Amazing day.....

For the past year, I have been on the Susan G Komen committee for the Salt Lake City Race for the Cure, and it all added up to this day! Race day, and I could have never imagined how well it would turn out and how many AMAZING people I would meet! All of it has been such a learning experience but today made all the hard work totally worth it and plus some! So for anyone that didn't make it down this year either to race, support or volunteer next year be a part of it all somehow! I enjoyed myself oh so much today....

Here are a couple pictures of the event... 

Craft Night #2

So Hannah bought a sewing machine and we went crazy for two days!!  And I am sure there is way more to come but so far we have made bags and I made an eye mask... They turned out so cute and i am so proud of us!!  Here was bag number one for me... Its even reversible!!  Working on bag number too and clutch.... it is so much fun and a little bit relaxing.  So more to come later!

RACE FOR THE CURE!

http://race.komenslc.org/site/TR/Race/General?fr_id=1000&pg=entry&JServSessionIdr010=w9yhlhopk3.app306a

This is the link where you register for the event. It starts at 8:30 a.m.

Join us on Saturday, May 9th at the Gateway in Salt Lake City for the 13th Annual Susan G. Komen Salt Lake City Race for the Cure®!... Read More

Race Start Time: 8:30am

Team Packet Pick-up: Thursday 4/30 from 3pm to 7pm & Friday 5/1 from 12pm to 7pm.

Individual Packet Pick-up: at the Health Expo Thursday 5/7 & Friday 5/8 from 10am to 7pm.

Packet Pick-up Location: The Gateway Union Pacific Depot at 400 W & South Temple

All teams and individuals please pick up your t-shirt packets at the above times!

Updates!

I just realized it has been forever since I have posted anything... so here is my life for the last couple months!

January - signed up as a Coldwell Banker Real Estate Agent and have taken so many classes I am slowly learning more and more... lets emphasize slowly!

February - Still taking gym classes non stop and love having people join me, so anyone is welcome! Pottery Barn is picking up so working there still also in my free time!  Still training for Real Estate stuff... and door knocking (which I still don't like)

March - On the committee for the Race for the Cure and that is starting to pick up... although we have been meeting since August of 2008 for the race on May 9th 2009!  My darling Grandma passed away and had a beautiful funeral and got to see all the family which is the silver lining of the whole situation!  And had my car broken into and they stole my purse... HUGE learning experience!

April - Hannah, Virginia and I decided we are starting craft night and we decided to make hand blown glitter eggs (thanks to Martha Stewart)!  And blowing eggs was harder than the three of us realized but mission accomplished and they turned out fantastically!  These are Hannah's eggs in the picture!  And got to take a break and go to San Diego for a birthday and to spend Easter!  It was SO nice to get away and they weather was so perfect for two of the days!!  And still learning more and more about Real Estate... it is harder than I could have EVER imagined and still haven't decided if I like it or not yet?!?

Mozambique!

To finish off our African adventure we ended up on an island off of Mozambique!  So after seeing tons of animals we had to top it off with a relaxing beach ending.  It was so pretty and oh so different than what we had been in the middle of for the past 15 days or so.  We laid by the beach, lots of reading, windsurfing, dune boarding and the best horseback ridding of my life!  If anyone ever has the chance to go horseback ridding on a sand dune you have to go!!

Oh more Botswana!

There was so much more than animals too!  All of the camps were so different and had their own special qualities... Here is our bed at Jao Camp.  It was also the camp that we got the closest to the elephants!

Botswana

In Botswana we moved through three different camps so there are so many pictures of just Botswana so I will have to add them as I find really good ones!

Here is a tribute to the Wort Hogs because they are the funniest animal and I came to love them very much!  They first of all have they to get down on their knees to eat and just watching that is funny!  But even better, their skin is so tight on their body that when they run they close their eyes to protect them from any bushes they might run through and in closing their eyes it causes their tail to shoot straight up!  That is why whenever you see a Wort Hog running their tail will be straight in the air!

Then the lion cubs.... they were two months old and it was just them hanging out, mom was out hunting and they were the most playful little things ever!  I could have sat there all day and watched them! 

The baby zebra, our guide say was less than a week old so he was still a little wobbly on his little legs!  

South Africa

All of the animals were more amazing than I could have ever imagined!  I think I never realized how close we were going to actually get to them, unbelievable!!  And pretty much on the first day we had seen all 5 of the "Big 5"!! 

AFRICA!

I have wanted to go to Africa pretty much since I was in the womb and we got to go in October!  My fantastic parents did such a good job planning and organizing I could not have hoped for anything better!  It was the greatest trip we have taken as a family yet!  So we started out in Johannesburg for a night... pretty much saw the airport and our hotel which we could have walked to from the airport but had to wait like a half and hour for a van to take us..??  But woke up the next morning to the staff of the hotel singing and dancing in the lobby!  Because everyone in Africa is born with the amazing ability to sing and dance!  It was amazing!   

Halloween!

I love dressing up!  So it makes Halloween parties a blast, and last night was no different!  It was tons of fun, got very little sleep and had to be at work at 9:00 am the next morning but it was all worth it!  So I went as a boxer and Shane and all his "roomies" went as various Sesame Street characters!