Birthday Boy

Stu's 28th Birthday was a big party. I was able to stay home from work to spend the morning with Stu before we hit up a new burger place and a couple massage. Later that night both family's came over for some pizza and cupcakes before we headed to Fast Kart for some much needed 'speed'. Overall Stu had a great day. Next year he told me he just wants a "Relaxing" day. :)

Karly, Mike and Stu with their gear on
You can't see the snowflakes, but it snowed on Stu's birthday. I told him it was a present from Blue.

Mom and Dad Reeder, Stu and Sarah, Karly and Mike and Cannon getting ready to hit the tracks.

Haunted Village

Saturday night after the Undead Race, Stu and I joined forces with Liz and her boyfriend Mike and hit up Texas Roadhouse before taking our chances with the ghouls at The Haunted Village.
If you have not had a chance to visit "Haunted Brigham" you should go. It is super fun, just wear a coat!

Stu, Sarah, Liz & Mike
Sarah and Stu trying to stay warm

Liz and Mike in the waiting line.

Race of the "undead"

Saturday marked the 1st ever "Night of the Running Dead" up at This is the Place Heritage Park. It was a 5K and my friend Michelle said she was interested in running it and so I jumped at the chance. Upon registering for the race you could choose if you wanted to be a "Survivor" or "Infected". The survivors got a 1 minute head start before the infected AKA zombies started. We of course were zombies. The race was quite fun. We ran around the village and had fun zombies to watch along the way.

Stu didn't dress up so I decided to eat him :)

Michelle (runner zombie) and Sarah

If you have seen the movie "Zombieland" you will recognize the rules of staying away from zombies.

Michelle and Sarah eating "brains" (aka oranges) at the finish line

Life Flight

Stu recently got a promotion at work. He is now on the balloon team. Balloon pumps are placed in people that are critically ill and would be flown to the hospital to allow for care wouldn't not be available at their current facility.
If Stu gets called in and Life Flight has to be flown to the location, Stu gets to go along with Life Flight to monitor the balloon that is inside the patient.
Today Stu had an yearly training on how to: carry his equipment to Life Flight, how Life Flight works and his role on a Life Flight Balloon call.

Stu and the Life Flight helicopter

The Life Flight airplane

Stu is pretty excited about his promotion and the extra $$ isn't all to bad either!

Marathon

I have come to find out that this is my year for supporting! I was hoping I would be pregnant by the time the St. George Marathon came around this year so I didn't sign up for it back in April. Coleman (my little brother) and Liz (my running buddy) did, so I was first in line to make sure I would be there to support them both.
The marathon was Saturday October 2nd this year. It was HOT waiting for our runners to come in. This is my first time ever supporting a race. It was hard to see the runners come in and not be a part of it. It was not that I wanted to run (I hate running) but I know the high it gives you and the sense of accomplishment and I wanted to be part of that. But my time was on the side lines this year and I embraced it.
I was not sure of Coleman's race time since this was his first race. He wanted to shoot for 4 hours so we were down at the finish line 3h and 30m into the marathon. Luckily Cole uses his iPhone for his music and he text me saying he had some problems with the reaction to the BenGay they put on his legs for muscle soreness, so he was way behind on his time.
We kept looking for Matt (Liz's brother) because I knew Cole and Liz would be close behind. Matt showed up and it was not till another 30 min later Cole came down the way. I saw him coming and ran up to him and gave him a hug and told him how proud I was of him and he was so close to the end and I sent him off. Liz showed up 5 min later and I did the same. Ran up to her to give him a hug and tell her how proud I was of her and sent her to the end.
Cole was sick at the end and had to seek medical attention. Liz was dehydrated and not doing well, but after 30 min of relaxing they both started to feel better.
I was so proud of them both and all they accomplished! I guess being a supporter is not as bad as I thought it was!
Coleman's time was 4:56:53-Not bad for a 1st marathon, it is under 5 hours!
Liz's time was 4:46:35

Cole and Sarah at packet pick up
4:30AM Liz and Sarah before they left for the bus

4:30AM Cole and Sarah before leaving for the bus

The marathon finishers!

Cole, Matt and Liz

Coleman's supporters

Grandpa, Grandma, Cannon, Cole and Sarah