Race Time!

Run a marathon: Check!

Medical College of Wisconsin?

Yes please! I am in!

The Primary President

So today at church we were sitting in the chapel waiting for sacrament meeting and I was up in front of the chapel waiting to pass the sacrament. As I passed the sacrament I noticed that Nicole had left the chapel, or so I thought. When I finished passing and returned to our seat I found that she was still absent. I continued towards the door to see if she was outside when I spotted her at the back of the chapel sitting next to one of her primary kids.
After she got up and we returned to our seats I asked her about her odd disappearance. It turns out she had seen one of her primary girls crying at the back of the chapel and Nicole had gone to comfort her and to sit by her until her brothers returned from passing the sacrament as well. It just reminded me of how great Nicole is and how much she cares about others. She is the best primary president!

The Countdown

It is Friday the 14th and there are only 21 hours left until the marathon starts! We have our running gear, shoes, music and headphones, gummies, and we are way excited to get going! Today we will drive to Ogden and visit the Expo to pick up our race bibs. Then off we go to bed! We will wake up tomorrow at about 4 AM to eat breakfast and start getting ready. The bus leaves at 4:45 and then we are off! Wish us luck!

Ogden Marathon

So it has been awhile since the blog has been updated...again. Sorry! Life has been pretty crazy since the last post. I interviewed at the Medical College of Wisconsin on March 5th and flew to Virginia to interview at Virginia Tech on March 6th! We have heard back from those two schools and the University of Utah and I am currently on the wait-list for all three. In March Nicole spent three weeks in Fresno, CA working hard on an audit there. All-the-while we were putting in the miles for our marathon training.
The marathon is in two days and we are getting very excited! We have worked really hard and put in hours and hours of running to be able to do this. It is going to be an awesome experience and I know that we can do this. I can't believe that it is already here. We will have more pictures and stories to tell after this weekend, I am sure. That is the basic update on our lives right now. The marathon has been a big focus for us these last few weeks. We will post again this weekend and share our experiences from the marathon!

BYU Vs. Utah Game

So, it has been an interesting month! Since the last post Nicole and I have been pretty busy. Nicole started her busy season and has been working like crazy! I was supposed to go on the Klondike camp but was sick and it was snowing hard so I didn't end up going. As I recovered from my sickness I developed the nice cold sore that you can see in the picture. That weekend we went to Avatar in 3D and had a great time. The young men also took first in the Klondike sled race so we threw a short pizza/wii party for them and had a blast!

Nicole and I went to the Jazz Vs. Kings game on Friday night and then the BYU Vs. Utah game on Saturday. I love to watch the Jazz, especially when they play well which they have been. And of course Nicole had fun watching Kyle Korver! Saturday was actually really busy and as you can see from the picture I clearly love Nicole to pieces because I wore a blue shirt! I still cheered hard for the U though! I am going to try harder to keep the blog up-to-date, but I have a hard time posting without pictures which means I will need to take more pictures.

In other news, Nicole and I are making it through the winter with hopes of a sunny vacation sometime in the coming months. We are also training hard for the Ogden Marathon on May 15th. It is really exciting to be doing it but it is going to be a lot of work! I have an interview at the Medical College of Wisconsin on March 5th and as of yet we have not heard back from the U. We hope that whenever we hear back that it will be good news!

Home for the Holidays

This year we had a special treat for the holidays. Colb and I both had brothers serving missions who returned home. Brian Hales arrived home two days before Thanksgiving from the Argentina, Buenos Aires West Mission. Braxton Duncan returned a few weeks later on December 15 from the New York, Rochester Mission. We are so excited to have them back!

We spent Thanksgiving and Christmas in cold Roosevelt and really enjoyed the time, good food, visiting, games, late nights, traditions, and family. We missed Tim who is in the MTC learning Chinese and preparing to serve in the Scotland, Edinburgh Mission. We also missed Grandma Lamb who passed away Christmas Eve returning to our heavenly home for the holidays. We are so thankful for the gospel in our lives and our knowledge of eternal families.

We had wonderful holidays and thoroughly enjoyed the time together and not working!

We don't have pics right now of Brax getting home, but I'll go ahead and post the a few holiday pics.

Our first moments with Bri and the airport

Rise and shout the cougars are out!
BYU vs. Utah football game

Cheering on our teams

Playing some Wii over the break
(I love Mom in the background folding laundry)

Making Christmas sugar cookies with Colb
This is my least favorite part as you can see by the mess (where are you when I need you LeAnn)!

The finished products!
We made over four dozen--way too many!

The guys talked Halli into giving them a back rub after dinner