Salt Lake City Half Marathon-YEA!

A week before the race, the girls and I decided that since we had 14 miles to do this Saturday, we might as well do the SLC half. It was great! This is my favorite half so far-the course was easy, the weather was great, the support on the course was good, and the ending was awesome! If you ever think that you want to do just one to say you did it, this would be the one!

Goodbye cruel world...

Today I recieved a virus on my computer from an unknown person from my blog. They left a comment and it didn't make sense, so I clicked on the person to see who it was and voila-infected. So after taking care of its mess and wondering why people are so mean, I've decided to go private. I didn't think that I would ever do it because I like that you can find people you haven't seen for awhile. Who knows, I may be back for the world to see-time will tell. So if you have so much extra time on your hands that you check up on us once and awhile, leave me your email and I'll let you in our safe, little world.


By the way, if anybody wants to be invited to view Joel's blog, leave your email here too and I'll pass it along. He closed his with promises of updating more frequently...we'll see how that goes.

18 miler

Yea! Only one more really long run left after today before the Ogden Marathon. So today we did our 18 miles. Oh boy, it was interesting. We saw some beautiful sights, ran uphill (both ways) in the wind, saw buffalo and antelope, found a fuzzy caterpillar for Boston, laid in the middle of the road to stretch at 9 miles, and passed most of the bikers on our way.....okay, they all passed us-maybe next time.



This is Angie. Besides Angie looking good, so does all the beautiful scenery. We ran all the way to the point behind her head and further.



On the causeway out to Antelope Island. I felt like I was running in place for 6 miles.




I think this is the first time in my life I have ever seen buffalo-they were HUGE! And a bit scary that they were just right off the road too. I guess as long as I'm not the slowest, I'll be okay-sorry girls. I do owe them however for carrying my water and Gatorade the whole way. I was without a camel back pack for water, so they volunteered to add some weight to their load. Thanks, girls, what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger!...right? :)


At the end of our LONG 18 miles we sat down and waited for our ride.

Boston Red Sox fans live here.

Yes, we named our son Boston, yet we have never been there. Well, almost 6 years later, Jeff had a show there and got to go and experience all that's Boston. So naturally he brought Beaner back a ton of Boston stuff. He's been wearing in now for 4 days in a row-yes, same whole outfit!

Jeff tried to get him to hold up one finger like "we're #1", but Boston's favorite number is 5, so he insisted on holding up all his fingers. But in the end we all know "15" is the best number to be anyway....wink wink.

Thanks Grandma!

Max is my bathtub boy. He loves to play for quite awhile in the tub and be warm. Grandma came to watch the kids for awhile and brought some shaving cream to keep them busy. Looks like too much fun, but at least he's clean!

This looked like he was swimming in marshmallows!

Basketball Boston

Nice Form, but a bit blurry. This is Boston's first year in basketball. They have a 5 week season just for kindergartners to learn how to play. Its really quite entertaining seeing kids run crazy all over. They do give them a colored wrist band that matches someone on the other team so they can learn to play defense. I'm still not sure if it works great, but they try. He really loves it and is doing great! His jersey number is 15, just like his mom, so he must be good.



Boston celebrates his team making a good shot!



Just like his Dad-sitting on the bench.