Bear Lake Half Marathon

On June 12, a group of us girls headed down to Bear Lake to run the Bear Lake Half Marathon. It was a ton of fun! These girls were a riot. Jesse's mom was so sweet and made us a carb load spaghetti dinner the night before.

Then we headed to our KOA cabin. Isn't it cute!

Once we got to Bear Lake (keep in mind it has only been 2 hours since our spaghetti dinner) we found a pizza place to continue our carb load!

We finally got all snuggled into bed for a good night's rest, but that didn't happen.

I honestly think I maybe managed to get about 15 minutes of sleep, so I now know I am perfectly capable of running 13.1 miles with basically no sleep. It rained all night, but luckily it let up as we began our run. It was so stinking cold though. There was one part of the run where the pavement turned into a dirt road, so we spent the whole time slipping and trying to run in the ditch. You could totally tell who ran the half marathon because they had mud up the back of their legs. We ended up with a time of 2:14:17 which was 150th overall (including the guys) and 20th out of our age group. I would say that is quite the improvement from my last half marathon which was almost a half hour slower plus this time we didn't have to stop or walk the entire time! It's just proof that a training schedule actually works! I'm so thankful for my awesome running partner. I honestly don't think I could have done that without her...I love you Jesse!

Before the race..like I said, no sleep for us!After the race!

Thanks girls for the great time! We'll have to do it again!

Viva Las Vegas

Over Memorial Weekend, Josh and I went to Las Vegas! He played in the World Series of Poker Event #3 at the Rio. It was pretty neat to see players I watch on TV all the time like Phil Hellmuth and Vanessa Rousso. I had never watched a live poker tournament and it was crazy how fast the whole thing moves. They had about 4400 people in it and Josh ended up being in I think about the top 1500.

Josh's ticket to the WSOP

This is for all you UFC fans--Randy Couture started of the tournament with the most famous words in poker, "Shuffle up and deal."

It was so hot down there that we kind of just lounged around in our hotel and didn't do too much.

We did end up going to the M&M store for the boys--nothing like paying $40 for a bag of M&Ms that would cost $8 at Costco (the things you do for your kids)!

The best part of Vegas was the Carnival Buffet at the Rio. Let's just say I got my money's worth by eating 8 plates of food (yep, that's one more than Josh had). You would think I would have been stuffed, but the sad part is, I was up eating M&Ms two hours later in our hotel room. Jesse and I have decided there is just something about Soda girls and our ability to put away the food!

We ditched Vegas for a couple of days and drove to Flagstaff, AZ to see my sister. We ended up going on a hike and eating at some really cool places.

My sister and Josh overlooking the town of Flagstaff

My brother-in-law works at Northern Arizona University and their mascot is the Lumberjacks, so they have this awesome gigantic Lumberjack on their campus, and of course, we had to go see it!

My sister was attempting to channel her inner "Lumberjack"

Our road trip back through the very long and boring Arizona desert

And can I just say that when they complete this freeway over the Hoover Dam, I will NOT be crossing it! Are you kidding me!