Second!!!

The state cross country meet was a few days ago. My little runners came in second! We were way excited to be second, we knew that the first place team would be WAY tough to beat... but when the announcer read off the results and announced that we were 30 pts ahead of the 3rd place team and only 4 points away from the 1st place team (mountain crest) we didn't know what to think!!! We were soo close, so happy to be so close to a great team but so sad to loose by 4 measley points! (this photo is of our top three gals: Sam in front; 6th place overall, Steph in the middle; 5th place overall and Amelia in back; 11th place overall) I was so proud of them!

The end of the world

While in Moab we also went to Canyonlands. The day was cold and rainy. Lots of fog settled in over the canyons. This picture here is my family looking at the canyons once the fog cleared up a little bit but I think it's funny because it looks like they are looking at the end of the world.

This is one of the cool formations of canyonlands. As we were looking at this we saw the famous Utah photographer Tom Till... he was taking photos of the same thing. I'm going to venture to say that his photo probabally turned out a little better than mine, but I still think mine's pretty awesome.

Those of you who know me well might know that I have a little obsession about indians. I was very excited when we found these old indian petrogliphs on one of the rock walls near the Canyonlands (look closely and you will see them!)

Moab

This past week was UEA. We took advantage of the break from work/school and went on a little trip out to moab. We hit the arches and took a hike out to delicate arch. Even though I was freaking out for a little bit of the hike because I was afraid I was going to fall off the Mtn. (see example below) it was way fun.

Here is an example of something that would freak me out. Even though this doesn't look scary, Josh is actually standing on this overhang that has a 2800 ft. drop off. At any moment this rock could have just given way. Josh wasn't too worried about that though- I think I was more worried for his life than mine on this trip (he's a dare devil and I'm to afraid I'll die to do anything risky)

This is just another one of my favorite formations... balancing rock. We hit it at just the right time of day- the shadows and lighting on the thing were great... If I would have been a professional photographer I would have gotten some sweet pictures of the thing! (this trip did inspire me to become a professional photographer so just you wait!)

Region Champs

Last week my Cross country team had their region meet! Both the boys and the girls won! To be honest we were very nervous for the girls... one of our varsity runners had her hip out of place so we had to put in a JV girl. Our top varsity gal had a (minor) surgery for an illness she'd been having just a few days before the race, another of them ran through pretty bad achilles tendonitis, and another ran through a stress fracture... If you didn't get the picture these girls are tough! I was so proud of them! State is in 4 days, we'll see what happens.