The Dirty Dash

YES! The time has finally come! The Dirty Dash weekend is officially here! If the question was asked who wants to run a 10 k I would not be one of the people to raise my hand. But who wants to run a 10k with a little pizazz and A LOT of obstacles and MUD... YES PLEASE!! The first time I looked at this map I fell in love. So i guess it's true,  love at first sight really does exist! Just and I knew we had to get our friends the Smiths in on it with us. The beautiful thing about getting Adam and Natalie in on it with us is that they are as equally competitive as we are.. (it's rare to find). Let me explain what I mean when I say competitive. Most people like to win, but the Critchfield household is a house where the board game Monopoly turns into a blood bath. When Board Walk is bought there is a lot of glares and occasionally some in your face dance moves to say ha ha SUCKA! It is all out of love... for the most part. Anyways we got together with the smiths and decided we wanted to make a little wager with the boys, if we cross the finish line first  they have to take us on a little vacay. We trained pretty hard... ran at least 3 times, and ate breakfast burritos non stop. Ok we didn't train very much. But we had complete confidence in ourselves. We knew we could run the 6.2 miles if not because of our physical training at least because our will to win! It was a ball!!!! the first 3 miles were a lot of up hill which was pretty killer, but we enjoyed because we occasionally had bales of hay to hop over or walls to climb over to land in a big mud pit or tunnels to crawl through. The last 3 miles were my favorite! What a riot!  There was a big huge swampy marsh area that we had to trudge through. We decided to make it fun! Nat and I had to get eachother covered in mud so we made sure eachother fell whenever was possible. Justin and Adam wanted to get in on the fun so they joined in and slung mud at us, tackled us, and justin stuffed mud down my pants. Which was pretty embarrassing to run the rest of the race with brown goop coming out of my underpants, believe me! We ran to a big huge slip and slide, ran as fast as we could and just went for it. We were slipping and flipping and tucking and rolling all over the place! The last obstacle was a big mud puddle with a mud slide! We finished and i'm convinced I was at least 2 toes ahead of justin over the finish line. But in the end it didn't matte,r we just had so much fun! And yes I think we get our vacay anyways. Here are some pics of the day...

blog community population: 100,000,000,000,000 and 1....

The Critchfields are officially becoming part of the blog community, yippee ky aye! What makes what someone did last tuesday,  what their dog chewed on this morning, or what they're eating tonight so exciting, when normally it would not be that interesting to hear about? Writing it in a blog of course!  I've come to the realization that I like to read blogs. I like to read what people are up to and for some reason it is interesting, even if it's small things. So yes, I followed the crowd, I jumped off the bridge because everyone was doing it. And you know what I'm happy about it. I'm a blogger! Oh man does that feel good to say... sort of.
Anyways I guess it's time to get the introductions out of the way so we can really become 'blog friends'. So here is the introduction. Just bare with me. All real friends have to go through this at some point so why should you guys be excluded? Justin and I met 4 years ago. We dated on and off  for 2 loooong years before we got engaged and then on april 10th, 2009 we got in the car drove to the Timpanogas Temple and got sealed for time and all eternity... the best decision of my life! Not too long after we got down to business and made a baby. Justin thinks I tricked him. But I think if you want something bad enough and think about it enough it will happen, if it is the Lords will. So yes I am proof of the power of thoughts because boy did i think about a little baby a lot! On May 5th 2010 (My birthday) we welcomed little Chloe Lynn Critchfield to our family! She is the best thing that ever happened to us, other then getting a DVR... Only kidding. Justin is in real estate. He is amazing at his job! check him out at www.realdealutah.com, he can help you out with shortsales, foreclosures, buying, selling, loan mods, pretty much anything having to do with real estate or marketing he's your guy... ( had to throw in a brief sales pitch, I wouldn't be a good wife if I didn't).  When he's not working he's playing sports, or watching sports, or talking about sports, or looking up facts about sports. He enjoys hunting, ufc and lots of other ultra manly stuff ;). I went to school for physical therapy assisting. I really love sports mainly soccer. I love crafting, and my new passion, that has kept me really busy lately, I LOVE DECORATING! meaning interior design. Now on to our last member, our little Chloe.. she enjoys yapping for hours, slobbering on everything, being independent and trying to do everything herself.. i'm not kidding she feeds herself her bottle. and when we moved to rice cereal she didn't like me to feed her so she grabbed the spoon and kept shoving it in her mouth, all I was there for was to refill her spoon when it got low. and now i'm rambling like a over zealous proud mother. oh well. Ok glad that's over with. Now we can move on to other important blogger topics.