A little of me, it is only fair!

It is high time a mother gets some blog time, right?

I deserve it right?

So, to start, I borrowed most of the pics from Janie's Blog, so thanks Jane Bird!

This picture of my sisters is pretty special to me. They are my closest teammates. I can call, text or drop in on them whenever!

So, that I did back in April, Savannah and I surprised Colette in Seattle. I needed her and she was obviously 'floored' with my "drop in visit!".















We had a wonderful time together. We 'motored' down to see Jess in Portland. She is awesome and we had a great time playing the game called sissa's.

This summer, I had a couple goals....to run. That being said, I committed to a dirty 1/2 marathon with Jane Bird and Colette. Dirty, meaning I was nervous and not positive I could pull the thing off! I trained, as did they, our guts right out, (no pun intended). July came as did our race. In fact it was on my wedding anniversary. Go Nathan and I!

The race was in Payson Canyon, it was a beautiful run and I really did enjoy running, until I hit mile 10. Then it was like a brick wall. I CAN say I finished a 1/2 marathon, but not the way I wanted.

Me kicking it hard the last 100 yards....some positive sides from climbing this mental mountain, I got some of the most delicious orange slices I have ever had, after my race. The other, I caught an extra running shirt they were throwing out. YES! I am a fan of freebies!


Colette running the last 100 yards. She was like a never ending sure going machine.
Janie was a powerful machine who passed me like a bird in flight! Go Jane! (which by the way, has turned into an addicted to running runner!)







Another fun race my running sisters and I did was head to the famous Dayton 4th of July 5k. We were pumped, jazzed and ready to rock-n-roll baby! That we did!




Check out my form (despite my Dad's kind words), I have a kick it and blew Colette in the dust. (it is just that Jane Bird was not breathing hard by the time I crossed the finish line!). Check out the new high school track. I ran on gravel (an uphill, in the snow both ways) during my track years-if you call them that.




We took 1, 2, and 3. Oh yeah baby! Also, the raffle at the end?? I won a case of oil! Now that is worth it!

I had to redeem my horrible 1/2 marathon outcome so I ran my own at the end of August. I ran to the canyon, down and back up and home. I felt MUCH better with my finish!

My last goal of the summer, The tough Rim2Rim run here in 20-Falls.
Did I mention a tough run? Yep it is. The race is 7.8 miles which was not the killer part...
The runners begin down in the canyon then run up a 6% grade out of the canyon, another mile of slow up hill then eventually across the bridge (which was cool) then back down in the canyon across a narrow foot bridge then back UP a small BUT steep hill at the beginning of the last mile. My legs were jelly when I saw that blasted last hill. Bout killed me right off! But, I finished and loved it! AWESOME! Missed the chance to win a freebie because my very seasoned runner friend needed to get home. But, I WOULD have won something cool for sure!

Here I am running across the awesome bridge and down the steps to join the canyon rim running path (Nathan's cell pics) The kids were with Nathan and Brycen totally fell and scraped his nose. When I ran past the kids (I am 199 NOT 76), Tanner yelled to me "Brycen fell and got hurt" as I gave him a high five. So, I had the rest of the run to think about his possible injury. It was a bad fall!

Anyways, there you have it, my list of accomplishments this summer that only have to do with ME! I have loved running and the way I feel after.

this and that

We have not disappeared, promise. Just temporarily unavailable. Summer was busy and summer was fun, but school has beckoned the kids back. (yahooo,) So, I purchased the thousand Ticonderoga pencils (we are broke now), crayons, notebooks, dry erase markers and billions of glue sticks and kissed each child onto the school bus! A little taste of freedom!















The rare moment of 4 very happy kids playing together. Tanner of course took the lead and was the source for this. They were protecting the queen. There was no chance she was escaping? or getting captured!

I have to confess, our oldest has been banned from a bedroom. He was not ready for the big basement and Brycen had taken over the 'boys' room. So, Tanner, most of the time Corbin and Savannah all slept in this very girlie room.

The room was ALWAYS a mess! One day I called it a day! I moved Tanner downstairs (pics to come) and found Savannah's floor. She has rather a cute girlie room. AND, she has kept it pretty clean as well!

(maybe confining her collections to only this cute little cubbie drawer bench helped.)


Her cute bedspread that Grandma made. I love it! My future plans, to make cute curtains and a shelf above her window. (she has been asking for 2 years, be patient my dear!)
I had to take pics to prove she has a clean room!

Speaking of my sweet girl, she had a birthday! Big 7 now. I cannot believe it! She had a "Beach Party" and the girls decorated flip flops. They really worked on them. It was fun to see their creativity come out!
Savannah is a wonderful helper and loves to hum her way around the house.








We did a lot of swimming this year. Corbs can float on his back for like 5 feet and swim for like 5 feet! Yahoo! Brycen, poor little tyke, was babysat every swimming day, but one. So, he only got to dream of the pool!















We snuck food into this very fun swimming place. For our birthdays, our wonderful neighbors gave each person in our family a ticket to Roaring Springs. My favorite ride is the Avalanche. I loved it! So, we went up for the day and had a wonderful time together! Plus MJ and Clay joined us and love to babysit Brycen!

(on another note, they are moving and my heart is so sad!)



A taste of what we have done, more to come cause I know you are all dieing to know we did not die!