4th of July!

Maddie does this a lot this time of year

There was this whole group of cars with hydraulics, and one of them died right in front of us and had to get jumped, it was awesome!

YAY MENCHIES!!! We love menchies, we go there ALL the time.

This was so cool! The sign says Miss Hotwheels... and she's in a wheelchair!

I love the 4th of July. I love America and I REALLY love fireworks. The 4th of July is one of the only holidays that we have traditions for. We always go to the West Jordan Parade, then have a bbq and fireworks at Tracy's parents house. The parade itself was good, but the people around us were annoying!! Tracy's dad always goes super early and sets up chairs for us so we get a good spot and all these people decided that they didnt want to sit on the sidewalks and sides of the road, they wanted to stand IN the road, the police had to push them back repeatedly, they kept getting closer and closer and closer. It was really annoying because they were blocking our view. Mikey almost got into a fight when one lady started swearing at Tracy's mom. I'm not generally a mean person but this lady... and all of her friends... they were very large people, if you know what I mean. VERY VERY large. I dont usually freak out about little kids running in front of us to grab candy or anything like that but seriously... if you are an adult, and a large adult at that, you had to know you were blocking everyones view. Is grabbing candy really that important? Yes that is seriously why they were that close, so they could grab candy.
After the parade I took a nice nap and then we went over for the bbq. Everyone had grabbed some daytime fireworks, like snaps and snakes and parachutes and smokers and we had fun setting those off while waiting for it to get dark for the big ones. I can't remember how it started but someone taped one of the parachute guys to an exploding ground flower and we became obsessed with trying to blow up the little guys. Tracy's mom donated a bag of little plastic fireman and police officers and we sent them for rides. The best was to strap them to parachutes cause they would just fly into the air. It provided hours of entertainment. But I totally felt like Sid in "Toy Story" I kept waiting for them to come out of the sandbox and freak us all out.

American Fork 5k or Race #2

(yes my face gets that red when I run... so unattractive)
SO this morning was my June race. 7 AM in American Fork, which means I had to wake up at 5:30 AM.
That is insanely early since I didn't fall asleep until around 4 (stupid insomnia.)
I loved this race. The route isn't easy but it was fun. It was nice and cool so perfect to run in. Everybody got a bib (your race number) with a timing chip in it so you didn't have to time yourself. (I did anyways of course) The time posted online for me was 39:48. That is a whole 3.5 minutes faster than my 5k last month AND this course had a HUGE hill. It wasn't very long but it was really steep and slowed me down SO MUCH!
My shins are killing me! It was so hard to push myself through to the end but luckily I caught up with Jaci and we were able to push each other through to the finish, crossing the line exactly together.
I finished 40th in my age group, 254th overall.
Stacey, who was running her first 5k ever, is apparently a master runner and finished in 27:52, 8th in our age group, and 72nd overall. It was amazing!
Julia finished 34:54, 29th in our age group and 192 overall! And the girl just had a baby 4 months ago!!! She even won a prize drawing.
Their food was awesome too. I totally loved it. I might have to make this race an annual thing.
the bad news is, I totally have shin splints... which means no running for at least 3 weeks... There goes my July race!
Definitely not the best but a huge improvement which is what I'm going for.

Running and running and running

I have a new goal people... 6 5k's in 6 months.
that's right.
6 races.
My first 5k ever was in May. My 2nd 5k is tomorrow. I'm signed up for one in August, and a 5 mile run in September, and of course the Zombie Run in October... so that means I need to find one more run in July to accomplish my goal. I'm sure I can find one. I've been training 3 nights a week (at least) and each time I run, I go for a full 5k. I still can't run it straight through but I am getting better.
The second half of my goal is to be able to run the full 5k in October. No walking!
Wish me luck!

BLAH!

I'm so upset. Seriously. I just found out that this guy...
Tyler Hoechlin (who I LOOOVVVED on 7th Heaven btw)

Lost the roll of Edward Cullen in the Twilight movies to him...

Honestly.
Robert Pattinson IS NOT HOT!!!!
:( Boo.
That is all.

Bitter much?

Do you ever look at someone else's life and wonder why they have everything good and everything crap comes your way?
That's pretty much me right now.
I'm not even going to try to hide it for the next few months. I have the worst luck ever. For some reason every one else's bad karma comes my way but I have almost zero GOOD karma. I dont really understand. I'm not a horrible person, I donate to charities, I rarely swear, I'm not a child molestor, abuser or murder. I'm not a homewrecker or a rumor spreader. I dont steal, I dont cheat, I don't break most traffic laws.
So why can't I catch a break?
I might have to take a break from blogger so I dont see everyone's fabulous life for a while.
No offense to everyone's happiness.
I'm just not feeling it.

My first 5k!

So about six weeks ago my BFB texted me(and the girls) and asked if we'd all like to join her in the Susan G Komen race for the cure 5k in salt lake. Since one of my goals this year is to get in shape I was super excited for this challenge.
I enlisted my sister in law, Alesha, and her treadmill, and we got to work. We trained for 6 weeks, 4 days a week, 4 miles a day. All together I ran about 96 miles before the 5k.
That's a lot of miles.
Want to know how much weight I lost??
Zero pounds.
Seriously.
ZERO.
How sucktastic is that???
The last week of training before the 5K was the worst. I had a horrible cold and could barely breathe let alone run AND breathe. I was convinced I was going to end up walking the whole thing (which would have been fine but not what I was training for.)
But being there totally motivated me and my ipod was playing some awesome songs! I put it on random and I swear it played everything I needed. I wont lie and say I ran every step but I ran over 2 miles of the 3 mile run. My time was just over 43 minutes.
But I'm not stopping there. I'm working on getting together a team for this run!
http://www.kissmedirty.com/
If anyone wants to join, let me know! It's also for a great cause and will be a lot of fun I think!