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.

Anne with an E...this one's for you

Uh yum. That's all I can say. Who can look at this wonderfully grey tuna casserole and not want to stuff their face right in? No one I tell ya. Matt's new great eating plan eliminates most of my go to meals so I decided I needed to branch out and try some things in the Body For Life cookbook other than grilled chicken or enchiladas. That brings us to tuna casserole. I thought I could do it. I thought I could like it. The first few bites were optimistic. But in the end our gag reflexes were in full swing and nobody opted for seconds. Sad day. I can officially cross of tuna casserole off my dinner ideas list.

Poop Poisoning

Okay so I have a lot of wonderful, exciting new things to post about from our wonderful, exciting spring break vacation but an incident occurred that needs to be reported before further blogging can take place. We were on our way home Saturday from our fun spring break in Eugene/Newport/Florence(not Italy) and Matt's dad decided to take us out to lunch before we hit the road. I forced everybody into going to Red Robin because I love Red Robin and I always get what I want...did I just say that out loud...I think I did. (to be honest, my posterity will read this someday and i must be honest, i was totally down for going to chillies but Matt is the one who truly made the decision for RR)
I will set the scene for ya'll...
Red Robin
I ate my whole entire Whiskey River BBQ Burger...that could be a blog post in and of itself... and all of my french fries(we always prepare good for fast Sunday!)

After we were stuffed to the brim with food the waiter so kindly brought us out some more fries...I spied a fry that was half eaten sitting in Matt's basket. I pick it up. I smell an overwhelming poop smell. Not just a bad smell, a literal poop smell. I look around to see what in the world could be making such a foul smell. Nothing. Weird. I dip the fry in ranch put it in my mouth. Again I smell poop. Ugh it's on my hands! Uuuughhh it's in my MOUTH! I freak out. Spit my food out in a napkin and start yelling...."My mouth tastes like POOP!!!"

Matt: Did you just eat a half eaten fry?

Me: panting frantically trying to do anything to get the overwhelming taste of poop out of my mouth. Yes! What was wrong with it??

Matt: cracking up...I don't know but I tried to eat it and I couldn't because it tasted like poop. I thought it was rotten or something.

Matt picks up my napkin smells it...agrees that it smells just like poop. Bry picks it up and also agrees it smells JUST like poop. We call the waiter over...

Matt: smell this! it smells like poop!

Me: did I seriously just eat poop? I'm going to die if I seriously just ate poop! I can not believe this. I just got poop poisoning....

Waiter agrees it smells just like poop. He is sorry and goes to get the manager. Our whole table is reeking like poop by this point. I am hyperventilating thinking about ingesting some kind of feces. Barf. I start to feel like I'm going to barf. The manager discounts my 8.99 burger and hopes that we enjoyed our meal. Are you kidding? Gee thanks...8.99 in exchange for someone else's poop in my mouth??

We call our friend's who are smart(one is a pharmacist the other a nurse...they always come to our rescue when one of us is sick) they tell us a whole list of things we need to get and start taking to try and prevent getting food poisoning or HEPATITIS. Lauri, Matt's sister who is also smart and a nurse agrees. We spend two hours searching Eugene for Charcoal pills, pepto bismol, grapefruit seed extract and acidophiles.

Good grief. Matt takes a drink from his water bottle once we are in the car to try and wash his mouth out...his tongue was smelling at this point, yes I smelled it, and now his water bottle is reeking like poop. Seriously. I'm not even kidding. All night long our stomachs were a churning. I am scarred for life. The lady at the pharmacy said that the Red Robin in Eugene has had poop related outbreaks twice before and everyone who ate there during a certain time period had to have a hepatitis shot! AND the E.R. Doctor who is in our ward in Ashland said that the most common place people get food poisoning in the area is from RED ROBIN. Why? I love Red Robin. Sad day. All I could say the whole ride home was "holly cow! we just got poop poisoning"

Here's me preparing to take my drugs, showing off my rad nightgown that Matt just adores and my equally new, rad, sexy haircut.

This post does not even do justice to how bad we were freaking out. But it gives you a nice little glimpse. Cheers!

Super Saturdays

We had a great Lake Family work day on Saturday. We did yard work, washed all the windows...screens included, mopped the floors, deep cleaned bathrooms...the list goes on and on and on. But now I can sigh a sweet sigh of relief because my house is just the way I want it. Clean. I we can start fresh. Next up, finding a place for all our books! Before we moved last summer I sold our book shelves for some good reason I still can't remember...and now we have boxes and boxes of books and movies and no where to put them. They are piled up in our spare room...staring at me...making me go crazy.


I told Molls that she could only have a friend spend the night if they agreed to be my personal garden slaves...here they are in action...they actually did quite well I might add.


Matt getting his groove on cleaning windows. What? Oh you're afraid of that big green monster in the background, don't be! It's just our neighbors new LITTLE house that we can see from every window in our house and that lights up all our rooms a nice calming shade of green.


Nice work babe! Clean as a whistle.


I bet you can't find one speck of dirt in that window sill...


This little gem here is of Matt enjoying his Oreo Freeze...I think it might just be the most disgusting picture I've ever seen(notice the drool?) but Matt loves it because he says that even though he is looking down he hardly has a double chin! It's the little things that count right?