We are the Champions my friends...and we'll keep on running til the end...

Here's to my first race!!! I told you all a year ago that you would see sweet sexy pictures of me running a race instead of pictures of Robert. Well, I did it:)

This is me the night before the race sporting my race shirt and number!!!

These two are who I joined the race with and why I did the race. Thanks Sherrie, for running with me bright and early to prepare for this. Thanks Christi for finding the race and being the first to sign up!!!

This is me around mile 2...the picture is blurred because I am running soooooo fast;)
The other girlies running super fast too!

Did I mention I ran the WHOLE way:)

This is how we felt after the race...

j/k that was our pretend faces...this was how we really felt after the race!!!

Would I do it again??? IN A HEARTBEAT! Thanks again girls for the great girls night out last night and the fabulous race! Go TOU!!!

Quick trip to Boise Idaho

For Labor Day Weekend we decided spur of the moment to go to Boise to visit and see my sister's new gorgeous house. When we were there we did a little craft store shopping, went out to eat at a delicious mexican restaurant, went swimming at a huge water park (sorry no pictures taken there, pictures of me in a swimsuit = A VERY BAD IDEA), did more shopping, walked to a fishing pond, and went on a tour of the old Idaho State Prison. Here are a few pictures taken in the prison.

I needed a new profile picture of me for my photography!

The last day we were there my sister and I went winter cloths shopping for our little boys and I came across the cutest "matching" shirts for my little guys. Photo shoot of them in those shirts is currently on my to do list. (I can't wait:)

Black and Orange

Yesterday I was COVERED in BLACK and ORANGE. BLACK from cleaning the canner which my camp chef turned BLACK. While washing and scrubbing the burnt "stuff" off the canner, I looked up to see the disaster I'd created. Did you know, that when you scrub BLACK stuff of a pan, it will SPRAY BLACK particles onto your blinds, counter tops, microwave, stove, cupboards, cloths, face, arms, floor, and ceiling? Then...when you go to clean those millions of BLACK particles, it will make them streak BLACK stuff everywhere causing the color BLACK to take over yourself and your kitchen. ORANGE came from the hundreds of PEACHES that were washed, boiled, cooled, peeled, cut, and bottled. Sorry Robert, I wore one of your blue shirts and it is now decorated and ready for HALLOWEEN:)

I still have a couple hundred peaches to wash, boil, cool, peel, cut, and can. My hands are RAW from yesterday, my floor is still sticky even after a good mop job, BLACK streaks and specs are still everywhere, and my (Roberts:( ) shirt is ruined, hum......maybe those peaches can decorate someone elses kitchen for the holiday. Anybody up for some BLACK and ORANGE in their kitchen?

Dinosaur Park

We went to the dinosaur park in Ogden, Ut with family. We got there around 3:55pm and we stood in line for a few minutes, then when we went to pay they told us it was free that day from 4-8pm! We didn't complain at all:)

Diggin for dinosaur bones with his cousins.

Here's Zack-er-oni just chillin in the stroller. (He is such a trooper)

Chuck-E-Cheese

Payton got hooked up! This was his second bag of cotton candy that he won. With the help of mom and dad and grandpa he was able to trade in his tickets and get a chuck-e-cheese football, basketball, and hammer.

You know the saying "where a kid can be a kid".......

Oh Zackers...we just love your cuteness

Yellowstone

We got to go to Yellowstone with my sister and her family and my mom and dad. Such a near perfect picture to end our little vacation, the only things missing were Conrad, Mandie, Maycie, and Jaxon. (we missed you guys!)

These three boys would chase the squirrels around our campground into the holes and then wait for them to poke their heads back out.

We got to have a picnic across the street from these elk. (also, this here is our new car due to a small accident that totaled our old car)

Thanks mom and dad for the nice little vacation! We were so glad you could come with us and be troopers in the freezing tents with us. I think our next vacation should be somewhere warmer...BAHAMAS?!?

Every time I take a picture that I think is cute all I can think is..."crap, now I have to scrapbook that" Yep, I'm a little behind on that hobby:)

I woke up with a smile

No pictures...sorry...I wasn't thinking about pictures, I was enjoying the moment.

Today, as most days, Payton woke up before me and he was roaming the house. He's very good to play with his toys and not get into any trouble. He often likes to go in Zack's room and play with him. Today, I heard Zack crying so I forced myself out of bed. I heard little noises in the kitchen so I walked in quietly and slowly. There I found Payton, this is what he had done, and was doing. He had gotton himself on the bar via a bike and got Zack's formula container, then he had opened it and also found a bottle and opened it. He put all the remaining formula in the bottle and put the lid back on both the bottle and formula container. (that's what was done, now this is what I witnessed) Then he grabbed a towel out of the cupboard and wiped up all the powdered mess and put the towel back in the cupboard. He then turned around and saw me, he smiled and grabbed the bottle and ran to Zack saying, "ZACK, bottle, here you go, ZACK bottle... I'm comin".

Moral of the story,
I think my kids may survive without me, my work here is done! Except, Zack appreciated it when I added water to his bottle.