SoJo Half Marathon

Back in October, I got this crazy idea to sign up to run a half marathon with my two of my bestest friends, Emily and Ariane, my brother Shane and my sister in law Emily.  I went into the race with absolutely no expectations other than to finish the race.  I did a 15K just a month earlier and survived.  I ran two long runs in between that race and this race, so I thought "hey, why not?"  Little did I know that 13.1 miles is FOREVER long!!!     

Starting Line

Ariane

Finishing time 2:02:04

Emily

Finishing time 2:04:48

Shane and Em

Finishing time 2:06:39

The Caboose

But hey I survived another race!!!

Finishing time 2:17:58

I did it!  I cried crossing the finish line.  I was so emotional!  I was the last in the group to finish but I didn't care at all.  All I kept thinking was I just ran a half marathon and I didn't die:)  Not sure if I will ever run another one, but I did it this time! Now I just need to figure out how to get this skinny again... hmmm

October 19, 2013

My first 15K

I did it!

I ran my first 15K!

I ran 9.3 miles.

Are you kidding me??? Up until this day, I had never ran more than 6 miles.  I signed up hoping that I could convince my friends to run it with me.  No luck!  I was so glad that I went through with it anyway.  

It was so fun to turn this last corner and see my family standing there cheering me on.  I got tears in my eyes just seeing them with huge smiles on their faces.  I really could have sat down and cried my heart was so full, but I pushed on and finished.

Troy ran the last few feet and crossed the line with me!

My biggest fans! Tanner slept over at my parents house the night before the race and didn't get up in time to come with them.  Thanks kiddos for all the cheers!  Forever grateful for my family.  xoxo

September 28, 2013

May's Wrap-up

After looking through all of my pictures, it looks like we did lots of fun things during the month of May!

Let's see if we can wrap everything we did up in one post....

Clint and I celebrated our 14th year anniversary!  I LOVE this man so much!!    I can honestly say I love him more today than the day we were married.  He really is my everything.  I couldn't be more happy that I am sealed to him for time and all eternity.

We had a fun family BBQ to celebrate Mother's Day!  I love that we have a holiday dedicated to the moms in our lives.  I have the greatest mom and I love her with all my heart.  I also have the world's greatest mother-in-law.  These two ladies are so special to me.  I love them both so dearly. 

Clint ran the Ogden Marathon.  I think this marathon is something like number 13 or 14.  Seriously!!!  I can't even imagine running a single marathon, not alone several marathons year.  He is my HERO!

I love this family of mine!

My niece Jessica had her seminary graduation.

Blakley's preschool class took a field trip to the Gateway Children's Museum.  Bentley, Kenli, Benson and Ally got to go with us.  She is so lucky that her cousins go to school with her!  Bentley is in her class and Benson is in the older class.

Blakley and Kenli

Best Friends!

Benson and Blakley playing in the sand!

My big girl on a HUGE horse!

Cody and Benson

She loved playing cashier!

Ally

On Memorial Day, we went around to family graves and left flowers.  We went to two cemeteries and eight graves.  We shared lots of memories of our loved ones.  We have been blessed with so many great family members.  Heaven is going to a great reunion when we are reunited again.   

Tanner was awarded "Outstanding Student" at his year end assembly at school.  6th grade has been such a great year for him.  He adores his two teachers and has so many new friends.  I couldn't have asked for a better school year for him. 

My baby girl had her 3 year old preschool graduation!  She is done with her first year of preschool.  She passed with flying colors:)  They had a little ceremony at the library to show off what they have learned.  Smarty pants!  I must say though she looked so cute in her cap! 

She love, love, loves Ms. Hilary

Love you baby girl!

I am sure that we did lots that I am missing.  But I'm pretty sure I hit all of the major events!  Looks like May was a good month for us.  On to June!

Mommy and Carter Date

Carter and I got to go see

one word: AMAZING!!!

Clint surprised us with 2nd row tickets! Talk about up close!  Carter had a HUGE smile on his face all night long!  Thanks Carter for making our date so much fun!  I love you buddy!

SuRpRiSe!!!

Rob surprised the girls and I with tickets to the Taylor Swift concert for Jessica's birthday!!! Thanks Rob!! We had a BLAST:)

Love you girls!

What a concert

(9/27/2011)

A hiking we will go.....

Oh Boy!

The boys wanted to go a hike in the mountains REALLY bad! Their sweet grandpa volunteered to take them. Too bad I am too much of a worry wart and thought there was no way my dad could watch all three boys. Crazy thoughts! I just kept imagining one of them running ahead, falling behind or worst being a dare devil and jumping off the side of the mountain or something. My boys are CRAZY! You never know! Any who, I ended up going with them. So much for the boys outing:) Besides, who else would have thought about taking pictures, right?!?!

We headed up Big Cottonwood Canyon and decided on hiking up to Dog Lake. We couldn't have asked for better weather. It was nice and cool.

My boys were little troopers! They each took turns wearing the water camelbaks without too much whining and made the four mile round trip hike without being carried. YAY!!!

We sure missed our little Blakley Doo (thanks grandma for watching her). She was so excited when her brothers came home. She wanted them to swim with her. She couldn't even wait to put on her swimsuit, she jumped right in the pool with her clothes on. Silly Girl!

Oh how I love summer days!

(07/19/2011)