TOU Half-Marathon

Megan and I before the race. It was so dang cold and we had to wait for 45 minutes up the canyon at 6:30am. And living in Clarkston I had to wake up at 4:50 to leave my house on time.







...And after. Lookin' pretty bad.




Saturday I ran in the Top of Utah Half Marathon and I wish I had my camera during the race so I could post pictures of all the interesting people I saw that day. But, as Tyler says, "You can't make fun of people when they can run that FAST!" So true, there were some very fast people there. I was pretty happy with my time, but I always wish I was faster. I finished in 1hour 50 min. and Tyler and his mom braved entertaining the kids for a good hour. Maybe next year the thought of that might help me go faster!!

We All Love Hali

There is one word that the babies share and have both been able to say quite clearly for some time now, "Hali". They both bawl over their cousin holding them and follow her around. She is their very favorite person to play with and they both get so excited to see her. Here is what she did with them today, dressed them BOTH up in princess wear and I think Owen liked it the most because when we took it off he carried it around and tried to put it on his head.

Some great news I wanted to share, today while I was teaching piano, the babies watched a movie! An entire CD of Baby Einstein, I am so happy they like TV, judge if you will, but there is nothing better than TV loving kid! Even if it is for only a half hour, I'll take it.

Feeling Old?

Tonight Tyler and I had the opportunity to "feel our age." We put on a miniature Amazing Race and called it the Amazing Date for his Young Men. He has been encouraging them to go on dates, so he set up a special night and tried to get all of them to get dates. After a lot of reminding we got four of them there and had a lot of fun. We made a vow tonight that we would try and stay cool. You know, since we always have been! Oh, I did learn one thing, maybe I need to get some jelly shoes. They seem to be "in", I'm just not too sure about them because they make one's toes looked smashed and I know my feet would sweat like a whore in church--we'll see.



First we had a marshmallow gun fight to determine the order the teams would leave in.

Next was horseshoes where every member had to participate until they got one "ringer".

Then on to Newton Dam where they shot at skeet until their team had hit 5, everyone had to try. Boy, could the little gal in green shoot. The second picture is the twins in our ward, Tyler loves these guys.


Their next clue took them to a park in Smithfield to search playground equipment for their final clue. It was neck and neck as they found their clues here, then raced to the restaurant.(Obeying all traffic laws of course)

We got this idea from my cousin who did it as a family reunion, Tyler and I had a great time just watching them do it and we can't wait to do another one. During our drive we were discussing more ideas for the next one.

Last of all we ate at Firehouse and were able to stay there for 2 hours talking--we had all kinds of kids there, from marching band to drama, drill team to the football team. Everybody was included and had a great time. At one point in the conversation we were discussing dancing when all of the sudden one boy turned to his date (his first date) and very loudly and awkwardly said, "So how do you like your lunchcard picture this year?" I still giggle just thinking about it. Not one person laughed, they just all turned the conversation to their lunchcard pictures--what great kids.