Summer's Heating Up!

Since my last post, I have decided to have a better attitude towards my situation and make the best of what I'm dealt with. So with all of the extra time I have had doing nothing, I have made an effort to clean my house, exercise more and get back into the shape I want to be, think about wanting to learn how to cook (I am starting today, by picking recipes I like and going to the store to get groceries for the week), catch up on some reading, and finding a job.

I start each day with a personalized to do list...and try my best to stay busy all day! Its been working, and instead of moping, I've been getting a lot done.

Since I have not posted any pictures from the end of my internship till now, I will do so with subtitles of what I have been up to lately!

Warning: Lots of pictures ahead!

The Aria - The beautiful hotel room we stayed in after 5 Weeks of not seeing each other!

It was gorgeous and we definitely had so much fun!

We got all dressed up for a night out on the town.

Then we ate at one of my favorite places - Serendipity 3

Their frozen hot chocolate is to die for!

We finished up the weekend with a family reunion in St. George
We hiked to see the Grand Canyon -Gorgeous and oh so windy!

We had some family photos done - The 3 girls!

The whole fam damily! (aunts & cousins visiting from Brasil)

Mike and I

Snow Canyon Hike

That orange blob on me is my baby niece I carried all the way in.

Olivia's Baby Blessing

Brasil World Cup Game

The fans!

Big Screen

The girls in LA - day before we left - Dockweiler BeachLast Day at Kelly Wearstler - Kwang Wei & Leana (architect & designer)

Kelly & I - She made sure we took this picture full body so you could see our shoes...so funny!
She also gave me a signed book and thanked me for my work there. I had a great experience.

Fourth of July weekend with the Watts'!

Sitting around the fire roasting 'mallows

Waiting for the Cache Valley Cruise-In to start!

I named this one the Barbie Mobile

Bear Lake Fun

So here comes a story. On sunday at church our ward announced that at the end of the month they would be holding a mini biathlon for fun. The biathlon included a 2 mile run followed by a 6 mile bike ride. I told Mike about it and said I might want to do it. He laughed and said, "you could never finish that." I told him I could do it today without even training, and he bet me $100 bucks that I could not even finish the run. Well with a lot of egging on from Watts family members and my desire to spite him, it was on! The rules were 2 mile run followed by a 6 mile bike in under an hour!
Leslie set out the track. It would be a one mile in on the River walk and one mile out, then she tracked a 6 mile bike round through neighborhoods and windy roads to keep us out of busy streets. Amy & Charlie decided to help me along and ride with me for support. I had lots of cheerleaders! Mike couldn't believe I was actually going to do it without any training at all and after 2 months of eating Junk food in LA and not doing an ounce of exercise.
Monday morning I woke up bright and early and we all headed down to see what would happen.

Amy & I stretching before our 2 mile run! (No I am not an amputee, streching...)

Finishing 2 miles after about 25 minutes. (I was kind of regretting it all at this point, legs were Jello and I could barely keep up with miss marathon runner Amy)

6 Miles on a bike. I have never in my life ridden a rode bike, and definitely not for that long.

The conclusion of our race - 45 minutes!

The award ceremony - mike presenting me with my $100 dollar check!
(All done at McDonald's of course, breakfast of champions!)
I'm sure he was eating his words right about then, but I bet he'll never challenge me again, My competitiveness overcomes all pain!

Mike and his new barbecuing technique. Skewer in Fire pit. It was actually pretty good.