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Memorial Day Tradition

Memorial day is always a fun time for Ryan and I because his Grandpa Hunt is buried in the Paragonah cemetery. Growing up he and his family would always come south for memorial day to put up the flag on his grandpa's grave at sunrise, which is a tradition at the Paragonah cemetery. Since moving to Cedar for college Ryan has carried on this tradition by himself and then I joined him 5 yrs. ago when we started dating. I always love doing this with him because we get to watch the sunrise together and it is always so pretty and peaceful at 5 in the morning. Another perk is meeting up with his great aunts Janet and Wanda who are still so funny and feisty! I love to sit and listen to all of their stories about growing up in a SMALL town many years ago and all of the things they got away with.
Here are a few pics from this years Memorial Day Sunrise Flag Raise...

Midnight 5K!

I just ran my first 5K! It was the midnight 5K in St. George and everyone got glow sticks to wear. Thanks to my sister Cassie for getting me to sign on (by enticing me with getting a glow in the dark shirt) and to Ryan who encouraged me to keep working even though when I started I couldn't even run a full mile straight! I can now run 4 miles and counting... and for some insane reason have just joined a Red Rock Relay team. (A team of 12 running just short of 200 miles from Brian Head to Santa Clara)

Here are some pics from the fun night!

Ryan ran it with me. He can out run me by far! I told him that he didn't have to wait and he finished in 28 mins.







Don't we look ready? Too bad it was harder than I thought. It was kinda uphill which to me trying to run seemed REALLY uphill. But Cassie did amazing, she ran the entire way and finished just a minute behind me. I ran it in 36 mins and she in 37 mins, which was amazing considering the fact that she had only ran up to 1.5 miles continuously in her training.






I was trying to show all of my fun glow in the dark stuff but it didn't really show in the pic.










Here we all are with our "before" faces on. Riley smoked us all in 24 mins!






Here I am with my "after" red and sweaty face. At least Ryan waited for me to stop hyperventilating before he took the pic. I thought the finish line was closer than it really was and I used the gas pedal WAY to early. I was dying when I finished.