Ragnar

Michelle and I at the end of Ragnar. I love this girl!! I have said it before and I will say it again. I am so glad that I met her I am so glad that her cute family is in my life. They make me so happy. I finally feel like Arizona is my home. I have a place here and part of it is because of her and her wonderful family. I love you guys!!!

Ragnar was such a neat experience. My pictures are backwards of course from the end to the begining. My wonderful partner in all this was Michelle. We were the only girls in our van, but most of the men werent all that bad. (:



This was our team "Expect Delays"




Running into the finish line


Running for me just opens up my mind. It can put everything into focus and make me think about more than just me and what I am doing. I remember when they would bring me water I would ask them if I was almost done. They kept lying to me and saying yes almost. Wow it was one of the hardest things I have ever done in my life. I am ready for more. I cant wait till next year!! (Hopefully my butt wont be that huge next year) (:


7 miles on a downhill incline on a dirt road. Very very hard.


Me getting ready to run 7 miles. I did 6 miles like 2 weeks before so I thought piece of cake no biggie.


Let me just say that Devin is AMAZING he was so fast and so focused that I was just in awe of him. On the next day he ended up finishing legs for some of the other runners because they needed help and he was right there ready to go. We went out to Dennys later after our run and people would come up to him and say "hey do you remember passing me by?" He was so fast. Devin was a superstar!!

This is Jeff he did amazing!!!




Michelle was the first to start off our van, so excited and ready to get going

Running

Well it all started by Michelle and I going to the gym together. It was tons of fun. Then we started talking about triathlons and 10ks and such and how it would be fun to do one. Well one Sunday night Michelle texted me about doing a 10k in 2 weeks. It was called 2 sisters one heart. So I said heck yeah lets do it that would be fun. And we began "training" for this 10k. Well 2 weeks went by real fast and our day was finally here, I was excited, nervous, anxious, and just ready to see if I could really even do it. WE DID IT and our time was pretty good for us!! We beat our practice run a week earlier. It was definitely an awesome feeling to reach the finish line and to have actually accomplished something that I thought was hard. I am so grateful for Michelle asking me to do this with her. Because of this run and other runs that I will talk about later, I have made a really awesome friend. I have not had this much fun in a long time. I know Heavenly Father places people in our lives for certain reasons and I think he placed Michelle (and Jared) in our lives to make Josh and I happier and to want to be better people. I am so glad they moved into our ward. They are such great people!!

This pic was taken after our 10k we were beat! But so happy!! I am so proud of us!

Random semi update

So my life has just been out of control crazy. I have really enjoyed it but it has definitely made me take a brake from blogging. this year we have had tons of fun so far. I have been a little lazy with my camera as well. Here is a little recap of some of the fun we have been having I will have more to put up whenever I get the chance (:

Kids club at the mall outside while its nice, all my Little's dancing away


I love him

The first graders got to go on a fun field trip to the zoo this is the only pic I took ):

For science all the first graders had to built a robot so this is what daddy and kael built. Its pretty awesome

Kael started piano with Sister Green our Primary chorister Kael LOVES it so far, and Emma is dying to join in on the fun

My kids were at their cousins house one night and when we picked them up this is what they looked like asleep everywhere Emma has her shirt partially on her head still (:

And Emma and Kael both had to go to the dentist and get some teeth worked on

The zoo

We are always at the zoo. I love the Phoenix zoo. We have passes and we go on every holiday the kids have!! The kids have so much fun. I think it is one of the best zoo's (next to Santa Barbara of course) So here was our fun day!!

Utah!!

The day after Christmas we left our house at 3am for Utah. The ride up was not bad. We just noticed that it got colder and colder as we drove up!! (: Like The moment we got into Utah I was frozen, up until we got back down to sunny az!! (:

This handsome little devil loved his snow clothes especially his awesome spiderman boots that we borrowed.

The kids really wanted to go on the tramp the moment we got there we finally let them. They had so much fun. I thought it was crazy how much snow was on it. It pretty much snowed the whole time we were there.

This is a big pile of dirt that got covered in snow and it turned into he perfect hill for the kids to sled down. This was next to Andy and Megan's house.

All the kids getting bundled up (again) to go out and play in the snow. My kids loved playing in the snow with their cousins. They would play outside until they were frozen!!

Megan took us to this awesome bounce place that had tramps everywhere. we left the kids play here for a long time. It was a great place for the kids to let out some of there crazy energy.

Brynn smile is just the cutest! She was my buddy the whole week talking with me and being so cute!

Mylee loved the trampolines

Aidens first encounter with the snow he was not sure he liked it at all

The snow was so yummy to them!!

Josh helped out by shoveling the driveway. After that he let me know that we were never moving to Utah. (:

I didnt let Mylee play in the snow to often because it was such a pain to get her bundled up. She did not like it much anyways

If you look closely at Mylee you will see our lame snowman. The kids thought it was funny to knock it down every time we got it stacked oh well.

Throwing snowballs

We had so much fun in Utah. We stayed with Josh's brother Andy and Megan and there cute kids Abby, Reese, and Brynn. Megan made yummy food for us every night. The kids got along amazingly well, not much fighting at all. We played a really fun game and if you know me you know I hate playing games, but this one was really fun. But we had to stay up till midnight on New years eve and so we played a really fun game and then we ended with a not so fun game of scrabble. I cant spell so I did not like that game and everyone took forever with their words!!

Megan and I got to sneak away to the gym every few nights which was so nice! Thankyou so much Andy and Megan for opening up your home to us and being such great hosts!! We cant wait to go back to Utah when its not snowing!! I was so happy to go back home and wear my flip flops again!(:

Christmas 2009

Well I really have been slacking on my blog! Life is just to crazy at our house. here is Christmas finally.. My mom got my kids this truck and they love it they are in heaven!! They are always out in the streets riding it whenever they can!! Best present ever!!





My little just keeps getting bigger and growing out of everything so here is a new pair of jeans...stop it Kael stay little forever!!!



Same goes for you Emma!!!

My mom made each of my boys these awesome comforters for their beds. They are lizard patterned and my boys just love them!!

Crazy Christmas hair!!!

All of the fun opening up christmas presents

"Santa" got Aiden this present and I HATE it!! There are so many dang pieces to it!! Oh well Aiden loves it!!

Loving her new dolly with her crazy hair

Emma with her new dolly I forgot what she named her Emily maybe? I am not sure (:

Christmas was so much fun!! We have never had it at our house before. Now that we have so much room we were able to have Christmas at our house I had so much fun! I LOVED having it at our house it was just the best!! We had Christmas dinner at our house but it was just so crazy that I forgot to take pictures of it.