Dirty Dash!!

This saturday was our one month mark of being back in the USA! So in celebration, a few of us teachers from Mexico got together at my cabin in Midway for the Dirty Dash! The dirty dash is a 10k run through mud... and all sorts of obstacles including a swamp, mud pools, a swing, tunnels, haystacks, and a slide! we had a ton of fun and got down and dirty as we dashed through all that mud!

oh yeah... we're pumped to get muddy! Viva el bigote!!

I'm about to go down the awesome waterslide at the end of the course! awesome!

gross story... so I wanted all of us to get down on the ground under the true like me, but no one else wanted to. well after the picture we all stood up and I looked where I had been laying... there was flattened horse poop. ew.

and to add to our mexican reunion... we rode in the back of my truck to the lake to get un-muddy

wow! it felt great to take a nice warm shower after that freezing mud... except poor hannah! and then we all put on our sweet evolution of running shirts! sweet!

Rascal Flatts are the greatest!

Rascal Flatts are AMAZING!! I was super impressed with how well they sing live...the lead singer has an incredible voice and their band was great too! So for my mom's birthday, my dad gave her four tickets to see Rascal Flatts. and of course. I've been wanting to see them forever! so I got one! Cortney and Emma were lucky enough to be chosen as the other two and the four of us had a blast dancing and singing along with all the drunk fans surrounding us ha ha good times!

Some drunken fan took this picture for us... he was a bit crazy. kept saying he was taking pictures for vogue and was having a little too much fun with my camera... he said it was a great picture. but not really cause the point of standing right there was to get the whole bus in...not just part of the word 'Flatts' ha ha but oh well! I guess it makes for a good memory!

50 = old

it's just a fact that 50 is old! 40 is not that bad... but 50. that's half of 100. five decades!
and my mom turned fifty on sunday. way to go mom! making it all the way to being old! don't worry though... i still love you!

so happy late birthday!

getting lost and finding my way

hmm... I need a new name for my blog, since I'm clearly not living in Mexico anymore. but what?? so here is my journey to (as Leah would say) the Land of Provo. since I'm living in a completely different land then her now. from the packing up all my stuff, to the moving, hauling up my many stairs, to unpacking and now living in my new apartment and this new town! the first couple days I was pretty sad. I missed my family and I had hardly seen them since coming home from Mexico and then I left again. but then I got into my classes and started meeting new people and getting into a routine. and now I'm loving life! I still miss my family, but Bountiful is really not that far away, and I'm having a great time in this new place and my new adventure!

I know, I know... I have a lot of stuff. But I have been using everything I've brought... so that's good right?? Poor Cortney and Emma chose to sit in the back of Jayne's little jeep and watch over my crap while I got to sit shot gun with plenty of room to move around! I did offer to switch seats with either of them and they both shot me down... so at least I tried!

and this is my room! or should I say loft?? this is the place where I spend a lot of my time. studying, reading, sleeping... and walking up and down my stairs!

yes... I have my own stair case! I seriously have the coolest room ever! and I'm going to have great legs from all the walking up and down the three flights of stairs to my bedroom multiple times a dday! so it's a double bonus... awesome room and awesome legs!

Living in Provo has been great so far! I was as Emily put it 'initiated' into Provo life Friday night when I ate at Slab Pizza, went to a rooftop concert (which was awesome!!), and then got frozen yogurt! it was a great night and I discovered that I have a few new favorite bands! Imagine Dragons, The Vibrant Sounds and The Neighbors! they're all great and sound even better live than they do recorded! So my night was great! which is good because my day wasn't too great... it started out great meeting mom up in Midway for Swiss Days which is always fun... but then I left later than I should have to go back through Provo Canyon and get back to my class. which I actually would've made it to... if I hadn't gotten lost. and boy did I get lost. I had no idea where I was and I didn't recognize anything. which doesn't usually happen. I'm usually pretty good with directions and finding things. so it stressed me out pretty good.. which made things worse. well I ended up finding the freeway, and then driving the wrong direction. long story short... I missed my only class of the day because I got lost. Lame. but thanks to my good friend Kelly who gave me a driving tour of the Provo Orem area today... hopefully I won't be getting to lost anymore!