I am an official Gleek

Ry got sick this weekend and since I was sitting at home with nothing on TV I decided to download Glee from itunes because I had heard it was really good. Bad Idea. 14 episodes of Glee in the past 30 hours later, I am more than addicted. I have issues....esp since my to do list is ginormous and includes packing up an entire house. I am in denial...

In his element...

With everything going on, I just realized that I never posted about Pete's latest Vaccines for the Philippines adventure. I wasn't able to go this year because I didn't dare leave Ry after what happened when Pete left for Cambodia (nightmares, sickness, abandonment issues, etc.) and I was sad to be missing out-This year sounded amazing. They did two free medical clinics, but spent the majority of the time building a birthing center in a rural area-they even managed to squeeze in the Cebu temple dedication. Pete had 25 other volunteers go over with him and he said they were an incredible group. To say Pete loves the Philippines is an understatement-he would move there in a second if I would let him. I am so proud of you babe and everything you and the group accomplished-you literally changed peoples lives!

Supermoms-Wasatch Back Relay 2010

Somehow I find myself drawn to this race every year-it is fun in a crazy/insane sort of way (this is the relay race where you run 188 miles with 11 other runners). I joined my older sister Catherine's team again and had a blast during all the adventures (minus me getting sick after my second run and staying sick 24 hours and another run later). I switched it up this year and was in the second group of runners. I got to see a different part of the race course and finally got to see the infamous "Ragnar"-the lovely mountain that two teammates run up-and yes, it really is a mountain. The team was awesome and we just found out we took 12th place out of 127 women's teams!!! Thanks for all the memories ladies!



My sis and I before all the madness started




The team minus me-I was running one of my legs when they took this pic




Because of the horrible traffic getting to the finish line we missed when my sister crossed, but we made sure to get a picture when we finally found her.

17 again

One of the things that kept me occupied while pete was in the Philippines for 2 weeks was going to YW girls camp for a day (I couldn't stay any longer b/c of Ry). I felt like I was in YW all over again and was surprised how much I didn't want to go home at the end of the night. The girls in my ward are awesome and thought it was so funny that everyone up there thought I was one of them and not a leader. I am going to be so sad to say goodbye when they release me to move.












Pete arrived home safe and sound this past week and once again I survived. Ry and I jam packed each day with friends, swimming, picnics, swimming and more swimming. We were both exhausted at the end of each day and he slept in almost every morning-one day he slept till after 10. We are happy to have pete home!

The million dollar question...

Question: Have you guys decided where you are moving to yet?

Wish I knew... Still waiting to decide till we hear from a few more schools-could this process take any longer?

growing up

(ry was really happy to be at graduation)

Lately I have felt like we are really growing up, pete graduated with his masters (pending he finishes his thesis by july:), he turned 29, and we have been trying to decide what state we are going to move to in three months. I have very mixed feelings about all of this, but I know it will all work out just how it should (or so I am told).

I heart N.Y.C.

My wonderful friend Lauren was going to hang out with her parents and play in NYC on her way to run the Boston marathon and she invited me to come along. I was MORE than excited for the invitation considering I have always wanted to visit NYC. She was so great and let me check off my huge list of things I wanted to see and do: Central Park, the Brooklyn Bridge, Wicked, Time Square, the Statue of Liberty, SoHo, Little Italy, Chinatown, shopping, Rockefeller Center, Fifth Avenue, Dylan's Candy bar, Donut Planet, Fat Witch Brownie and the list goes on... As you can see it involved eating a lot of desserts-my favorite:) I even got to sneak in a visit with my cousin Lara whom I hadn't seen since I was pregnant with Ryan.




In honor of the show Felicity





Even better than I remembered


My luggage very inconveniently decided to break as I was rushing thru Manhattan trying to meet my cousin. I still have bruises on the back of my right calf from my luggage hitting it so many times


My cousin Lara and her darling kids in Bryant park



Central Park


my heaven

Just as a side note, do you ever get really frustrated posting-me and blogger are not friends today as you can see by the weird question marks that are showing up in my post and the fact that this post took WAY too long to create.

The Latest Adventures of Peter Reichman

Ry and I were a little excited when last Tuesday finally rolled around. It may have been an ordinary day for the rest of you, but for us it meant that Pete would be coming home from his three-week stay in Cambodia. We were so excited in fact that I got to the airport forty minutes early:)

Pete went over to do research for his final project to finish his Master's in Public Health. He had a few hiccups along the way (ie. he got his luggage four days after he arrived), but overall he had a great trip. We both had some lonely moments without each other, but I kept telling myself at least it wasn't the two months he left for last summer. I was just glad he got to take advantage of such an AWESOME opportunity. Here are some pics from his latest adventure.


Buddist Temple



Some of the delicious food offered in Cambodia. Ry was obsessed that his Dad was going to eat bugs so Pete tried some crickets just to tell Ry he did.



Handing out disposal cameras to elementary school students. This was part of his research method he used called Photovoice. The kids took pictures of things that made it hard to stay clean and healthy.



A temple at Ankor Wat-part of the movie Tomb Raider was filmed here



A buddist monk at one of their temples



This land mine was right outside Pete's bedroom window, an unfortunate sign of the horrible civil war Cambodia experienced.

Ryan for Hire

Looking for an Interior Decorator? Ryan will definitely add a boyish touch to any home:)