Reading the BOM twice a year.

I love reading the BOM.  Three years ago I had only read it through once on my own and twice as a family.  I decided to really get my act together when all my kids were in full time school and read and STUDIED the book very slowly.  This helped my understanding so much more and made the prophets of old come to life for me. I now love reading it daily and love comparing the stories to our modern day.  I just finished Jacob this morning and am on my way to having read it 16 times by the time I'm 50! :) A little a day goes a long way!

One Year Down

I'm feeling good with all I accomplished this past year.  I will be 44 this year and have knocked off quit a few of my 50 by 50.  I may fine tune this list a little as life goes by add a few take a few away but it is my list and I can make it whatever I want :)  I'm excited for the new year and all that is coming ahead.

Cycle the Alpine Loop :)

I never would have seen me doing this, even last year.  Susie and I went the day before and rode the Alpine Loop in her Jeep to see what we had to face.  The whole ride we kept saying "this really isn't that bad." We kept thinking it wasn't that steep and it wasn't that far.  The next day we took of from the mouth of American Fork Canyon and yes it was steep and hard and far.  11 miles of uphill to the top but we made it and it felt so good!  The ride down was hard and cold.  Holding the brake for so long and freezing breeze coming at you! But you can't beat a good downhill run! Cycling is by far my favorite sport at the moment.

Mountain Biking Moab

Moab was the so fun!  We all had a blast! Mountain Biking was harder than I thought. I had a great 3500 bike I rented.  It was really fun but it felt uncomfortable because I didn't know what it could do.  I fell once and flew over my handlebars.  We biked around slick rock and then did another ride at Dead Horse Point.  They were both really neat and the views in those canyons were just beautiful.  LOVED IT!  The whole family except Jess went and the Wilkeys came with us.  We even got to rock climb with their cars.  LOveD it!

Hiking Timp!

14 miles round trip and 8 hours later, I was home in time to take my girls to dance and conner to football.  Fall hiking Timp was beautiful.  The waterfalls, the colors and the mountain goats were all great company. I went with my friend Susie and we had a wonderful day.  The way back was a little long and my toes were really hurting but we made great time and the next day I felt fine again.  Mark another one off my list!

The Red Rock Relay!!

I have to say I thought this would be a breeze! I so wanted to start the race that I picked the first leg.  That gave me the 13th leg and the 25th leg automatically. I was only suppose to be running a total of 10 miles is one day. EAsy CheEsy Right!  WROng..........It ended up being really hard.  My first run started at the bottom of Brian Head ski lift at 7:00 am. We had to get up at 5:00 am to make it on time and I hadn't sleep well at all the night befor. (prerace jitters) I was all ready to go and bundled up in my emergence blanket like a tinfoil dinner when they told me my start was being but off another 25 minutes.  That sucked because I was pumped and ready to go.  Finally I rode up and ran down.  It ended up being a very rocky downhill trail with a little up and straight aways.  I had practiced running down dry canyon so I conquered that run well.  It ended up being 4.02 more than stated. (or I took a wrong turn). My next leg also got delayed by 45 minutes.  We were all so fast they hadn't set the course up enough for us so I ended up taking off at 5:25.  It was a 90 degree day so it was hot.  I was running on a highway with heavy after work traffic.  Many intersections were I had to wait for cars and such.  This run ended at 3.9 miles.  My last and final run was at 3:15 am.  It was suppose to be 3.5 miles but ended up being a little over 5 miles and it was almost all up a really steep hill.  This was a really tough run for me because I hadn't slept for two nights straight and I HATE hill running.  I pushed through and never walked and made my way up that dang hill!!!
My van was super fun.  I loved all the women we raced with and had many adventures I'll never forget! Southern Utah is a beautiful country.  I think I'll not run for a week or two and get to where I want to go for a run because right now I'm not feeling it!

Wake Boarding at Lake Powell

I did it!!!!! I got up at least 8 times this past weekend wakeboarding. I also stayed up and actually skimmed along the water for minutes at a time! I can't say I loved it. It was hard and scary and I didn't exactly have the proper form BUT I'm going to keep doing it and get better at it.  Everyone says I will then really enjoy it. We will see but for know I'm counting it as ONE of my 50 by 50!  By the Way our spontaneous trip to Powell was a blast.  We camped at Hite marina in the motorhome. We played really hard for two days and then came home. LOVE lake POWELL!