Happy, Happy, Happy!

WARNING: If mushy, gushy, lovey pictures and dialogue disgust you, read no further and wait for my next post. 

I'm dating the most amazing man on the earth.  I really am the most blessed girl on earth to have found him.  He is the most kind, caring, funny, compassionate, protective, thoughtful, awesome, extraordinary person ever.  We have so much fun together and I absolutely adore him.
This is just a random Sunday afternoon being goofy...

See...I warned you!  I've waited a VERY long time for him and waded through a lot of not so awesome to find him.  I'm allowed to gush every now and then!  Love him!

Bucket List #76 - Win Something in a Raffle - Complete!

The walk for Crohn's and Colitis was the afternoon of my race day.  I love this tradition!  This year it was at Wheeler Farm.  James was able to leave his job at the temple a little early to join us for the Crohn's walk.  After the walk, they did a raffle.  Dan and Amy and all of Dan's family left before the raffle, so James and I got all their tickets.  I won a prize!  It wasn't as exciting as I pictured it being.  Maybe its because of the prize that I won.  I won some sort of slimming toning body wrap session or something weird.  I most likely won't ever call to set it up.  So weird!  James and I also won a gift certificate to Goodwood BBQ with another one of our tickets.

I guess I will count this for my bucket list item.  I always pictured winning something huge and awesome and being the one winner in a huge crowd.  That wasn't the case here, but I did win something in a raffle!  Count it!

Owned the Streets of Provo!

Another half marathon is in the books!  Olivia and I decided in March-ish to run the same race in Provo that we did last year.  We trained for weeks and weeks.  Training includes 2-3 small or medium runs (3-5 miles each run) midweek and then a long run (started with 6 miles and added a mile every Saturday until we were at 12 miles the Saturday before the race) on Saturday.  It is quite time consuming, but we made it happen.  It was so fun to get to see O several times a week and to just gab away the whole time we ran.  We were both hoping to shed a few pounds training for this thing, but it sure didn't happen. :(  Oh well!  It was fun anyway!
The morning of the race, Jake drove us up to the race start and we were able to sleep in the car for an hour or so.  They wanted us to take buses up to the start and then wait in the cold for a couple of hours.  That's what we did last year, and it wasn't very pleasant.  Our plan this year was awesome!  Thanks to Jake for getting up in the wee hours of the morning to drive us! 

Waiting in line for the pre-race porta-potty visit.

The race went far better than I could have ever hoped for.  This race last year was my personal record for a half marathon (1hr 56min), and I ran it in 2 hours flat this year.  I was very very happy with that!  I'm not in nearly as good of shape right now as I was last year so I'll take it!

Jake got us chocolate milk and donuts for after the race.  Breakfast of champions, and champions we were!