Moab

So this past weekend I was crazy enough to participate in the Moab 1/2 Marathon. I do not know what I was thinking of when I signed up for it! It was beautiful! We ran down the Colorado river and then through town to the finish line. My run did not go to smoothly...I got sick at mile 4 and almost had to quit. I could not breath and my heart rate was out of control so I had to walk for about 2 miles till I could get my heart rate in a safe range. It killed my time also.

I have to say that Suzanne did easily beat me, she was hard to keep up with.

We went down a day early because we wanted to go to the Monticello Temple. It is amazing that Monticello has a population of 2000 and they have a temple!

After the Temple we drove to Bluff, Utah because some of my ancestors built a cabin there and settled the area in Pioneer times. The city has restored the cabins and has made it a historical site. So if by chance you find your self in Bluff drop by the Barton Family Cabin. They have wagons and stuff there. I'm not sure if kids are suppose to play on them but my nephew Ben is too cute and had so much fun sitting on them. He was really proud of himself.

(Look at Joe's arms! He isn't even flexing! Look how huge they are!)

Right now I am considering running in the Salt Lake 1/2 Marathon in 3 weeks to redeem myself because of my awful showing in Moab.

MVP

So Joe has been playing in a basketball league with my brother JB this season. This last Thursday only 4 players on Joe's team showed up. They played 4 on 5for the first part of the game and I was a bit worried that these old guys wouldn't hold up.

By half time Joe and JB's team had a 12 point lead. In the 3rd quarter they had their fifth player finally show up.

This other team had 3 subs and so their guys were able to stay fresh. But Joe was able to come out victorious and win by more than 20 points.

Basketball

So unlike the terribly represented basketball scenes in High School Musical where East High beats West High, West walked away with a huge victory (I am kinda buggedthat Disney messed up Wests school colors, and mascot)

This is a tribute to my old High School...The West High Panthers! The boys team just won the 4A state Basketball championship. After their Victory I wonder if they broke out in singing and dancing like Zac Efron did.

I remember the good old days of High School nearly 7 years ago, when all of teams never even made it close to any type of championship.

(So Maeve and Christy...I know you are away from Utah right now and I just wanted to fill the two of you in.)

Best part about the game is West put a stop to Provo's 40 game win streak and got a Basketball championship that they have been waiting 45 years for

Dirty rotten scoundrel

So Wednesday morning I woke up and noticed that the window in our kitchen taken out of the window seal, and was just kinda propped up against it. We live in a really quiet neighborhood and I did not think anything of it. It was super windy the night before so I just thought maybe the wind blew it out. (I know stupid thought) But it bugged me for a few days about how that could have possibly happened.
Then during the announcement portion of sacrament meeting the bishop announced that there were lots of break ins in the neighborhood on Tuesday night and that the thief was caught with tons of jewelry. The light flashed on in my head and I was able to put 2 and 2 together.

The bishop said that the ward would not be posting "enrichment tonight" signs around the neighborhood because apparently it sends the message to a thief to break in between 6-8.
Creepy that someone tried to break in. I think they turned around when they realized that we didn't really have anything to steal.

Our new obsession

This game (mahjong towers) has helped me put off studying, and possibly not helped my grades.





If you haven't played it, I highly recommend it. Joe and I are both addicted. It might be another thing that gets banned from my life like Dr.Pepper. I try to tell myself that it gets my brain going and so it is okay to do before, during and after studying.