A road less traveled.

Com-fort,  A state of physical ease and freedom from pain or constraint. Zone, an area or stretch of land having a particular characteristic purpose, or use, or subject to particular restrictions. Do you ever feel that you may be at a state of physical ease in your everyday lives? You may be stressed, have alot going on, but yet your at ease. Do you ever feel a stretch in your everyday Zones? IF yes, why? IF no, why not? This has been on my mind alot, almost all the time. I have been home from Key West for 3 months today. Back in my home town, my home, my family, driving familiar roads, eating at familiar restaurants.. I'm living in my "Comfort", and for those of you that truly know me you will know this has been very difficult for me. I'm a pretty independent and adventurous person and absolutely thrive to experience New things. Stepping out of my comfort zone is something i purposefully couldn't think twice about, even if i tried. I'm grateful for California and Key West where i have been able to experience running those fresh new streets. I hope 5 years from now i have alot more on my list that i have grasped and experienced! If you cant start big my broadening your Comfort Zones, start little, i promise there is something you will learn and grow from every time!

Weekend with Ryan Massey.

Bags. Pillows. Car. Music. Candy. Food. Marathon. Utah Game. Family. Directions. BBQ.

Ryan and I took a road trip up north to Provo area where we spent 3 nights. This is what our weekend consisted of...

Friday- Get on the road. Get Ryan a ice cream cone on the way, as i went potty. :] We went straight to the Provo Mall where i had to pick up my packet for the Halloween Half Marathon that i was running on Saturday. After picking up the packet we went and watched the most depressing world series game e.v.e.r at Ryans pops house in American Fork. After his Pops we went Alpine where we were staying for the weekend! We stayed with really good family friends of mine the Bishops home. They have a beautiful home in Alpine Utah. We went straight to bed when we got there so we would have enough fuel for the big 13.1 mile run in less then 12 hours!!

Saturday- Alarm clocks went off bright and too earlyyy. Okay not necessarily bright, it was rather dark. We got ready to go and headed out. At blessed 5:30 A.M. The Race went down the Provo Canyon, so they were shuttling bus"s from the bottom of the Canyon up to the start of the race from 5:45-6:45 and the race began at 9 A.M. Well, there was just a blow of confusion in the air because Ryan and I could not figure out where these bus's were picking up from the directions that i had! After driving around for a good while we decided to just head up the canyon and hope for the best. We ended up finding where the start was eventually! Ryan dropped me off as i headed off with all the other athletes getting ready for the big 13.1 mile run! They had HUGE football size tents up for all of us to try to stay warm, it was freezing regardless how many people we had crammed in there. 9 o'clock finally hit and off with the shot of the gun we ran, we ran for hours. Lol. The course was beautiful! I kept the pace i wanted the whole way, i finally came into the finish line with a 2:18! Feeling really pretty good. I was sore and felt like i could sleep for hours but it was a great race! October 29th i checked off Half Marathon on my Bucket list! Hallllerrrr. After the race Justin Melissa and there kids, Ryan and I , and Trenton and 2 of his roommates all went to grub at a Mexican restaurant in Provo. After lunch Ryan and I went back to the house we were staying at for me to shower and get clean and ready, we then headed up to SLC to go to the UTAH game at the U. We bought tickets from a guy right outside of the stadium. We had a blast! After the game we went and spent sometime at Justin and Melissa's up in the Avenues of SLC. 
Sunday- Ryan and I slept in as much as we could and then attended a singles ward sacrament, it was the first time Ryan and I had ever been to church together. It was nice sitting my a Handsome Ryan Massey knowing he was mine. After Sacrament we went over to Ryans Uncles house for a family BBQ, in American Fork. Ryans Pop Richard, Lauri and there 4 kids came over. Ryans Sister Alyse came from SLC. It was alot of fun to hang and be with his family. We ate dinner and later carved Pumpkins with all the kids. Family time is alot of fun and always needed. I was awesome getting to know Ryans family a little better. 
Monday- Took a little 3 mile jont around the neighborhood with Ryan in the A.M. It felt good to get out and run. We then packed up went to breakfast and did a few more errands and said goodbye to some family and friends and headed home to St George. 

We both had a great weekend together. I love being with Ryan no matter what we are doing. The weekend was a success!

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Halloween Half Marathon, October 29, 2011

Trained. Trained. Trained. And the race finally came!

I concurred running 13.1 Miles. The race began 9 a.m. at the top of Provo canyon, the trail was mostly downhill or flat with a few up hill jaunts. It was pretty cold at the start of the race but at about mile 3 i felt warmed up. The trail was beautiful and wayy fun to run! I hope to run this race again next year. I finished about 15 minutes under my goal with a 2:20!! Not to bad. I cant wait for the next Half Marathon or Marathon in the near future. Having goals to run races has been alot of fun. Having goals and following threw and reaching those goals adds to your life story and journey!

L.O.V.E.  I.T.

xoxoxo

Cause this is Thriller! Thriller night. Dun. Dun. Dun.

 

Thriller at Tuacahn 2011

 

Music. Dancing. Costumes. Smiles. Screaming. Lights. Laughing.

Ryan and I went and saw this show the other night. It was WAY good! Such great dancing, costumes, music, everything. It was very well put together! We both hadn't been to Tuacahn in a long time, Ryan hadn't been since before his mission, and i haven't been in about 2 years as well so it was nice to be able to see something there again, the Venue at Tuacahn is nothing like anything else! We really do live in a Beautiful part of Utah. We had a great time, especially trying to become friends with the zombiesss. Before the show started Ryan went to the bathroom so i was standing outside with everyone else waiting to walk into the actual theater, and i was standing there grabbing out my camera and all of the sudden i feel breathing on me/my back and i turned around and there was a zombie just chillin practically on mee. Oh. My. Heck. It scared me SOO bad. I got so scared that my first thought was i wanted to hit the zombie. Lol! I watched my back from then on, even when i was with Ryan.

Friday October 7, 2011

Las Vegas Neveda. Road Trip. Laughs. Smiles. Storys. Music. Ryan.

Temple Recommends. Temple. Dinner. Lights. Fall.

Friday Ryan and I headed to Vegas to do Baptisms for the Dead in the Temple. We both had never been to that temple before so it was new to the both of us. We were only able to do 15 Baptisms, but it was was enough for us we were excited just to be there. Ryan being Endowed was able to do the baptisms, yes he dunked me. Im grateful for worthy friends and a boy like Ryan that holds true to the Priestood and Responsiblities he holds. That we could both enter the house of the Lord unashamed. After baptisms we went and had dinner. Literally tooks us 1 hour to find and decide where we were going to eat! All i have to say is DONT rely on a GPS to get you to the resturant you are wanting. It DOESNT work. :] All in all we ended up at the Cannery Casino for dinner. BUT the best part is this story... We decided to eat at a Italian Resturant inside the Casino. So we had been sitting for about 10 minutes when Ryan notices this older man being seated alone. Ryan and i were both a little confused trying to figure out if someone was meeting him at the Resturant or if he was going to be eating alone. Ryan looked at me and asked should we invite him to join us for dinner?! I was kinda blown away at Ryans thought, and i said Of course, thats a great idea! I walked over to the man a few minutes later and asked if he had someone meeting him for dinner, he told me he didnt. So i then asked if he would like to join us for dinner tonight or if he needed alone time? He answered, that is very very nice of you guys but i would like to have some alone time, thank you very much for the offer. I told him, not a problem and went and sat back down with Ryan... Ryan and I ate dinner and as we were finishing up out Waitress came to our table and told us that our Bill for dinner was taken care of! We were a little confused. Ryan and i glanced over at the man we invited to sit with us and we just smiled. That handsome older man took care of our dinner! We both were BLOWN away. Ryan and i walked over and thanked him before we left.

There are great people out there in the world. Ryan and i were very
grateful, and we will do our part and pay it forward!

St. George Marathon 2011.

A big shout out to T-Rent Blair and Kalen Thomas for running the

 St. George Marathon! Both running it in under 4 hours!! 

Runners. Family's. Cheering. Music. Signs. Motivation. Food. Water. 

There were so many people everywhere cheering there husbands, wife's, dads, moms, brothers, sisters, family on! Ive got to hand it to all the finishers in running this year! Its a long race and takes lots of training and preparation. Wayyy to go! 

Especially Trent and Kalen, you ROCKED! Great job boys. :]