Girls Weekend in Colorado!!

The first weekend in March Lori Leetham and I went up to Denver, CO to visit our friend Lauri Gardner!! Lauri moved away last summer and so we felt it was time to get the "L"s back together!! Try and say our names together 10 times fast......Laura, Lauri, Lori!!! We had a fun weekend of talking, eating, laughing and crying! We stayed up late and slept in! We went to a comedy show and laughed HARD! We watched a few chick-flicks and CRIED! We ate, ate and ate some more! The last day was very nice, so we decided we need a little exercise and went for a beautiful hike at Red Rocks. All in all it was a wonderful weekend!! Good friends are awesome!!

Rangar Relay!!

On February 27th and 28th me and 11 other friends set out on a crazy adventure! Emily Johnston was our team leader and put together a team, J.A.M. (Just Another Mile) to run a 204 mile relay from Prescott AZ to Mesa AZ in two days or approximately 36 hours! What an adventure this was! We had two vans full of six team members. Each member of the team would be running a total of three legs of this relay. We would start with runner #1 and move through to runner #12 three times! I was in Van #1 and was runner #6. I ran at approximately 11 a.m. and then again at approximately 11 p.m. and again the next morning around 11 a.m. again! My first leg was 6 miles, which I was pretty happy with, second leg was 3.4 miles at night and this was may favorite leg and then my last leg was 6.4 miles and ALL UP HILL, after only about 2 hours of sleep and well, all I can say is that I finished! I thought I did well for the first 5 miles, but the last 1.4 miles was killer......not my best performance. Anyway, we did it and had a GREAT TIME!! At the moment I wasn't sure I would ever do it again, but I am pretty sure if someone puts together another team for next year I will be signing up!!

Time to update the Hite Family Blog!!

Hey friends and family.........
Even though I should be doing my work right now I decided that I would take a few minutes and update this blog!! Lots has gone on with the family since Mike and I jetted away to Hawaii on an impromptu trip!! So, here is the breakdown on what is to follow.......Ragnar Relay, Girls weekend in CO, Spring Break at Disney World, Anniversary, Luke Air Show, Easter.

Kona, Hawaii

Mike and I made a quick trip to Hawaii in February! I love these last minute get-a-ways! Mike ended up with a week off of work and my mom was planning on coming down to AZ for a visit, so we asked if she would be willing to stay with the kids for a few days while we tried to get away. So, then we had to decide where to go.....This is when I really enjoy the benefits of having a pilot for a husband! Since it was February our choices were a little more limited if we wanted nice weather. We thought about going over seas, but decided we would want more time. We looked into the flights to all the different islands of Hawaii and the weather on all the islands and the best was THE BIG ISLAND! So, Monday morning, Feb. 9th after we got the kids off to school we headed to the airport. We had a wonderful 6 hour flight to Hawaii...I almost finished a whole book!! We got to Hawaii around 3 pm (got to love the time change when traveling to Hawaii! We gained three hours!) We checked into our hotel, got something to eat and walked around the area. Tuesday we stayed within walking distance of our hotel, got our shopping done, mailed off a coconut to Mike's mom in Utah and then went to a Luau that evening. We had a great time at the Luau and ate until we were sick, but boy was the food good! Wednesday we rented a car so that we could drive around the island and find a sandy beach, which are hard to find on this island because of the active volcano. We also wanted to go and see the lava flow from this active volcano! The different types of landscape and vegetation on the island was amazing. There was no vegetation because of the lava, then tropical vegetation and then rolling green hills. Very beautiful! The lava flow was amazing, although I was disappointed that we didn't actually get to see the lava flow falling into the ocean like we thought we would. We were close and you could see the reflection of the lava off of the steam it caused as it fell into the ocean and that was pretty cool! At this point it was time to start heading to the airport, although I really could have used a few more days! We were able to catch the red-eye flight home to PHX and landed around 8 am Thursday morning. We had a great time and are excited to check out more of the Hawaiian Islands!

Superheroes

So... all the superheroes (or so it seemed) in our house were broken. So I went to Walgreens, bought some superglue, and repaired them all. They were so happy they broke out in a spontaneous dance. I was lucky to have the camera ready.

London's Run

Last year Lori Leetham and I started running and ran our first race, London's Run, 10K. We decided to do the run again this year and see if we could beat our time. All of our hard work paid off. We have been faithfully getting up before the sun for the past year! Last year we ran the 6.2 miles in 1:15 and this year we pulled it off in 1:07! About mile 4 we both wanted to walk, but we worked through that tough mile and pressed forward! Mike decided he wanted to run the 2 mile this year with Stephen and Sadie. They did a great job. Stephen broke away from Mike and Sadie and finished in 25 minutes and Mike and Sadie finished in approximately 31 minutes! Good job guys!! Maybe next year I will take on the 1/2 marathon, but first I have to take on my next challenge.....Ragnar Relay on Feb. 27-28, 201.9 miles from Prescott, AZ to Mesa, AZ. Don't worry, I am not totally insane, just a bit crazy. I will not be running the whole 201.9 miles alone. A team of 12 people will be running together, each taking three legs of the race. I will be running approximately 16 miles. I will let you all know how it goes!

Kind of spur of the moment, we decided to go up to Utah to visit Mike's family last weekend. My youngest brother had twins 9 months, and like the slacker I am, we haven't been up to see the girls. So we flew up Friday night, and managed to get back home Monday on the 2nd flight we tried. It was a very nice trip, it has been a long time since we have all been together.