Gifford Family Adventures: A Lot of February

The past couple of weeks my mother and I decided we'd start spin class at the Provo Recreation Center, as some know I got an early birthday present this year (6 months early to be exact) My mom was tired of me riding her road bike all the time so for an early birthday present I got a road bike for myself and it fits me perfectly and is awesome! I tried out a road bike for the first time last year and enjoyed it much more than a mountain bike (who would have guessed...) I did a Tri last August and have one coming up at the end of March (Ice Breaker Triathlon)

Also in September we are planning our big 100 mile bike race, boy am I dreading it but it will be worth it to say I biked 100 miles! Anyways, so my mother and I are doing spin classes once a week and they HURT, we are starting to swim afterwards too.

Valentines was this past week, Scott and I celebrated Valentines day 2 days early by going to Magelbys in Springville. It was pretty empty that night, we had gotten their chocolate cake since I've heard so much positive feed back about it... DELICIOUS. Then on Valentines day we went to Costa Vida, apparently that's the place if you have your kids on Valentines day that's the nice place to go, still, not too busy though. We did take some family pictures for Valentines day though!

Valentines 2014

Now this picture right here was possibly the most frustrating moment I had with my dog, EVER. He is usually super good and photogenic but this day we would set the camera up, I would go take my spot, and he would just plop down on his side (like above image). Though in this one he is actually looking at the camera and you can't see any special parts very well. This is the one I have hanging up in our room blown up... It kind of makes me laugh now.

Rush

That weekend we had the Hot Chocolate Dash 5k that I was able to run with Scott and my family! Unfortunately no dogs with in reality was quite nice for me, you started at Riverwoods in Provo and just ran through a park and under the bridge before entering Provo Canyon. For this 5k instead of getting a shirt you got a beanie which was nice for how cold it was that day, oh and some hot chocolate at the end (hint the name).

Before the 5k

After

Scott and I

Eric was there too.

So there's that.

One last super awesome thing I did this past week, I hiked the Y with my dog Rushbo!! That is such a hard for him going up but he did it and at the top laid down for about 5 minutes. My parents came with me and brought Storm and Peach. It takes about an hour to do the hike (walking slowly) and its about 2 1/2 miles from the bottom all the way to the top and back. Rush liked it I think, he was in bed by 7 pm and woke up at 7:30 am.