Run, Sleep, Repeat- Part Tres

This was my third year as a Wasatch Back Relay participant. The first two years I did it with Seth and a team of random friends and acquaintances. This year I wanted to put together a team of all girls. Every year while doing it I have thought, "Why am I doing this?" but then somehow I find myself loving it and keep going back for more.

Mandz at the starting line!



Jamie and me at after our firsts legs. Look at our cute shirts!

This year was a blast, although we had a few minor mishaps the week prior and one minor incident during the race. Also, during the two hours we were able to sleep some random person kicked me (I was sleeping on the grass) and then some ladies came and stood over me and told me I needed to move or else I was going to get run over.



Working Girls-Amber, Abbie, and Me-We all work together at DCFS. We dressed up in Diva attire to cross the finish line.


For all of you who are unfamiliar with the Wasatch Back, it goes from Logan to Park City, about 180 miles. You have a team of 12 and starting from Logan you always have one person running until you reach Park City. Each team member runs 3 times with an average distance of 3 - 8 miles. You literally only get about 2 hours to sleep, but somehow this is fun.



Abs passing the baton off to Kacey. Abbie totally rocked this race. She had super hard legs but did way awesome. She's a little drenched in this pic, but it's not sweat. Diva's don't sweat, they glow.

This year our team name was "The Diva Dozen" and we had super cute shirts made by one of our team mates, Amanda Ogaard.

I forgot to mention that last minute we had a team member drop out (we actually had two drop out last minute) but this particular member was going to provide one of the cars. Luckily, my dad knows really awesome people like Tom LaPoint, yes that's right, of LaPoint Ford. Mr. LaPoint hooked us up with a way nice truck to use for the race for FREE! If you ever are need of a Ford truck, definitely go to LaPoint Ford first!

Half of the Dozen-Jamie Johns, Me, Kacey Ludlow, Abbie Ogaard, Amanda Ogaard, and Nicole Jamie's Roommate (I don't know her last name)

The other Half Dozen (not pictured)-Jade (Smith) Pew, Sierra (Smith) Pugh, Amber Rudd, Amy (Robbins) Petersen, Ashleee Andreasen, and Jessica LifeSaver (not her last name either, but she was our last minute girl who saved the team!)


I'm thinking I will take next year off, but that is probably a lie because I said the same thing last year.

Here's a special little treat from this guy:

Post-Boards

Seth survived the boards and this is what he looked like when he got home. He said he thinks he did okay, but thinks he now has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder because of it. All week he has been thinking of questions he may or may not have missed.

The Boards

Seth takes the boards today and man, does he seem nervous. He's been studying for the boards since he started Medical School, but has beens studying like a maniac for the past 5 weeks. Don't worry that he set 4 alarms this morning so he'd wake up on time. I've never known Seth to sleep through an alarm, but he just really wanted to make sure he didn't sleep in. I laugh because he gets so nervous, but always does well on tests.I am so excited to see this book thrown away! Not to mention the bazillion flash cards we have around our place. I admire Seth, I could never study this much, for this long. Heck, I couldn't even comprehend one flashcard, it's honestly like reading Japanese.

Thanks to all the friends and family who have encouraged Seth and wished him good luck on this big day! We'll let you know how it goes in about 4 weeks!

Weekends should always be like this

This weekend was awesome. I ran a 10K with my dad, had lunch with friends, had date night with Seth, and got new carpet!!!




The awesomeness started with waking up dark and early Saturday morning to run the Crack of Dawn 10k with my dad in Emigration Canyon, downhill of course. I finished under an hour and thought I was pretty cool for doing that. I passed a bunch of people on the last 2 miles, which NEVER happens, so I thought I was even cooler for that part. I have experienced getting passed on many a races, but have never really experienced the pleasure of making others eat my dust. I thoroughly enjoyed it even if the people I passed were double my age. It was a rainy and cloudy day Saturday morning, so the Crack of Dawn thing didn't really pan out. My dad did awesome too, but he would deny that. We treated ourselves to the always delicious Einstein's bagel afterwards.




After the race I waited for our new carpet! Such an exciting moment in my life as a home owner. It was a little awkard however because there was really nowhere for me to be because all of our stuff was crammed into the living room while the bedrooms were being carpeted. I kinda just sat in a corner and pretended to work on my Sunday School lesson/watch t.v. The carpet looks awesome and our apartment is starting to smell less and less of old people.




Saturday afternoon I went to lunch with my dear old friends, Jamie and Amber. I've been friends with Jamie since the first grade. That's 18 years folks, yes, 18 years. I have so many funny memories with Jamie. I'll have to dedicate a post to that. Jamie, Amber, and I became BFFs from choir class in 7th grade. I think Jamie and I thought Amber had cute clothes or something and decided we should get to know her. Ha! The three of us went to lunch at the most wonderful restaurant in the world, Trio. I am totally obsessed with the place. I rode my bike to the restaurant with gas prices being like $50 a gallon. It was only a like 6 or so blocks away, but it's really hard to ride a bike with a big purse. We ate amazing food and talked for like 2 hours and I didn't want it to end. I love getting together with old friends.

Saturday night Seth and I went to the temple and then went to dinner at The Garden at JSMB. Seth decided the restaurant felt like a cafeteria and decided we shouldn't ever go there again. I thought it was okay, but our server wasn't the nicest. I think she was mad because I only ordered soup and therefore she figured I wouldn't leave a good tip. Loser.

Dearest Uncle Sam,

WHERE. IS. MY. MONEY?! I've tried to wait patiently, but I just can't do it anymore. I've had your generous gift earmarked for some fabulous IKEA flooring and I would really like to purchase it as soon as possible.

Now, I am just a lowly state employee and as you know I get paid beans. You can imagine my excitement when the news of a stimulus package came about.

I've been very good this year, please send me my money.

Sincerely,
Heidi

Happy Birthday Times Two!

Happy Birthday to two fabulous Herway women, Anita and Mel! I feel so lucky to have such a wonderful mother-in-law and sister-in-law! I definitely lucked out on the in-law department. I hope both of you have the best days ever and that you are spoiled and pampered to death, you definitely deserve it. Can't wait to spend time with both of you this summer and now in December too! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!