Well it's officially Spring, and insasmuch, my life has been completely surrounded by happiness and staying busy.  I have new hiking boots, have gotten back into climbing, have been riding my bike, lots and lots of "girls nights", catching up with old friends, going out on the town, sushi sessions, and lots of sunshine.  I've officially began my 1 hike a week goal, except I've kinda been doing two hikes a week :)  I've also come up with a few other "fitness" goals:  1 hike a week, 3 yoga sessions, 1 climbing session, and 2 bike rides.  (these activities can be combined, ei, I'll be riding my bike to yoga or the climbing gym some nights)  My bike riding goal this summer is to ride my bike along a few trails starting in Clinton down to my parents house ish (about 47 miles).  Kinda just want to see how far I can push it.  I've also been working on a monthly volunteer project, doing a different experience each month, so if anyone has any causes or ideas, please forward them on to me!  Some other quick news, Clint and I broke up a few weeks back, it was kind of a mutual thing (in kind of, I mean to say that I know now it was for the best for me, even though at the time I didn't want to admit it because I felt like a failure, but he had become a completely different person than when we first started dating, I just didn't want to see that, I was happy with the rest of my life, but completely unhappy in the "relationship".  The relationship was absolutely amazing the first five weeks, but then something changed drastically with him and he simply stopped being that devoted, amazing boyfriend I had fallen for, he lost interest in me, and this was pretty hard to deal with for the last three weeks of the relationship). I was hurt, frustrated, and mainly disappointed that I can't seem to make a relationship last for more than a month. This is actually the first time in my life that I've taken a step back from dating in general. This has been the easiest "break-up" I've ever experienced. I haven't sought comfort in someone else, I'm comforting myself. Trying to find the balance in life (as usual).  I think it's a mixture of this being the right thing for me, and me being happy with my life in general.  So that's just a brief little tidbit if anyone was curious as to my personal romantic life.  (but keep your eyes out for a blog in the upcoming weeks.... I've had a gentleman from the past make a reappearance in my life, (and no, no one I've "dated", just someone as a 14 year old I had wanted to spend the rest of my life with ;), Heather Johnson, if you're reading this, this would be a certain "zesty2sexy" if you happen to recall who that was.  He hit me up on FB and we've basically been chatting for the past week.  Man, if my 14 year old self would know that this would happen, it would have made dealing with adolescence slightly easier; just knowing that someday that "crush" would actually initiate contact and be interested in ME..... but more to come as that as it develops!)

Back to what has been going on...... lots and lots of picture taking! I'll guide you through my life as of past with pictures.

Getting ready for dinner on the night Clint and I ended things, I knew it was coming, and wanted to make sure I looked damn pretty!

I just love my little Bella

Reggae festival on 4/20 lol

Girls afternoon out to the ballet

 

This has become one of my favorite sayings this week

Playing hair

Missing my short hair, but at least I can still pull up my locks to make it look short, no make up btw, and I think I still look pretty

My little monster face baby

Japanese Festival..... foooooood mmmmmmm

Girls night to Wendover

Impromptu piercings! 

My "rook"

For some reason, I don't get one bit nervous anymore when there's a giant needle about to pierce my flesh... guess all that time in the tattoo chair has made me numb :)

Sunday volleyball

Free food?  Beer? Climbing?  Yes please, love parties at my climbing gym.  Oh, and crate stacking :)  Love the fact that I've become a member of the Front "family"

Sunday hike, that little land way out there in the lake?  That's Antelope Island

Sunset

Yoga atop lookout point modified warrior 1



Cool photo editing, plus another picture of my new piercing, I spent my Sunday night watching the sunset



Triangle pose

Spring up Taylor's Canyon

Taylor's Canyon

Well, I got to spend Saturday morning enjoying snowboarding for one last go of the season.  I got up bright and early (and as anyone who's gone with me on a weekend should know, I usually fight with all of my might going up early), as to avoid lines and get the best snow.  It was a great decision on my part.  The snow for the past few weeks had been super wet, hard to carve, and not a whole lot of fun to be in.  We finally got a big storm in this week, the few days before I got to go up. I was there for about 2.5 solid hours, run after run after run.  I was supposed to go to a funeral with my friend, which is another reason I got up there early, however after I had gotten down off the mountain, she said she didn't need me to go with her anymore.  So that left me all afternoon to be home with the dogs.  It was odd being home.  I haven't been home for that long of a period in a long long time.  I ended up watching documentaries on titanic all day and napping.  Yep, I napped, and it was wonderful.  That night was Brooke's b-day celebration, and I had bought her present MONTHS ago so I couldn't wait to give it to her (I got her the Elder Wand... yep, nerdy).
Sunday I decided would be my transition:  I went for a bike ride.  However it was freezing, so I only did a short ride to my yoga studio to see how long it took to get there (no more than 20 minutes!) and then rode around Ogden while the streets weren't busy so I could plan out routes, etc.  Later that day, it finally warmed up so I went on my normal "canyon and back" ride.  I think this ride is between 12-14 miles, depending on what trail I go on.  So that was basically 20 miles under my belt yesterday.  Next time it's warm weather, and I have a few hours, I want to ride to see just how far I can go.  Exhaust myself and then turn around.  lol.  Have someone on-call in case I have to be picked up somewhere. 
I'm bummed that snowboarding is over with, but I really do enjoy spring/summer better.  I'm excited to get those festivities underway.

Every year, my 4X4 group of friends, officially named T.A.Z.E.R. (Team Awesome Zombie Emergency Response), participates in the jeep safari in Moab over Easter weekend.  They invited me a couple months ago but it's sort of been up in the air.  I decided basically last minute that I'd go because I needed a weekend full of sunshine, relaxing, working out, and just getting my mind off of things in life.  I'm so glad I went.  It was literally just what I needed.  I left right after work on Friday, and got in Moab in time to watch some of the group win prizes (pretty dang good prizes) in a raffle.  We made our way back to camp, in the dark.  I made my friend Alex drive my corolla up the path since I had never really taken it anything up like that.  I just want to say how dang proud I am of my corolla!  She made it up some pretty steep, and rocky stuff!  We had a fire that night and got ready for bed.  The next morning I woke up to one of the most gorgeous sunrises ever.  I had no idea that the canyon we were camping in was so stunning (but then again, isn't everything in Moab stunning?).  We headed in to town for some breakfast and to just explore the city a little.  After breakfast, we decided to try our hands at the arches hike.  It said strenuous as the difficulty level, however there was only one tiny portion that was slightly difficult.  In fact, I wanted to keep going, I didn't want our hike to end.  Arches is really incredible to look at.  But the sad thing?  It was crazy busy, there was a LINE to take your picture under it, and my cell phone had perfect reception up there.  Weird.  Anyways.  After arches we went to tour a local winery and I ended up buying a bottle (yum).  We wandered around downtown Moab a little longer, got souvenirs, and just enjoyed the warm sun.  We headed back to camp, ate dinner, and just talked around the fire until I could barely hold my head up.  (it was only 11 btw, Moab is exhausting!)  Everyone had been there since about Tuesday or Wednesday so they were all pretty beat and wanted to head home first thing Sunday morning.  I decided that since I brought my bike that I wanted to try my hand at some of the trails.  I was slightly nervous because I had never mountain biked in Moab and the movie "127 hours" scared the crap out of me.  So I made my plan.  I picked a beginner trail that hooked onto an intermediate trail.  All in all, it was just over 10 miles.  I sent a message Gabby just in case I got stuck under a boulder, then she'd know about where I was to send help (maybe a little extreme I know).  The ride was incredible.  Exhilarating.  I guess the way that I went ended up being a little more technically difficult then it should have been, but that just adds to the experience!  I snapped some really great pictures, and had some fantastic alone time.  I was going to head back to town after the ride to eat, but I just wanted to get home by that point.  I smelled bad, I was tired, and I missed my puppies!  I got home around 4 or 5 that night, didn't even have the energy to shower, so I took a bath, and proceeded to melt into my couch.  I'm stoked for my summer activities (let's face it, I enjoy summer a whole lot more).  So that was my Easter weekend.  Pretty much fantastic.  The thing I love about Moab is that everywhere you look, it is a beautiful site, one that could easily be on a postcard.  I can't wait to go back down!

Fire!  I absolutely love fire

The canyon where our camp was

Other side of the canyon

Arches, looking in from a hole in the wall

I didn't stand in line to take this picture, take that "the man"

soaking up the sun, lookin at the arch

I went over when there wasn't a line anymore, I look tiny compared to the arch!

from our hike in arches

I saw these little bolts on my bike ride and I got jealous that I'm not a better climber... I need to work on that

The slick rock trail I did

Way off in the distance is balancing rock, from my bike ride

A picture by Gavin of the whole group.  Love this picture

Random picture:  I did my hair like this for Hunger Games

My wall in my bedroom finally is no longer empty!