Sawtooth Relay

The Sawtooth Realy was on Saturday and lets just say I've never had so much fun running 10 miles in my life! These girls are a riot.  We loaded up on Fri afternoon, we could have been gone for a week with all the crap we had, 6 women.... We decorated the car with our team name and we each named our legs of the relay, I wish I had a picture of that, it was pretty silly. We got to Stanley and had a wonderful dinner that we each helped make. Then we all went to bed around 9:00 to try and get some shut eye. Try being the key word.  Nerves got the best of me and I layed there until my alarm sounded at 11:50, time to get ready and head for the starting line.

Here we are at the starting line:  Renee, me, Karla, Brittani, Jacque, Erin

Gooooo Houswives of Heyburn!

Here's Renee ready for the 1:00 a.m. start:

Check out #214 it looks like he's thinking "...hmmm I'm totally gonna smoke these chicks..." HA whatever dude it's Renee you're up against!

I was totally on a team full of ROCK STARS and then there was me. :)

I ran my first leg at about 3 a.m. At first I was worried about running in the dark but it was fine and I actually enjoyed it more than my second leg.  I ran 5.03 miles in 1 hr 6 min 54 sec I'm not quite up to running 5 miles straight yet so I walked a little too (ok alot :))

Here we are FREEZING our booties off at dawn watching for Brit to come in. YaY! it's finally light enough to take pictures.

Here's Brit finishing up leg 5 and Jacque getting ready to run up the summit! Checking times.

Yay! Jacque made it up now Renee is getting ready to run down

Jacque you are amazing!!

Here comes Erin that means it's my turn.

Okay gag! (me not you Erin...you are a beauty.) Ignore this picture I wasn't going to post it but it's proof that I actually did this thing!

This leg was 4.64 miles so...shorter than my first leg but WAY harder...mentally. :) Since it was daylight you could see the exchanges and I kept looking and looking and it was never there and my knee started killing me.  But thank goodness for Sport Beans they are seriously like good drugs.  They helped SO much thanks Courtney!  So I felt like I was dragging on this leg...after all I've not had a wink of sleep. But I made it into the finish line in 1 hr and 41 sec.  When I came in and Brittani told me my time I heard it as 1 hr and 41 min. I was devastated after all it felt like it had been that long. I seriously almost started bawling right there (my emotions were on the fritz anyway)  so I started apologizing  feeling like I'd let the team down, and they couldn't understand why I was apologizing.  About an hour later we realized the miscommunication and I almost started bawling again, from relief this time. :)

Here's Karla cheering Brittani in.

And here goes Karla on the last leg

Here we are at the finish line!!

 I had another "moment" crossing the line, I can't believe  I...I can't believe we...no, I knew that they could do it, but I wasn't so sure I could do it, but I did!

We finished the race in 11 hrs 23 min and 14 sec which is SO awesome I think!

This was such an awesome experience I can't wait to do it again!!!

Kindergarten Graduation

 I cried like a baby at Brody's kindergarten graduation...well not really but I couldn't hold  back the tears. I'm so proud of my boy he is so smart and has learned SO much this year.

Pals: Keegan, Brody, Cooper, and Gage.  These boys have been great friends this year. I hope they are in the same class next year.

Brody and Mrs. Lloyd (aka: the best kindergarten teacher ever!) ♥ her!!

More tears on the last day of school when the boys handed me their report cards and they said:

Grade Placed: 1st
&
Grade Placed: 4th

That was a nice big "they're growing up" slap in the face. oooohhhh waaaaaa!



Here's a little surprise for you, when I put my camera card in the computer to get the graduation pics off I found Easter pics! Oh WOW! with all that sickness and vacationing I forgot about them...WHAT?!?!

Ward Easter egg hunt:

She's no dummy!

Easter egg hunt at grandma's house

Scott-having so much fun! He talked about this silly egg hunt for days. He loves it when the kids come, I'm glad we could make him so happy!

Joso just having fun being outside...hey I think that is the same egg...CHEATER! :)

Anyway that was a fun little flashback from a month ago. Now we need to look to the future.

Hey Housewives of Heyburn:

Our race is in 10 DAYS!!!! {gasp} literally! ;)

They sent our start time in the mail the other day umm... we start the race at 1:00 a.m. so I should be running my first leg at about 4:00 a.m. ZZZZzzzzzzz! The Housewives have decided that we should name the legs of the race ( instead of leg 1, leg 2, leg 3...etc) we want something more...um interesting than that. So when I took the kids to see Kung Foo Panda 2 over the weekend that's when inspiration struck.  It was all about finding your inner peace, when you find your inner peace you can accomplish anything. SO I am going to name my second leg  "Inner Peace" because I will need it by then... "Peace ON"  (LOVED the movie by the way.) I will probably name my first leg "sleep walking" because I'm sure that's what it will feel like. :)

♥♥"Peace On" Housewives♥♥

Love ya!!

Scottsdale, Moab, and WSWS

So I ended up going to Scottsdale and had a fabulous time!! All of the kids were fine and no one else got sick, hallelujah!  We literally hit the ground running in Scottsdale, we started off going to a fun little cafe in downtown for breakfast and hit the mall.  My favorite was going to the Bare Minerals store and getting a makeover, I've always wanted to try their makeup and I finally got the chance.  I. am. in. love!! I feel like I am glowing everyday. That night we got to go to an Arizona Diamondbacks baseball game, I have never been to a pro-game...it was alot of fun! I spent the next day laying by the pool, reading my book, (more on that later) going for a run, pampering myself, watching a little of the royal wedding coverage :) and getting sunburned. It was great! The next day was more shopping, let me tell you I was completely shopped out by the time we were done. I came home very rejuvenated and SO ready to see my kids!


We were home long enough to wash clothes and pack bags again so we could head down to Moab as a family for some bike riding. The boys love Moab and I'm sure they will be talking about this trip for many months to come.

This is what Joslyn thought of that bumpy ride.

The best part about riding along these trails is if you get to splash through some water along the way. :)

We couldn't leave Moab without a drive through Arches National Park:

A little bit of shade.

Delicate Arch

WSWS

what she wore sunday

She has a little bit of curl to her hair that I love...so cute! Most days  I don't do anything with it so it eventually goes frizzy but Sundays are special.  I have started taking her in to nursery while I run around taking roll and making talk assignments and she is doing great.  I even tried to peek through the window to see how she was doing and she busted me and didn't care. :)

 It seems like this baby girl is saying a new word every day, here are a few:

mom

dada

ba-den (braiden)

bo-dy (brody)

hudsee (hudson) 

boys (she will stand at the top of the stairs and yell down..."boys!")

cookie

hot

done

ba-ba

i-de (ivy) (she will bang on the window and yell i-de) She is ok with the dog through the window but that is about all.)

bebe

no

ball (in nursery the other day the nursery leader said Joslyn come and get a baby so she walks over to the toy cupboard and says "ball!" because that is the first thing she spotted. You can tell she has brothers.)

shoe

pretty

hi

bye

uh-oh

owie

brush

ding-dong (i was reading a book to Brody the other day and every page said ding-dong pretty soon she started saying it too.)

brrr! (when she gets out of the shower)

poo-poo (and pats her bum)

doggie (anything with 4 legs is a doggie)

cheese (when ever I pull out the camera it's "cheese!")

num-num

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I am always scouring blogs, the internet and my friends searching for a good book, here are a few I've read lately.



On my Kindle:

The Red Tent  by: Anita Diamant  hands down THE best book I've ever read- love love loved it!

The Forgotten Garden by: Kate Morton this was also a very good read.

My sister in law suggested this book- These Is My Words by: Nancy E. Turner  it was fabulous and heart wrenching at the same time...come to find out there are two more books in this series-yay!- Sarah's Quilt and The Star Garden.  Right now I have read 45% (according to my kindle) of The Star Garden and I'm loving it, there's an adventure around every corner.  Just a few ideas in case anyone is looking for good book.



Two Choices

I have two choices:

1- Go with my hubby and stay in a luxurious hotel in Scottsdale AZ, spend some much needed time together...just us. A chance to lay by the pool and read a book all day if I so desire. A trip to the spa?? Shopping in stores that this small town Idaho girl can usually only dream about. My wardrobe could use some freshning up. Eating at yummy restaurants--oh and did I mention spending time with my hubby- kid free?!?!

OR

2- Stay home with my sick kids.

Believe it or not I want to go with option #2 wwhhhhaaaatttttt??? Is this girl crazy or somethin'?

Let me explain... I would feel so terrible leaving my sick kids with anybody, I would hate to make other people sick, because it's a bad one! First Joslyn was sick and miserable for a week- a week. Not kidding the day that I thought she was returning back to her old self Brody came down with "It." His only lasted about 5 days- wasn't that nice? And yesterday he said, "mom I'm feeling good" So I sent him off to school. This morning we went to get Braiden out of bed for school and saw that he had obviously gotten... "IT." PALEEEZZ.  Now it's not a matter of- if, it's a matter of -WHEN Hudson gets "IT." And if Nate and I don't get "IT" it will be a miracle. Going from the track record of "IT" Braiden should get better in the next 5-7 days.
And... just hearing about this incident over the weekend seems to have rattled me to the very core.
I just want to stay home and take care of my babies-big and small.

Finish it Friday: Spring Blocks Edition

I think I set a new record for myself of not posting in FOREVER.  I don't have a reason either...just not much to blog about. :) Let's see a few things going on lately...

I hosted craft night at my house last night.  It was a blast- good friends, no kids, chocolate chip cookies, talking, laughing, and crafting until all hours of the night, it doesn't get much better than that. Here's what we did:

Now let me explain the title of this post, I saw these cute spring blocks on a blog a year ago and I wanted to make them so I got all the paper and embellishments together and got everything ready to go...except for the wood.  I asked my husband at least a hundred times (bless his heart) to cut the wood for me.  Well spring turned into summer and I figured I don't need spring blocks now that it's summer, so there the paper sat.  One YEAR later  I decided to put together a craft night and finally finish my Spring blocks.  So as a punishment ;) for not cutting my wood last year my sweet hubby had to cut my wood x 10 :) which he did promptly and without complaint might I add.

 I had seen these little cuties popping up all over blogland and I thought they would be the perfect "waiting for the mod podge to dry craft" and they were, love the way they turned out!

A couple of months ago we got this huge ball at Costco.  It's fun for the boys they can climb inside and roll each other around, it was a great middle of the winter toy for all but one.  Joslyn was petrified of it, whenever we would go within 10 feet of the thing she would cling to me and whimper.  Alot has changed since then.

 Love the hair sis!!

Look what's coming...

Last fall I planted almost 100 bulbs of all sorts, now I'm starting to see the fruits of my labors-- YAY! I love tulips.

Last weekend we took the kids up to Idaho Falls for a cousins sleepover at Casey and Kristy's.   It was a blast!! The kids had a blast downstairs playing and watching movies.

Sea of Kids :)

The mom's and dad's were in stitches upstairs playing wacky (and I mean wacky) games! Woke up the next morning to yummy breakfast.



Cutest little girlies.



Professional Pancake Maker.



Professional pancake eater.

Then drove up to Green Canyon Hot Springs for some swimming.



Thanks Casey and Kristy for a great time--we can't wait to do it again. Oh and thanks for letting me steal these pics off your blog since I forgot my camera. ♥