Goulding Athletic Acomplishments

This weekend I ran the Provo Trail Marathon Relay with my speedy sister Breckan, my lightening fast neighbor Cassidy and trusty neigbor Biz!! We had a great time running, eventhough we did have to get up at 5:30 which we all agreed was too early to have to get up!! Cassidy took the first leg and was the first girl to make it to the transition point where Breckan scrambled to meet her. Off Breckan went on her ridiculous extra 1.5 mile loop then shot down the canyon as fast as her little legs could carry her. Then Biz jumped in and got an energy burst and shaved a minute off her regular running pace to meet me over at good ole' Shopco where I jumped in and nervously ran behind Shopco strangely all by myself (not sure why we were all spread out so far) and took up the tail end of the race. It was a lonely last leg but I did get sung to by a group of runners, passed some racers, poured my own cup of water (my station seemed to be abandoned) and managed to make it to the end without walking and I shaved a minute (give or take) off my usual pace as well.





Moving onto Jesse.....Well, Jesse LOVES downhill biking and always wants to start racing and become a pro (we can all dream). This weekend there happened to be the state championships at Sundance so he got up early and entered the race. He did really well and took second out of 16 in his division, only missing first by 5 seconds. He had a lot of fun and was exhausted by the end of it but was excited to have done as well as he did since he hasn't been riding really at all this summer due to the intense vacationing we have been doing!!! So he is now vowed to get into some of those spinning classes I am always trying to drag him to so that next year he will be ready to roar down those hills like the Pros!!!

Selling My Life Away

I have made a conscious effort to sell all my horse items, except for my coveted top hat that I am still justifying that if I were to get back into showing in the future that my head size won't change and it is soo beautiful on my head and works great with my face shape that I shouldn't sell that, oh and my shadbelly and boots are also in that category but are cataloged just in case I decide they should go. I think it has officially taken a year and a half to really get serious about it and actually go through everything, photograph it and price it out. So that way I am organized when someone comes to buy stuff. So far it is going well, I have sold a few items to a few people so that is a start. I am not as sad as I thought I would be selling it but I do find myself thinking that I might want to hold onto a few things "just in case" but I quickly shake that thought out of my head and put whatever item it was back into the trunk and walk away for a while until I have gotten control of my senses!! If anyone wants some english tack let me know!!

The Joy of Waxing

While Katie was in town I thought I had better get on the ball and purchase my wax pot and supplies so I could get those hard to self wax areas!!! I have always had an infatuation with waxing, don't ask me how it started I am not quite sure except that I like the pain of it!!! My first experience was with Nads, which I hated!!! Soo messy and man was it painful!! I think the first time I did my leg I had welts for a few days and it definitely brought me to tears! After that I took up tweezing any hair while watching tv, talking on the phone, hanging out with the roommates or any other down time (I learned that little habit from Chloe my french roomie). Somewhere in between Nads and tweezing I tried the bleaching for the lip which smelled terrible and really wasn't all that great. Then I discovered the joy of microwave hard wax!!! I went crazy with it, waxing all that excess hair off me and anyone else that would dare to let me give it a try on them!!! The only complaint I had was that I would have to move quickly to finish the job before the wax cooled and I would have to reheat it in the microwave! Then I did some research and discovered that wax pots weren't that expensive and that I could save a ton of money doing the job myself without the time constraint of microwave wax! I have never lost the love for it so I am now a proud owner of my own wax pot and both hard and soft wax so if anyone needs a good waxing just stop on by!!! Below is a little insight into the joy of waxing!!



(Oh did I mention Jesse had to learn to be my personal wax technician)



(My sweet little wax pot)



(The end results.....hair free!!)

Ode to Katie

Katie came to visit last week for 8 lovely fun filled days. Well....we had planned on doing more active activities while Katie was there but ended up with some more low keyed fun that proved to make some unforgetable memories to add to our long list of good times. Katie and I became friends in first grade at Buckeye/Blue Oak where we spun endlessly on the bars, double dutch and chasing the boys off. After school if we were not over at one anothers' house we were chatting for hours on the phone about who knows what!! I like to look back when I was a chatty phone person, I must've chatted myself out from all the long hours we spent on the phone. As we grew up our interests changed and I became obsessed with horses and spent my every waking hour doing horses while Katie expanded into choir, yearbook and other scholastic activities. We still got to spend a glorious week together every summer on Katie's family skiing vacation where we got caught up on what was going on in our busy lives. High School came and went, college arrived and we went to opposite sides of the lovely sate of California and had hit and miss contact when we would actually be home visiting at the same time. We then graduated college, got "big kid" jobs and ended up back at our parents house saving our pennies. Laughing at where we had ended up compared to what we had planned way back in our ambitious youth about what we would be doing at the ripe old age of 25! Just in case you were wondering no we did not plan to be college graduates in the fields that we had found ourselves in and residing back in our parents homes where we couldn't wait to get out of after high school!! Don't get me wrong we had traveled, experienced all kinds fun and interesting things in our lives but somehow managed to be back at square one. Now we have reached full circle by becoming closer friends again, calling to just check in on what boring adventures we had that day and sharing crazy memories of our youth and now our adulthood. Everyone should have a few good friends to share those good and bad moments with!! So Katie thanks for the laughing till I cry fun and crazy times that I can look back to when I am thinking how boring and normal my life is!!

All About Me

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Working From Home

This month so far I have been able to work from home quite a bit which is really nice becuase of the following:

1. I don't have to get dressed for the day and can stay in my PJs.
2. I don't have to worry that my dad will see what I also have opened on my computer screen.
3. I can lay on the couch and watch tv while doing my work or talking on the phone.
3. I can watch what the rest of the neighborhood is doing while I am away at the office all day!

So if you stop by I will not be dressed, hair or makeup done and my house will be messy because why clean while I am working.
THIS IS WHAT I WOULD LOVE TO BE DOING

Southern California

Yes, we went on ANOTHER trip to visit family, I think that is all we do during the summer but at least we get to go to fun places to do it!! So this time we went just for the weekend to be there for Jesse's Uncle's ordination. It was a wonderful time and everyone was soo excited for the Olive family!!! We also got to go to Universal Studios which was a lot of fun to see since I have never been. It was better than I thought and I am not really a small theme park attender, I prefer big and fast and scary versus slow and enjoyable. Anyways, we did get to ride some fun rides and it was fun to watch the younger kids all excited about going on rides. There of course was a lot of card games to be played which I LOVE so we had fun and I even got a little Rook in as well which I am not sure I fully understand so everyone still helps out. But it is a married only game which is funny because not everyone's spouse plays but you must first be married to be taught how to play. Funny family traditions that I love!!!