Feel The Rhythm, Feel The Ride, Get on Up, It's TRIATHLON TIME!!!!

Cool quote from "Cool Runnings" eh! HAHA. Well here you have it, my pictures from the Triathlon. It was seriously - AMAZING! I had such a blast doing it. The morning of, we got there, signed the waiver, got our bodies marked and it was time to start! We had to get a chip which would keep track of our time. You wear it on your ankle and every time you walk by their electronic device it beeps so it keeps your time.



S-W-I-M : My toughest part of the tri. Good thing to get it over first!





B-I-K-E : SO fun! I could have cut my time down so much if I would have had a better bike, but what do ya do!









R-U-N: Last part of the race. On the home stretch. My legs weighed a million pounds each when I got off the bike to run. My mind was thinking so much faster then my body would go! I parked the bike and took off running when my mind caught up with my body and realized my legs were so tight!!!!



C-H-A-M-P-I-O-N-S!!!!! I am SOOOOOOOOO glad that I did this! In all honesty...it's a little addicting. There are three more Tri's this summer and I am hoping to do at least one of them. So if anyone out there wants to do it with me, I'm gonna kick my butt into shape and do the next one!

Thanks to all of you who came out to show your support. It was an amazing accomplishment and I am so proud of myself for doing it!

H-E-L-P

I am ready to change my background lay out -BUT - last time I did that I lost all my contacts, so if you can tell me how to do it without losing anything that would be much appreciated! Thanks!

Weekend Getaway

This weekend we were able to get away from the worries of everyday life and just have FUN! We went up to Park City to stay in this cute little Swiss Village place. It seriously looked like the movies. We went with Garrett's mom and step dad, and his sister, brother in law and our niece and nephew.
We went to Disney on Ice...ok it was actually called PRINCESS on ICE! It was soooo cute! There were little girls all in their princess dresses everywhere! I can't wait to have little girls to take!










We went Ice Skating and had a blast
I freaking rocked that ice! I haven't ice skated since I was like 12 and it was pretty scary at first, but after I got the hang of it, it was a party! hahaha.

Training Continues

So these pictures didn't turn out so well, but here is proof of my adventures on Saturday. I got up bright and early, strapped on my pretty leggins - yes, they are quite bright and beautiful! ;) haha, then I met up with my cute training buddies by 8:00 a.m and we were off for a ride!!! This first picture is at the beginning of the trail, the last one is after we did TEN MILES. Whew! My lady town was sooooo sore!!! But let me just tell you that we have a freaking hardcore trainer!!!! Heidi, the girl in the middle, her
husband is a police officer and not to mention has been in the Military and he's ripped. He biked 60 miles the day before we did this with his friend who is training for an Iron Man. WOW. This was quite an accomplishment. I am so excited to do this! It felt so good to finish this, I can't wait to put it all together and cross that finish line.

DAY ONE......

Whew! Isn't this such a cool picture! Well it's official - today was day one of my "training" or lack there of - to get ready for the triathlon. I went to Sand Hollow to swim because that's where the tri starts so I wanted to get familiar with my territory....so I suit up...walk out there... and the swim team is just working it! They were so graceful! I was like talk about intimidating. So I busted out a few laps and it wasn't pretty. But I will admit that I felt so good about finishing those laps and I know I will be filling it tomorrow. Special thanks to Kim who kicked my butt. We swam for an hour and she would't let me give up.

Christmas Parties!

We're not even into the first week of December and Garrett and I have already knocked out two Christmas parties.

On November 30th, we had my work Christmas party and the following night we had a Christmas party with our friends. We are so blessed at this time of year to have such wonderful friends. This year we girls decided that instead of getting white elephant gifts that we would put money in and put it to something good.


We found a fund to put money in to that would go towards someone who has had a lot of problems with their new born baby. There was no better



feeling then to pass around that basket and see everyone reaching for their wallets. This is the true meaning of Christmas and we were able to feel that. It was so amazing.


After that we brought out the prizes and began the games! We started with SANTA originally known as "bingo!" haha. It was so fun to play games and have some laughs. Then we all played


Hearts. That didn't last long because us girls weren't as good as the boys would have liked us to be! We had to do our own thing while they got in a heated game of hearts.

All in all it was a great time. Merry Christmas!

Black Friday

(Article from the Spectrum)

Garrett Frei, left, sleeps bundled against the cold as he waits in line for the opening of the Red Cilffs Mall in the early morning hours of Black Friday, the traditional start of the holiday shopping season.

We were in the paper! haha. Well, I'm bundled up on the freaking cement so Garrett is the only one you can see, but you can see my coat over my head.

Our night started at 10p.m as we stood in line for the Zion Factory Outlets. We we're about 20th in line to receive a gift bag that had goodies and a ten dollar gift certificate. We went in hopes of being one of the big 500 dollar winners. We left there about 2:30 a.m. and headed to the mall. There was already a line forming! We thought we would go home and sleep for a little bit but we pulled in the parking lot and started our journey in line. We froze our butts off! It was so cold!

This whole experience was a great thing and it was fun to have the memories, but most of all it made me grateful that I have a roof over my head and that we can be warm in our beds at night. I thought of the homeless people that have nothing but newspapers to keep them warm. So here's to the season! I hope all of us can remember the TRUE meaning of this holiday season and that we won't be so caught up in gifts and getting them but remember that it's about the thought of giving the gift, not exactly what the gift is. Happy holidays everyone!