Revlon 5K

My fourth year participating in the Revlon Breast Cancer Run/Walk. It was the first time for my 7 year old niece (almost 8) and she did an awesome job. My sister and niece spent the night at my house.

Half Marathon

I did my first half marathon. I trained with my friend Eva and we started together for the first 3 miles. We planned on running hills during our training but it rained or things came up on those days....I regretted it since it was mostly a trail run up a canyon. Within the first miles I realized that I never want to do a marathon!! I would like to train more and do the half marathon next year.

Dolpins

My friends Eva and Jared recommended that we swim with the dolphins. It was so much fun. We had an awesome doplhin traner, it was just the four od us in our group and we got to do the foot push twice because we are faster swimmers than the other group across the facitlity!!

We brought my underwater camera, took our own pictures and used our masks/snorkels to watch the dolphins underwater!!

Palancar Horsehoe Reef

I was going to wait and post all my pictures in order, then I realized no one cares. I did six different dives, four in Cozumel and two near Tulum and Playa del Carmen. the Palancar Horshoe was my favorite dive. It was really colorful and beautiful similar in Bali.

Dean and Andrea were celebrating their 8th wedding anniversary the following week. I introduced them to each other while we were at BYU. Andrea was one of my freshman roommates!!

overdue

I haven't posted in a log time because I haven't uploaded pictures.

My brother and his family came down for New Year's Week and we had a blast at Avila Beach (picture stolen from Mary's blog). I really enjoyed my time with family and all the fun we had. It was the first time my family has ever gotten together and there was no TV. I like it a lot without the TV!!

I was sad to leave even though I was going home to attend the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl Game (friends with hook ups are an added bonus). I almost didn't make it to the parade because my car over heated but I made it to the Metro parking lot and left for the parade and game. A friend met me at the parking lot with coolant and my car is fine (it had a crack that caused it to leak).

I've had several amazing beach days in January. It has been so much fun to go to the beach when it isn't crowded and enjoy the sunshine.

I've been running a lot lately and I'm up to 8 miles........I'm running a half marathon in March, which 13 miles.

I leave this weekend for Cozumel, Mexico and I'm meeting several college friends. It'll be so much fun to snorkel and dive in warm water!! I'm also excited to see Chichen Itza which is one of the new seven wonders of the world!!

Rose Parade Floats

My beautiful rock stairs that I decorated with poppy seeds, dark lettuce seeds, light lettuce seeds and rice powder.


Gluing plumeria leaves to the windows and then bark around the fence below (not pictured).
The city of Los Angeles Float and the USO float in the background.

Happy Anniversary

My parents were married 40 years ago today!!