Triathalon Training?? heck ya

So i've recently decided that i want to get back into shape and try participating in a sprint triathalon down in st. george in May. Luckly i have a little time to prepare otherwise i would die. i still may die but I will die less (if that makes any sense) if i'm training.

so i started going to the gym again after a long 6 months yipes!! and i'm super sore. I think this new goal of mine is kind of exciting and will keep me busy for a while.
The race includes a:
-400 yd swim
-15 mile bike ride
-3 mile run

Not to bad right? I really need to work on my swimming. Luckily i don't have to do one specific stroke. I really suck at doing the freestyle stroke which i hear gets you the fastest time but i think i will just try to finish the race not go for any time breaking records. i feel like i don't get as tired doing the breast stroke or back stroke but again i think i am a little slower doing those strokes. i have a hard time coordinating my breaths with out inhaling water with the freestyle. so we'll see. i think i'm in good shape for the biking. i biked 5.5 miles yesterday and didn't get too terribly out of breath so that's a 3rd of the way there. i'm doing alright with the running i could use a little practice with my endurance though. that's huge in a triathalon!!

I have been tagged ...

8 TV SHOWS I LOVE TO WATCH
-LOST
-The Office
-Grey's Anatomy
-Oprah
-American Idol
-Myth Busters
-It Takes a Theif ( pretty much i LOVE the discovery channel and Documentaries cuz i'm a nerd like that :0) )
-The Price is RIGHT ( ya not just the old people watch it.) i haven't seen most of these in forever. most of these shows i only see because i'm on a break at work or just have an extra min while i'm eating... all except the OFFICE and LOST those two i'm pretty faithful too.)

8 FAVORITE RESTAURANTS
-The Bombay House/Star of India(in bountiful)
-Costa Vida/Cafe Rio (same thing)
-Red Robin (Kristy knows why!!)
-The Blue Plate Diner
-Macaroni grill/Bucca Di Beppo/Olive garden
-Training Table (speical dipping sauce YA you know what i'm talking about!!)
-Rumbi's Island Grill
-Some Middle Eastern Food (shwarma that's probably spelled way wrong but we at that ALOT in Israel and now that i'm not eating everyday i kind of miss it!!)

8 THINGS THAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY
-I started to Read my book(new moon) finally. i'm still not done but i will eventually get there don't worry moina!
-I showered
-I went to my Institute Choir Practice
-I called my mom
-I learned how to clean Wax out of Carpet(ANDY!!!) lol
-I accidentally melted the carpet in the wax cleaning proccess oops...we'll just put a lamp over that spot ;0)
-I watched the Presidental Debate between Mccain and Obama (so sad they just rip on each other and don't say what it is they plan to do to change things)
-Hung out with my awesome roomies and QUINN (you ladies man you!!)

8 THINGS I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO
-SnowBoarding!! yeah for winter
-Christmas music!! yeah for christmas!!
-my Nephew's First Christmas
-My Half birthday, December 8th baby!! i'm so having another party whoot whoot!
-Getting My Christmas Bonus (hopefully they will do it this year they have every year since i started)
-Domina getting a job in Salt Lake City
-Going to Disneyland for NEW YEARS!!!
-Going to Thailand next March or April

8 THINGS ON MY WISH LIST
-Travel to all the continents in the world
-Do Humanitarian work in a foreign country(Operation SMILE, LDS church humanitarian aide,etc)
-Possibly go to Grad school for a NP
-Get Endowed
-Make everyone happy :0) or at least give it a good try
-Be closer to my Family
-Get to know more People
-Have all the money in the world to travel as much as i want and spoil my nephew with ;0)
-donate money to a charity
-gain a better knowledge of the gospel of Jesus Christ (travel to all the holy sites)

8 PEOPLE I AM TAGGING
Kayla Prestridge
Jennie B.
Heidi Buchanan
Sharon Rowley
Peanut
Heidi West
Aubree/Michael Cooper
Kristy Thornton

Aloha Mean old Jellyfish!! :0P

So here's the story of the the jellyfish tenticle...Thursday me and my roomie came to Hawaii and got to the place we are staying at which is only 2 blocks from the beach so we went and took and evening stroll down the coast. When we started walking back we were on the shoreline walking in the wet sand where the ocassional wave would hit our feet. the Ocean is salty so it stings a little if he you have freshly shaved your legs or have open cuts. so my ankles started to sting a little then i looked down and there was a long string thing with a little jelly head.

As time went on the stinging went to BURNING!! Domoina thought i was crazy! Ya like my both my feet were on fire!!!!!! On the one ankle (left one) i could barely walk on it and then i had te same burning sensation go up my leg and end about at my upper thigh. I rinsed it off with water and it helped a little but not much.

We pulled two people walking down the street and ask them their advice of how to treat the jellyfish sting. they refered us to some store and I ended up buying this over Priced Junk that didn't work very well. so we get back to the vacation rental and ask the owner if she knows how to treat it. Low and behold it's as simple as Vinegar! Ya we rubbed vinegar on my wounds. they felt much better after that and are feeling great now. Man i have never experienced that before it's not very pleasant that's all i have to say!

After this i looked up Box Jellyfish online just for the fun of it...come to find out these things are really dangerous! if you get caught up in their tenticles you can die with in 30 seconds because their venom makes red blood cells burst! YIPES!! (i'm guessing that's only if your whole body becomes tangled in many Jellyfish tenticles. but scary non the less...

I don't quite understand how these creatures operate because i watched a national geographic clip on them and it said they have no Heart (literally ;) ) and no brain...so how do they operate? i guess the same as some small cell or virus? i don't know. they apparently are reproducing and high rates because of pollution in the water too. crazy!

BABY oh BABY!!!!

Kayla's baby is as you can see DUE in 2 days. i want him to come NOW!!! she's been doing everything she can to pop that little angel out but nothing seems to be working. He's just being a stubborn old fart! Anyone have any suggestions that i can pass along?

Kayla has predicted that he will come the day i leave for California to visit Sharon. That would make him 4 days late. I guess knowing how my mom's pregnancys were that's probably reasonable. I was the only one who came early out of all my sisters i came 2 weeks early, and not to mention the easiest labor! yeah for ME!! Kayla kind of through my mom way off because the epidural didn't end up working so she had kayla all NATUR-AL! maybe this is just payback Kayla ;0)

Well i hope he comes soon because if not i won't be able to see him dang it for 2 weeks depending on when he comes.

The Memory Post...

I'm keeping this chain alive from another friends blog.

The rules were laid out thusly:

1. As a comment on my blog, leave a memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you know me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll be sure to write one about you.

3. If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.

4. Please do this on your page too, so we can all share in the fun times together :-)

Rafting on the SNAKE!! farewell grandma

This past weekend has been interesting. My ward peeps and I went river rafting in Jackson Wyoming. It was so much fun. I got to get to know the people in my ward a little better. I also got to try out my new camping pad and down sleeping bag. it was so warm. the second night that we were there it got pretty chilly. the first night was just right. well except for those who slept under the stars they got alot of bug bites!. those dang blood suckers. they are kind of annoying.

I left early they had 2 river runs a day and i left after the first river run on saturday. The peeps in my boat saturday were really interesting. we had alot of different personalities on the boat. the funniest part was when the push the loud girl out of the boat that was squirting everyone. she totally didn't expect it. i think she got pushed out twice. I heard the second run she went down that day she was squirting everyone and her boat threw her out and wouldn't let her back in. that's sad but funny at the same time!lol

I left early on saturday because my Grandma Bennion has been really sick. She was diagnosed with breast cancer about 2 years ago. It spread to her lymph nodes and they told her the cancer would re-occur in about 2 years if she went untreated. She decided not to do chemo or radiation. about 2 weeks ago she was diagnosed with Liver cancer. her breast cancer had spead down there.

I was grateful to be able to go see her and take care of her this past weekend. although it was kind of hard to see her so weak and unable to take care of herself. She just passed away yesterday afternoon. I kind of feel weird because i'm sad she's gone but i haven't really cried and maybe it just hasn't set in yet.

I feel like it was a blessing for her to pass aways because after she was diagnosed with the liver cancer they told her she had 2 months. she pretty much gave up all will to live at that point and went down hill fast. i mean it's only been 2 weeks since the diagnoses. i thought that was an interesting concept. We were talking with hospice nurses and they had mentioned the power of the brain on dying. The nurse was telling us that if people have any unresolved issues alot of people hold on until things are resolved and then they pass when it's resolved. I think once grandma decided she was done that why she went downhill so fast.

When i saw her last weekend she was miserable. she wasn't in alot of pain but she would take pain meds and sleep forever because the liver helps process some of those drugs so her chemisty was all out of wack. She would wake up and her shoulders would just ache. She was super skinny just bones and skin. I so grateful that she's in a better place now and able to reunite with the love of her life :0)

Swimming like a fish

Tonight i went swimming with my roommate Domoina. i found out that i really have bad technique on most of the stokes i know. This girl who is in our ward was teaching us how to swim. Domoina's still working on floating but she's getting better :0) she's not as scared now!

I have taken swimming lessons before but i always have a problem with inhaling water as i come up for a breath. Erin was really good to work me so i didn't keep having this problem. My favorite part of the evening was when she taught me how to do the flip turns. I have always wanted to learn how to do this bu never have. I never thought i would say this but I really really enjoyed swimming laps. I used to not like it very much because i would always inhale water, but now that I have that problem almost fixed i really enjoy it. Especially now that i know how to do the flip turns those are fun but take alot of air. i'm still working on the flip turns. i always have to stop right after the turn to catch my breath but i think once i build up my endurance i should be fine :0)

I never realized how much swimming works out your whole body. you get cardio plus a little resistance training. My goal for next time is try to make it acoss the pool and back with out stopping and inhaling water. Erin told me that next time she was possibly going to teach me how to do the butterfly. i heard that this is the hardest stoke and takes the most energy. i'm kind of excited to learn it. it looks so cool!!

Family Reunions are the BEST!!!

Lots of Fun interesting/funny things have happened this weekend. It was quite interesting trying to make it up to Idaho for my family reunion. I've been pretty sleep deprived this week so I've been able to relax and catch up on so much needed sleep at the reunion! Luckly my Cousin and I drove up together and she was the one driving. i kind of had a hard time meeting up with her due to my own lack of sleep.

We were supposed to meet at my friend Desmond's house because he's fixing my naughty car. The first thing that delayed me was i was looking in my purse and couldn't find my stinkin orthodontic elastics and i knew my orthodontist would have killed me if i would have gone 5 days with out wearing them so i called my cousin and told her I needed to go back and get them. I go back and then find the dang things in my purse where they were supposed to be grr.. but it was good that i turned around because i was in charge of making breakfast on friday morning and i made belgian waffles but fogot my iron but i remembered it when i went back to "get my elastics". So then I start heading to layton then totally pass the exit i'm supposed to get off at and drive all the way to Odgen (what the heck is my problem?? oh ya NO SLEEP) so i finally met up with my cousin and Des they were busting a gut when i told them why i was so delayed. My cousin had been at des's house for about a hour.
We Finally made it to Idaho Falls where i met up with my parents and we drove straight to my Uncle Doyle's cabin in Island Park getting there at 130 am going to bed at 2pm(at this point i had been on about 12 hrs of sleep in the last 72 hours not a very good ratio.)

The next day we woke up at 615am :0\ dang ya talk about no sleep. It was worth it though we went to Yellowstone National park we were trying to beat all the traffic. we started out with a little hike to the Yellowstone Grand Canyon where we saw so breathtaking waterfalls! the upper and lower falls of the cayon were amazing!

Yellowstone Grand Canyon Upper FallsYellowstone Grand Canyon Lower Fall

After we got down hiking down then up the 328 Stairs, were able to see a buffalo and deer up close. That was pretty cool! We all piled in the car and noticed how diverse the licence plates were. In the parking lot that we were in alone there were about 25 of the 50 states represented. this was out of proabably about 70 cars. that is crazy! We decided to then play the licence plate game where you get all the 50 states. i was suprised some of the states we got. We got quite a few florida's, New Jersey, one ALASKA crazy!. who would be crazy enough to drive from alaska in a motor home none the less only if you were rich! dang gas prices are so expensive ($4.25 per gal). we ended up getting about 40 of the 50 states.

On our way out we were able to see some buffalo up close and personal. The Buffalo walked across the road and backed up traffic. This buffalo walked right up to the from of our car. As you can see the antenna is right in the way. Man you really have got to LOVE yellowstone. No wonder there is people from all the country and world coming to this park. we met 2 girls and a boy from Malaysia. They came out here for the summer to work at old faithful lodge how cool is that!The next day some of our cousins came up to the cabin. We went out on a little adventure in the polaris ranger. Jess was on her dirt bike. We took some dirt trails around Island Park and are final destination was finding Elk Creek gas station so we could fill the ranger and Jess's bike up. We have before and after pics i'll post them below they are pretty awesome! I look like a dirty hispanic/french man, because of all the dirt on my body. Jessica didn't get quite as us in the ranger We had alot of fun bumming up and down through the woods of Island park it was quite the little adventure! Such a blast!

Me, Lissa, and Ash PRE-RANGER AdventureIntra- Ranger Adventure POST Ranger Adventure

After we ended our little adventure my parents and little sisters were going to go to mesa falls. You know me and waterfalls we just go together so i cleans up so i didn't look like a homeless french man and we went to mesa falls. Can I just tell you how much i LOVE waterfalls. Any hike that has a waterfall at the end of it is SOOO worth it even if it's super hard and long!. I've have always wanted to be proposed to by a waterfall i think it would be romatic to take a hike and view the beautiful and amazing scenery nature provides for our enjoyment! So any boys out there there is one of the keys to my heart ;0)

Upper Mesa FallsLower Mesa Falls

Today (saturday June 28th) the rest of the aunts and uncles came up for the day and we had lunch together and we jumped into the COLD COLD water. My uncle's cabin where we stayed is lake front property. how awesome is that. this weekend has been a dream! i LOVE it! I love the outdoors.

Brace Face- How do you like them apples?

I don't know how many of you knew that i got braces but i got braces back in January and so far it hasn't been too painful. the most pain I had was when i got the actual braces on.

I went to the ortho yesterday and he put the chained elastics on does that bring back any horrible memories for you who had braces? i had no idea what to expect when he said he was going to put chains on. that sounds scary in and of it's self! he's also making me wear an elastic on the left side. that looks a little awkward when your talking with someone jeepers! would if that thing brakes and shoots your friend in the eye. lol that would acutally be funny to see.

So ever since i've had my braces on I have got the question is it awekward to kiss. ummm... don't really know for sure yet. but i found this funny thing online that is question answer write in thing here it is just incase any of you ever get into this situation:

Dear Alice,
When both of u have braces, and you do happen to get stuck together, is there any way to unhook without help from anyone other than you and him?

Dear Reader,
Although the number of teens writing in to magazines about being "absolutely mortified" of getting into this sticky situation could have you believing otherwise, relax and take a deep breath. It's not likely that you and your guy need to worry about an orthodontic lip lock. What does happen from time to time is that the projections and wires on braces can snag on the other smacker's lips, but even this is a rare event.

More of a concern when putting in some face time is brace breakage. To keep your gear intact, be sure to take it easy when kissing. Anyone who has worn braces has heard his/her orthodontist's warnings of the perils of hard fruits and vegetables. So, think of your partner's mouth ware and teeth as an apple. Much like what happens when your desire for a Red Delicious gets the better of you, run your braces too forcefully against the hard surface of his teeth and you could end up with a popped wire or unglued brace.

And though a break is far more likely than a binding, never say never. In case you and he become one of the unlucky few that make tangles "rare" rather than "impossible," the best strategy is a little backtracking and a lot of patience. Consider telling a funny joke or playing the staring game to ease tensions while trying to untangle and separate, slowly, gently, and carefully. If all else fails, a humble yell or phone call might be your only option; though embarrassing, it's certainly a better one than the monetary damage that a hefty tug could cause.
Alice

Wouldn't that be Awkward seriously! i better not find a man with braces eh? good thing i only have them on for a year. but dang it might be tempting if I had a man kiss me like this sailor! now that is a serious KISS!!!

So i've been thinking about getting glow in the dark elastics next time what do you think? that would be kind of fun! I was going to get them this time but the lady told me they turn yellow pretty fast and i have the elastics in chains so she just put the clear one's on with out my opinion oh well maybe next time tell me what you think

I can finally BLOG :0)

So my good friend Kristy came over and spent a good amount of time teaching me how to work this blog. So thanks to her you all can get a little update on my life :0)

I'm apparently a little technology challenged.I started one of these things because i think it's kind of cool to read what everyone is doing in their lives and their prospectives on life's many subjects. Anywho...

So a little bit about what's been going on these past few months. I've gone on a couple of camping trips all very fun adventures and just been working. Back in April I chopped my hair of 12 inches and donated to the lock of love. I love the new hair cut it's way hOt! i do sometimes miss the long hair though. i was in definate need for some type of change so this is what I ended up changing. what do you think do you like the new cut?

BEFORE

AFTER

My oldest sister just got married in may and my sister 4 years younger than me is about ready to have a baby (in August) this will be the first grandbaby on both sides shall we say SPOILED ya! not to metion this baby is going to have 7 Aunts and only 2 uncles(by marriage) crazy huh.

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