We Did It!

We all did it and I couldn't be more proud of my team. Here is a recap on the race. It was amazing, grueling, emotional, fun and exhilarating! Our team started at 8:00 am in Logan with our first runner, Mark (my BIL). Van #1 started us off; following Mark was Whitney (Rick's daughter), Rick (owner of Utah.com our sponsor), Sheri (a friend of Rachel's), Rachel (my sister) and Matt (Rachel's husband). They did awesome all morning and then around 2:30 Matt passed the baton to my dad at Eden City Park and Van #2 took over. Dad, Melanie (my older sister), Me, Paula (one of my younger sisters), Tyler and my mom. We ran our first legs until about 6:45 pm when we handed the baton back over to Mark. At that point we headed to Exchange point #18 where we ate pasta and bread and then "attempted" to catch some Z's. There was very little sleep happening, but it was a beautiful star filled night. Our next legs began at almost 1:00 am, and those were fun legs. I did my fastest time on that one even though it was my longest leg at 6.9 miles. We all loved running in the dark of night, it was crazy fun. To make a long story short, Van #1 started up again at about 6:30 am and then we took it back over at about noon finishing the race a little before 6:00 pm in Park City, 180.5 miles later.

Melanie, Me and Paula waiting for Dad to come in .

And here he comes!

Melanie is off and running!Look at me go

Here come Paula ready to hand off to Tyler

Go Tyler!

And Mom finished us off each time.

We met up at Snowbasin at Exchange #12, it was such a gorgeous, although hot, day!
Here are 8/12ths of the team.

Mom and 4 of her girls. We are missing Carrie who lives in Michigan and Jacque who was forced to back out of the race because of an injury, but she was there on Saturday with us at the end!

We saw some amazing scenery on the race, and even got up in the mountains high enough to see the snow!

I loved getting to run with Tyler and wouldn't have wanted to do it without him. My favorite times were when he came to give me water and a big smile of encouragement while I was running.

We all had our ipods raring to go!

Team Utah.com I'm proud of you all and thanks for the great weekend. Matt designed these shirts, they rock!

Busy, busy, busy

Once again, I have taking a brief hiatus from the Blogging world and so I thought I would do one big post to catch up.

Here is what has been keeping me busy:
1. I have been teaching a teacher Orientation class for IDLA and wow, teachers are tougher to teach than students, they are so over zealous, it creates a lot more work.

2. Training, training and more training. Last Saturday I ran 10 miles, this next Saturday I have three different 3.5 mile runs, so I will be going at 2:00 am with my mom and then get the other 2 in sometime between Tyler's work schedule and in between running, running and then a little more running.



3. Children, children everywhere. I am realizing having three kids at home all day when the weather is not cooperating is not so much fun. Please let it warm up!!!!!

4. Photo shop, OK this one is self-inflicted, but I am addicted. I made summer job charts for the kids and I had entirely too much fun making them, I just hope the kids have as much fun doing the chores as I had. (HaaaaaHaaaHaaa, to be read with a sarcastic, somewhat evil laugh!)

5. Memorial Day trips to Utah, so much fun, but all three kids had coughs, and Mollie added a runny nose, so that was not too cool. Stayed with Melanie one night, Rachel the next 2 nights, Tyler joined us on Saturday, so that was fun. We got together with Jacque and Mark, Jim and Melanie and kids, Rachel, Matt and Hailey and Mom and Dad on Monday for some yummy eats. On Saturday we met up with some of the family at Thanksgiving Point Farm Country and then we went to IKEA, that is not a quick visit, that is an event. I love that place and one day I want to go back without children.

This month is going to continue to be crazy, so I will jump in when I can, but isn't that what life is all about?

Upcoming Events:
1. Reagan's T-ball every Tuesday and Thursday for the next 6 weeks
2. Wasatch Back Relay, June 20th and 21st (180 mile run from Logan to Park City with my 12 man team consisting mostly of my family)
3. IDLA conference and training in Nampa (June 24th and 25th)
4. Morgan Family Reunion June 27th and 28th in Provo
5. Teaching 2 sections of US History 11B with IDLA about 50 students in a 9 week course.