On the go

We had quite the exciting weekend.  Never a dull moment at our house.  Shannon, one of my closest friends, decided to text spur of the moment and ask if we wanted to run a half marathon.  Of course, Evan said we should.  So a week and a half before the race, we decided to do a last minute training and go for it.  Shannon killed it, it was her very first half marathon and the course was a beast.  You basically run through a golf course, and it was EXTREMELY hilly.  And for 13 miles, to constantly go up hills was a huge bummer.  Let's just say records aren't made on this course.  And I still can't find my chip time anywhere on their site.  Still a great experience, Evan was his usual perky self and feeding me shock blocks.  At one point he yelled at me 10 mile jelly!  And the ladies behind us started laughing and saying they wished they had someone feeding them jellys at mile 10.  I have to say I am super lucky to have him go super slow with me, when I know he can fly through these things.

Shannon and I before the race started

After the race with Evan.  He is much happier then I was at that point :)

After the race we headed to lunch with my parents, then ran home, showered, and headed up to Snowbird for our work ski day.  It was such a pretty day up there, and totally worth going up.  Great snow, sunshine, and fantastic company.  We work with amazing people that are so fun to be around.

Slow motion trick, great picture. (Thanks Vanessa!)

This was probably two runs before his accident.  We all took a group picture, then took off one by one, with me bringing up the back.  And I saw Evan had double ejected out of his skis.  Normally this doesn't concern me, but since we were spring skiing he didn't have gloves on (none of us did), or a ski jacket, or helmet.  No one thinks twice about any of this, because it's spring skiing, so not exactly pushing yourself.  So when you fall, you are at the mercy of the snow.  Evan popped up and was shaking his hands a bit, got back in his skis and kept on skiing.  I didn't think anything of it.  We stopped before the last run and his face was pretty white and he was complaining about his arm hurting.  So he lifted up his sweatshirt to find this disgusting gash in his arm. At that point, he went completely white and said he wasn't feeling too great.  We skied down, and I high tailed our skis back to the truck, got him in the car and off to instacare we went.  He was not feeling good, and I felt so terrible for him.  We got to instacare, and the Dr. told him the gash was really deep.  We still have no clue what hit him, pole or ski, but it did quite the number on him.  He had to get 3 stitches deep inside his arm, then 4 or 5 on the outside.  On top of it all, he tore some ligaments in his hand so had to get a brace. Overall, he wasn't feeling too great when we left.

Right when we got there, so sad

This was the gash in his arm

And the brace he has to wear for the torn ligaments

And his favorite thing in the whole world, calf compression sleeves

Overall, we did have a good day minus Evan getting pretty hurt.  He has some huge bruises down his legs too and some what looks like road rash on his side.  He got pretty beat up.  But true to Evan form was still happy and not grumpy the whole day and we still did go to the REAL game.  I'm just thankful that he wasn't seriously injured, ski accidents can get pretty scary.  Hope everyone else had a great weekend!

Before/After

Well, we have officially sold our townhome.  It's actually extremely exciting since we were only on the market for 10 days.  I was looking at the before and after pictures last night, and I feel like hardly anything looks the same.  See for yourself!  Keep in mind, the afters were taken by a professional photographer, but hey they look a ton better that way!

As a side note....these before pictures were taken literally after we moved in.  Hence, no blinds and no furniture.  It may or may not have been that way for about 3 weeks, but isn't that the fun of being newly married and moving into a new place?  We've come a long way needless to say.

Family Room Before

Family Room Before



Family Room After

Family Room After

Master Bedroom Before

Master Bedroom Before

Master Bedroom After

This is the guest room, we didn't have a before of it.

Second bathroom before

Second bathroom after 

Master bathroom before

Master bathroom before

Master bath after

Dining Area before

Dining Area after

Kitchen before

Kitchen before

Kitchen after

Kitchen after

A special thanks to both of our parents, for all the jobs we suckered them into doing with us.  Also to Evan, he has learned so quickly how to do basically everything and it's been incredible.  Couldn't have done all of this without them.

Moving

We are officially moving.  It's been a long process, and our townhome still isn't sold quite yet but I feel positive about the whole ordeal.  We have bought a house in Heber, which means our commute will be cute in half.  Actually more then half, it will take us 13 minutes to get to work rather then 40.  It's been a huge debate for us to move that far away from family and friends, but at the end of the day we are only a 45 minute drive away.  Not too terrible.

Evan has been nothing short of incredible through all of this.  We have had non-stop home improvement projects, which both of us are up until midnight most nights just cleaning, painting, and adding finishing touches so our place will appear perfect to whichever potential buyer might want it.  It's been incredibly stressful.  Did I mention it's stressful?  I think I either have ulcers, or will develop hair loss soon.  Not to mention I have acne of a 14 year old again.  Overall, I think I'm stressed to the max.  On top of it all, we live next door to some interesting people.  We have an HOA, you wouldn't know it though.  I have called probably 20 times to inform them there is garbage (empty dresser, couch, clothing, lamps, etc) in their car port.  According to the HOA, this isn't allowed.  Yet, it has been there since the day these people moved in (that was in August).  Needless to say, I haven't been happy with the amount of help the HOA has done, or continues to do.  We pay $210 dollars a month to something, that literally in a nut shell, does nothing.  It's an incredibly frustrating situation.  Since we weren't getting ANY help from the HOA, Evan decided to walk over and talk to the neighbors about their garbage.  After 5 minutes of being over there, I watch him walk out to their car port and start throwing THEIR garbage away.  Did I mention I married an amazing man?  Not only did he talk to them, instead of waiting for them to fix it, he just fixed it himself.  He didn't complain, or throw a fit like I probably would have.  He just calmly moved all of their garbage, and handled the situation.  There are so many instances of Evan being so amazing like this, but this was the cherry on my sundae.  This has been a constant issue of frustration for us, and I am beyond frustrated with our HOA at the moment that this was never handled.  We have had 3 showings in the last 24 hours, and that's only with 3 pictures listed on the MLS.  So hopefully after the photographer comes in today, that means more showings.  And now the showings won't have this overshadowing issue of garbage from our neighbors.  I will be posting before and after pictures of our townhouse, because I honestly think it's night and day how it look from when we moved in until now.  Here's to hoping we sell it!