Day 25- A first

Well, the first that I would like to remember is my first race. It was last year on April 16th. I have already posted about it, but so you don't have to look it up I will remind you! :) Before last year, I never considered myself athletic. I'm not good at sports, I have sports induced asthma, I'm clumsy, etc. I always wanted to be, but I just was never consistent enough in anything to improve my skill.
With that being said, when Maylee was 2 months old I decided to become a water aerobics instructor. I alway had thought that would be fun to do and a good motivation to keep me in shape. So then I really started looking at weight loss and different ways to get into shape. My sister in law had asked me if I had ever had any interest in doing a triathlon, while I was still pregnant, I laughed in her face. I thought I would never do that, and besides I didn't have a bike. AND I didn't know how to swim! But then a couple months later I was talking to a new friend who had done a couple of triathlons and a few other races, and talking to her I started to think that I probably really could do that.
So I made my 2010 goal to do a sprint triathlon. The specific one I wanted to do was an all women race, but I missed the sign up day and then they sold out. So this lovely friend of mine, called me and said, I know you really wanted to do that sprint triathlon, but what about an olympic?? I have no clue what I was thinking, but after long deliberation and a few nausea spells, I said yes!
So I immediately started training. This was the end of January and the race was July 31st. In April I found out about a sprint tri that was being held at the rec center where I worked, it was pretty much half of what I was doing for the olympic and I was half way down in my training so I signed up for it to get a good gauge of how I was doing. That race was so awesome! I still look to it as a time where I was on top of the world! I seriously could do anything after that race! I beat al the goal times I had for my self, and I felt so good and strong! I ran a few other races that year, and unfortunately was not able to do the olympic, because my grandma died two days before the race. Instead of spending money to travel to the race, we spent it going to the funeral. So that was my first race! And it was amazing and I got hooked!

Me after the race with my bike :)

Day 24- Something that makes you Cry

Oh geez, really?

Well, if you know me at all, I cry at the drop of a hat! Any feeling of emotion, I cry! I can be happy, angry, guilty, sad, grateful, humble, whatever, and I cry! I am also a very empathetic crier too! Don't worry if you start to cry around me, cause I'll cry right a long with you! I don't think I need to go really deep into detail with this one, I have enough personal posts on here, I'm sure you can piece together what makes me cry!

Day 23- Something that Makes me feel better

What and appropriate post to follow the last one! This one I'm just going to put pictures up, because they are pretty self explanitory!

Couldn't find a bigger picture of Christ that would upload, the size of the picture is no indication of how important these different things in my life are!

Day 22- something that upsets me

Oh gee! I get upset everyday! But when I think about things that really upset me, that I have a hard time letting go of... there are a few.

I really hate feeling judged. I hate feeling like people are watching me and waiting for me to do something wrong, or looking for something to criticize. I know that is insecurity talking, but that's why it upsets me. I try really hard to live the best way I can, and to make good decisions, and to make my life about my family and what we want and what's best for us. So then when someone comes into my life and makes me feel this way I get upset at myself for allowing that, but then I get upset with them too for being that way! :) I feel like it is very insecure and immature on their part too. I am such a pleaser, which I know can be a bad thing, but I think the root of my pleasing is that I want people to be happy. So when my efforts aren't good enough to make people happy, it bothers me.

And now that I am fired up on that subject, I can't really think of other things that upset me that don't sound totally random and out of place now! :) But I'm still gonna tell you because I am sure you are dying of curiosity to know what other things I think are worth mentioning on a blog! :)

Another thing that I thought of was when missionaries go out and break the rules and make a bad name for the church. I hate that. I won't dwell, but whenever I hear stories about that I get sick to my stomach it bothers me so much.

I also hate hearing stories about people who hurt children. Don't need to dwell on that either, makes me feel sick to my stomach too though.

So there you have it. Things that upset me! (can you tell what has been on my mind lately??) :)

Day 21- Another Moment

I don't really like these moment posts, because I have no clue what to "do" for my moment! I did however, have kind of an interesting moment today at work.
I teach a low intensity water aerobics class at 9am, and today only one little lady showed up. So we started talking our usual chatter, and she started telling me how her granddaughter has been pretty sick lately. Not sure how the conversation developed, but she was then telling me about the death of her mother, father, brother, sister, all in the course of three months. Actually her dad had died a few years earlier, but the mom and siblings all died within the course of three months. Of course that developed into more conversation about death and coping with death. She is LDS as well, and so of course we were talking about how nice it is to have the plan of salvation and to have hope and peace when our loved ones die.
Having this conversation in the middle of a public pool, with a virtual stranger, so to speak, made me really grateful for this time that I have to live in utah. It is so nice to be able to share my testimony and talk about my beliefs so openly, and have them reciprocated! I feel really grateful for the strength that has provided me.
I have always thought I didn't want to stay in Utah forever. I liked growing up outside of Utah and realizing that I was different, and that my knowledge of the gospel was a huge blessing, and that most people in the world do not believe the same things I do. Now that I have been here for almost 11 years, I wonder if we will ever have the opportunity to leave, or if we are supposed to raise our family here, either way I am fine. I really enjoy the blessings of living here.
It's funny actually, because I look at the girls I work with now and how badly some of them just want to be different than everyone else, so they rebel. When I was growing up I struggled because I was different from everyone else and I just wanted to be "normal" so I would rebel!
Not sure what the point really is to this "moment", except for the fact that I think it is really cool to talk about the gospel in a pool so publicly! I'm glad that I get to do it now, because I don't know where we will end up, and I know I will miss having something in common with most people I meet. the end. :)

Day 20- This Month

I would say, you asked for it, but you really didn't, so here goes! :)

APRIL
April 1 - Maylee's 2nd birthday!! (It was a great day, butterfly theme, post to come eventually!) :) 50 mile bike ride
April 2- General Conference, yard sale pick ups (for yw), GNO, 20 mile ride
April 3- General Conference, Dinner with fam.
April 4- 15 mile bike ride, nothing else I can think of... other than the usual house keeping and children tending :)
April 5- Blake's day off! Kaleb preschool, Trafalga with the kids and mutual in the evening
April 6- 25 mile ride, work 9-11am
April 7- 10 mile ride, lots and lots of laundry and house cleaning to get ready for st. george, Kaleb preschool
April 8- 5 mile ride, work 9-11am, drove to st.george for race
Apirl 9- RACE DAY! Too bad it didn't happen because I was too scared to ride 100mile in the snow and rain! Way too dangerous for me! Big bummer, but we had a fun weekend anyways.
April 10- Drive home from St. George, dinner with family
April 11- run 12 miles, grocery shopping, recover from trip, do more laundry!
April 12- Blake's Day off! Kaleb preschool, spent the day at Thanksgiving point at the animal farm, mutual in the evening
April 13th- 5 mile run, work, hopefully another day at thanksgiving point with the sisters and kids, kids have slumber party with grandma and grandpa
April 14th- 4 mile run, kaleb preschool, Bro. in laws birthday party, pres. meeting
April 15th- work, hopefully something fun later in the day!
April 16- 9 mile run, Niece's 4th birthday, friends babyshower/ blessingway
Apirl 17- ward council, pres meeting with camp director's ,church, pres. meeting with bishop, dinner with family
april 18- run 3 miles
april 19- Blake's day off, so something fun with the family, kaleb preschool, ward yard sale pick up for mutual, friend Jessica comes into town
april 20- work, run 4 miles
april 21- kaleb preschool, stake YW camp leadership meeting, jessica leaves, run 3 miles
april 22-
april 23- run 8 miles, easter festivities
April 24- Easter!!
April 25- run 3 miles
April 26- Kaleb preschool, blake's day off, mutual
Apirl 27- run 3 miles
April 28- walk 2 miles
April 29- Bro. in law's graduation, jessica comes back to town
April 30- RACE DAY!! half marathon with jessica, tea party in the afternoon

It's crazy to think that there are SO many more people that have so much more going on in their lives! I have a hard time balancing what I've got going on!

Day 19- Something I regret

I regret loosing my temper. I have way too short of a fuse, and there have many many innocent by standers when that fuse blows. It never achieves a desirable outcome when one looses his temper. :)

Day 18- My favorite memory

How can you choose just one?? I can't! So here is a briefing in the top 5...

*I love remembering my wedding day and my endowment in the temple. These go hand in hand because the memory is of being in the temple for the first time(s) with Blake. Just remembering those feelings and thoughts of reassurance and comfort that what I was doing was right. And remembering how much in love with him I was. I really felt like we could take on the world, just me and him, because we had each other. So when life gets hard I always think back to those feelings and I feel reassurance and comfort again, because let's be honest, I still really am head over heals in love with the guy! And I know that we can conquer the world together!!

*Of course, I love remembering my children, their births, milestones, and just them learning and growing and all the funny things they do. They make me so happy, it always helps on a bad day to remember those times and it makes my hard day seem a more worth it!

*I love remembering my freshman and sophomore year in high school. Those two years were life changing and defining in my life. There were a lot of trails and sad things, but also a lot of really happy moments. Sometimes I wish I could just go back for one day and be that girl again. Just so I could really feel it again, instead of remember it. If that makes sense...

*I like remembering the two single years I had after high school, before I met Blake. Those were some good times! I had awesome roommates, and we had a ton of fun together and lots of adventures.

* Also when we lived in St. George. That time was so care free and so fun. It was before we had any kids and we both worked full time jobs. I laugh that we thought we were broke then! We seriously could do whatever we wanted! It was fun.


I have been blessed with a good life! I'm sure I will be able to look back on this time in my life right now and count it in my favorite memories also. I know I'm going to miss these little rug rats like crazy when they are teenagers!!

Day 17- My favorite Birthday

I have had a lot of great birthdays! This past year was really great, and I have already talked about it during this challenge. So I will tell you about my 22nd birthday.

We were living in St. George at the time. I woke up early because I had to work that day, I don't think he had to go in for a couple of hours so he was still asleep. When I was ready to go I woke him up to say morning prayers together, kissed him goodbye and left the house. Noticing there was no mention of my birthday from him! I thought I would let it slide for a little bit, because really, how accountable can you hold someone who is half awake? I got to work, and was showered with happy birthday wishes and hugs, in fact, they even decorated my chair for me (I was an orthodontic assistant at the time)! I felt so special! I kept making little stops by my phone when I could to see if I would get a text from him... never did. At lunch the girls took me out, I took the opportunity to call Blake and "see how his day was going" :) We talked for a few minutes, he told me how his day was, I told him mine had been great so far and the girls were taking me out to lunch. He said "oh, that's nice of them." When it was time to say good bye, I said, "Just so you know, everyone and their dog has said happy birthday to me today but you." He quickly responded with a "The day isn't over yet!"
So me, being me, thought oh sweet, he is going to make such a big deal to try to make up for this! So I keep looking at the door, waiting for flowers or some sort of special delivery. Then all of the sudden this beautiful, very expensive arrangement came walking through the door. My heart skiped a beat, I was so happy! He actually totally came through! Until I looked at hte card and it was a delivery for my co worker from her husband... just to say I love you! My heart sunk. Seriously, a random delivery on all days it had to e my birthday? Not just my birthday, but the birthday that MY husband forgot?? This was not good for Blake!
I got home from work that night with high hopes still. Knowing that blake isn't one for a ton of show, I thoguht he probably had something planned at home. I was wrong. Nothing. Nothing at all. So we then proceeded to get into a "Discussion" about how you don't forget birthdays, and when you do, and then are reminded about them, you need to do something!! Even just a sweet homemade card or text that recognized how this was the greatest day of all because it was the day that your one and only true love came into this world! His argument... he didn't think he needed to do something because we were having a family party on friday to celebrate (this was tuesday). Now I am betting that 100% of my readers are women. So I don't need to go into how ridiculous this argument is!!
So after a lengthy discussion, blake finally agreed to take me out to dinner. Too bad it was his little brother tagged along and they chose to eat at China Buffet, the single most disgusting restaurant in St. George! AND I had even vetoed it! But we still went!!

So why, you may ask is this my favorite birthday? Well now that is is 5 year later I look back on it and realize how funny that day was, and also because that family party that we had planned on friday tuned into this...

My very own surprise princess party! Complete with a homemade cake, thrown, crown, and staff!

Day 16- My Dreams

This is a hard one! My dreams have definitely changed over the corse of years! I have temporal dreams, eternal dreams, physical (as in physique) dreams, etc. And what differentiates a dream from a goal??

So here is what I have concluded for this post...
The greatest desire I have in my life is mine and my family's eternal salvation. I know that might sound holier than thou, self righteous, or preachy. But that is not how I want it portrayed.

When I think of true success, I think of Blake and I being able to overcome our challenges that we have that keep us down. I picture being able to raise my children with love and consistentcy, that they are happy, and good people. That they have a love for the gospel and live it. I picture us being able to serve in whatever way we are asked, being financially stable and self reliant. Lots of grandkids, and able to be examples to our family of righteousness.

I could go on and on, but I think that whoever is reading this gets the point. That is my number one dream. I feel unless that is my number one priority, than I am off track, and I need to realign my focus. So there you have it!

Day 15- My First Kiss

Well this will be a fun one for everyone! I wish my fish kiss was as cute as this little picture... but what I consider to be my first kiss, was not! I did have little crushes when I was little, and always played kissing tag, and my mom tells a story about catching my in the back yard when I was four kissing our neighbor boy Marcus. But I don't count those experiences.
My first "real" kiss was when I was 14, in 8th grade. His name, Raheem Nasheem McNair. Yes, he was black, and yes you can make fun of me for his name! I actually didn't even like this boy until he asked me out, he was pretty popular, and lots of girls liked him. So it surprised me when he asked me out, and I said yes, basically because I knew other people who liked him, and I felt cool. We "went out" for a week. Which consisted of him walking me to my classes, holding my hand, and eating lunch together. On our third day going out he asked me for a kiss before class, I said yes, and gave him a "peck". After class was lunch time. He got a sub sandwich with jalapenos on it! Can you see where this is going??? So after lunch he walks me to Art class, and asks me for another kiss, I willingly oblige with another peck. He looks at me and says, "no, french." Seriously! I felt so stupid, and so pressured I just did it. I had friends in the hall that saw, and it was so disgusting. Not just the whole jalapeno thing either! I walked into my class and immediately felt sick to my stomach and so ashamed. All I could think about was how I just did something that I shouldn't have done. The next day we broke up and he went out with my best friend. Totally not worth it!
Moral of the story?? Just because someone else might think it's cool, doesn't mean it's cool. :)
There you have it! Not a very good first kiss story! A little funny... but in no way romantic, or worthy of fireworks, like it should have been! Now because I shared this, I want to hear your story! Regardless if you are doing a 30 day challenge or not!

Day 14- What you wore today

Seriously, this again?? refer to my last post like three days ago... probably pretty similar! :)

Day 13- This Week

My week this week has been interesting. I have had a lot of up moments, and I am looking forward a century ride this weekend in St. George, but I also have had a few low, unmotivated moments. I think it must be the weather. I am so ready for it to be high 60's for like a month. I'm ready for sun, and days at the park! Last weekend was General Conference, and as always that is always great. Great uplifting, inspiring messages, and lots of family time and good food. It has been pretty rainy and dreary this week, but I got two good rides in on Monday and Tuesday so that was great. Got a new phone yesterday, so that is fun too. Tomorrow I work, and then concentrate on getting packed and ready for our trip. Sounds like it is going to rain on Saturday... I am nervous for that. I have never ridden in the rain, and it can be very dangerous, and slow your speed way down. So I am praying that the weather will be good enough for me to attain my goal. And that is about it for this week! I also made an amazing teriyaki chicken and rice for dinner tonight, that is definitely a highlight! :)

Day 12- What's in your bag

I didn't know the other day when I cleaned my purse out that I would have a post like this! Currently, I have my wallet, keys, cellphone, checkbook, diaper, wipes, chapstick, lotion, hand sanitizer, and lip gloss.
Usually I have a billion receipts, shoes, socks, maybe some undies, maybe some half eaten snacks, maybe a milk cup... it is always a surprise in my purse!

*note: not actual purse shown... just a really cute one that I would love!

Day 11- My siblings

Alrighty. So to give you a brief synopsis of my siblings.... I have 1 brother and 4 sisters, totaling 6 kids.
Jason- my brother. Poor guy, always wanted another brother, and the morning I was born he cried when my dad told him I was a girl. Then he tried to comfort him by saying, "maybe next time buddy." Almost 7 years later my two little twin sisters were born. Needless to say, Jason had a boy dog. :) Jason is 33, single, and living in Washington. He has a heart of gold, and is always looking for a way to better someone else's life. He recently spent 18 months in Asia teaching english and hygiene to small remote villages. When he comes home to visit (about 2 a year for several weeks each time) he always adds more landscaping to my moms yard, deep cleans/ organizes her house, takes the nephews out on dates, etc. He is a great guy, and I don't get to see him enough!

Katie- is the oldest of the girls, and basically my second mom growing up. Her and I would play barbies for hours when we were little, and I'm sure we still would if life circumstances would allow it! She is married, with 4 kids, the youngest being the other and first Davis granddaughter. She currently lives in American Fork, UT. We typically see each other at least once a week, usually a lunch date with the sisters and mom, or another family type gathering. We love getting our kids together and play.

Mandy- is the next sister. She is 2 1/2 years older than me. We used to get into some pretty narly fights when we were in Jr. high and high school! I still have nail marks on my arms to prove it! Usually over someone wearing someone else's shirt or another article of clothing! She is now married and has 3 boys, and lives in Orem! I am happy to say that we don't get into nearly as narly of fights anymore! :)

Molly- she is the first of the twins. She is currently going to Snow college, I'm pretty sure doing their pre nursing program there. She changes her mind a lot on what she actually wants to do when she grows up. Her interests include, creative fashion apparel, art, photography, signing, acting, and BOYS! One of my favorite quotes from molly is, "I love black people, I wish I was one!"

Megan- The youngest of us all. She is currently going to USU, and working on finishing up her associates degree, which will be the first degree earned by any of the Davis girls! She loves singing and currently sings with the USU choir. Both her and Molly have desires to serve missions, but they are both boy crazy, so let's see if they make it!

All of my siblings are stinking hilarious. When we get together there is always a lot of laughter, which in turn is really funny because we all have the same laugh. We are very lucky (us sisters, at least) to live so close right now. it hasn't always been this way and probably won't stay this way so we are taking advantage while we can!

P.S. This picture was taken this past Christmas when we all went sledding with our kids.