Who needs more cowbell?

I do! I do! Well, maybe a little break from cowbell would be okay. I know that everyone has heard about the Wasatch Back, but here is my contribution to it all. It was Freakin Amazing!! Our team was great, the course was great and the race as a whole was...great!

It all started with a van decorating party the night before. I wish we had cow hides and horns to attatch to the vans, that would have been sweet, but window paint was nice too.

Our van (#2) left Logan a couple of hours after our van #1 started the race. We met up with them in Eden where Mary Ann began her first leg...

This is our van #2 Jason Turner (who wrote a great article in the Herald Journal about our team, check it out if you haven't yet), Joyce Littlewood, Me, Mary Ann, Jonathan, and our cousin Cathrine Phillips.


This was Mary Ann's first leg through Liberty, she said she wanted more Cowbell, and I gave it to her. Does she look a little annoyed to anyone else?


This was my first leg climbing up Snow Basin, all I can say is that it super sucked! I did better than last year, I just hate that dang hill!


This was my night run. It started at about three in the morning. Landon was sick, but rode with me anyways. When we started the leg, he was sure to say to me, 'Any time you think I'm not romantic, just remember I did this for you--and I'm sick.'

During our night runs, we all said to eachother--Who does this? Who stays up ALL night long to run, and above all of that, we paid money to do this? This isn't forced upon us, we chose to do this?!? Really you must be a little on the crazy side to do this race.

This is somewhere along the course, I'm not sure why there is a smile on my face, sleep deprivation really does something to you.


This is Jonathan's last leg, it was so fun to run with him! When we started he said that he hadn't really ran in 20 years! That is crazy-he was amazing, I really don't know what else to say about it, he did so so good!


This was me starting my LAST LEG!! Yay! Twenty Seven hours of really no sleep, eating out of the car, two other legs, plenty of hills and a few tears behind me already, all I had to do was run to the finish line.


And I did.

everyone else is doing it...

So there are a bunch of little things that happen throughout my day that I think to myself 'Oooo I could TOTALLY blog about that' Then comes time to blog and they seem so lame. Well, I have been thinking to myself for about a week now that I need to post, then all of a sudden everyone and their dog posted yesterday! I am not one to be left out so here we go... Things in the new place are going great. Wilson is right at home he has his favorite sleeping spots

and his favorite hiding treat spots and loves to run up and down the hall. Him and Landon spend hours just staring out the window,


it is really exciting when they spot something worth pointing at.


The neighborhood here is GREAT!! I have joined a running group and it has been so fun! For those of you who know me well, you might want to sit down for this next part. I am up and running by 6A.M. That's right, me who does not like mornings is dragging her sleepy butt out on the road. I'm telling ya, turning a whole new leaf here! The ward down here is awesome too. There have been so many people that have made us feel right at home. I went to Enrichment a couple of weeks ago and it was a service auction. I, for the life of me, could not think of what to do on such short notice, so I baked. I made the cutest cupcakes ever! I have to give myself a pat on the back! They were a hot item at auction too, so that was nice. I made two kinds, Smore


and Strawberry Creme


Both were delicious but I think the Smore batter was better, but the Strawberry cooked was better.

They have planted our front lawn, and a couple of trees. I can't tell you the difference it makes!! We have yet to mow the lawn, we were told by our neighbor who has an immaculate lawn that we need to wait a few weeks, so that is what we are doing. I planted some flowers in the front and also in some pots out back.


Wils really likes them.

We have had a few visitors, last week Penny and Colby met us in Layton for dinner at our favorite place Tepenyaki. If you haven't been there, you must go, it is fabo! We all caught shrimp in our mouths but not a lot of great pictures to document.


It was so fun and we LOVE having friends come visit, so everyone do it more!!! This is how we can tell who really likes us and who was glad to get us out of Cache Valley! And Courtney, I again must appologize for cutting your visit short, it was so good to have you come down and see us, and I hope you come again soon! All in all everything is going great! Gearing up for the Wasatch Back in a couple of days. I can promise you all a post on that, it is the funnest race EVER! I am so excited to have more family on the team this year, maybe just maybe one of these years we can get an entire van FULL of Nelsons...that could be scary!