WE DID IT!!!!

Tommy and I ran in the Ragnar Wasatch Back 192 mile relay race over the weekend.  Ragnar is a 12 person team, each person runs 3 legs varying in miles and difficulty.  The Wasatch back relay started in Logan at Utah State University and ended in Park City at Park City High.  The 12 people are broken up into 2 vans each with 6 runners.  We were in the second van.  The first van stared at 5:00 a.m. on Friday morning in Logan and we had to be in Ogden at 10:00 a.m. to wait for our first runner to start.  Tommy ran a total of 16.3 miles and I ran 16.4 miles.  This is the first time either of us have ever been in a race, but we loved it!!  One of our friends called us about a month and a half before the race and asked us if we wanted to do it.  Tommy did not have very much time to train, and a shin split going into the race but he did AMAZING!! I had a hurt I.T. band going into the race, thankfully we were both still able to run.  Hopefully next year we can both be injury free and do even better.  A few times when we were only going on a few hours of sleep and running at 2:00 a.m. we were wondering what the heck we signed up for, but we are SO glad we did, and are hoping to do it again next year. The boys really did not seem to miss us either, since they spent 3 days and 2 nights with grandma and pop having LOTS of fun! Thanks mom and dad for taking such good care of the kidos!  We finished the race Saturday afternoon and could not wait to have a good night sleep, (since we spent the night before on a hard gym floor and only slept for 21/2 hours)

 

 

The gang from van 2, right before our first runner started

 

 

Tommy right before his fist leg

 

 

 

 

Showin’ off my Ragnar tattoo, right before my first leg

 

 

Courtney handing off to Tommy, on his first leg

 

 

Run baby, RUN!!

 

 

My fist leg, Tommy checking on me to see if I need a drink. (The van would “Leap frog” you, they would drive a little ahead and wait for you to pass to make sure you did not need anything and to cheer you on.

 

 

HOORAY!! hand off to time to Phillip

 

Jonathan, Courtney, Justin, Tommy, Me and Phillip, looking a little more tired than the last picture. We all just finished 1st first of 3 runs.

 

 

We don’t have any pictures of our second legs, since Tommy ran about 12:30am ish and me and 2:00am ish.

Hanging out at one of the check points, waiting for our runner to hand off.

 

Tommy getting ready for a “KILL” that’s what they call it when you pass someone

 

 

 

The view from  1/2 way up Guardmans pass, the freaking mountain that I had to go up!

 

The top of Guardman’s pass

 

 

Justin handing off to Jonathan for the last and final leg!!

 

 

 

The awards ceremony (Tommy is admiring his!!)

Busy busy……but, FUN couple of weeks!

Last weekend we went to the sand dunes again, but this time we slept overnight. The boys loved every minute of it. I had a hard time with the boys being so dang dirty and sandy, but I finally put the baby wipes away and sucked it up and let them be boys. The weather was AMAZING! We went with out wonderful neighbors the Brewster’s again and my cousin Adam and his wife Mandy and their 2 kids, Piper and Kohen came along for the fun too.

Sean showing off his new helmet

Sean riding the Brewster’s 3-wheeler for the first time, he did AWESOME!

Our cute little Carson, he would ride all day if we let him

Waiting for our hobo dinners to cook in the fire

Not sure what is up with Sean and his poses, but he loves to do some silly ones

We had SO SO much fun riding but we also had a blast playing in the sand. All 3 families went and played in the sand, tossed Frisbees, played baseball, jumped in the sand, and took turns burying each other.

Sean burying Georgya

Daddy and Sean running and jumping down the hill

Sean burying Carsy

Adam giving Piper and Kohen a ride

                                                                              Daddy giving Carsy a ride

Sean had a field trip to the fire station last Wednesday and I had to work so Tommy took a few hours off in the morning and went with Sean.

On Tuesday Sean also had a field trip to Ching Farm’s Animal Sanctuary (the same place my little sis volunteers at) The entire family was invited so Carson and I got to go along with.

My cute lil’ boys

Sean with his teacher Miss Kim and some of his buddies

Sean absolutely loves T-ball, he is getting so good at it. Here are a few pictures from his Tuesday's nights game. He only has 3 more games left :(

Waiting for his turn to bat

I wish I would have gotten a video of this, but he was dancing out on second base, it was too cute!

Nice hit Seaners!!

Last night (Wednesday) my little Sean graduated from Pre-school (he will be one of Miss Kim’s big kids next year for pre-school) The kids sang some cute songs for us, then we chowed down on some yummy BBQ. Despite the cold windy weather, it was lots of fun.

Getting ready to sing songs

His cute graduation hat that he made

Sean and Miss Kim

BBQ time

Again… one of his silly poses

And last…. but NOT least, My BEAUTIFUL baby sister Ashlee Anna graduated from high school last week. I am so proud of her and all of her hard work. I love you Ash! I am so glad she is out of school so she can come hang out with me and the boys without ditching school. ;) I left my dang camera in the car for her graduation but here are couple of her senior pictures.