Snow Canyon Half Marathon

JD RAN A HALF MARATHON!!!

 During the summer I signed up to do the Snow Canyon Half Marathon down in St. George, JD told me he was going to do it with me and that he was going to beat me.... We made a deal that if he beat me he could go buy a mountain bike. Well weeks past I signed up and told JD I would sign him up when he started to train because I didn't want to waste $45.00 for the regristration fee. The training never started.

 

Fast forward a few months to the day we were leaving for the race. My training had dwindulled down to nothing due to the process of selling our house and it was now under contract. That morning I had a complete break down, after calling my Mom I decided that my parents would take the kids down to St. George for the weekend so I could start the process of getting everything packed. JD got home from work and after a major discussion/fight the whole family was on our way to St. George with my parents.

 

 My brother-in-law Colby was suppose to run the race but he never trained for it and they had gone down the week before so they told us JD could use his number. So JD decided in the car driving, without a day of training to try it. He did AWESOME we ran together until mile 7 and then his knee started bugging him so I continued on. What a supportive wife :) JD got a time of 2:11  and I got 1:51. Not my best at all but it was a really fun race, I out kicked a guy to the finish line and it was great to run with JD.

 

 I remember catching up to JD after slowing down to chat with a friend and thinking to myself he is one amazing guy to still be running this fast!! JD said he will never run another one with out training but that it was fun.

Pumpkin Patch

Happy Halloween 2012

INTENSE

Lincoln is our INTENSE little boy, he is either really, really happy...really, really mad... really, really loud... or really, really sweet.

What Started It All...

 This is the little blue house that caused us to put a for sale in our yard (for the 20th time) and now we are moving out in a week in a half. Long story short.... I was browsing the internet looking at houses in different places, why, because my sister had just moved from Herriman ALL the way down to Riverton and I wanted to have a change too. I found this blue house that has been recently renovated inside and was in the PERFECT location. Right across the street from PineView Resevoir.  So I showed it to JD, came up with a crazy plan like I always do, but this time he was on board with my crazy plan. So after a lot of homework and phone calls we got this house under contract and then put a sign in our yard. About 3 weeks later our house was under contract... I still cannot believe everything that has happened and fallen into place. When we started this adventure I told JD it would take a miracle for it all to happen. Miracles do happen!! We still have some more homework to do but if everything works out we are planning on moving the first of January.

 The beaches and lake right across the street

 All the fun barns the boys get to explore and play in and some we get to tear down.

 The view opposite of the lake, our property goes all the way back to the tree line, yep 17 acres of.......work. :-) Actually our plan is to develop that land into some lots....any one interested???

The lake is really low rightnow but were all those yellow weeds are, that is where the lake is!!

Binky Bye, Bye

 I have known for a while that I needed to get rid of Lincolns binky but kept on delaying for fear of the backlash that could happen. I wanted to make sure I would be able to still be a some what kind and patient Mom, even though I would probably have a non-stop screaming kid day and night for at least a good couple of weeks.

To mentally prepare myself & Lincoln I would tell him that after Daddy's birthday we are going to tie your binky's to Daddy's birthday balloons and have them float away high into the sky. I did this weeks in advance ( I really think it was more for me so that I couldn't chicken out).

Well the day came. After a few trial runs in the house I realized that one binky would take at least 2 balloons. So I told Lincoln he needed to throw his other one away in the big black garbage can. He did it no problem :)  

 The last binky around all tied up and ready for take off.

 I had Lincoln let go of the balloons all by himself. I don't know if I would have let go.

Watching the balloons float away. It was a great success :) At least 15 times a day for about a week he would ask where his binky was. I would tell him it went high in the sky to Heaven "to Heaven" was his reply and then he would be okay. It went so much better than expected :) Things are still a little tricky in the car but nothing that a sucker can't solve!! 

Kennedy 9 months

 Since I never got around to making an appointment with a photographer I decided to do a little photoshoot of my own in Kennedy's room. I think she is one cute little girl!! I love how easily she smiles at us ALL the time.

 My photography assistant needed some shots taken of his cute mug!!

"Don't forget about my cool ouchie Mom"