Catch up..

Since school has been out I thought I would have kept up on my blog better, but that is the exact opposite. So I am trying to play a little bit of catch up. In the last month volunteered at the Iron Man Race with some friends and it is always so inspiring for me to watch the athletes accomplish the race, but it also made me so freaked out to run a whole marathon!! And then i ran the Ogden 1/2 marathon with my sisters, and cousin (well she just started out with us and passed us all up). It was so fun to run a race with family, I can't wait to do another one with them. Then I went to California with some friends (Aubrey, Russel, Peter, and Logan). P, R, and L drove down from Provo and then we switched into my car and drove to Santa Rancho Margarita. 5 people cramped in my little car, so worth it for cheap gas! And Thank you to the Penrod family for being so generous and putting us up! They made the trip so nice, breakfast, dinners, and a game night. They were so fun! We went to the LA temple and tried to have a picnic in the big grassy area in the front, and they didn't like it so the security guard came and asked us to leave. Then we went to the mall and shopped a little, and then hooked up with Peter's sister and went to a wedding with her. It was so fun! Then had a couple days at the beach. Sunday the beach was cold and WINDY, and then we had a BBQ and game night with the Penrod family. Monday we packed up and headed to the beach. and it was warm!! but the water was colder than on sunday, but i still went in. I had to boogie board no matter what the water was like. So needless to say the month of May has been so fun!! The only pictures I have on my computer though are from the Ironman Race.









OH yeah...and I did a new canyon! WOOT! It was called Spry Canyon and it was so much fun! One of my favorites!!!!

School's out for summer..

Cookie Bar

What better way to break your fast then with a cookie bar? I would have to say there isn't a better way, except I wouldn't suggest doing it unless you have some regular food too.. can you say tummy ache? :) We had snickerdoodles, homemade oreos, and no-bake cookies. So delicious!!!! It was fun to have some friends over and eat delicious cookies and just have a relaxing Sunday. Shane had the brilliant idea of having the "cookie bar". And he makes some of the best No-Bake cookies i have ever tasted.

The dough is the best part.. much better than the actual product.

I leave Aubrey in charge of one tray of snickerdoodles, and she forgot to smoosh them down, so we had to pull them out of the oven. :)

Mmmm..Oreos.

Kiss the Cooks...?

Ten Rules...

for being human.

1. you will receive a body. you may like it or hate it, but it's yours to keep for the entire period. learn to feel sexy and love every imperfection.

2. you will learn lessons. you are enrolled in a full-time informal school, called "life." it needs studying, hard work, and determination.

3. there are no mistakes, only lessons. growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. the "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately "work."

4. lessons are repeated until they are learned. a lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. when you have learned it, you will be escorted to the next.

5. learning lessons does not end. there's no part of life that doesn't contain its lessons. if you're alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.

6. "there" is no better place than "here." when your "there" has become a "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here."

7. other people are merely mirrors of you. you cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

8. what you make of your life is up to you. you have all the tools and resources you need. what you do with them is up to you. the choice is yours.

9. your answer lie within you. the answers to life's questions lie within you. all you need to do is look, listen, and trust.

10. you will forget all this