Sunday, June 29, 2008
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Jeep'n in Moab!
Kane's Creek was a lot of fun! My favorite is fly'n through the creek bed and splash'n through the water! We got the water to go up and over the Jeep!
The jeep trail is about half way up the cliff on the left you can see the rest of our jeeps on the trail!
Saturday we hiked up to Delicate Arch, I think it was everyone's first time up there. Here we are all from Utah and we don't even go see our cool sites. Well I guess we can all check this one off now!
This stud, we call him Little T because his name is Tyler too, caught some big time air off the sand dunes! I think our Jeep was airborn twice once from the dune and then again off the bounce. My neck was pretty sore for the next couple days.
Wait to go Little T!
We all had a great time!
Thanks Ma and Pa for the trip!
US President in Park City
Mr. George Bush Jr. came to visit our little town last week and we got some cool pictures of the Marine One Helicopter. These two pictures were taken from our bedroom window... it's not every day that the President lands a block from your house. T and I road our cruisers over to the park to see them lift off. There were 4 of the big Helicopter and who know how many circling over head! It was pretty cool!

Sunday, May 18, 2008
SG TRI
Our first Olympic Distance Triathlon...
I can honestly say that this was the hardest race I have ever competed in! However, I perservered and finished the race and that feels good! Tyler, as always, powers through and had an outstanding finish! The weather played a major role in this race as there were 20+ mph winds. In fact, at 3:00am there were 40+ mph wind gusts and they almost canceled the race. But I guess by 7:00am they felt like it had slowed down enough to start the race. Tyler was in the first heat and I was in the 3rd. Initially we were going with the wind and current but the majority of the swim was against the wind and waves. We both felt like it was twice the effort to make any progress in the two foot white caps. My first 15 minutes in the water were frankly scary, but the ignorance of being in my first open water swim and the comfort of having a lot of others around carried me through it. After that it was a purely mental challenge to just keep swimming! When I reach the half way mark I stopped along with an older gray haired woman who said "Are we the last ones" and from what I could see over the waves, it looked like we were. Again, I put my head in the water and just kept swimming! I eventually made it to the boat dock, to be greeted by my Dad standing at the waters edge. I was so exausted but so happy to have my feet on the ground! As I slowly walked to the transition area my Dad informed me that the race officials canceled the swim for the rest of the racers because the conditions were too bad! It turns out that they had pulled around 100 swimmers from the water.

This is me getting out of the water, you can kind of see that the waves were white caps.
And Tyler looks like a pro as he prepares to enter the water.

The bike was interesting, for me I was either riding like I just had a V8 or flying up hill and wondering why the downhillers were having such a hard time just to find out that the again the wind was just too strong.
The run was a lot of fun on the trail, suprisingly I felt the best on my second lap. Tyler just had to go get a tri-suit before this race and he was thrilled about it until he saw some pictures and well... he says he'll never wear it again. I think he looks great!
My wonderful family was there to cheer me on at the end and my little niece Sidney and T ran me in to the finish line. It was a beautiful moment!
Mom and Dad, I want to thank you for your amazing support! You were out there for 6 hours in the freezing winds making sure we were both OK. It really does make all difference to have you there. We love you!
15oo meter swim (almost 1 mile), 40K bike, and a 10K run.
I can honestly say that this was the hardest race I have ever competed in! However, I perservered and finished the race and that feels good! Tyler, as always, powers through and had an outstanding finish! The weather played a major role in this race as there were 20+ mph winds. In fact, at 3:00am there were 40+ mph wind gusts and they almost canceled the race. But I guess by 7:00am they felt like it had slowed down enough to start the race. Tyler was in the first heat and I was in the 3rd. Initially we were going with the wind and current but the majority of the swim was against the wind and waves. We both felt like it was twice the effort to make any progress in the two foot white caps. My first 15 minutes in the water were frankly scary, but the ignorance of being in my first open water swim and the comfort of having a lot of others around carried me through it. After that it was a purely mental challenge to just keep swimming! When I reach the half way mark I stopped along with an older gray haired woman who said "Are we the last ones" and from what I could see over the waves, it looked like we were. Again, I put my head in the water and just kept swimming! I eventually made it to the boat dock, to be greeted by my Dad standing at the waters edge. I was so exausted but so happy to have my feet on the ground! As I slowly walked to the transition area my Dad informed me that the race officials canceled the swim for the rest of the racers because the conditions were too bad! It turns out that they had pulled around 100 swimmers from the water.
This is me getting out of the water, you can kind of see that the waves were white caps.
And Tyler looks like a pro as he prepares to enter the water.
The bike was interesting, for me I was either riding like I just had a V8 or flying up hill and wondering why the downhillers were having such a hard time just to find out that the again the wind was just too strong.
The run was a lot of fun on the trail, suprisingly I felt the best on my second lap. Tyler just had to go get a tri-suit before this race and he was thrilled about it until he saw some pictures and well... he says he'll never wear it again. I think he looks great!
My wonderful family was there to cheer me on at the end and my little niece Sidney and T ran me in to the finish line. It was a beautiful moment!
Mom and Dad, I want to thank you for your amazing support! You were out there for 6 hours in the freezing winds making sure we were both OK. It really does make all difference to have you there. We love you!
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Will it ever stop snowing???
I can not believe how much snow we have had this year! Today is April 24th, we are supposed to be enjoying spring by now! Tyler and I are itching to start riding some trails, in fact, we were planning to go down to SLC and ride today...Mother Nature has her own plan! Too bad the ski resorts are closed!
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Tyler's Medical School acceptance letter!
This video is great! As you should all know Tyler finally got accepted to the University of Utah's Medical School. This has been a three year journey for us and we could not be more happy with the outcome! The video is about 3 minutes long and Tyler didn't know I was recording it so I didn't get a very good face shot but it's better than nothing... enjoy!
Icebreaker Triathlon
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