The GREAT ISU Ambush

So every year ISU hosts a 5K ambush race involving scaling walls, crawling through small spaces, swimming through mud pits, sliding down giant slip and slides and several other very ambush-like things. So we felt just crazy enough to do it! :)

But first we had to make shirts, which we did at dinner one night… with a live band entertaining us! :)

Now for introductions (didn’t our shirts turn out really cute? :)) From L to R Emily, Rachel and Maddie

At the starting line.

Our first obstacle!  We beat it! :)

Apparently long legs are no friends to these tubes.  Everyone else whipped through here, but it took me forever! :)

We made it to the top!  Pocatello is beautiful from this view!

Yay!  We made it!

Awesome action shot at the bottom of the slip and slide!  It was AWE SOME!

We’re almost done!

To end though, we had to swim through a mud pit!  Surprisingly fun! :)

About to cross the finish line! (Thanks Heidi for being an awesome roommate and coming and taking pictures!)

We made it!

The final product, after being sprayed off! :) 

SOOOOOO much fun!  Grateful for the girls in my program already! :)

The Next Two Years!

Never in all of my growing up did I ever think that I would be getting a Master’s degree.  Up until just a few years ago I didn’t even realize that a little girl from out in the sticks could even think about such an achievement!  But here I am!  Graduate School at Idaho State University!

And all I have to say is… HOLY CRAP! Yup, that about wraps it up.  I can’t believe I’m here.  So here’s to the next two years of my life! 

First Day of school!

I’d like you to meet my new roommates!  Elise and Heidi!

And Pocatello doesn’t have a temple, but Idaho Falls does and it’s beautiful!

Here’s to the next two years!

Wish me luck!

End of Summer Hoorah!

After I left Spokane I headed back to my beloved Utah! 

My first stop was in Logan!  Here I met up with some of my friends, went to a rodeo and just lived it up in Cache Valley

This is one of my good friends Laurie!  She was the one that taught me ASL!

And the Cache Valley rodeo!  I love rodeos because they always remind me of the great country we live in! 

Cowboys! :)

So my next stop was to see the Park family!

Dolly had told Connor and Cambree that I was coming and I must’ve been on their mind bc when she was going through the mailer Connor saw this ad and said “Look, it’s Alycen” to which Cambree agreed!  Bless those two kids!  :)

We went swimming.  Cambree apparently wasn’t havin’ it!

We went to Ikea…

…and wore silly hats.

We stopped in Manti on our way home from Austin and Sherry’s (apparently I didn’t get any pictures there either!) But the ice cream was good!

Dolly and Travis were so nice to open their house for us and have a BBQ!  It was a lot of fun!  I love my family!

Rochelle and the girls!

Like mother like son! 

Melissa’s tan looks amazing!

Scott just trying to establish dominance.

Travis and Brian manning the BBQ.

The always lovely Sherry, who did not want to be photographed that day!

Love these men!

Brannigan’s looking pretty thug back there!

 

Now just flip through these next pictures.  We’re a pretty funny bunch!

Then everybody went away and it was just us.

But the kids sure loved the attention!

Love this!

And this was my last Hoorah before grad school begins and, so they say, my life will be crazy!

I’m so grateful for my wonderful friends and family!  I couldn’t be more blessed!