Run the Wasatch Back.

Our team. Minus one who was running.


Run the Wasatch Back.

This past weekend me and my awesome team of 11 other friends from the 'hood ran this 180.2-mile, 30-hour relay from Logan to Park City. Everyone runs about 6 miles-- three times--in the dead heat of day and deep freeze of night--without sleep. Sounds crazy so you can only imagine how fun it was because 7000 other runners took on this bad boy! And our team already signed on again for next year!

Team Name: 6 Bras and 6 Supporters
Team Slogan: "Holdin' nothing--and everything--back"

Here are some pics of our team running:

7 miles on a dusty dirt road. I have never seen such scenic places as we ran through!


Waiting--worried-- for our runner to cheer him on. He was running 8.5 miles down a knee-jarring hill on a sprained ankle!


Go Amy! Headlamps and reflective vests required for runs through the middle of nowhere in the mountains in the middle of the night. Cougar repellant optional.

I'll post the video when it's done. Can't wait to do it again next year!

Back up Photos.

Back up Photos.

It has been a super-busy month but in a good way--lots of fun trips around town with the kids and such. Here are some of the 1000+ photos from the month I need to transfer from my camera and then back up along with thousands of others waiting to disappear when my computer crashes.

The Zoo

Chase with his head in the gator's mouth and Taylor's cute feet on the snout.


I love this sequence of events:



(And what you can't see is he is holding a napkin in the other hand).


The kids reading the map of the zoo and showing me the way. I loved it. I loved even more that I conveniently forgot the wagon and they walked the whole way--shockingly with minimal complaint.


Taylor up close and personal with the white alligator.


Oh yeah, this is the second of the two trips to the zoo last month and its intended purpose was to research her animal for a school report: the penguin. Here is a photo of her drawing she did for it, which she cut out and I hung on the fridge. I was super-impressed with her talent. She did it completely by herself:


Field Day

Tug-of--War: Girls vs Boys


Look at that long jump form. She's gonna be a track star!


We found the cutest pair of Nike running shoes at Ross and she broke them in at field day. She loves them so much she asks me every day to go on a run with her. She's faster than me so it's a little embarassing when we pass by neighbors but I love it nonetheless.

And here are a couple more left over on my camera:

Easter excitement.


The story of our Spring 2008:

Hot one day, cold the next.

Which reminds me:

Taylor learned to ride her bike!


Oh and here is a picture of the cute neighbor boy running a lemonade scam, I mean stand, where he tried to charge $1.55 for a half-cup of lemonade. While it was practically snowing. Chase was on cup number 4 and lost half his life savings before I caught on and stopped the charade.


Today was Taylor's last day of Kindergarten and they had the sweetest little end-of-the year program. She's no longer a Kindergartener! I only almost-cried.





That's it! Lots of cold weather and rain getting us through the first week of June. Global warming? I don't buy it.