Gallivantin' Sorensens: 5k

Sunday, February 10, 2019

January 2019

The month of January 2019

2018 Year in Books
Last year's goal was to read to alphabet, which I got almost completed; V, X, Y were the only letters I didn't get done. I thought I would have gotten more reading done with how much traveling happened but oh well. I also got stuck reading into series whose titles didn't fit the blank holes and some other projects took up some time too.

Thanks to the Clegg's, Ragnar got some new stuffies which she promptly began practicing brain surgery on.

Hockey Games!

"Professional Development" day.

It's indoor track season aka no more weekends and kids act more silly than normal.

During one indoor meet at the Olympic Oval, Nate was cooling down after the mile and slipped on some black ice.

His eye got blacker as the night went on. The next day his mom took him in and he ended up having a mild concussion and fractured his cheek bone.

It's been tradition to stop at Wendy's after indoor meets at the Olympic Oval. It's just down the street and by 10pm everyone is starving anyways. Well, the last one of these visits as a coach happened and it got a little depressing for me and a couple of seniors.

Then Kate spilled her frosty and everyone laughed and was happy again. Chasity also spilled some on herself and it was a fun memory to finish off the night.

Cute Ragnar photos.

This is Ragnar saying sorry for eating 3/4 of Derek's sourdough loaf.

She's such an old lady.. she wants to go to bed at 8pm and will glare at me until I walk back to the bedroom.

We had some warm winter days that she thought were summer days so she demanded some front porch time.

Elise wanted to build a snowman with grandpa, so he pulled out the buckets and this is what we ended up with.

A week later some punks knocked over her snowman.

She also came with us to the vet for Ragnar's shots which turned into a photo shoot.

Sam's Club pretzels and churros.

Then we *had* to go to the dog store to get Ragnar toothpaste (she really was out) and bonus! We found her a puffy jacket for winter overnight hikes.

Also... Elise had been asking to help give Ragnar a bath since the last time she helped. She's good at keeping Ragnar distracted with treats.

When a read-a-thon happens during the weekend of a two-day track meet.

Free 5k in Morgan for an Eagle Project.
When the race started it was 10 degrees. When I finished it was 14 degrees.
They gave us free hot coco. Worth it.

Finally got our wedding portrait framed. It needed a custom frame and my parents paid for it for Christmas.

Sunday, June 17, 2018

May 2018

Ragnar got sprayed by a skunk on an adventure with Derek and his metal detecting..

So we tried a trick from Austin and put pb on the wall.. it worked for like a minute.

May 5th

First Royals win!

Selfie with my favorite player... and my of my athlete's mom is in the background.

Viking Thunder Clap!

May 6th

The girls wanted to take grandpa treasure hunting, and luckily there were a few along the trail we were able to find on a pre-dinner walk.

Enjoy.

May 11/12

Lunch stop on our way out to Vernal.

Since we left early in the day this year, we took a drive up Dry Fork Canyon to McKonkie Ranch.

It was too rough for my mom but my dad came with.

Race day.

I had to defer my half entry to next year since that good ol' pneumonia basically killed all my training. I had to stop to breathe 5 times and each time someone would try to encourage me. I know they didn't know I'm still fighting a lung infection that kills people, but in any run I participate in, it bugs me. That's why I never say anything to people I pass unless I ask where they got a certain running item because I also want it.

Anyways, somehow it only took me a half hour. I was sure it was going to take me longer with how often I had to stop. Even with more and more people doing this run each year, somehow I still placed in my age group.. I must not know how to tell people's ages because I was pretty sure a lot of 30-35 year old's passed me.

Post race geocaching! The Field House Museum was free that day as apart of a whole festival deal. Bonus!

I wanted to do some hot air balloon rides but the weather was not kind.

May 14

I made a deal with a student that if he worked more on being an advocate for himself, I would take him to see this mural in Ogden at the end of the class. He has some strange fascination with the Mona Lisa... he says it scares him, but he's all about seeing it. Here he's high-5-ing her face..

Mallory and I.

May 16

Jaxson's play. He was a wickersham brother in Seussical the Musical Jr.

Remember that shed Derek made last year? Well, while cleaning up some of the extra wood ends, we now have an outdoor Jenga game (yes I know it's 3 per layer but when I was cleaning up this is how it got stacked).

May 17/18

State Track

We had 13 kids in 10 different events. The best showing at state since my first year. And 10 of those kids are underclassman. They brought home lots of medals, numerous top 15 places, and one new school record in the women's 800m.

It's a great time to be a Laker.