Getting All Kinds of Muddy - Part 2

So we did the Spartan Race.  I'm not sure why, but we did.  Josh, Jim and I joined Whitney, Luke and Zac Larsen...it was a Jones vs. Larsen thing...a dude-wife-brother vs. dude-wife-brother thing.  The race started out fun and then it just got...old.  It got old hiking slowly up singletrack trails behind hot, dirty and smelly people.  There was way too much hiking up and down a mountain and not nearly enough fun obstacles.  The best thing I can say about it is that it was a Saturday that I got to spend with my husband and some other fun people.

Funny story, the girls were with a babysitter all day.  If they are left that long, its usually with my parents.  When we returned, Josie had pooped her pants, the toilet had flooded, and they had pulled down one of my curtains.  So we were muddy and exhausted and we got to go around the house putting out fires.

I think it was probably my last obstacle race.  The pictures below sort of illustrate how much "fun" this was.

Daddy and Uncle Jim Got Muddy

Josh completed the Spartan Beast race a couple of weeks ago with Jim.  It happened to coincide with the one-year anniversary of his back surgery.  I was so proud of him. The Spartan Beast race is about 12 miles and 25 obstacles up in beautiful Midway, Utah, ending in a big old puddle of mud.  It looked hot and hard, but they say it was a good time.  And I can't get him to write this blog post, so we'll have to leave it at that.

The girls and I had fun spectating and they have been talking about "daddy and Uncle Jim getting muddy" every day since the race.  Here's the group of them that did the race - a bunch of friends of Jim's. 

The girls played at the park area while we waited for them to finish.

One more picture of him right after finishing.  It really has been a long year for Josh with this back surgery recovery.  I think there were quite a few moments when we weren't sure he would be able to do this kind of thing again.