The Coast

While visiting my family in Oregon last month Ryan, Graham and I decided to take a mini family trip to Lincoln City. We enjoyed the little shops and restaurants and of course the beach.
















































The first day was really sunny but really windy. We stayed on the beach just long enough to feel the warm sand on our feet and scoop a few buckets full of sand.


































The second day was really cloudy but it almost felt warmer than the first because it wasn't as windy. We decided to go for an early morning beach walk.















Graham giving me one of his sideways looks. This sideways look is saying "I'm going to run in the ocean, let's see if you can catch me."















Not only did Graham love running in the sand, he loved running in the water. Can you even tell he is wearing shoes in the picture below? Nope, it just looks like he has sand feet.















After the beach walk Graham kicked back and made himself cozy while watching some PBS kids.

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So you know my husband Ryan, of course you do. Currently he is battling a strong addiction to Mt. Dew but with enough help we can help him kick the habit. The best part is that he is motivated and that it would be helping other people. Check out his new blog for more details.

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The Dirty Dash

Ryan and I ran The Dirty Dash 10k the last weekend of August. We ran it with a group of Ryan's co-workers. I figured the race would be hard since I didn't train at all for it, but I wasn't expecting the whole first half of the race to be uphill. We faced giant hay bails, muddy pipes to crawl through, climbing walls, a tire course, a root beer (or real beer) chug, a few different mud pits, and then finally the big slide and final mud pit. The experience was awesome, we will be doing it again!






































Here we are before the race, so clean!






















Pretty quick into the race we all concluded that cutoffs were a bad choice.





















And here we are after the race, so dirty!





















This is us right after the final mud pit along with Brooke, one of Ryan's co-workers.
















At the end we went down this huge slide. This was my favorite part.

















Then into this huge mud pit. Ryan cannon balled into the mud pit and then started swimming so fast as if he was going to win the Olympics. The crowd went wild when he started swimming. I didn't swim, I just trudged. While I trudged little kids sitting on the banks of the pit started chucking mud at me. It was one of the funniest things of my life.