muddy epic weekend

Tough Mudder was SO much fun! I know in my recent posts about it I sounded pretty terrified, and I was still nervous of how I was going to perform even the day of. Well we definitely had the best weather we could've ever hoped for and our groups spirits were high. With little time to stretch, we hollered the Tough Mudder chant along with the other runners getting ready to take off. The combination of steep hills, ICE filled mud baths with barbed wire overhead, and scaling 12-15ft. walls were the first of 29 obstacles that our team overcame. A few of my favorites were: 1.)Everest, where we had to run up a slippery quarter pipe and pull ourselves to the top. 2.)The Bog Jog, where we needed to take our shoes and socks off if you didn't want to lose them in this thick, clay-like sludge. 3.) I really did enjoy climbing the 'Berlin Walls'. That's when the entire team truly relied on each other to be able to finish the race. About five hours later...we all came face to face with the obstacle we had been dreading for 3 months..'Electric-shock Therapy'. At this point, it seemed that all of our "strategies" didn't even sound clever; so as we ran through one after the other, we were pleased to have made it to the finish line with only a few getting shocked..I guess they said it was more like a sting, so we worried ourselves over nothing. All in all I think it's the most fun I've ever had at run; the challenging obstacles, camaraderie, and the feeling of getting nice and dirty made it so sweet.









annnnddd Matt's Epic Birthday! The only way you will understand this is if you've seen the youtube channel 'Epic Meal Time' which can easily be know as one of Matt's favorites to keep up with on a weekly basis. We surprised him by recreating one of the videos. Had him wear his bacon strips shirt and aviators, while holding Jack Daniels and flipping a bacon weave for lunch. 56,390 calories later...happy birthday Matt

My Master Chef

Since getting married and moving in together, Matt and I made an agreement that if I cooked all the meals, he would do all the dishes and the cleaning afterwards. I thought it was an awesome idea since doing dishes is definitely not on the top of my 'favorite things to do' list. Well recently, I've been getting a little burnt out and felt that only about half of my meals have been successfully prepared. Matt's also a picky eater..and well, there's only so many meals I can come up with that don't include alot of veggies or any pasta. So Matt suggested we swap places for the week and I gratefully took him up on his offer. Having only seen him cook a few meals in the time that I've known him, I was a bit skeptical and wasn't sure what I was getting myself into.

It was such an awesome feeling getting to finally relax one evening without spending time in the kitchen right after work. As he rummaged through the fridge and googled a few things on the internet, I eyed quite a bit of meat laying out on the counter. Ha! This man loves meat! He got his inspiration from 'Epic Meal Time', a Youtube channel that involves a group of guys making grotesque meals of meat.

So the concoction that Matt baked up was chicken breasts that he butterflied and filled with ham and jalapeno jack cheese, seasoned with salt, pepper, basil and garlic. And I'll be honest with you, it was stinkin yummy! He also poured into a bowl some raspberry chipotle for a dipping sauce. He's good! I enjoyed doing the dishes after that!
He looked like he was having a good time, I had to take a picture. He took the other two shots..he was so proud:)

this and that

What a busy month up ahead:

1. six days until Tough Mudder..please pray that it doesn't rain, and isn't 1458 degrees outside! here's a look at the course we'll be running:
http://toughmudder.com/events/texas-central/texas-central-course-map-2011/
2. Matt's Birthday!!!
3. a trip to Phoenix for work
4...ok, so it seemed like there was alot before I started writing it out, but that is all.


Discussion of the day:
Fantasy Football is annoying the crap out of me! Yes, I understand that it's a fun 'guy bonding' thing, but can you just turn your phone off for 30 min. so we can get through grocery shopping! Seriously, we had little to no food in our pantry/fridge so I asked Matt to come to the store to help pick out a few things he'd want for the week. He asked if we could be done in 15 min. so that we could be back in time for a football game to start. Now I know how this fantasy football thing works; it lasts till Monday night, so why is it a big deal to watch every stinkin play! Someone really needs to explain this to me before I pop him up-side the head.
So, we're walking through the store, and what does he do the entire time...watch it on his phone! Doesn't offer to help push the cart even..so pitiful. Only a few more months