JRE Closing social

This is my tenth year teaching at Jordan Ridge Elementary. We had a baby shower for six women and seven babies (twins) and combined it with our closing social. We got Waffle Love to cater and we opened up baby shower gifts. It was yummy and fun to celebrate the new babes on the way!

TRI like a girl

I volunteered at a triathlon last year and earned a free entry for the Daybreak TRI. Today I finished a Sprint Triathlon. It's always a success for me to complete an event and have the desire to do it again. After today, a half ironman is not going to happen anytime soon. I need to learn to swim better. I know I could complete the bike and run for a half ironman but swimming is not a skill I've mastered. The swim should've been 750 meters (.5 miles) if I swam in a straight line to each buoy. My GPS clocked 1 mile and that included .1 mile of a jog along the boardwalk. I used every kind of stroke - crawl, back, side, and breast stroke.

At one point I was tangled with plants and had to kick them off. Was it plants or possibly a zombie?

The bike route was up Baccus Hwy.  and then down. I enjoyed the course. The run was around the lake and once my legs got moving normal I enjoyed the run section. I am volunteering again at the Triathamom in August and plan to Tri' again next year...possibly another cheaper TRI this year. I will look into it.

The final time on the TRI board was 2:03:04 - Similar time from my sprint in Fruita, CO. 

Fruita Fun

 

Visiting family in Fruita, CO is always FRUN!

*Biking

*Surfing a wave

*Hiking

*Library - reading

*Swimming

*Games at home

Zion Trail Ragnar

Only in Utah can you get sunburned one day and frostbite the next.

2/3 completed because of the snow.

I would do this event again. Loved it! Great team, awesome trails, and

loved that we were not in a van for two days!

New Momentum Open

"I will not forsake thee" President Monson

I {heart} Moab!

I am not a fast biker but I love to mnt. bike. I love the challenge of
the uphill and the thrill of the downhill!

Christmas 2013

Happy Holidays! Remember the Reason for the Season!

Books Read in 2013

*The Hiding Place - Boom, Corrie ten
Daughter of Smoke & Bone - Taylor, Laini
*Edenbrooke - Donaldson, Julianne
The Maze of Bones (The 39 Clues #1) - Riordan, Rick
Days of Blood & Starlight (Daughter of Smoke & Bone #2) - Taylor, Laini
Reached (Matched #3) - Condie, Ally
The Hunger Games - Collins, Suzanne
Catching Fire - Collins, Suzanne
Mockingjay - Collins, Suzanne
Divergent - Roth, Veronica
Austenland - Hale, Shannon
Book of a Thousand Days - Hale, Shannon
*Dead End in Norvelt - Gantos, Jack
*Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redeption - Hillenbrand, Laura
The Night Circus - Morgenstern, Erin
The Egypt Game - Snyder, Zilpha Keatley
The Westing Game - Raskin, Ellen
*Blackmore - Donaldson, Julianne
*favorites of the year

Live Theater Plays 2013

I keep a "Books Read" list each year.
Why not make a "Plays Seen" list:
The 39 Steps
The Philadelphia Story
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
The Odd Couple
No Time for Segeants
Les Miserables
Urine Town
Ragtime
Tarzan (twice)
Brigadoon
In the Heights (three times)

Moab Fruita Chicks Trip

My sister made this trip so much fun! Best sister, friend EVER!

Allosaurus fossil prints

For my ward's Christmas fundraiser last year I bought a hummer ride in Moab. I gave it to Krehl & Amy for a gift but Amy and I ended up using it. It was a blast! Granted I've been "real" jeeping in Moab (which is amazing and intense) but this was fun and needed to be used this year.

Fruita Chicks and I biked Slick Rock. Amy and Melanie biked almost all of the uphills. They are so tough! I rode all of the downhill and some ups but not the steep steep steep hills.

Let me just say...HOLY HECK-A CRAZY! This was intense. I liked it. I was relieved when I we finished. I am planning on doing it with some friends in a couple of weeks...but WOW! The double black diamond rating was not a joke. This trail was tough: cliff exposure, technical, steep, gnarly, and just tough! I rode more than I thought I would. I got in a grove at one point and even rode the section that was marked "walk"...didn't see the sign. So thankful I am ok.

Another great weekend with the girls. Love you ladies!

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