follow me on this blog. I would love for you to share your thoughts, stories, motivation, or anything you would like me to know.

http://windermeremarathon.com/

http://www.spokanemarathon.us/

The list of runs for 2013 will consist of:
Snake River Half Marathon
Windermere Marathon
Seattle Rock N Roll Half Marathon
Spokane Half Marathon

Let the JOURNEY begin...... ok continue to begin!!! Oh life is grand!!!

August Update

Things have been crazy!! That sums up August for all my wonderful followers. So just a quick recap for this month.......

I had the honor of assisting the Miss Spokane Scholarship ladies at the Garland Street Fair!! This was a blast to get to meet some really amazing Spokane Youth and Young Adults.

While at the Garland Street Fair a wonderful man Mathew invited us to attend the Craig T. Nelson Golf Classic Reception. We sold many raffle tickets http://www.lilacblind.org/golf.html and even got to get our picture taken with Craig T. Nelson and also the MC for the Night Mark Peterson!! I'm still looking for the one of me with Craig T. Nelson (Coach)

The next weekend Aaron my youngest son went off to Marine Boot Camp!! 

And the same day I had a Mary Kay Pageant Event in Edgewood, WA and also a Good Luck Party for Mrs. Washington 2012 Jessica Riggs!!!

At the event we found out that the official Mrs. Washington Charity is Hope Heart Institute. So we will sale 5 baskets each in support of this charity. All the proceeds from this will go directly to Hope Heart Institute, I will post pictures as soon as I have all my baskets made!! First I have to find companies that would like to donate things to put inside my baskets :) What a great way to advertise for an AWESOME cause!! Please contact me if you would like to donate :)

Ok and to sum up my month!!!........ Yes I was on the cover of the INLANDER!!! Check out our story if you get a chance!!!

Thank you all my wonderful followers!!! Remember to follow me on Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/Mrs.Mead.Washington

Make sure you check out the Spokane Inlander for an article on Pageantry!

Life in the fast lane!!

Well all my amazingly special followers. It's been a couple weeks since my MARATHON. I feel so wonderful to have completed that, renewed and ready to conquer another obstacle, adventure in life!! Here is the finish line video of the Windermere Marathon. It was so empowering to have my wonderful ladies run through the finish as they say my name "Desiree Lancaster" over the loud speaker as a Marathon FINISHER!! To have my husband, my kids, my sister and her family and my parents there to support me was so wonderful!! Just writing this and sharing my experience brings joyful tears to my eyes. My choice to live a happy healthy life is trickling onto the people I love so much. It is such a blessing!!

Girls waiting at finish line

 and waiting........

 still waiting.....

 girls holding the sign they made that says

"Mama's Minions"

Team Lancaster 

"GO MOMMY"

 The girls and my sister with her husband waiting for me to finish :)

 Girlfriend Bekah running across the finish!!

 Me with my medal the girls where so excited they kept hanging on me wanted to look at my BLING :)

 Me signing to my wonderful husband that "I LOVE YOU"

He is my #1 fan and I am so blessed!!

This is an experience that I will never forget! My first and my families for generations first!! In a week June23rd I will get to share in one of my long time friends first half marathons. What an honor to get to run with her and see the impact finishing can do for another person! It's not going to be a PR for me, I am solely running as her support and friend. To yell and scream for her to keep running  (in a loving manner of course) so she can hold her little one at the finish line and where an awesome medal around her neck! I look forward to it so much!! Pictures will be posted and my thoughts will be shared.

I love being part of this thing called life. It's so hard to believe that a few years back those words would have never come from my mouth. So continue to follow and share in this experience with me! Take my strength and know that nothing defines who you are but you..... simple as that!! Your only has happy as you'll allow yourself to be!!

Continue to follow................... you won't be disappointed.................

Adding onto my Marathon training, being a mother of 4, a wife; I will be taking the path as Mrs. Mead representing all women who didn't have a voice! Join me on my journey of training, volunteering, and being the best wife and mother an empowered women can be.