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My sister-in-law, Joy, and I ran in a small fun run together! It was a relay where teams had to wear a hat and pass it off as if it was the baton. They were giving out prizes for the best hat and since we knew we wouldn't get first place in the race- we decided to get first place in the best hat category! AND WE DID! It was a fun race! It was: 2 miles x 2 miles x 2 miles x 2 miles (so we each ran 4 miles total... just incase you didn't get that!) Here are some pics from the big event!

Joy and I before the race!

Notice our planned outfits to coordinate with our awesome hat! Oh yeah... we're cool! :)

Joy on the last stretch of the relay! She was commin in strong and totally rocked it!

WE WON "BEST HAT"!! (don't be jealous!)

Showing off our outfits, and just glad we made it through the race!


This was our small group of race participants. Check out all the cool hats! (Sombrero's, bunny ears, wigs, fishing hats, flower hats, etc.) Joy and I are in the top left corner!

GOOD TIMES!!!!

UTAH ADVENTURES!!

So I went down to Utah March 6th-11th for my cousin Jake's wedding. Don't worry- the roads were all good this time! Here is a little re-cap of my visit!

Dad, Haley, and I


Haley and I in the canyon where Dad's grafiti is hidden.


Dad's grafiti from his college days! If you can't tell, it says "DEB (heart) JAN WAS HERE". I won't go into all the juicy details of who Deb is, but you should ask my dad about his freshman sweetheart! OH-LA-LA! (sorry mom!)

Haley, Corban, Teneill, Teneill's Fetus, Me, Chelsea, and Dad.

Having a delicious Mexican Dinner! Thanks Dad!

We told our waiter it was Dad's birthday! (which was no lie, by the way)

They sang, and danced, and embarrassed him like no other! Dad was such a good sport to still pay for dinner after all that! :)

I spent the night with Haley in her Freshman dorms (Jason met me in Utah on Sunday, but I went down on Friday)... oh that brought back good memories! Although I don't remember being that hyper! (But I do admit to having a selective memory!)

A BIRD POOPED ON ME! (or so we thought!) I walked outside of Teneill's front door and all the sudden there was this little "plop" and I look down to see this lovely ditty right smack dab in the middle of my dress! For some reason, no one would taste it to see if it actually WAS bird poop, you see, we had just eaten some sandwiches with mustard and mayo on them- but I am NOT that big of a slob to spill and not notice. So you see, it MUST have been a bird!

THE BRIDE AND GROOM!

CONGRATULATIONS JAKE AND TIFF!

Dad and all his girls! (minus three!) We missed you Mom, Jill, and Sierra!

Ya'll missed some SWEET dance moves by the way! (Just ask Chelsea!)

Andie, Crystal, and I

It has been FOREVER since I've seen these girls! And yet- It was just like old times! We laughed soooo hard at all our memores from growing up in Cincinnati. GOOD TIMES!! I miss you girls! Come up and visit sometime!

Andie Robinson, Crystal Lyman, and I in our "hooker boots" (a DIRECT quote from Andie!). We wore them to church on Sunday, and yes I went to a singles ward while Jason was gone! Don't worry, I let my wedding ring sparkle like never before!

Haley, me, and Dad!

We hit the slopes on Tuesday and had the PERFECT ski day! There was a big snow storm the day before we went skiing, which ment LOTS of powder and no ice! Plus there was hardly anyone there that day! I didn't even run anybody over this time! :)

Me, Dad, and Haley on the ski lift!

NEW CAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So after juggling one car between the two of us, we finally sold the broken down saturn! It wasn't worth much, but at least we got it off our hands. And we got a new one! Well not new, new- but new to us and that's what counts! YAY!!

THE DRAMA OF THE NEW CAR....
Ok, so this was a car that we found off of craigslist, that was a killer of a deal... but it was in utah. So we decided it was worth it to drive 5 hours to get the car! When we drove down on Saturday morning the weather and roads were great! We got to Utah and picked up the car, and then spent the night with Jason's Aunt in American Fork. Sunday morning we woke up to typical Utah winter weather... snowing like crazy!!! We went to sacrament and then I had to drive back to Boise that night because I had to work on Monday. Jason had planned to stay in Utah one more night to spend some time with his brother and then was going to drive the new car home on Monday.
ANYWAYS, I left Utah and the roads weren't too bad they were mostly just wet from the snow. I was able to go 75 mph for about 2 hours until I started to hit some snowy roads, so ofcourse I slowed down- little did I know that all the fun was just about to begin! I started seeing all sorts of cars that had spun or slid off the road from the snow and ice. I stopped for gas and when I got back on the freeway the roads were even worse. Then, about 30 miles later I came upon this truck that had slid off the road and rolled a couple times. I could tell that it had just happened, because there was no police/ambulance and people were stopping their cars to go help. This was a full sized truck that was on it's side, so me being a nurse- felt compelled to stop and see if I could help. The other people that had stopped, mostly just stopped to look because no one was really doing anything. I ran up and told them that I was a nurse- so they helped me climb into the cab of the truck (remember this truck was on it's side). There was only one man inside, about 60 yrs old who, from what I could tell, had a broken wrist, probably a broken rib, and was bleeding from his head. Long story short- I stayed with him inside the truck until the paramedics arrived.
THEN when I got back in my car and back onto the horrible roads, my car started driving really funny. I was only going 20 mph and it was a flat road, but I was fish-tailing like crazy! So I, myself, ended up sliding off the roads just like everyone else! AH! Luckily, it was a slow semi-controlled slide off. But it totally shook me up! Needless to say, I had started fish tailing because I had a flat tire! I figured I must have ran over some glass when I stopped to help. The place where I had gone off the road was right next to an on-ramp and I could see a Chevron, a Shell, and a Walmart down the road. So I went in reverse up the on-ramp all the way to the Chevron and was hoping to fill the tire up with some air, and then go to Walmart and get it fixed. Well ofcouse the Chevron "Free Air" was out of service! So I slowly made my way over to the Walmart on the flat tire and they took it off and showed me the HUGE hole in it. So I got two new tires and was on my way again. The roads started to get better and better so the cars started to go faster and faster, but I was still chicken to go fast from all the drama in the day. It was a good thing though because then all the sudden with no warning the roads were covered in snow and ice. I was able to maintain control, but I watched in my rear view mirror as the car behind me hit the bad roads and spun out of controll and off the roads. I watched to make sure they didn't hit anything or flip over (they didn't) and kept going.
LONG story short, I passed about 15 cars total that had gone off the road and it took me NINE hours to get home! It was the most intense nine hours of my life and I had the whitest nuckles from the drive! I was very blessed that nothing worse happened and I made it home safely. And the whole point of it all was to go to work on Monday... which you'll be happy to know I made it to!
SORRY for the long story, but there you have it! *sigh*

Happy Birthday Jason!

For Jason's Birthday last month, I suprised him with tickets to go see Jerry Seinfeld! I bought these tickets in Novemeber and it was the hardest thing to keep it a secret for so long! But it was definately worth it- I gave the tickets to Jason a week before the show, so the anticipation could build up all week long. It was nice to finally be able to talk about it too! The show was great, and Jerry was a very clean comedian too!

New Curtains!!!

I don't know if these pictures do my lovely curtains justice... but here they are! For a better view, you should just come and visit to see them in person! So this was my first curtain making experience and I am open to any and all suggestions to make them better!

Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree...

Well I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas! Here are some pictures of our holidays...

Our dinky display of Christmas lights!

Our tree on Christmas morning- look at all those presents! You'd think I was actually good this year! To the left of the tree was our giving table, where we put our presents we were giving to family and friends. It's empty, cause we gave them all away! (Mostly, we made the table because we didn't have anywhere else to put it and it looked kinda silly just sitting there. So we made it festive!)

The fireplace with stuffed stockings!

LOOK AT THAT WRAPPING JOB! I was thinking Jason would just want to admire my art of wrapping presents... bu NOOO he just tore right through that thing! All my hard work- wasted! Oh well... it's all about presentation, right?

My new peacoat! I was sooooo excited to get this! I've been wanting one for a really long time! Now I won't have to wear plain old sweaters to church anymore! Hooray!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

This is our wanna-be christmas card that we're not sending out to anyone... but just emailing and posting online! (the lazy way!) So now that you've seen it, you can pretend it was meant just for you! Happy Holidays! :)