Happy Birthday Matt!

Today is Matt's 28th birthday! He spent his birthday driving home from St. George and recovering from his 1st half marathon. I am patiently waiting for Julianne to send me all the pictures so I can post about it...hint, hint :) Since we were out of town this weekend, we will be going to Market Street Grill next weekend to celebrate.

Happy Birthday Matt! Love you!

It was Awesome!

Matt and I decided to ditch work today and do something much more fun. We went to Sundance and ejoyed the day skiing/snowboarding. Matt's the skiier and I have converted to snowboarding...this conversion took place about 10 years ago and I haven't turned back. It was a lot of fun with great snow thanks to the past few snow storms. We played hard all day and came home EXHAUSTED! We both agreed we need to do this more often!

Stupid post but...

Warning: Only read if you are looking for some serious time to waste. After reading you may have wished you had those 2 minutes of your life back. Think of how I felt after I spent 20 minutes writing it!

Nothing worse than...

1. Watching Star Trek
2. Running 11 miles on a treadmill

3. Running without an ipod

So when you put them together. Running 11 miles on treadmill, without an ipod, while watching Star Trek...well you can imagine.

Me, Laura and Matt are all training for a half marathon. This is my first winter training for anything other than a 10k. Partly because I am not a big fan of running in the cold or the snow so all the training I do in the winter has been on a treadmill. This year we decided to be brave and give it a try. So far it hasn't been too bad. We have been able to run all of our long runs outside by dressing warm. However, last Saturday it was snowing so much that running outside just wasn't an option. After stewing about what we were going to do we decided to go to Novell's corporate gym and watch Italian Job while running. Well once we left to go to the gym I realized I had forgotten my ipod.

Matt: "Do you want to turn around and get it"
Me: "No, we will be watching Italian Job the whole time so it will be fine"

I didn't think anyone would be at a corporate gym on a Saturday so watching my own movie wouldn't be a problem, right? Well, I was wrong. There were a few people there but that wasn't a big deal. The problem was one guy who had gotten there right before us and put on Star Trek! What!? Who watches Star Trek? So I ended up having to watch Star Trek for over an hour. Finally after I had 8 miles behind me I was able to watch 25 minutes of Italian Job. All three of us completed the 11 miles...I wouldn't recommend doing it on a treadmill especially while watching Star Trek. For our 12 mile run next Saturday we are hoping for better weather.

Apparently this was very traumatic for me. Why else would I blog about it?

Go, Jazz, Go !

I love Jazz games! Matt and I saw the Jazz beat the 76ers last night. It was kind of funny to see the tension between Gordan Giricek and the Jazz players. Kyle Korver did great hitting some clutch free throws. I think the Jazz got the better end of that deal!

Sorry for the close up. I felt lame asking someone to
take our picture so we took it ourselves.
We had to take like 10 pictures and when we finally
got this one Matt said "That's enough" It's the
best I have

The view from our seats. Not bad...12th row

Remembering the Old Times...

Katherine, Me and Jen
Hard Rock Cafe in Hawaii

Getting together with old roommates is always so much fun. Katherine was in town from Colorado for the holidays so Jen and I joined her for lunch at the good ole Brick Oven. It is amazing to see how fast time flies and where we are now...Hawaii was 7 years ago aghhh!

NOW...

Katherine with cute Dylan, Jen pregnant with baby number 2 and me

THEN... We did lots of fun things together. Including going to Hawaii!

Katherine, Jen and Me
This was before any of us had digital cameras so
I just scanned them in. They are kind of hard to see.

Remember the Marriott...


In front of Ala Moana Mall

This was just funny...

Tyler, JD and Brandon

I guess if you love basketball you will do what you can to play. This was on Christmas Day at my parent's house.

BEFORE...

Brandon


Tyler

AFTER...

Tyler and Brandon

Christmas Day!

Christmas morning isn't nearly as exciting as an adult as it was when I was a kid. I suppose it would be more exciting if we had kids to watch them open their presents. We did get to sleep in and that's a bonus that many parents don't get :) We rolled out of bed around 9:30 and opened presents. Kudos to Matt for doing a great job on Christmas. He got me a new Dooney and Bourke purse! I love it. I think the best gift from me to Matt was the $25 gift I gave him to McDonalds. It was supposed to be a joke...hmmm I will remember that. His birthday is in January.

We did have to quickly get ready and get up to my parents house. Elder Kenny Gardner was calling soon! I wish I had some pictures of us all talking to him. He sounded really great. He has been out 5 months now. We miss him but he is doing a great job in Ireland.

We opened presents from one another. The theme this year was fun and games. Laura and Sam had us and gave us Ticket to Ride the Swiss version and if we get sick of playing that we can go to a movie with the gift card they also gave us. Thanks, Sam and Laura!

Mom and Dad opening their gifts from the kids...the adult kids :)

Gma and Don opening the gifts from my parents. A photo album of our family and a year subscription to USA Today.

We spent the afternoon playing games, eating food...and drinking lots of soda (as you can see in the picture)

Later in the afternoon we went up to Pleasant Grove to visit Matt's brother. We had a fun time at Jeff and Lisa's. We played Ticket to Ride the German version. That is what Matt and I gave them for Christmas. I guess Ticket to Ride was the gift to give this year :) I meant to take some pictures but I left my camera in the car and it was too cold to get it...next time!