birthday lunch!

lately we like to do birthday hikes instead of birthday lunches! Ha! 

Jenn was here from Hawaii and we were planning to go to the P!NK concert for my bday and 

then Pink cancelled her concert! ugh!  instead we had a fun time at "Thriller." 

The weather was beautiful and Jenn was dying to see the fall leaves and color in the mountains

so we went on a fun hike up south fork then met the girls at "tortilla bar" for lunch.  

It was delicious! 

love these girls and so grateful to have such good friends! 

and of course we had to bring our dogs... ha!

Electric run SLC!

A bunch of my girlfriends in my neighborhood signed up for the Electric Run Race at

Thanksgiving point! It was SO much fun! The race started at around 9pm and was all 

lit up the whole race.  The course was so fun and perfect.  It wasn't really a race but just

 a fun party!   

The best part was they were filming the Bachelor and so the Bachelor was 

running with us in the race for a bit.  It was hilarious!  

i guess i better watch this next season!

girls trip to Maui....

We had the greatest time in Maui with these beauties! 

Such a great trip to celebrate jane as her Post cancer trip.  Each one of these ladies hold

a special place in my heart, they all inspire me in so many ways.  

 I consider these ladies my best friends and loved spending the week in Maui doing

many adventurous things.

We stayed in jenn's condo and she was the BEST tour guide ever.  Seriously!!  

I love that i know the many places here to and couldn't wait to eat at Fred's and 

maui taco's more than once, ha!

We hiked to waterfalls, jumped off waterfalls, paddle boarded, snorkeled, cliff jumped, 

swam with turtles and had many spa days!  It was a blast!! 

love these ladies.

loved my morning runs...

 Jenn thought i wouldn't be able to do a headstand out in the ocean on my paddle board.  

Booyah!! 

We joke that we might send this as our Christmas card this year! ha!

The headstand became the new plank!  ha!  

 Kapalua was possibly my favorite day!  We went cliff jumping and hung out at the Ritz all day! 

we had an awesome under water camera that summer brought and we literally 

laughed so hard in the ocean for hours!! 

loved it!

we came home to a surprise from dusty!  He sent jane flowers along with all 

of us "Boston Strong" hats!

Laughter really is the best medicine!!

xxoo

Ragnar Relay {wasatch back}

Loved my "Wicked Fast" team!   

We had a blast at Ragnar this year.  Even with my bummed injury! Boo.

These girls were superstars, 3 of them have never ran ragnar before and had no idea what to expect! 

so much fun!

200 miles + 2 vans +12 runners....through the beautiful wasatch mountains!!  

thanks for the memories ladies... i may not be up for it next year. haha

 The night run was all of our favorites... well er uh except hollie's! 

getting ready to send shannon on the first run of the night for our van.   

we loved that we finally got to see VAN 2 at the exchanges.  We met them up at Snowbasin. 

So fun to see my hellbusch girls!!

 nothing sounded better than Cafe Rio to end the 2 days of running!!

Utah Valley Half Marathon

I did it!!

  

I was so excited to do a marathon this year and when i hurt my achilles in january, i was bummed

so i entered the half instead.  hoping to heal in the meantime.  

two of my girlfriends ran it too, so that was fun to train on my saturdays with these beauties.

we had fun training and it was their first half marathon. 

beautiful course and perfect weather! i finished in exactly 2:14

not what i was hoping for but at mile 4 my knee started killing me and realized later that

it was my IT band. ugh...

it's been a while...

I've been a blog slacker lately.  i am now an Instagram addict! it's like blogging but better. 

most of my pictures are actually from my iphone anyway.  

I've been training for this and then the following weekend, this!  School gets out this week, 

and lots of camps, lessons, etc are being scheduled!

the calendar is getting full!

my kids are excited to start there reading lists, journal writing and to mark off their jobs for 

the day!  We have some exciting things planned for our "summer bucket list" 

if they can get their tasks done!

on saturday mornings a bunch of girlfriends and i have been enjoying the beautiful provo trail!  

i love running down south fork and passing 'bridal veil falls' it's a gorgeous run, i highly recommend it!

Rick Robinson's "Move" show...

my little olivia danced with her company team at the Covey Center on saturday night in the

 Pre show for The VIBE!

I missed her dancing because i was with my sisters in california, but 

Cory was there to support our girl.

i heard the Show was ridiculously AMAZING!  

my niece witney was in a ton of the dances and olivia loved watching her.

Liv dances on a hip hop company team along with her jazz petities team.

cory video'd and i about died at how cute it is!

good thing i have such awesome talented friends that took all these 

pictures and did her hair for me! haha

thanks jamie and amy!!

xo

this is her Petites company team

{liv is bottom left}

she is the very far left!!  so cute

  and her hip hop company team. "poppin petites"

{far right}

 very far right ::front::

 {front right}

 cutest one in the middle ::wink::

olivia with some of her dance buddies!!