2:13:48

My first half-marathon time!!! This weekend I ran my first half-marathon. I ran in the Indianapolis Monumental half-marathon with Taryn. At the end of summer, for some reason I got the urge to start running and decided I wanted to try and train for a half. (The influence of my awesome roommate over the summer miss Hilary Collins for sure). So I talked to T to ask her for some tips since she has run some before. She told me I should go do one with her Nov 6 in Indianapolis. I said OK! So I started training and a couple months later it was time:)

I left Provo on Thursday afternoon and flew to Lexington to stay with Taryn and Grant for the weekend. I got in pretty late on Thursday night so we stayed up and chatted a bit then headed to bed. Then Friday we slept in a little then Taryn and I had the day to hangout. It was great to get to spend some time with her:) We did some shopping (went to goodwill and got jackets for cheap we were willing to part with on the run) and hungout. Then we went to dinner at Saul Good. It was a way cute restaurant and the food was all good. We has some yummy pizza, salad, and nachos. Then we needed to get to bed early cause we had a race the next day! So we watched a little TV and got to bed.

RACE DAY! We left Taryn and Grants at 3am. Taryn and I went to sleeping in the car while Grant was awesome and drove us over to Indianapolis. We got there and got our packets and made sure we were all ready for our run. Then at 8am we were off! The run was through the streets of downtown Indianapolis. It was a cool run I liked it. We saw Grant between mile 2 and 3 and so we were able to throw our throwaway jackets to him. Taryn and I ran together and it went really well. We went pretty steady and strong. I'm happy I did it with her because she helped me keep pace. I think I did really well and I was feeling pretty good for a lot of it. But by like mile 10 I was pretty much ready for it to be over and I was starting to hurt. But I accomplished my goal and I did the whole thing running! And I did really well and did it in 2:13:48 I was for sure happy with that. I told Taryn to go ahead during the last mile and she got a personal best for herself! So we both did awesome and it was a great experience.

When I ran it in, I ran it too hard for too long at the end. I started full out sprinting way before I should have, but it's all good. So right when I finished I was pretty nauseous and light headed. But I took a minute to recuperate and was better. The medical people made me get checked because I bent down by the puke buckets:p I didn't throw up but I was a little woosy so they checked me out. I was ok with it because the med boy was a cutie;)

I'm so happy I did it. It is a goal that in the past I never thought I would accomplish so I feel really good about doing it. Thanks to everyone who supported me and helped me along the way. Thanks Hilary for being amazing and an inspiration, thank you Katrina for helping me during training, and also Holly&Jonny, and thank you Mom and Dad for helping make it possible for me to get to Kentucky, and thank you so much Taryn and Grant for the great weekend, Taryn thanks so much for running it with me and encouraging me and Grant thanks for cheering us on and getting us there!

I DID IT! :)

Another birthday...Kirstin

And the month of October keeps bring the birthdays. The 23rd of October is Kirstin's birthday and so I got the chance to celebrate another birthday with a loved one :) I've known Kirstin for a long time now and been close with her for so many awesome years. She is an amazing girl. She has an inspiring passion for life, she is an example to many, she is one of the sweetest people I know, she has a sparkling personality that everyone can't help but love, and she is beautiful of course:) We've had a lot of good times in the past and continue to have more out here together in Provo.

I'm blessed to have such a great friend in Kirstin. I love you miss!

Luckily this lady lives in Utah so I actually got to celebrate her birthday with her as well! Holly and I were excited as always to bake for the birthday. We tried something new that we thought was fun(to match Kirstin) and made cookies and cream cupcakes. They were pretty darn good and cool. She had a fun birthday party. A group met up at her place for cake and some hangout time. Then we headed out onto campus to play night games. It was a lot of fun even though we got pretty wet from laying in puddles and sliding down wet grassy hills. And a group of us went and grabbed some Earth Fruits afterward (best frozen yogurt place all around ever!). It was a lot of fun and I'm so happy I was able to celebrate with her!

Birthdays

Birthdays are always so much fun and these past couple weeks there have been quite a few birthdays of people close to me.
First off it was my daddy's birthday on the 3rd :) I'm sad I couldn't be there to help celebrate. Freshman year Holly and I were able to go home and surprise him for his birthday weekend which was super fun. I fell asleep early on his birthday but I got to talk to him for awhile the next day which is always good. I'm so lucky to have him as a dad, he is the best! I've been lucky enough to have been taught in and out of the home by him and let me tell you he is a great teacher. We are different in ways and the same in ways...I for sure did not inherit his sarcasm though...;) Happy Birthday and wishes to another great year for you daddy. I love you!


Then on the 6th is was Miss Collins' birthday. Hilary was my roommate over the summer and she is awesome times 10 plus a slice of raspberry chocolate cheesecake. I love her! We found out how much we have in common living together and had a lot of fun times together. She is an amazing girl. This birthday she turned 21 which is significant to her for reasons different than most. Hilary will be serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Argentina! I'm so excited for her she is going to be an amazing sister missionary. Hilary got to come visit us here in Provo the day after her birthday so we got to see her it was awesome! I love you Hil I hope your year being 21 is great (especially after Nov 17!)


Then on the 12th it was my cousin Breanne's birthday. Miss Breanne Pann is a Rose before marriage. I've grown up seeing her whenever we went to San Diego and a few times in between. I always looked forward to the times I got to spend with her. We always had some fun times catching up on Christmas Eve's. We have lots of great memories from La Jolla beach to the 'elevator' in our grandparents house that led to the carpeted garage. We got to spend these times together and with our other cousins and siblings. The two of us got to go to EFY together twice which were both great experiences where we got closer. Having a cousin so close in age was always a great thing. I love this girl so much. This was her 21st birthday and her first birthday as a married woman! It's crazy how old we are getting...Happy birthday Breanne.

Then on the 13th is was my cousin Brittany's birthday (known to a few of us special friends as Brookney). I love this girl like crazy. She is a firework of fun and excitement. We also share a lot of memeories from growing up, I remember cuddling her when she was scared in a thunderstorm, all nighters at Christmas and summer time, grabbing the butter or catchup before she could get her hands on it at family dinners, picture time at Christmas Eve (with Breanne), and so much more. Recently she has been able to come and visit me in Provo a couple times and it has been a blast. Brit and I have always been close but in the recent visits we have become so much closer and it has been so great. We basically can't go a day without talking to each other now. She is a beautiful, strong, compassionate, totally crazy awesome fun girl! Anytime she visits we know we are in for a good and crazy time! I can't wait for the next time. She makes me smile and I love her so much! Happy birthday Brookney and enjoy being 19 I love you!

Then on the 15th it was my roommate Katrina's birthday. Miss Katrina also turned 21. Katrina is the best roommate anyone could ask for. She and I have pretty different personalities but we are so crazy close. We call each other mirror twins cause we are. I love that girl. It took me awhile to get her to decided what she wanted to do for her birthday, but we finally decided and had a lot of fun. In the morning we both had some school stuff to take care of but then at lunch time, I took her to lunch at Cafe Rio. We both got the delicious pork salads. Then she relaxed for awhile and I made birthday cupcakes (chocolate peanut butter they were yummy) and dinner (pizza I made a mock CPK california club pizza, so good). We had a couple friends join us for dinner and then we went to Despicable Me in the dollar theater. I love that movie it's so good. Then we came back to our place for cupcakes. It was fun. Happy birthday Kat, love you girl :)

Shirts and Such

For Taryn's birthday I decided to make her a shirt(ok decorate might be a better word). And I decided I liked it so much that I wanted one. And then I got inspired and started making more. These are a couple that I've made and I have others in the process.

And this is a hairclip I made...

I'm having tons of fun making stuff and I have plans for more. I have a couple shirts in the process and ideas for more as well as more hair accessories.

Epic Nights

I've been having a blast out here in Provo during the summer. The 2 classes I'm taking have been way chill and left plenty of time for fun! I've been doing lots of fun stuff just a little update on a couple of epic nights that have happened.

Eclipse with the wolfpack: Well when Eclipse came out we of course were willing to pay the full amount and not wait til the dollar theater for that one. So Katrina and I met the most amazing wolf pack ever and def got our in with them when we became their tattoo artists. Kat and I printed out the Jacob/wolfpack tattoo and made a stencil out of it and the wolfpack all went to Eclipse in jean shorts w/ tattoos. It was pretty legit. It was a great time and a lot of fun, and I loved the movie. There may have been a bit of howling from our group when Jacob appeared on the screen ;) And a little bit of wolfpack romping after the movie was over. It was an epic night for sure. And of course Katrina and I had to be good wolfbabe's and made muffins the following Sunday for the pack.

Shaving Cream Slip n Slide:

Another epic night occurred last night out at Rock Canyon Park. A huge party with shaving cream slip n slides. There were a few slides with water and lots of shaving cream. We got pretty lathered up and had a blast! It was quite a success. Luckily I made it through the night without sustaining any injuries. Definitely another epic night!

Elder Anderson

Today I said my goodbye to Steven at the airport as he left to get on his plane for the MTC. He will be in the MTC for a couple months and then go to serve in the Mexico City North Mexico Mission. He is both excited and nervous. Although I will miss him so much I am so excited for him and proud of him. Now I am looking forward to his return in 2 years. Until then I'll miss him and support him with emails and letters.

These are a few of our last pictures we took.

Davis Traditions

Once a year Davis is host to the Whole Earth Festival. Basically it is an ultimate hippie festival.

I'm not really the hippie type much but I absolutely love Whole Earth Festival. Its was fun and way different. Pretty much they just set up a festival on UCD campus and there is a lot of incense and smells in the air. And there is a whole LOT of tie-dye everywhere. This year I went with Steven and Kirstin. Kirstin and I dressed to the occasion. We had fun looking at all the cool jewelry, and tie-dye, and everything else. It was fun I'm happy I got to be home for it.

Back in Davis

I'm home now for 2 months. This is my second day home, and I've already seen the Davis wild turkeys....right outside on our street (we live in a circle mind you). Thye were just a few houses across the street down the circle. I snapped a couple pictures of the crazy guys and luckily didn't get attacked (dont worry Jenn I'm ok in case you read this!). Fun times at home

14 layers of Wow

For Jonny's Birthday Holly and I turned this

Into this....


Which we turned into this...



Which ended up like this...



That we then frosted to make this...



That finally came out like this...

!!!

It was crazy and took oh you know like 5 hours or so! It is 14 complete layers with hommade sticky goey choclate icing inbetween. We had fun with it and we were both really happy that our ambitious endeavor turned out as a tasty and pleasing success.

Girls Night

Friday night Jenessa, Katrina, and I had a much needed and amazing girls night! First we headed out for some dinner because we were starving. We decided on Cafe Rio, when we got there it was very obviously Friday Night at Cafe Rio (the line was out the door)! So, we did my favorite way to get around that and called in our order. We went to Jenessa's new found love, the Dollar Store, for 20min while we waited for our food to be ready. She was amazed and got a few fun things, she was especially phsyced about a little red basket she found. Then we went back over and got our delicious Cafe Rio and ate it in the car.

Then we headed out shopping! A girls night must of course. We went to Plato's closet, Jenessa's first time. It was sorta a miss night for Plato's but we did find some good stuff for some good pictures. There was one little pink and purple dress geometric that was totally 60s/70s whatever it was awesome and I wanted it but didnt really wanna pay $12 for it so let it stay there. Then we headed over to Target because Jenessa wanted to get a purse. She ended up with 2 and with a couple new shirts! She was pretty excited and we had fun being with her getting it all. Then we went back home and did makeovers! Another girls night absolute must! We had lots of fun doing it. We went for a sparkly smoky eye with Jenessa, very different for her but she seemed to have some fun. Then we did some color with Kat and a little more eyeliner dolled her up. And I went for the dark red lip with the leather jacket. Then we went out and got some ice cream. Then just took some pics for fun. We had a ton of fun. Love those girls and love girls night!

Not a Teenager Anymore

I turned 20 on Monday, my parents last baby isnt a teenager anymore. But I'm still the baby of course :) It was an awesome birthday. I got lots of great presents but probably my best present was having Steven here. He came to visit for a whole week and was here for my birthday it was the first birthday we got to spend together in person. It was so fun/good to have him here for an entire week. He went to classes with me which was nice (classes are way better w/someone's shoulder to lay on and walk to campus is a lot nicer not carrying my backpack haha).

Monday was my actual birthday and it was great. We went to my 2 classes which were fine, then had a relaxing day. My lovely roommates made me dinner and dessert and we had an apt dinner and out 'other roommates'/the guys came for dinner. We had delicious calzones for dinner with salad and fruit it was way good. Then we went of to FHE. Then we all came back to the apt for bday dessert. Pizookie! Chocolate Chip cookie w/mint chip ice cream...so yummy! And I got a pizza pan! Kitchen stuff is incredibly exciting for me and Katrina and I dont have to steal Holly's pan all the time now.

We did my family celebration the next day on Tuesday since FHE wouldnt take a chunk out of the time. We went to California Pizza Kitchen mainly because I was craving the California Club Pizza. It is so delicous! Mayo spread with lettuce bacon and avacado on top, it sounds super weird and gross, but it is delicous! We also got cheeseburger pizza and Santa Fe chicken Pizza all were way good. And I happened to be one of 3 tables in a row there for a birthday and got a free ice cream sundae. Then we went back to Holly's for presents and dessert. Holly made an awesome and delicious cake for me! I got lots of awesome stuff thank you family for all my presents! :)

Later in the week Steven took me to get the second part of my present. He gave me a legit In n out safety pin on my birthday!!! For my present he took me shopping :) I got 2 new pairs of shoes and a perfume. Steven is amazing it was super fun to get to shop and pick stuff out and I love the stuff. We had a lot of fun during the whole week and did lots of fun stuff. Steven got his first experience of Cafe Rio and he enjoyed it of course.

It was an awesome birthday and an awesome week thank you to all of you who helped to make it awesome:)

Apple Crisp

So I bake every Sunday night and sometimes even more often but I dont ever blog about it enough. I was talking to Taryn before I made last Sunday's dessert and she told me to blog about it if it was good and it was so here it is...

Apple Crip

I got the recipie off a blog(thegirlwhoateeverything) that Taryn recommnded to me and it was delicious! It was a hit with out usual Sunday visitors/dessert eaters/bestest friends :)

The pics arent the best but it was very tasty!

Just in case you wanna try this is the recipie we used:

10 cups all-purpose apples, peeled, cored and sliced (I used about 6 Granny Smith apples)
3/4 cup white sugar
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

2 cups quick-cooking oats
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups packed brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup butter, melted

Directions
1.Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2.Place the sliced apples in a 9x13 inch pan. Mix the white sugar, 1 tablespoon flour, nutmeg, and ground cinnamon together, and sprinkle over apples.
3.Combine the oats, 2 cups flour, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda and melted butter together. Crumble evenly over the apple mixture.
4.Bake at 350 degrees for about 45 minutes.
5. Serve with vanilla ice cream.

Enjoy!

Shooting

So taking a little study break to blog bout my Monday per Taryn's request :)

So I had Monday off from school (so wonderful) and part of the holdiay I spent shooting things. Lexi and I went with a few guys from our ward and another girl over to the other side of Utah Lake and shot a bunch of random junk. We had a 22 rifle and a 9mm and a 40cal (i think). They were all way fun to shoot. The handguns had some kick but not enough to hurt any of us...even Lexi (although she did scream the first time...and second time she shot the 40cal). We shot a few rootbeer bottles and some old shotgun shells and at targets and we shot up a ridiculous little stuffed animal chicken that andrew had. We messed up the chicken pretty good, Andrew was very proud. Nobody got shot so that was a plus too! I had fun I've always wanted to go shooting so it was exciting and I felt so awesome holding an actual gun (never thought anyone would actually hand one to me!).

After sooting we went to FHE and did service painting a bunch of stuff for a lady who runs a daycare. So that was a good end to the day off.