Little Red Riding Hood

Saturday was the BIG day! It was full of firsts! Here are some firsts (as well as other funny things that happened).....

- It was freezing COLD. When we started the ride it was 44 degrees. It heated up to 59 as the high for the day! Brrrr....

- 5 miles into the ride we were hit with rain that turned into HAIL! Ouch!

- 7 miles into the ride my bike broke. It took 5 different SAG wagons (and other people to help) to find the right tool to fix my bike. That took about 45 minutes. Not a good start (not to mention that we started 30 min. late). Luckily, they were able to fix it!

- Unfortunately, we missed the 100 mile cut off (we needed to be to a certain city by 11:00 in order to go on the 100 mile route) by about 10 minutes. So we ended up riding 80 miles. But, that's OK because we had a head wind about 70% of the time.

- The ride was beautiful! Cache Valley is so pretty.

- We had a great time! I can't wait to do another ride (just as soon as my rear end can stand to SIT on a bike seat)....

We celebrated my birthday a little early (since I will be in UT over my real birthday). I have never had a Barbie Birthday. 29 is a good year to celebrate Barbie Style! All were to dress up as their favorite Barbie or Ken. Here are some good ones: Dream Date Barbie (and Ken), Ken Bond 007, Woodcutter Ken, Golf Ken, DTR Ken, Emo Barbie, Pregnant Prom Queen Barbie, Bollywood Barbie, Summer Lovin' Barbie, GI Jane, and Malibu Barbie.

Look, We had a great time:

This one's for you Heidi!

This post is for my biggest fan, Heidi! I haven't posted anything in about 2 months and she has been the only one to notice or care! Thanks, Heidi! ;)

To those of you that are feeling guilty, I am over it! I have been SO super busy that I haven't looked at your blogs either....meaning if there are babies announced- I don't know about them, if you got married--I don't know about that, if you took over the world--I may not know about that either! So hopefully we can forgive each other. I will try to be a better blogger....and let's be honest, I am going to be "unemployed" in about 12 days (YAY!!) so I will be way better!

It's hard to play catch up over two months period (this is probably why I try to journal as often as possible. If I wait for two months or longer, I have SO much to catch up on it is overwhelming). So, I will take baby steps back into the blogging world.

#1. I am training for a century bike ride (100 miles). It's the Little Red Riding Hood in Logan Utah on June 7. As part of my training I went 47 miles today--yikes! I am pretty excited about this. Although, I am really nervous about the altitude change. THAT may kill me.

#2 April 1- April 15....I spent about 45 hours working on a University of Phoenix class (a three credit class done in about 3 weeks). I was crazy busy. I would go to work, then come home and work on this class for 5-6 hours a night. I had to take it in order to re-certify this July. I am glad that is over!

#3 I am going to girls craft weekend with My Mom, Sisters, Cousins, Aunts etc. in a few weeks in New Harmony, Utah. I am SO looking forward to that! It will be a blast.

#4 I wish that I had some good guy stories to report....but, I better not (you never know who reads these things). But, I will say that I scared a guy off and he moved back to Utah (unexpectedly) after one date with me. We went out, had a good time and then two days later randomly decided to move back to Utah. I am pretty sure that he didn't want to be flipped- so he ran! :) Hehe. (If you don't know what I am talking about refer to a Post called "Spatula City").

This is as much as I can do today. But, start coming more regularly again because........ I AM BACK!

Lucky Me!

The past two weekends I have been able to spend my time with my most favorite women in the whole wide world! Lucky Me! :)

Girls Weekend #1
Location: Las Vegas
People involved: Molly, Rachel, Jill, Heidi, and Mom
Reason: Molly's 18th Birthday (I can't believe that she is 18), Mama Mia, Tiffany's & CO, shopping, and FUN.
It was a BLAST!

Molly showing off her BLUE Tiffany's box (top right)

Mama Mia at Mandalay Bay (Picture above).














Eating!!! (Picture at Left)
















Pedicures from weekend #2 and funny picture from girls weekend #1 (pictures right)








Girls Weekend #2
Location: Gilbert Arizona (My house)
People involved: Lindsey, Kim, and Carmen (My Three BF's)
Reason: Lindsey needed a break from her three little angels :), and FUN. But, let's be honest...we don't really need a reason to get together. We like to get together at least once a year. But, this year it's happened 3 times in the last 12 months. I am hoping that it happens again soon (Wink, Wink**)
It was a BLAST!

**Some of you may catch what that means

We all bought the same coat! Don't we look good. :) (picture below)



We ate lots and lots of food. We made this fruit pizza on Sunday (using my new mandolin). If you have never used a mandolin to cut things with, I HIGHLY suggest it. They ROCK!


Needless to say.... I have had a great past couple of weekends! I am so grateful for such great friends and family. Love ya!!

Sad Day!

When Mitt Romney quit the Presidential Race he gave an amazing speech. You really need to read it. It was AWESOME. Click here to read it.

I am really sad to see him go. Now what are we going to do? McCain? I am not so sure about that!

Field Trip

My friend Andrea is moving to Georgia in a few months and as a result has created a "bucket list" of things to see while she is in the great state of Arizona. One of these things was to go to Jerome AZ. It is about a 2 hour drive north of Phoenix.

So Andrea, Kirsten and I decided to go to Jerome on Monday January 21 (MLK day). On our way we drove past the Bad Ass BBQ. It just so happens that going to the Bad Ass BBQ was something that Kirsten wanted to check off of her something-I-need-to-do-before-I-die list. So, we were able to kill two birds with one stone.

I really wanted to buy something from the Bad Ass Boutique. But, the Bad Ass was closed. Imagine this conversation:
Someone: That is the cutest shirt ever. Where did you get it?
Me: Just at some Bad Ass Boutique.
Someone: [Gasp]













We also went to Tuzigoot.... ruins from the Southern Sinagua Civilization. Picture below.










Below are pictures taken in Jerome. It's a small mining community that has turned "artsy".

It was an awesome day!

News Flash

It's been a while since the last post. Here are some news updates that may or may not interest you....

In my world:

Chinese class canceled for 7 hour class

I had to drop my Chinese class! :( SO SAD! I had a conflict with my schedule. In order to renew my teaching certificate I have to take a class by August (Classroom Management and Lab Safety). The only class I could find between now and August was on Thursday nights from (are you ready for this?!?) 2:30 pm until 9:30 pm. FOR 6 weeks!! 7 hours each Thursday. Count them: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven HOURS! I may have to stab my eye balls out. Who can sit for that long? As you can tell I am sad that I had to drop my class but I am extremely sad that I had to drop it for a seven hour classroom management class.

In the world:

Twins Marry

I don't know if you have heard about this but, in a nutshell....

In Britain, twins separated at birth marry each other. They didn't know that the were siblings until after the marriage. They said that they, "met later in life and felt an inevitable attraction". Well, duh! First that makes me puke. Then after the puking, it makes me feel kinda sad for them. They think that they found their soul mate only to find out it's their brother/sister. It kinda reminds me of Star Wars (Princess Leia and Luke). For the full story click here