Hiking Timp

As if I have not put my body through enough--over Labor Day weekend Lisa and Jen and I decided to hike Timp. We were pretty excited about it, until we were hiking it. But first Lisa and I decided to go to Swiss Days. Love it. I live for the ham and swiss. It's my favorite. The next thing I love are the scones. My cousin Preston had the best idea. He said "Swiss Days only comes once a year so eat up." Oh and Lisa and I ate up. We also love a cookie there called bratslies. (I don't know how to spell it) Then Lisa and I walked around and spent money.


Enjoying my ham and swiss. (until next year) Preston and me and Melissa, getting out scone by the backdoor. (we didn't have to pay!)


Here comes the hike. I was kind of dreading it. I was just tired. I was hoping for the meadow only.

Happy Hikers

This was the sight of one of the breaks. We needed to fuel up. And convince ourselves that we could make to the meadow.

Refueling...and convincing us to make it to the saddle. Thanks Lisa for the Thanksgiving analogy. We were sitting there looking up at the saddle and thought, huh, we are here and it's not that far. We said we were going to make it to the saddle so when we don't, it' s like huh... and then Lisa said, "I feel like I cooked Thanksgiving dinner and now I don't get to eat it"

Yup..that did it.

Lisa and I can pretty much talk each other into anything. (little windy at the top)

Just finished eating "dinner" and now heading back down. We celebrated by eating at the Purple Turtle. Next year, we think we will just stay at Swiss Days and eat up.

1/2 marathon fun!

Here are the 1/2 marathon pics. Ahh...good times. I'm glad I have the pictures, because it might not happen again.Thanks JeVonne for hooking me up with supplies for the race. Here Jen and I are finding our names at Runner's Corner. Good thing we found them.
Checking for the bib number. It's in there, trust me.
Ahh..finally


Me, walking back to the family with my Finisher's shirt. (you only get the shirt if you finish the race) I was proud of myself. I ran the entire time. I walked during the water stations.

It was a pretty run down the canyon, ending at the city park. I keep thinking "You're in it, just finish it. It's just a nice run down the canyon" It was a pretty run. Long, but pretty. Not sure if I will sign up for another one too soon.

Video of me crossing the finish line.

Jen and I woke up at 4:30 am to get ready and left by 5. We made it down to Springville and got on a bus to ride up the canyon. Then we just kind of waited around until race time. Tons of people were up there just waiting around for the start time, stretching, jumping, warming up, practice sprinting. It's good time. The night before is the worst. I was so nervous, but the morning I was just ready to get it over with. I finished it in 2 hours 19 minutes. By mile 10 I was feeling it. Thanks to my Hammer gel--I found the strength to keep going.

(A quick shot of carbs. )

I really needed it. That helped me get through. The last 1 1/2 miles my quads were screaming. You know that is a bad sign when you already hurt and the race is not done. People on the street were cheering and saying "You're almost done, keep going." And people who had already finished and were walking back were cheering us on. That was cool. People come out of their houses and cheer people on. There were about 1300 people who registered and only around 1000 finished. The others just could not hack it.

The fantastic cheering club. Thanks guys for cheering as we ran to the finish line.

The brave finishers. We could not walk the next day, or even an hour after, but hey we accomplished our goal. (and dragged everyone with us..Lisa and Jamie and Jenna all got up and ran with us ..on every vacation and we ran all summer long)

Refueling our bodies after the race. It was so hard to walk even 20 minutes after we were done. By the next day, my whole body ached. We felt pain so we weren't dead. But wow--once that Aleve wore off--all I wanted was to sleep and drink water. I still don't think I have hydrated myself back up. Good times.

(I have to refer you to my cousin's blog for the great book quote. It's awesome, just skim her blog. The quote summarizes our feelings, plus she does a better job of writing about the marathon.--Love ya jen--- Jen has a comment)

Summer Fun

Just a few pictures from the summer that did not get posted earlier. I had a great summer and I am so sad that it's over. (I think I'm just sad that I have to be in school and work--hopefully it will go fast)

American Fork Steel Days. Love the Crusin' and the car show. It was a great time. Lisa and I ran in the AF 5k, but our comupter crashed and we lost those pictures. It was a good time. Lisa, again, does the race without any kind of training. We will be doing it next year.

My Birthday was July 29. I celebrated with family and my friends. My roommates took me out to dinner, both credit unions that I worked at (lehi and Af) celebrated my birthday, my cousin and I saw x-files, (still not sure about it) and of course there was lots of cake and ice cream. Thanks guys. I have the best family and friends.

And what I have been waiting for all summer.....the release of Breaking Dawn. Or the disappointing release of Breaking Dawn. My cousins and I went to the all night party to celebrate. We did fake tatoos (from the special addition of New Moon, I think) and red lipstick (thanks Jenna) and made t-shirts and went out in the world of vampires. Then the next day we went to the pool and read all day. Jenna finished it in one day, Jen later that night, me the next day. I have to say I was a little disappointed in it. I did not love it and I really wanted to love it. I like the other 3 books better. I've talked to a few people who felt the same way, (Jami, Amy, Lisa..Megan have you decided yet) I was afraid it was just me.

Tatoos --David Boreanez style. Loved it.

Me, Jenna, Jen in the t-shirts. Team Edward all the way. Lisa was at convention or she would have been there. Emily was celebrating in Orem. Filling out a quiz thing. We did not use a book to cheat, but we also have not heard back, so I guess we did not win. (we must of been wrong about Stephenie's pet as a child..we said a rat named Templeton)It was an interesting time. Lots of people in shirts and dressed up in prom attire. It was kind if fun.

The last thing of the summer was my 1/2 marathon, which I did survive. But that gets a post all to itself. It will be coming.

The Big Day

The big day has come. I run my 1/2 marathan this Saturday. I am kind of nervous. I am way excited to be done with the training schedule. Hobble Creek Half--here I come. Wish me luck! My goal is to finish. I don't care about the time.
Lisa will be there to take pictures.

California knows how to party......part II

Good times in LA. Here are my favorite pictures from the trip. First the BEACH.

We had to have our snacks.

And our eye candy......loved it.

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We went to Zuma Beach and Santa Monica. Both days were beautiful beach days. Bonus: we did not get sunburned. Jen the resident re-applier was not letting any of us get sunburned on her watch.

Then we ate at our favorite breakfast place..Coogies. We love the zucchini bread and we like to watch for celebs. Waiting for our table. We had to wait 30 minutes in the sun for a table.. meanwhile...

Jeremy Piven, star of Entourage, just comes right in and gets his table. Yes, that's right we were totally slided by Piven. Which sparked our favoritie saying..."Did we just get Pivened?" Seriously, he just gets to walk right in while the rest of us wait. Is that fair?

We use this saying if we feel we were skipped in some way or we did not get everything we should have gotten. For example, Everyone got two scoops of strawberries on their yogurt. I only got one. You might say I got Pivened on the strawberries. Yeah, we think we are funny. In case you don't know who Jeremy Piven is..here is his picture.

Next on our list of favorite things to do in LA. We love eating at a place called C and O's. It's the best Italian place ever and it's always packed. We get in there and are ordering and checking things out when I look over at our neighbors. Now we have been watching this family of like 10 the entire time, but I suddenly realize who is sitting right next to me and my jawed dropped and I told Jamie. Of course she does not watch the show, so she does not know who it is. It's Tony (Carlos Bernard) from 24. My favorite show. He was so close I could have elbowed him in the ribs. I was so excited, but I needed confirmation.

I talk to Jen, for her to confirm it. She stands up and walks over to the restroom to confirm. She shakes her head and tries to tell Lisa, who is standing in line next to his niece or someone at that table.

We have confirmation! Wow.. He has worked with Kiefer and I like to think that I had dinner with him. I stood next to his wife while we both waited for the restroom. Now you can't really tell, but he is right by my hand over my shoulder. Yeah, he's pretty close. We had to stage the photo and I did not want to be annoying.

Here we are posing in front of the place showing our 24 sign. I was so excited.

We also like to hit Venice Beach. Jamie just did a drop off because I wanted to get some aviator sunglasses. Love them.

Then, this is the high school where Grease was filmed. Yeah, that's right..It's Rydell High. I wanted to get out and sing Summer lovin, but decided against it. We love to see random filming things. We also got on the Fox lot, but

could not find where Bones was film. I could only find this golf cart with the show's name on it. I like to think that David or Emily have been in that cart.

And we finish off the trip we our favorite yogurt, Pinkberry. We love it.

Alright, finally. I think those are all the pics. If there are more, I'll throw them in later.

Lunch with friends

Ok I don't usually do this but I have to say "Thanks". On Monday I was able to have lunch with friends. I just wanted to say how much fun I had. You are all amazing and so much fun to be with. You are such great mothers and great examples. Thanks for your friendship. You guys are great!

Jamie's engaged!

My sister Jamie is engaged. Jamie is getting married on Nov. 1st. We are all pretty excited. Jeff is a great guy and we are all excited to get to know him better. Now we are all busy planning a wedding. I had no idea what is involved. If anyone has any suggestions let us know.

Congratulations Jamie and Jeff. Love you!

I was not planning on the family picture and I was trying to support my team!