Running the Gap

Daniel ran his first ever Marathon on September 4th. He did the 'Running the Gap' marathon in Pocatello, Idaho. His time was 4 hours and 19 minutes.

Thank you to everyone who came and supported him!

San Jose July 2010

Daniel got invited by his professor to go to a NASA Lunar conference in San Jose, California. We left Sunday the 18th after church and headed out to Reno. The road we took to about Winnamucca had hardly anyone on it! If we had run out of gas or something no one would have been there to help us. Luckily we made it safely to I-80. Sunday night we stayed in Reno, Nevada at Circus Circus.

On Monday we ate breakfast in Reno and drove to Sunnyvale, California (10 Minutes East of San Jose). Since it was my 22nd Birthday we went out to eat at Chili's.

On Tuesday we went to the conference...I mostly tried to look like I knew what was going on, then gave up and slept. The food at the conference was amazing though! We ate our breakfasts and lunches there. Tuesday night we went into Downtown San Jose, it was kind of a let down. They have a Japan Town there but the musuem was closed. I did however, get to eat sushi.

On Wednesday I was smarter and took family history stuff to do. Daniel then delivered his 3 minute speech about the research he is doing and was able to make some connections after with other researchers. That night we went to the bay and watch people windsail. We then went to the campus of Stanford University, it was so beautiful!

Thursday checked out of our hotel and went to the conference until about 1pm. We then left and drove straight to Kaysville. We arrived in Kaysville at 1:30am. The next day we went to a Bee's Baseball game with the Garrett's

22nd Birthday

For my 22nd Birthday my dad and I took my sister-in-law Rachel on a horseback trail ride. It was the first time I had been on a horse in 2 years! I enjoyed the ride but as always I found it annoying all the work that has to go into getting the horses ready. Molly and I had a good ride, we just get along really well.

After the horse ride I organized my bedroom at home and got rid of some junk.

We then had a BBQ with Dad, Mom, Jake, Todd, Kari, Daniel, John, Rachel, and me.

It was a good birthday :)

4th of July Weekend

Daniel and I spent the 4th of July weekend in Rockland, Idaho. We stayed with my aunt and uncle, Kris and Tonia. On their property they have the bus that my Great-Grandpa Wiese turned into a touring vehicle, we stayed Friday night and Saturday night in the bus.

The first night I was scared a Coyote was trying to get in the bus but when Daniel made me see what it was for real, it turned out to be one of the many cats on the property.

Cats on the Arbor.

Friday morning we woke up early and ran the Rockland 5K. It was my first 5k Ever! It was really cold though. We then enjoyed the festivities of the 4th of July in Rockland: candy drop from an airplane, pig chase, chicken chase, and food. Jacob, my brother, ended up catching one of the greased pigs!

Saturday afternoon Dan and I watched the world cup while Dad, Erin, Jacob, Tiana, Kris, and Grandpa hauled hay.

In the evening we took the airboat out on the Snake River at Massacre Rocks.

Sunday morning we went to church in American Falls. We then ate lunch at Grandpa and Grandma's and then visited Matt, Sheila, and Laurana before returning home.

RAGNAR June 18th-19th

RAGNAR is a relay race that is run in teams of 12. Each team has 2 vans, 2 drivers, 3 volunteers, and 12 runners. There are about a dozen RAGNAR races across America. This RAGNAR Realy Race is called Wasatch Back. It starts in Logan and goes to Park City after going down to Heber City. It is roughly 188 miles. Dan's Aunt Myndee put together a team to run this year, the team name was: Come What May and Love It! Their team number was 911.

The Subaru decorated for the event

Each team had to have three volunteers so Sarah (Sister-In-Law), Stacey (Alex's girlfriend) and I took a volunteering shift from 2AM to 7AM Friday morning. Our job was to sign in teams from the number 400-600. It was pretty fun and not too hard to do, even though it was pretty cold! There were over 1,000 teams registered for the event. We also got cool volunteer shirts.

Van 1 had a sister-in-law to Myndee, some of Myndee's nieces and a mother and son that Alex knows through rock climbing.

Van 2 in the order of runners was: Melissa (Myndee's friend), Myndee (Dan's Aunt), Mitch (Sarah's Fiance), Justin (Dan's Cousin), Alex (Dan's Cousin), and Dan. Dan's Uncle Randy drove Van 2.

Melissa, Dan, Alex, Myndee, Justin, Mitch

The whole team after the race. Team 911 ran the relay race in 30 hours, 24 minutes, and 6 seconds! They came in 233 out of 658 coed teams!

Primary Lesson

The primary lesson for June 6th was about the 10 Commandments and how the Children of Isreal were disobedient while Moses was gone. Daniel thought up the perfect lesson for this and this is how it played out:
So I always teach the lesson and the students are always asking when Dan is going to teach. This week he came in and said, "Alright I have a great lesson that I am going to teach this week but I have to run home and grab all of my stuff for it. Clint you are going to be the reverence police while I am gone and you are in charge, pretend like you are Aaron Moses' brother" At first the kids were reverent...so I tried to get them a little more hyper by giving them chalk for the chalk board. The best comment given by one of the students while Dan was gone was, "The lesson isn't going to be worth it if it is going to take him this long to get the stuff."
When Dan came back with his backpack the kids were hyper and yelling and such. Dan then totally laid into Clint about why the kids were misbehaving. I thought that Clint was going to cry! (Note: Clint is the most hyper student in our class). Dan then told the kids that since they weren't reverent while he was gone they couldn't do the fun lesson and he would have to go back and grab the binder to teach out of.
When he came back the second time Clint kept saying, "Let's just do the fun lesson instead."
One of the younger girls that was in our class because their teacher was gone said, "He chose Clint to be the reverent police because he wouldn't keep us reverent."
Dan then explained to the kids the story about Moses and the 10 Commandments and how the Isrealites were when he was gone. :)

Get A New Car: Check / Sell The Old Car: Check

That's right we finally got a new car. Daniel had been thinking about it for a while, but after a hot drive down to Bluffdale and Kaysville for Mother's Day he decided that it was time to get a vehicle with air conditioning. We both researched cars for a couple of weeks and had narrowed what we wanted down to 3: Toyota Corolla, Mazda 3 Hatchback, and Subaru Impreza Hatchback. After test driving a Corolla and a Subaru we decided we like the Subaru better. We then looked at what Dealerships down in Salt Lake had. In the end we ended up with a 2006

Black Subaru Impreza.

Tuesday night we put an ad on KSL.com for our truck, that site works! We got 4 calls within 24 hours. We were lucky to only have 2 vehicles for one hour. A guy drove up from Castledale to buy our truck.

Goodbye truck!

So I can brag right?

I just had to get on here and say that Daniel and I both got 4.0s this semester! I'm pretty sure this is my first 4.0...

Second Chance 5k 04.24.2010

The Second Chance 5k is an anual run that starts in the Health and Wellness parking lot at Utah State. The funds from the run go to organ donation and many people run who have either donated organs, know someone who has recieved organs, or they have personally received organs.

Last year I went and watched Tonia run the race. This year I was able to watch many members of my family participate. This is the order and some times of my families members:

1. Mitch (future bro-in-law) got 2nd place all around and 1st place for men. Around 20 min.

2.Phil (Uncle) Note, it was his 42nd birthday. Around 24 min.

3. Daniel (My Love :) ) Between 24 & 28 min.

4. Tonia (Aunt) Around 28 min.

5. TM (Cousin) 1st place for girls!!! woot

6. CE (Cousin) came in with TM. First Time

7.Shelley (Aunt) First Time

8. CL (Cousin) First time!

Dan and Mitch after the run

Here are all the people that were in our group.

Spring Break

For those of you who were wondering what we did for Spring Break...

On Monday we left around 2pm and headed down to Park City following as closely as we could to the relay race Daniel will be running in June. When we reached Park City we made a quick pit stop at McDonald's to eat and check our e-mails. So cool that places are providing WiFi! After a couple of wrong turns...we went to the Olympic Park. We had a great time there, everything is free, you can even walk around the park for free if you would like. We paid $7 each to go on a shuttle bus where a tour guide explained everything to us. The tour guide was able to tell us all sorts of cool facts about the sports and how they train in the summer. After that we went to main street Park City to walk around and so I could buy a magnet.

On our way back to my house we stopped and bought some running shoes. We stayed the night at my parents' house.

On Tuesday we picked my dad up from his work and went to a German deli. We had some good food there! We then dropped my dad off and went to the Old Dutch Shope to buy some European candies. After that we headed up to Kaysville and put together a bookshelf.

On Wednesday we went to Rachel's school play. It was so cute! I loved it. I was glad she wasn't a book worm like she wanted to be...I thought that they were annoying. We then packed up and went home and spent the rest of the week watching almost every NCAA Men's Basketball Game.

I Did It!

It took me 9 months but I just finished transferring all of the names in my Grandma Peeler's PAF file to mine! Now I need to go back through the list to compare what New Family Search has. Anyway I just wanted to share my joy!

USU Vs. Fresno State

Family History

First of all I would like to say how grateful I am that I have the time and the desire to do Family History work. :)

I have almosted indexed 10,000 names!

Right now I am working on my Peeler PAF files, I am updating them from what my Grandmother had. I am to the Surnames that start with T! Only T,U,V,W,X,Y, and Z left. I hope to complete them before the one year anniversary of my Grandmother's death.

There have been some frustrations with the family history work:

First, I have about 3 great-something- grandmothers who supposedly were never married. I have searched birth records, death records, and censuses and they were never listed with any husbands.

I really want to know where the Garrett's come from. Today I tackled Moses Gerritt/Garrett, he was born in the Netherlands and died in Pennsylvania. I was able to find his death record but that was about it. There might be something to Grandma Garrett saying they're Jewish though, there was a Moses Gerrits in Pennsylvania who buried his son in a Hebrew cemetery.

I did have some success today though, I was able to go back to Danie's 14th Great Grandfather, William Gillespie born around 1510 in Scotland.

My number one fear is that somehow someday I will loose all my PAF files. To prevent this I keep them on my jump drive as well, but you never know.

The good, the bad, the funny...

Word to the wise...never say things can only go up from here...trust me they can always go farther down. Last week when I locked my keys in my truck I said, "Well things can only go up!" No, it should be things could be worse! This morning I backed into our front door neighbor as he was also pulling onto the strett. :( That was not fun, I was shooken up all day.
Luckily today was a practicum day so I got to spend it with an amazing teacher and 1st graders! :)
This morning the teacher asked the students what they do in school on Saturdays, of course they answered that they don't go to school on Saturdays. She asked them what another day was that they don't go to school on. They said Sunday. This funny boy I was standing by said mostly to himself, "We go to church, to learn about Jesus." It was funny
The kids took math tests today, the teacher told them to cover their answers when they were finished. Some of them covered just the answer that was correct with their finger, leaving the rest to be seen.
Today I received my first teacher note it read:
Dear Mrs. Garret,
Thanks for all your hard teaching. You are the best! I hope you have a great time as a real teacher. I hope that you get to have fun.
Love,
D and R
Sometimes life is good, sometimes bad, but it is always funny

Some interesting things happened at church today. The first thing was hilarious, during the sacrament, a little boy sitting next to us pressed a button on his Lightning McQueen car and in the dead silence it said, "The Checkered Flag is Mine." The talks today were about weaknesses and how we all have them to over come them. The second speaker talked about how he doesn't have empathy for people and in my head I was like, "Where is this going?" Then I was touched, he was with the group of people who went to Nutty Putty Caves Thanksgiving week. He is good friends with the brother of the guy who died. He said that he had overcome his weekness because he was one of the people that stayed with and comforted the guy stuck in the cave.
During Primary we taught the kids about the Fall of Adam and Eve, I was surprised because they actually enjoyed reading in the scriptures this week. During sharing time Dan had a contact come out. All the kids looked at me questionably as he left to fix it, I told them his eye had fallen out. I love teaching Primary with Daniel.

New Year New Hobbies

I blame my attempt at blogging on a couple of things:

1. My 7:30 AM Technology Class

2. Daniel says that I need to engage myself in activities that 'sharpen the saw', I don't know if this counts, but if computer games count, then ya this counts.

3. Lack of scrapbooking supplies in my home, and the lack of money to print all my beautiful pictures.

4. My hating of writing in a journal, mostly because I hate going back and reading it.

In the future I will use this blog as an updater on my children, but for now it will mostly be about the crazy life Daniel and I live right now.

:)