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.

Draper Temple

Joe and I were lucky enough to go see the Draper Temple this week. We were able to go in the afternoon and we didn't have to fight any crowds. We are so lucky to live so close to so many temples! If you haven't gone to the open house you still have a little bit of time left!

Last year...

It was a year ago today that Joe surprised me with the 2nd best day of my life, (next only to the day we got married!) we got engaged! I just wanted to take some time to Reminisce.

I had the day off work and my plan was to sleep in and go to the gym, and then hang out the rest of the day. But my day started much earlier than anticipated. I woke up to my roommate tip-toeing out of my bedroom at like 7 in the morning. I just thought she was maybe borrowing clothes, but then I realized she couldn't find anything without the lights on. So I sat in bed trying to go back to sleep but I couldn't! Part of me wondered...what is she up to? So I got up and went to my bathroom and there was a CD on the mirror that said "play me". I could not make it to the CD player fast enough, and I soon hear Joe's voice telling me that if I played my cards right I would get a ring by the end of the night. He told me my first clue was to go to where we first met. We met at the Olive Garden and they didn't open until 11 and so I had 4 hours to wait in anticipation.

I went to the Olive Garden and told the host who I was and she got the biggest smile on my face and pointed me to where I needed to go to get my next clue. Joe's manager met me with a smile and handed me another CD and also a to-go order of my favorite dish, the Tour of Italy! My stomach had butterflies and the last thing I wanted was food. I told her I wasn't hungry and that I didn't need it. She said to me, "Oh hunny, I don't think you understand how long of a day you are in for, trust me, You'll be hungry." So I went out the door eager as a beaver to listen to my next clue.

Joe's voice greeted me again and told me to drive to where we had our first date. As I drove he proceeded to tell me what he remembered about the first time he saw me. Then he put music on once he was done talking, to keep me company on the drive. Joe sent me to lots of other places. He sent me to Sundance Resort where we love going snowboarding together and was also where we went on our second date. He gave me a BBQ for my graduation and there was another CD inside there, and then he sent me to where we had our first kiss. Every time I picked up a new clue he would tell me on the CD why he sent me to the place I had just picked up a clue and what he remembered about it. Another clue was to go to my favorite place to take naps. So I headed up to Salt Lake to my parents house. I had been calling both of my parents after each of the clues and neither one had let on that they were in on it!

When I got to my parents house my mom handed me a CD and also a piece of paper. I was not expecting a piece of paper, none of the other clues had a piece of paper. This was not a normal piece of paper it was an airplane ticket! I looked at my mom in shock, and she told me to hurry if I wanted to make my flight. So the next thing I new I was on my way to Las Vegas!!! There was a little bit of a delay with the flight because of a freak rainstorm in Vegas that caused no flights in to Vegas. Luckily Joe is smooth and was able to push back dinner reservations.

I landed in Vegas and met my sweetie at the airport. We jumped in a cab and headed to the stratosphere restaurant. Where we had dinner on the top floor at the rotating restaurant! (I ate rooster!) After an amazing dinner we walked out to the observation deck and then Joe got down on one knee and asked me to marry him! It was amazing and I did not want the moment to end!

We then walked down the Las Vegas strip and then caught a cab back to the airport where we flew home. It was unreal!

The only thing that is too bad is that I packed my camera but forgot the memory stick! So I have no pictures to remember this trip with. Thank goodness I do have the most gorgeous ring to remember it with!

I love you hunny!

(I do have this one that we bought from the people at the stratosphere restaurant. I love it because you can see the strip in the background. ) This was before he popped the question!