In Honor of Mi Madre

The other day I was in the garage putting stuff in the recycle bin-Reduce, Reuse,Recycle...right? I'm trying at least...I need to find at least one way to fit into my surroundings. Anyways as I was sorting my goods my eye happened upon a black garbage bag that was torn open. What to my wondering eyes did appear? But a bag full of jams and treasures galore. I tore open the bag to find TONS of my mom's old jammies. Matt hates the ones I currently wear(green plaid nightgown...I think it's a gem and wear it incessantly), so I started digging to see what I could add to my stash. Molly thought this was rad so we decided to celebrate my mom's b-day by having a fashion show in honor of my mom and her rad wardrobe. After we got home from Road House(mom's fav, my fav, molls fav...loved it) we strutted our stuff...here's what we found

This is in case you have to go to the bathroom and don't want to unbutton all the buttons. Pretty awesome!

Happy Birthday Mom-we sure love you!

Spontaneous to the Max

My brother had a tennis tourny in Bend this weekend...Friday night my dad called and said they got us a room at the hotel if we wanted to drive over. Wil's first match was at 7 in the morn so we decided to pack up and head out a.s.a.p. as possible(micheal scott). We got to Bend LATE and had to break into Matt's sisters house...thanks guys...because we only had a room for Saturday night. We had a great weekend. Wil did great. We had great food and great weather. On our way home we decided to stick with the spontaneous vibe and stopped at all the touristy places we could find. Matt and I had a blast. Molls slept the whole way and wouldn't get out of the car. Boo.

Our first stop was Diamond Lake...this is the road to the visitors center...I think not

This is some rad little waterfall on the side of the road...I never realized how pretty Oregon is until recently...shame on me


This is me...obv...pretending to fall off the look out. It freaked me out. Don't try it.

Love Birds

This river was SCARY...please don't ever fall in. No one would be brave enough to come save you.

On a side note, Matt has an obsession with teaching Molly to drive. She's only 14!! He made me get in the back and let her drive around our hotel. Horrifying. That's all I can say.

Hey Marg! Look What I Found...

While I was unpacking some boxes in the office(yes we still had boxes to unpack...) I found some old pictures disks. On one of them was the picturers that Margaret had takent the day I went to the Temple and some of my wedding day. Loved looking at them. So fun! Thanks M.

Designing on a Dime

Can I just tell you all how BORED I am with my house! I have all the same stuff I've had since I moved out for college. Yuck. I'm over it. I have been dying to paint and get some new accent stuff for years. Seriously. It has now become an obsession though. I get moody about it, I cry about it, I yell about it...okay maybe not so much. But I do obsess about it. I have been saving every penny, literally people, every penny for way too long to by new curtains and pillows for our living room...and some paint, candles, picture frames, a way cute vase and some other nic nacks I found at craft warehouse...am I asking too much? No. No I'm not. I have to sit in the dang living room everyday. I might as well love it, right? Well anyways I've been saving away to no avail. Every time we get extra money for our "future curtains" stash...we end up using it for other not so important things like groceries. Eating is over rated. Anyways, today I couldn't take it anymore. In a cleaning frenzy I look down our red curtains, bought some cute new pillows(15 bucks for 2 wootwoot-molly says that...not sure what it means exactly but I love it, sounds rad) and did some rearranging. And I love it already. I feel like a whole new gal. I took all our red out of the living room, good riddance, and moved it into the office. Love it. Our windows are now a wee bit bare, but oh well, it will have to do...until tonight when I can't sleep because I will be worried about who might be looking in our windows and then I will force Matt out of his peaceful slumber to re-hang them. Life is hard. Some day soon I will post some rad pictures of our rad new living room but for now I am going to go soak up some rays...with no curtains I don't even have to go outside to get a tan.

Summer

I WISH that my camera had not been dead this whole weekend and that I was not so lazy that I kept thinking "oh I'll do it later". First of all it was a beautiful weekend. Hot. Not a cloud in the sky. We did all our housework with the windows open, music on, it was grand. After the house was in tip top shape we moved to the front yard to weed. Never-ending chore around here. When we finished soaking up the rays(mostly Matt stole all the rays...he's the only one that got sunburned and boy is he red) we went to medford to get our FREE Cherry Limeades. Just writing about them makes me want one. They are the BEST! For reals. Sunday after church we went with some friends on an adventure drive. The drive was the worst. Like seriously, constant turns and like an inch "shoulder" and then a HUGE cliff. Matt thinks its funny...I do not. My bum gets all tingly and I can't breath so good when I look over the edge. I can hardly write about it without getting the butt shivers. Anyways. We finally found a great lake. Walked around. Found some camp sights and a waterfall. Soaked up the beauty and then made our trek back home. It was a perfect Sunday. I am going to charge the camera. TODAY. I hate not having pictures for my posts!

Pear Blossom 2009

After much anticipation Pear Blossom day finally came. We got a late start on our training this year because we weren't really sure we were even going to do it, which turned into no training really...a couple of 5milers a few weeks ago but nothing close to what we were doing last year. I had to pray hard that I wouldn't be sick on Saturday(I have been sick EVERY night since the poop fries)...what a surprise I slept through the night and woke up feeling great! Before the race Matt was prepping me "If I talk to you just listen, think about your tone, don't get mad..." Then I said " Well then what will I have to blog about?"

Really and truly the run went 10,000 times better than last year. We had a great pace until mile 7ish when I got a pinched nerve in my leg...but I kept on "running". We didn't walk once this year! I learned my lesson last year. About mile 8 Matt asked if I was okay. I don't know why but when people ask me that, and I'm not really okay I just burst into tears. So I burst into tears but kept running. I think because I was trying not to cry I started to hyperventilate...never happened to me before and I freaked out. The police guy asked if I needed help. Then all of a sudden I snapped out of it. Stopped crying, said "NO" and took off running. Mile 9 was the worst...my leg was so pinched that I could hardly bend it...but we did it. We finished in 1hr 49 min. I am confident that we would have finished much faster if it wasn't for my dang leg. Next year.

I am amazed really at how well we did. I had been running twice in the last 3 weeks and they were not pretty! I was really nervous. We have been doing the BFL 20 min runs the past few months and I felt certain that those were not going to help us. We needed to be doing longer runs. BUT, I felt so much better this year. I guess those runs really did help. I kept thinking about the scripture that says something about...run and not be weary. I kept praying "please help me run and not be weary" and it worked! Aside from my leg the run was, dare I say? Easy. That means I'm sure that I need to pick up the pace for next year...no more getting passed on mile 3 by the lead runners!

At mile 6 I was like wow...I'm not even tired...only 4 miles to go. It really helped that I listened to the Office on my IPOD. So funny I was cracking up.

After the race was a different story. I was sick the whole rest of the day! Really sick, I will spare you the details this time, but lets just say the outhouses at the parade were my best friend. But at least I made it through the race.

We got a free BBQ lunch for running. I gave my food to Matt and went to Taco Bell instead.

Our friends came to watch the parade with us. I had to stay in the car. I couldn't move. Don't I look thrilled?

Pear Blossom...Remember This?

Here we go again. Saturday is the big day...wish us luck. A lot of luck. Updates to come(If I survive)




So Matt and I decided to run the Pear Blossom 10 Mile Run this year(actually I decided and made Matt do it with me). We got back from Utah Friday night, just in time for our run Saturaday morning. I have to say I was pretty un motivated to do it but since we left Utah early just to run it I thought I probably should suck it up and do it. Matt would probably have a different perspective on things(and much funnier stories) but I think overall it went very well...it took us 1hr 53min. Our goal was to finish before two hours. We were very slow in comparison(which our greatest friend Bryan so kindly pointed out) and were behind an old, out of shape lady that shuffled her feet for the entire run. Matt kept saying come on babe she is NOT going to beat us and I kept saying stop talking to me and she is going to beat us so just don't make it worse. Here's a little taste of the last two miles

Matt: Come on babe

Me: Please stop saying that...please just don't talk to me you are making it worse

Matt: Come on you can do it babe we are almost there

Me: I said PLEASE don't talk to me...this sucks...my feet hurt and I want to be done

Matt: Oh come on babe don't quit you can do it

Me: Stop talking to me...I'm not going to quit what are you talking about....just stop talking

Matt: I know but you can do it

Me: I know I can do it that's what I'm doing just stop talking

Matt: If you want me to stop talking why do you keep responding?

Me: Are you kidding? Just stop.

On and on for two miles...then I was grouchy until we got home and I got some food. Then for the next two days my knees hurt so bad I could hardly move. And we are so pumped to do it again next year!!!!

Dazed and Confused

For some reason these pictures crack me up. Seriously. Matt kept making that face whenever I would try and take a picture of him. Hilarious.

Spring Break Part Dos

For part two of our spring break extravaganza we went to Newport with Matt's fam and stayed together at a nice beach house. Here's some pics to demonstrate all the raddness.

The brochure said "easy beach access"...if by easy they meant you would have to go on a 20 minute hike through the forest of FORKS, overlooking some cliffs, then yes it was an "easy beach access"

Matt and Molls taking a stroll

Molly did not approve of mine and Matt's beach fashion...what's there not to approve of?

You can't see it but Matt is sitting in a car seat...that is impressive I must say


Autzen has high hopes to marry Molly some day...only time will tell

Molly tries to pretend she is embarrassed by me but I'm not fooled for a second. She really deep deep down inside thinks I'm the coolest cat around

We lucked out on the second half of our trip and got some beautiful weather

Matt and Pete getting their ego fix

Girlies

This beauty is what happens when you don't wash your hair for three days because you forgot shampoo and are too cheap to go buy some. Hott right?

Spring Break Part Uno

We had a super rad spring break up in Eugene this year. Matt had the week off, Molls had two weeks off due to budget cuts and I was done with school....so we decided to head up to Eugene and go over to the coast. Our super rad friends Matt and Cam and their kiddos came for a couple of days to join us all the way from B-town, Boise that is. We decided to give them the true Oregon experience and took them to Florence for a day filled with Mo's, wind, rain, rain and more rain. Poor Cam brought her flip flops along...she thought we were going to a normal beach. You know like the ones in the movies. I should have instructed her to bring galoshes. Despite the weather they got to see many things from the car: the ocean, old town, you know the way the coast is meant to be seen. I learned a thing or two from our little trip. First of all I don't really like Mo's...I like the idea of Mo's, but I do not actually like Mo's. Second of all don't ever make plans or invite people from out of town to join you at the coast assuming that you will have good weather, because inevitably you won't. And third, 11 buckaroos is far too expensive to see the stinking sea lions in the stinking(literally) sea lion caves.

Here's Matt and Cam picking out salt water taffy from the endless wall of salt water taffy

Here's Molls looking so thrilled to be joining us on our adventure...don't you see it? Thrilled.

This is what happens when it's your free day in an ice cream parlor...watch out.

This free day conveniently turned into a free week...we don't drink around here on spring break we gorge ourselves. To each his own.



See her flip flops?

This is what you look like after walking from the delightful sea lion caves to your car. Hot.