Marathon Man!!!!!!!

Saint George here we come!!!!

Well it all started about 2 years ago when some girlfriends that I run with co-hearsed me into running the Saint George Marathon. I really didn't think I would get in partly because my girlfriend was on the phone with me 5 minutes before the deadline was up and I walked up to my computer saying "there is no way I will get in the deadline is almost up!!!!!" As she walked me through the on line registration..........I submitted my name and as I pushed send the hour was up!!!! Not thinking a whole lot about it and being that you have like 4 months to register, I thought there in NO WAY I will get in!! Guess what..........I GOT IN( much to my dismay!!) Well it turned out to be one of those things I dreaded at the time and one of the greatest accomplishments I have ever done!!! It was SO WORTH IT!!!!!! thanks to my friends for encouraging me!!!!

Now knowing how much I "enjoyed it" I wanted Steve to run it!! I want to share the LOVE!!!! He runs almost everyday but didn't know if he had the time to train. We registered and we got in again this year!!!! SO now it is here.......in 4 short days a life changing accomplishment to cross off the bucket list !!!!!!!! I cant wait....... GOOD LUCK HONEY!!!!!!!

SUMMER IS OVER??????.........WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Well summer has come and summer has gone and oh what a summer we had! Conner started off with high adventure camp then onto BYU baseball camp and then a family trip to Lake Powell. Kailee continued her private tennis lessons and lots of beach and swimming! Jake and Crew had even more beach time and then a family trip to Palm Springs! Summer is way too short!! Although now that everyone is back in school it is nice to have a little less sand in the car and alot more structure in our lives!!!

We got to go see the play "WICKED" a couple of weeks ago with about 40 of our closest friends (thanks Tamara!) Our kids loved it!!! Well.....except for Jake who took a nice 2 hour nap! Although it went way too fast, we got to spend a lot of family time together and time with great friends!

Now we are moving on to High School.....Conner is on the football team. Kailee is the B.G.O.C. translation (big girl on campus) in 6th grade, Jake is in 3rd and also playing pop warner football and Crew our baby (he's 4) is starting another year of preschool next week!
I told Steve I feel so guilty when I go to bed at night realizing all I seem to say to Crew is "hurry honey" "Hurry buckle up" "Hurry...hop in the car" his little life is my back seat passenger always asking.... "are we going to the football field? "are we going to tennis lessons" "are we going to achievement days" "Is this scout day or mutual day? " "can we go to Coldstone??" But I have to say we do make it to the park regularly, we play a lot of football at home ,we play school (crew has learned to write his name, he does a lot of shaving (pretend with a pretend razor!) we have gone through a whole can of shaving cream this week!! along with an occasional lunch out and ice cream..... more often than not!!!!! I am trying to enjoy every single second I can even with all the craziness! My mom used to always tell me "enjoy your kids while they are young...it will go by way too fast!" I have to say days are turning to weeks and weeks to months!!!!! Life is certainly full but amazingly adventurous and I love every minute of it!!!

Summers at Lake Powell

Bye Bye beautiful lake

Bye Bye 8th grade


Bye Bye preschool (Almost) 1 more year to go.....they have graduation ceremonies for every grade these days!!

Bye Bye summer strawberries!!!

Bye Bye free time.............back to practice

Bye Bye beach............Back to tackeling!!!! Jake is the one "horizontal"(He sacked the QB!!!)

Hello High Schooler

I dont have digital pictures of Jake and Kailee's first day....(my camera broke!!) so Steve got video on the cam corder but that is waaaaay above my technical skills to add that video to my blog! I'll try to figure it out!!