Adios

Adios amigos!  Nosotros estamos ir a Peru y Argentina por siete semanas.
Le gusta mi espanol?

I hope so, because I am not very good, but I am learning and trying.  Luckily Derek is fluent.
Anyway, for all you non-spanish speakers I just wanted to let you know we are headed off to Peru and Argentina for the next 7 weeks.  We leave Sunday.  We love you all, and will see you in May.  I will try and update the blog as often as I can.  But until then, you can picture this if you are wondering where we might be.

Answered Prayers

We have been on our knees about a certain something for many months.  Since about October.  And yesterday, we got our answer.

Yesterday Derek got a call from the lovely people at 

Yes everybody.  

DEREK GOT INTO PHYSICAL THERAPY SCHOOL!!!!!!!!

I won't lie, we were beginning to loose hope of going to to PT School this year.  Derek had accepted the fact of going back to school to raise his GPA and had already started looking into class schedules to start once we get back from our trip.  However, instead of returning to school to re-do what he has already done, he shall return to school to do new things.  Things that he loves and is passionate about.  He starts May 16.  We return from our wanderings in South America on May 12.  Nick of time.  (whew).  

Anyway, that is our life.  We are super busy now.  He has to respond and get student loans and all that jazz set up before we leave, which is in 10 DAYS!  I can't believe it is here.  We've been looking forward to it for so long, it has kind of felt surreal and like it would never come.  But it is coming.  It is nearly here.  

But we would like to say thanks to all our family and friends who kept Derek in your prayers and thoughts and supported us all the way through this long process.  You guys know who you are and you are awesome and loved.  We couldn't have done it without you.

Photos of Beauty

Here are some pictures of our Moab trip.  We didn't take a ton of them....I kinda forgot we had a camera.

Derek on the way to Double O Arch

Feet hanging off the Top O of Double O Arch

I really like this tree

Yoga at the lower O

Good times in beautiful country with beautiful people

Good Things

Good things have been happening lately.

Thursday was a red letter day.  I ran outside.  This may sound trivial and routine to you, but it is the first time I have even tried since December.  And the first time I've had a successful run completely pain free since September.  Red Letter Day.

Friday.  Also a Red Letter Day because Derek, Lisa, and I went to MOAB!!!!!!  Oh my goodness.  And they say milk does a body good.  (That is a load of coo poo-poo)  Moab does a body good.  It rejuvenates the soul and the mine and the body and just makes you feel oh so wonderful.

We did a lot.  We got there late (after dark) and camped at Big Bend.  Not too cold either.

Saturday.  Derek bouldered (my fingers were too cold.  And once they were warm enough I was too lazy to go get my shoes from the car).  We hiked out to Dark Angel and Double O Arch in Arches.  Had a picnic at Sand Dune Arch and played there.  We were going to hike more, but Derek tweaked his knee earlier this week and it was bugging him.
We hit up Wabi.  Good finds.  Work slacks, a wicked cute shirt, and clipless peddles all for $12.

This is where the bad part comes....
They have recently redone the Peace Tree in Moab.  It is finished.  It is not the same.  Yes, they still have smoothies, but the only same flavor is the nasty carrot one.  Needless to say....my heart broke.  It was a rough next hour.  I was very sulky.  Derek and Lisa even took me to my favorite spot in all of Moab, India Ladder.  Nope just sulked up there.  But then we went rockclimbing.....

And it was AWESOME!  We actually did 2 top roped climbs.  Which is good, cuz there were no bolts.  And they would've been beastly to lead (at least for me).  But they were SO FUN!  Oh my goodness.  Love Love LOVED them!   However, we took no pictures of our awesomeness on the wall.  Oh well.

After a satisfying dinner with Christa and Veral and our friend Tami (she and her hubby, Jeff, just moved to Moab on Friday) at the Brewery a pit-stop to say hi to Jeff (he is the new manager at the Sunset Grill) we ended up on Jeff and Tami's pullout couch.

After a lovely, lazy Sunday.  We showed Jeff and Tami Indian Ladder.  Had a picnic WAY BACK in Moonflower Canyon....and by way back I mean in the campground because that is WAY back.  And we came home.

It was FANTASTIC!  the Weather was AMAZING!  oh my goodness.  I feel GOOD!

Lake to Lake 50 Miler

Yes, that is what we did this weekend.  But don't go thinking we are hard core enough to up and do an ultra marathon...because we are not, nor are we that stupid either.  It was a relay.  We had a team of 5: Dad, Lisa, Derek, Nate Tyler, and Shanae (I didn't run, I am not up to running 10 miles yet from the death march of a marathon in October.  So I rode Derek's road bike for nearly the entire thing.  We figure that I rode roughly 40 miles.  And for the first time majorly being in the saddle and first time being on a road bike.  I am pretty proud and not sore.  I want a man seat on my bike when I get one.)

The team did great!  Derek has run about 6 miles total since October when we ran the marathon....once in November for a race and once this last week.  And he did awesome!  He ran fast and hard and he also ran the HARDEST leg of the entire race.  We are all impressed.  Lisa's injury didn't bug her at all and this is the farthest she has run either since the injury.  And Dad just flat out rocked it.

(Exchange between leg 8 & 9.  It looks like they are holding hands but they are just slapping hands)

The team got 15 overall out of 97 teams.  And were the 6 mixed team to come in.  It was really fun.  And really nice, in the 60's.  Ahhhh...sunshine.

Paxton's Posse.

We Got the Runs!  (Get it?  We're Running)

(I wrote that on the car)