Crowfoots are in Town!
sam's parents and brothers flew into town today. the family in green bay heard about them coming and decided to throw a big "summers reunion" party. i met so many more cousins and relatives of sam. even merriam conte and her family made it up for the event. after games, catching up, laughing, and cake, we took the contes over to the lambeau stadium where the green bay packers play. we always get here after touring time. but, it was still great to walk around and take pictures with the cousins. we had to go back early to get ready for the tough mudder the next day. strater, sam, nathan, ammon, and myself were all running the obstacle course. i admit, i was pretty nervous. i had no idea what to expect. i just knew it sounded really hard. my heart was pounding as i got ready the next morning. it was pounding as we drove up to the town north of madison. i always get so nervous before races.
we registered and picked up our race numbers. then we met up with our other team members from sam's law school. there was james leonard and his friend, and some others i didn't know very well. we all went to the bathrooms before going to the starting line. in the chaos of lines and crowds, we lost nathan. we looked all over for him and yelled out his name. but, he was nowhere to be found. it was time for us to start and we had to go without him. the very beginning wasn't too bad. we ran down a muddy hill and then had to run back up through sprays of water and over haystacks. the hills were actually really steep and made my legs burn. we swam through small tubes half emerged in mucky water. we had to cross monkey bars, which almost all of us fell off of into more mucky water. we laughed and cheered each other on.
we came to wooden planks with ropes that we had to climb up and down and up and down. the weather started to warm up once the sun came out, and we were dying to be sprayed with water again. the next obstacle, after a murderous hill climb, was the barbed wire shimmy. the ground was so muddy and rocky, and right above was the barbed wire. i saw people at the other end who had just finished the obstacle. they had cuts all over their legs and blood was running down. granted, they did have itty bitty shorts on, and i was grateful i decided to wear my longish yoga pants. the barbed wire was slow going, especially since i didn't want to get caught by the barbed wire, and the rocks were constantly snagging at my pants. but we all made it through without too many scrapes. there were two walls throughout the obstacle course and it was tough! i had to have a lot of help from my teammates to get me to the top, and once at the top, i had to trust that sam would catch me once i fell to the other side. we walked mostly, since strater had just come out of knee surgery not too long ago. i'm glad we did walk. the obstacle courses took so much energy, we had to rest along the way for the upcoming ones. the course was beautiful, though hilly, and once we emerged from the trees, we saw this huge, towering plank. i'm deathly afraid of heights, and though i was hot and i really wanted a dip in the blue pool of water, i skipped this obstacle of jumping from the 20 foot plank. i met my teammates on the other side and we continued on towards cliff climbing, carrying a log through the grossest smelliest swamp water ever. oh, and we also ran through smoky fiery mazes. we also had to run up a half pipe. while we were in line for that, we saw a guy try to run up the side, fall, and dislocate his shoulder. that totally freaked me out and i almost chickened out of doing it. but, i did and sam caught me at the top. whew. at the very end, we lined up in front of tanks of water. we had to jump in, swim underneath the barrier, and pop out of the other side. easy, right? the water was FREEZING! so when we dunked ourselves under, we gasped for breath on the other side, our bodies numbing up. the very last obstacle was the electro-shock. i also skipped out on this (which happened to be a good thing as i was 3 weeks pregnant and didn't know it). sam ran through with ammon and his dad. halfway through, the electric shock dropped strater, and sam and ammon had to go back through and get him. we were so dirty and tired at the finish line. we found nathan at the finish line. he had gotten lost and ran before us, trying to catch up thinking we were ahead. before we went home, makayah had to be checked out by the EMT's for heat stroke. she was fine. when we got home we all took showers and ate glass nickel pizza. best shower and dinner i've ever had. while sam's family was here we watched a documentary called "sick, fat, and nearly dead." it was quite the testimonial of juicing. we watched movies and played video games, it is so fun hanging out together. we've sure missed being around our family, but we are so thankful they came out to visit us. when they had to leave, mimzy , makayah, isaiah all looked out the window waving goodbye. it was such a fun and exhausting weekend. love you all!***
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