FOR SALE!!!

So I believe most of you know that Kris bought me a riding lawn mower for our anniversary. I love the fact that my husband is so thoughtful but I hate riding lawn mowers! I would rather walk behind a mower and get the excersize then sit on a mower. So that brings me to this...
FOR SALE:
7 Speed Yard Machine Riding Lawn Mower!
Less than two years old, hardley used by me and the previous owner. (Client of Kris's) new battery! It even has a cup holder for your ice cold beverage! Relax and let it do all the work for you.

Call me if you or anyone you know may be interested.

Pics from Ogden Marathon

Here are some pics from the Ogden Marathon. For those who don't know my dad ran this with me! Other than the race they did for me almost two years ago my dad has never ran before! He had been practicing for about a month and did very well for his first timed race!
It was freezing cold at the start of the race which was by the Timbermine restaurant at the mouth of Ogden Canyon. But we pressed on and what a beautiful run it was! There were several people from my ward that ran and a couple of our friends as well.
My knees did a little bit better and hopefully are getting better! My goal is to run more 5k's this year and at the end of this year of first of next year to run another half and maybe a full marathon. If the folks on Biggest Loser can do it then I can do it as well.
Thanks Dad for running this with me and taking an interest in something I enjoy doing. I hope to make this a tradition that the two of us can keep doing and who knows maybe Erik and Kristin will join us next year!!!!!

For the BIRDS

Last year we had some nice little birdies build a nest on our wood trusses out front. I didn't mind so much and actually thought it was cute once the baby birds were born.
WELL NOW I AM SICK OF THE DUMB BIRDS!

For the past few weeks they keep trying to get into my BBQ grill to build a nest. We have cleaned out our BBQ grill several times due to the cluster of branches and grass.

I put the cover on it and they found a way through the small slit in it! I rolled up bags in foil and covered the holes on the side and they went through the bottom. Kris even turned the grill on and let it burn for a few hours (wasting our propane) thinking maybe if we burned what they all ready started they would get the hint and not build! My last resort was just leave the lid open, that way they wont have any shelter! Well look at where that got me and look at what they are doing to my deck! I have a lawn guy, a bug guy, does anyone know of a bird guy??????

Race for the Cure

Saturday was the Susan G. Koman Race for the cure. I participated in this race last year and was only able to do the one mile walk. This year I was able to do the 5K!
I was also lucky to have two of the most wonderful people come and support and run with me. My sister Kristin and my sister in law Amber (Pip). Pip came with me last year but Kristin couldn't because she was in Nebraska. It was so nice to have the two of them with me. Pip kicked our but in running but we all made it through the finish line. Kristin made us pink TUTU's to wear, I wasn't sure if Pip would wear it because she really HATES pink but she wasn't above looking silly to support me. My friend Mauri gave me pink spray paint for our hair, mine looked maroon but Kristins was pink. After I got home Broc looked at me and said "mom what did you do to your hair?" We looked very cute and silly and received lots of compliments on them. We were even in the channel 4 news.
I also got some support from my friend Marie Rich, she would have ran with us but she lives in Arizona. I have known her since I was knee high to a grasshopper, she donated in my honor. Thank you so much for your support!

It was an amazing sight to see! Mothers, daughters, sons, husbands, grandparents, people all ages showed up for this race all to support their loved ones. It looked like a sea of pink and white. White shirts were worn by the people who were supporting breast cancer survivors and those who fought the battle and lost. Pink was worn by those were survived breast cancer. I saw old women in their 80's walking this race, I also saw a very young looking woman, younger than myself. I didn't get a chance to talk with her but my heart ached because she looked so very young. I am talking earlier 20's.
I was grateful to be in the presence of such amazing women and their loved ones. To see their determination and drive to beat this terrible disease was truly amazing. It really does take
HOPE, FAITH, COURAGE

to beat this and that is achieved by the support and love from our family and friends. Thank you again Kristin and Pip for coming down there with me and hope next year to get more of you to enjoy this amazing event.

Busy Busy

Wow I dont know where to start. So many things have been going on. I will start with my Pride and Joy Broc! He started T-Ball this past week and really likes it. Especially hitting the ball. When I signed him up they asked if we could be coaches and I put only if they were really desperate! Well they must have been because we are coaches. Kris wasnt to thrilled about it but does a great job. Only a couple kids went the wrong way and it is so funny to watch at least 5 kids at the same time tackle the baseball. Over the next month every Tuesday and Thursday evening we will be doing T-Ball, kinda crazy but as long as Broc is enjoying it I am all for it.























On Friday Broc's pre-school had a trip to the fish farm. We have been before with Lori and her daughter Angela so when Broc heard that they were going to the fish farm he was thrilled. Thankfully his Nana was there because I was not about to pull the hook out of that fishes mouth, and usually that is Angela's job.
It took him a couple tries to catch one, as soon as one would nibble he would pull the line out of the water. But when he finally caught one he was excited. Since we dont eat fish he says to Nana " You better take this home to Bart because we dont like fish!" So lucky for her she got a small fish to take home to cook. Thanks Karen for going with us, he was happy you came.

So I havent blogged in a little bit so here are some pics for you to enjoy! We went to the kids safety fair last weekend, kinda boring but that is okay. I think the coolest thing there was the crash test cars. It was funny they put the kids in a seat and then had the seats run into each other. It kinda looked like they were in the front seat of a car. Really cute idea to give the kids a chance to see why we need seatbelts.

Also I have attached a pics of my two new shirts for the up coming Race for the Cure. It is May 8th at the Gateway. It is a 3.5 mile run or walk, it is not timed just a walk for the cure. I went last year right after I finished my treatments and only did half of it because I was to tried. This year I plan on doing the whole thing. So far my sister and sister in law are coming with me. I would love to have more freinds come along with me, it is a wonderful sight to see all the people out to support cancer research, it is like looking at a sea of pink. If you would like to come or sign up for the race go to this website and register or you can register when you get down there.

New Mexico

On March 31 Broc and I flew to New Mexico to see my oldest sister Tara. We had a wonderful and very relaxing time. Broc enjoyed playing with his cousins, all though he is not used to being around so many kids. We had Easter with them and a friend of my sisters so there was 10 kids looking for Easter eggs. They all got quite a bit of candy too.
Broc slept with his cousins most of the time but after sleeping in their room one night they had fallen asleep a lot faster then he did and he started to wine. So I went in there and told him to stop winning and not to come out of the room unless he had to go to the bathroom. The next morning the kids got up (they are earlier risers) and a few minutes later Broc woke up. Well I couldn't hear him because I was down stairs. My sister heard him crying in the room, she went in there to check why and asked why he was crying and he said, "mom told me to stay in here and not to come out unless i had to go to the bathroom." She laughed and told him to go ahead and find the boys. Well that night he didnt want to sleep with them anymore. MY FAULT. So he slept on the floor in my room. By the way they have the most comfortable bed I have EVER slept on in my life. I really need to get one, especially after coming back to my bed. We went over to the kids school one afternoon to play on their toys, they have the best playground toys I have ever been on. Utah schools should really invest in those kinds of things. It was warm and sunshine most of the time and then the day we come home I come home to a stinking blizzard!

We had a great time and cant wait to go back for another visit.
Here are some pics of our trip. Thanks Tara for having us and thank you Aubri for letting me have your nice room.

Brownies

I love brownies, so for the past couple Sunday Broc and I have been making them. He is starting to get really good at cracking the eggs and pouring the oil in, and really good at licking the beaters! I of course get to lick the bowl and make sure I leave a little bit extra left in there so I can eat it. YUMMY

Early Easter PIcs

Dancing

Pre-School Talent Show

Broc has a lot of things he can do right now but I don't know if I would call them talents. Its more or less just being a kid or a boy. So when a paper came home saying that they were doing a talent show I was like "What is he going to do? He is four!" I thought okay he can recite all the articles of faith that he knows. (We are up to number 10 now) But then thought Um not all of the parents would get that. So I asked him if he wanted to sing the songs we sing before he goes to bed. He said sure.
We get there that morning and my parents come to show their support, and all the sudden he changes his mind and says he wants to dance to the transformer theme song. I was like um I don't have that with me. He said yes you do it is on your phone. I find it and it is his turn. He introduces himself and then I put my phone to the microphone so everyone can hear it and he goes over to the matt and does a quick turn and stops and runs back to me. He has never been shy at all! So this came as a shock to me and a couple other friends that were there that know him. So then he said he would sing. And again he froze up. Anyway he sang it only if I would sing it and of course not loud enough for it to be heard on camera. So here are some pics from his Talent Show. I was still very proud of him and hope there isn't another talent show until 6th grade!

No More Training Wheels

Last week I went over to my freinds house to visit and the kids wanted to ride bikes. The only bike left to ride was a girl bike with no training wheels. At first Broc was like "I'll just watch everyone because I dont want to ride a pink bike." But being the good mother I am I made him anyway. I walked behind him for a couple seconds then he took off all by himself! I was so excited I just about cried.
When we got home that day I told Kris and the next day he took the training wheels off. When Broc went out to ride he noticed his training wheels were no longer there and didnt want to ride. But of course he did and now he can do it. He still has a hard time starting off by himself, but does very well. All though he complains he is "just so tired mom, its harder with out the training wheels."
Here are a couple pics and a quick video for you to enjoy.

Articles of Faith

Many of you know that Broc has been working really hard on his Articles of Faith. A month ago we started with number one and he picked it up very quickly. Since then every night we start with number one, and end with what ever number he is on. He is now on number 9! I am so proud of him for having the desire to learn them. If we are in somewhat of a hurry at bed time and try to skip it, he says "Mom but we have to do the Articles of Faith."
Now you are probably thinking wow what a great and smart kid for wanting to know his Articles of Faith, I must confess...when we started it we told him that as soon as he knew all of them we would get him a new DS game. So I think that is his ultimate goal, but he still really wants to know them. Each week when he goes to Primary he tells his teacher he learned another one and away he goes telling them what it is. Another thing that happened in Primary that I was so proud to hear, was they were talking about article of Faith number 5 and they asked if anyone knew it. Of course Broc raised his hand and the leader, not really thinking he would know it said "okay Broc lets hear it, what is it" and he did it all by himself. They were in awe that he could do it and even remember it all by himself. I was such a PROUD mommy.
Anyway if I can get this to work here is Broc telling Articles of Faith 1 through 8.

Gosh I really don't have a reason as to why I haven't been blogging. I wish I could say I have been busy, but I don't think I have been any busier than anyone else. So here is a re-cap of whats been going on around our home.

At pre-school they were on the letter P so they got to wear their PJ's to school and bring their pillow. Broc picked his Super Mario Brothers PJ's, and of course I couldn't send him to school with bed head! He had a great time and when he got home he says, "Mom I better change out of my Jammie's because we don't wear our Jammie's all day right?" I guess he really does listen to me.

The next week they went bowling with their class. I was such a proud mom, he bowled a whopping 100. Yes he did have the bumpers but still did so good. I think it is the WII that helped him on that. He had a great time and he was thrilled that his dad came to watch too.

For Christmas last year my mom bought me, Kristin and Cami tickets to go to Time Out for Women. It was a wonderful event and I learned a lot. For those that don't know what it is, it is a just a bunch of different speakers and singers coming to talk. Sounds boring but it was really fun and we laughed a lot. I learned that "My best is good enough". Often as women we are so hard on ourselves on the things that we don't do or couldn't get done, and so on. However we are trying and so therefore...Our best is good enough! Thanks mom for taking us and hope to make this a yearly thing.

If any of you know me well, you know I love to goof off when taking pics, so I hope you enjoy.

The next week was his Valentines Party. I was asked to help out with it and so I did a lame craft. They seemed to like it though, but I still thought the craft was lame. I need to be more creative! Surprisingly I didn't bring my camera. (I thought I lost my brand new one, but it was just a case of WHERE DID I PUT THAT STUPID THING) no worries I found it!

We went out to dinner on Saturday to my favorite place Texas Rhode House for Valentines. However when we got there I was feeling very sick to my stomach thinking I was going to throw up I spent a little bit of time in the bathroom waiting for...well you know. Luckily nothing came up, I was able to eat some of my baked potato and that's it. I tried to eat some rolls, which are my favorite and couldn't even eat those. That sucked. I think it was because I have been taking these pills that help rebuild my muscles and crap and took them on a very very empty stomach so that is why I was feeling very sick. NEVER AGAIN!

We had a nice Valentines Day, church then to my moms for a nice dinner and great company and yummy desserts.

That's all that has been going on around here, anxious for spring to arrive and winter to bid its farewell. All though I know we need the snow, I will settle for rain.
Hope everyone enjoyed their Valentines Day. This week is a very special week as I celebrate my 11th anniversary with my loving husband. Cant believe we are going on 11 years. CRAZY, but HAPPY

Have a great week everyone

St George Painters Half Marathon

Well I did it! I want to thank Amy for talking me into doing this, other wise I would have never done it.
I started training for this a while ago and was pretty dilligent about following the routine I was supposed to follow, well most of the time. The bad thing was I did all of my training on a treadmill. So when it came to running outside on asphalt it was really tough for me.

The plan was to leave on Thursday afternoon around 1. When Kris left that morning he took my car to Sears to get new tires on it (why did you need to know we had to put tires on the car, well keep reading) Well we left at one, ran by the office so I can clean it a little bit, after that we got on the freeway to head out of town and noticed that the cruise control didnt work. So we stopped off at our wonderful mechanic at Layton Tunex to have him check it out. Looked over it and said it could be a few things but it would take some time to get the part in. We said well order the part and when we get back we will fix it. No sooner we get on the car wouldnt shift into another gear. Now if you dont know all ready we had to put a new tranie in the car a month ago (dumb FORDS). So my first thought was great the tranie is out all ready. Went back to the shop and found out that is was some thing that tells the computer to tell it something and gosh I really dont know what it is called. So they ordered it and after waiting for what seemed like forever (it wasnt) they got it fixed and at 4 we were on our way. Thanks guys at Tunex for getting right to it and getting it done for us.
On the way down right about Fillmore it was snowing and the wind was blowing like crazy. We were pretty scared for a little bit but of course Kris being the cautious driver he is got us there safely.
Friday we took our time getting ready and rested then meet my parents at the place where the race was going to start and checked that out, then they took us to a museum there. It was pretty cool! Then we went back to the house we were staying at and chilled there for a bit then meet my parents for dinner.
Saturday I got up at 7 had some yogart and we were at the race by 8:15. Race started at 9 and away I went. At mile two a horse jotted down the street with us (it got out of the field) and I shedded my jacket because I was getting hot all ready. At mile 9 I started to have some really sharp pain in my knees. At mile 10.5 I hurt so bad I felt like my knees shattered. So I figured before that my pace was about 8 mins/mile. However after my knees started to hurt I lost so much time. I was such a baby because I started to cry as people I passed long time ago where starting to pass me. Anyway I finished the race and pretty much dropped into my dads arms. Kris had lifted Broc on the other side so he can finish it with me and that was neat, would have been better if I wasnt hurting so bad. After i crossed the finish line all I wanted to do was get in the car and get back to the house to put ice on my knees.

What an accomplisment for myself I am proud of myself for doing it and hope to do it again next year, however this summer I will train more. And my Dad said he would do it with me if I did it again, so that right there is reason enough for me to do it again. So till next year everyone!
Oh yeah I am sure you all want to know my time......

It was 2:38 mins.
You can check out the race http://strideracing.com/2010/st-george-half-marathon-5k.html
P.S.
As you look at the pics you can tell how excited I was about the race and you can certainly tell when I started hurting as that is when I started walking and of course my face tells it all. So dont laugh at the pics with my silly face!