Many Ragnar Thanks.....

The Wastach Back Ragnar Relay 2011 was a great experience! It was SO hard to grasp the magnitude of this race prior to the actual race. It took lots of planning, and training. I am now forever in dept to my uncle who registered a team & got this crazy thing going! Ahh-i love my uncle gene! Don't worry, he paid to register a team for next year-so how many days till Ragnar Wasatch Back 2012?

Thanks to my dad and Aunt Tammy (Gene's wife) who drove our vehicles. It was SO nice to have my dad worry about driving us smelly, sweaty runners from one spot to the next. Van #1 was my suburban. He drove so Jimmy or I didn't have to worry about a single thing!

The two vans crossed paths a few times, but it was really two separate experiences for each van. (if you are totally confused.....look online at www.ragnarrelay.com ) Some of our teammates were done-so we don't have one really good team photo-but here we are at the finish with our medals!

Thanks to Cassie for helping with my vinyl order. Here is my DIRTY windows post Ragnar.

Thanks to Jimmy's folks, my mom, and my friend Jen G for taking my kids-(We split the kids up for the two nights we were gone). That is one of the hardest parts-finding a place for the kids to go while Jimmy & I did this race.

Oh-BTW Sophie was getting over a sickness and Sarah got sick while we were gone. nice huh?

Lets see....I had a whole list of people in my mind.

Oh-Dixon family for asking Cynthia's parents if we could crash there in wellsville prior to our 6:15 am start time.

Jann-personally thanking her for watching my 4 kids for a few hours while I got my last LONG run in prior to the race.

Lori-my Tuesday/Thursday aerobics teacher at the church-FREE exercise group-LOVE the workout I get.

Jimmy-THANKS for attempting to be a runner so we could experience this together! It was so fun to have my best friend there and SEE the same things. We talked about Ragnar SOO much our kids got sick of it--- hehe! :) But really, it was a fun experience. We cheered each other on. We were proud of each other for our accomplishments. Jimmy was kind to trade me headlights on my long night run. Then get me a different Ipod when mine died-I was just happy to have him there and appreciated his kindness and chance to cheer and cry tears of joy together !

VERY tiring-oh lets not forget the 'hang over' the next few days from the lack of sleep.
Thanks to our team volunteers-even if we didn't see you, you still helped us and contributed to the entire Ragnar experience for everyone! and my bro Trent stepped up and volunteered for another team just so he could be part of it.

Ragnar Self Portraits

I loved seeing so many friends at Ragnar. Here is my collection of self-portraits from Ragnar! Andrea & I

(She grew up across the street from me in Kaysville. Its fun as 'women' we are both into running! I LOVED seeing her along the race! Always be my baby.....)
My sexy man & I

Melissa & I (Melissa was runner #2 for our team)

Becca & I

(She graduated a year before me in high school. We both did track together & crossed paths when we both lived in Woods Cross. Our boys went to preschool together this past year.)

Regena & I

(I lived down the road from Regena in Woods Cross-she is awesome-any runner is awesome! She is becoming a good friend and is very friendly.)

I am finally getting him trained to smile with me on these silly photos!

Rachael & I

(Runner #4 Rachael was in my Woods Cross ward and she was a LAST minute sub for my injured sis in law. Rachael rocked her leg. Beautiful runner & great teammate!)

Ashly & I

(Ashly is in my Bountiful ward now. TOUGH chick-seriously. runner #11 for her team-physically strong & a personality EVERYONE loves. She is a good woman!)

Ragnar pix

Thursday night, we stayed with Don & Geniel in Wellsville. We had a 6:15 am start time, so going up the night before Ragnar started was necessary. They were perfect hosts! Thanks! After the team checked in, we got our safety flags, and then headed to the start. This is my cousin Jessica holding the orange flags!

Here is our runner #1-Paul starting Ragnar off for our team. Jimmy & I at the start. It was COLD in Logan that morning! COLD

We are waiting for runner #2 to come in & pass off t0 #3.

Waiting for #3 to come in so #4 can start. Paul, my dad & Jimmy.

Cute volunteer in the parking lot!

Jimmy is enjoying his run! uphill, warm, dirt road. FUN

Marla starting her run.

Driving to the next exchange.

Jimmy & Marla waiting for #1 to come in to this exchange. second leg

Marla about to begin her second run. It was starting to get dark, and I ditched the blue shirt & wore the long sleeve shirt. Good move. Night run-good!

Saturday morning. Jimmy finished his run & handed off to me. My last run-3 miles on Saturday morning.

We are done!

Minus 1 from our team-she is running-#7.

ragnar love

well blog world i have pix and stories to share about ragnar but the motherboard fried on the desktop computer. sssooooo until i get to a computer, no pix

Video

When we were camping over Memorial Day, we drove up the south side of Avon Pass in the Ogden Valley. Avon pass connects Cache County to the Ogden Valley. This is where I will be running for the Wasatch Back Ragnar team I am on. I am runner #6. I will be running down this dirt road. Let's hope it is dry-but not too dry. Let's hope its not this muddy! Runners and vehicles will share this road. Fun huh? I heard it is dirty!

I am SO excited!-really-

http://www.ragnarrelay.com/race/wasatchback

Covers-ON

We got the tops made & put on our chimney. No more raccoons folks!

Charlie Graduated Preschool

Charlie finished his first year of preschool with Mrs. Eggett. He LOVED going to preschool. He 'owned' something-he had something to talk about at the dinner table. Charlie learned a lot about letters, songs, numbers, counting, science, and made great craft projects. It was always cute to hear about his day at preschool & seeing what items he wanted to bring for Show and Tell. The preschool graduation was a program with ALL of the preschool classes Mrs. Eggett teaches.

One more year of preschool then my boy goes to kindergarten.

Charlie hadn't felt well the day of graduation. I am thankful he made it through graduation without throwing up! An hour or so after we got home from graduation, he threw up. But hey-it wasn't at graduation!

Lets go back to Spring Break part I

We left Saturday morning for California. Jimmy helped us drive down. The weather was nice, and the kids were great. We made great time! Sunday we went to the Orange County Market Place (aka swap meet, or aka orange county first ward....we always go there for 'church' on vacation! LOL) Sunday Jimmy flew home to work for a few days (He joined back up with us Wednesday night)

And Monday we went to Disneyland!

We've never done the Davy Crockett canoe's before. We did it this time & the kids just L-O-V-E-D it!

Peace out for the night.....day 1 done!

Lets go back to Spring Break part 2

One late afternoon, we met up with my brother & his family. They were enjoying California for their Spring Break too. We went to the Huntington Beach! (according to Jimmy the ONLY beach in California-the BEST beach). Luckily we could rent beach toys from the condo-How can you go to the beach without beach toys?!?

Yes-the sun was out but it was WINDY and kinda cold! The kids were brave to get wet, NOT ME. But the kids had fun playing in the sand, searching for shells and playing with their cousins.

I LOVE these two pictures-me & the kids and my bro & his family.

There was a street fair by the Pier, so we went & checked it out. We saw some pirate guy, he talked to the kids, and gave him a shiny rock-jewel thing. It fair would have been nicer if we were not FREEZING! oh well-still an experience & memory!