Home Sweet Home

We are homeowners!!

I finally have pictures of our house with our stuff instead of the previous owners'. No nursery pics yet - maybe once it's finished :)

Stats: 3br, 2 full & 2 half baths, living/dining room open area, eat-in kitchen, bonus room w/ fireplace & patio, tray ceiling and walk-in in master, deck and a garage.

Our Voyage Eastward

As I shed a small tear for Utah, we headed off at 4:52am on our four day journey east to my family's home in Maryland to stay until our house in Pennsylvania went to closing. Let the excitement begin!

Red Rock Relay

I did something I never thought I'd do this summer. I signed up to run a race - a RELAY race. I had heard great things about some of the similar Ragnar races so when some of my friends from PMI needed some extra teammates I thought "what the heck, why not take the challenge and have some great fun with friends before I leave Utah" and I did it!

With this relay you have a team of 12 people, each of which runs 3 legs of a 36 leg 180 mile race during a 24 hour period. Each leg is anywhere between 3 and 8 miles long, with the entire course spanning 180 miles and a descent of 8,000 ft.

Each team of 12 is split up into 2 van groups - the Snow team and the Sun team. Each van takes turns supporting their runner (stopping along the course to give encouragement and hydration) and then at the end of the leg the van drops off the next runner, where he waits for the baton to be handed to him to start his leg.

The whole team finishes together!

Our team minus 1 after we got our medals
The Snow team after we finished our legs

Hiking Timp!

I had the great opportunity to challenge myself and hike Mount Timpanogos (2nd highest in the Wasatch Mountain Range -11,749 feet) with my good friend Emily this summer. She has been before and knew the ropes - for example the fact that you start hiking at 4AM with headlamps so you get to the top before the sun gets too strong. Our husbands weren't too excited about waking up so early, so we braved the hike ourselves :) The whole thing took us around 8-9 hours top to bottom, I think. By the end I may have been hallucinating so I might not have my facts straight. It was definitely a great experience and I would recommend the hike to anyone who has the guts to do it!


My computer lost most of my pictures but this was a great shot we got on the way up (around 5:30 am)

Here's what the view is like at the top! Click to enlarge. (courtesy Wikipedia)

Vegas Vacation

I had a great trip to Vegas with my bro-in-law in celebration of his 18th! Amos missed out since he had to travel, but he was generous enough to get us a nice place to stay super close to the strip!

Caleb's favorite, the MGM Grand

On the strip.

Ooh la la!

Cool shot of the Stratosphere

I LOVE the Luxor (and the Wynn)

Then on the way back we visited the St. George Temple

And I got Caleb hooked on In-n-Out!