Our most exciting announcement!

Not an April Fools Joke.

Mom is feeling pretty rampantly sick. all the time.

But we are both very excited!

Salt to Saint Relay

Well, we did it! We signed up for the SALT to SAINT bike relay. From Salt Lake to Saint George. Here is the route...

We had a bit of trouble finding people that wanted to do it with us, but finally we landed with a four man team that consisted of Ben, my brother Glen, our friend Garrett and myself. We did one ride together before the race and other than that most of us didn't even get on our bikes except for a couple times before the ride. Which is crazy, but it is also what happened.

Our team was called the Pi Riders. 

So here are some photos of the ride. 

We stopped by my great uncles house, since it was literally on the path in Manti. So great to see him.

It was such a tiring journey, but so much fun! The legs were relatively easy except for the mountain passes that Ben did because he is seriously hard core.

We finished. Barely. As in barely in the time cap for the race. And our bikes had no flats until the last couple legs in which we all got a flat except for Ben. It was very funny.

Labor Day Weekend

For Labor day weekend, Ben and I drove down to Cedar City to catch a show at the Shakespeare Festival, enjoy some nature and attend a surprise party for our friend Disco Dave. 

Saturday morning we drove up to Cedar Breaks, enjoyed a nature talk and then continued to drive around the rest of Cedar Breaks through Brian Head and back down to Cedar for a matinee performance of AMADEUS.

I had never seen the movie of Amadeus or really even know what the plot was like. It was stellar performance and a beautiful story of Mozart. Then we  hopped over to the Off The Cuff center where we helped set up a surprise party for Disco Dave. He was very much surprised and friends and family came from all over. Mary (his wife) did such a great job with the event.

Ben cracks me up!

The next morning we hiked the Kanaraville falls.It was such a beautiful hike. It is like a mini narrows where you hike in the river through the slot canyons. I wasn't feeling great as we hiking and there was one time that I puked off the side of the trail but we kept going. It was so much fun walking through the river and climbing up the different water falls. 

Our first bike race

One of Ben's next goals after the Marathon, was to do a CENTURY on a bike. 100 Miles. So, we started riding. Almost every day. To work and back. To Kaysville and back. To Provo. Up and down the Jordan River Parkway trail. Everywhere. Riding the bike was fun for me and it was so enjoyable to ride a couple hours and see that we had rode through 4 cities! crazy cool. I can run for a couple hours and still be in Salt Lake. Progress on a bike is much more enjoyable for me. Plus when I stop pedaling... I am still going. Which is the most awesome feeling in the world. 

So we signed up for the Tour de Cure and raised almost $1000 together to ride in honor of many of my cousins and our dear friend's daughter. 

We convinced our awesome friend, Jordan, to join us and he was a rock star. I may or may not have (definitely) forced him into riding with me and going a lot further than he was planning on going. He nailed it and was a great partner on the road for sure!

This is Ben's official "I've gone 103 miles" moment. What an amazing guy!

A couple weeks before the race, the weather got pretty bad so our training slowed down quite a bit. So I didn't feel I could do the full 100, but was going to go for 75! Until I got off the course for a bit and so when I rode into the finish line, I actually ended up going 83 miles! I should have doubled back and done the last 17... just kidding. 83 was plenty for the day.

Our parents came to cheer us on, it was awesome!

I love that Ben has these fun ideas for adventures and that we can do them together. Riding alongside him is the best.

Summer craziness and mini adventures

Summer is always crazy packed with concerts because of the Deer Valley Music Festival. These were our costumes for the Pioneer Day concert. 

My dear friend Julia got married!

I got to meet Kristin Chenoweth, what a doll!

 We said good bye to the Adams Theatre, they are moving across the street to a bigger theatre now.

Stayed with Amelia and saw her interpret shows. Amazing as always and then Alison joined us for a couple days. Such fun to catch up and spend time with my Campfire ladies.

 We went up the canyon for dinner and s'mores with the family!

Ben really does make an amazing s'more, I have no patience.

And we hiked donut falls with the Family as well, pretty cool hike. 

 

We tried hitting golf balls for (my) first time, not great at it. But it was actually enjoyable.

We went to the alpine slide and coaster up at Snowbird and I thought I was going to be terrified, but it was very fun!

Jake and Mandy came into town so we did the ESCAPE ROOM. Where they lock you in and you have to find all the clues to get out. We broke their record, and it was hysterical to do it with family! Everyone has to try it.

We also played with the kids in the pool, my favorite place ever.

I was part of an all female improv show, which was pretty dame fun to do! These girls are hilarious!