Top of Utah 1/2 Marathon

So Pre- Marathon was a blast!! I got to train with my good friends Nicole Morris and Julie Funk. It was so fun getting together to run in the mornings all the time. I think my friendships with them grew even more! I love those girls! My knee the previously year had really bothered me. In training I had only got to mile 8, but this year with some new shoes and better stretching, it wasn't so bad. Training went pretty good but deep down I was feeling a little unprepared.

The day before the marathon 6 girls crammed into the SUV and we had a pretty sweet girls night out, as we traveled down to Logan. We went out to eat and hardly slept with all the pre- marathon gitters. The morning of, I met my niece Tristin who came to run it also. I was so excited to have her here. I knew I would probably only run the first couple miles with her and then she would leave me in her dust.

Wow.... what can I say but that this 1/2 marathon was nothing like the last. I was doing so awesome ( well for me anyways)! I was keeping a pace of an 8 1/2 minute mile until I reached mile 10 and then something bad happened. My body started shutting down. I didn't feel tired at all, I just felt really dizzy. Everything was spinning. I ran mile 10 and by the time I got to mile 11 I could no longer run. I could hardly walk straight. Everything was turning black like I was going to pass out, but I just kept walking. It took me forever to finish mile 11 when Jessica, the marathon queen, came running back. She had been meeting up with all of us friends to run us in the last couple miles. All I can say is if it wasn't for her I probably wouldn't have been able to finish the race. I finished in the same exact time as my very first 1/2 marathon. But was disappointed I never beat my first time.

Come to find out I had been really dehydrated. The EMT's had to put a couple bags of fluid in me and then I was totally fine...except for that 800 mg of IB provin that I took on an empty stomach. That made me puke the rest of the day.

Well....needless to say this won't be my last race!! Regardless of everything.... I'm addicted, and I'm going to kick butt next time (at least in the little world of Teresa)!

1st Grade..No way??

Kobe's first day of school was awesome, well for him anyways. I think sending him to first grade was even harder for me than sending him to kindergarten. First grade means Kobe being gone all day long. Lets just say little Ky and I missed him like crazy!! I kept looking at the clock wondering if it was almost time to go pick him up. Kylee kept looking around saying Bobe, Bobe??

We dropped him off that morning and could hardly get any pictures of him because he was so excited to go inside. His teacher was dressed like a pirate and the classroom was all decked out! And yes... he's in a portable. Not quite sure what I think about that, but he seems excited. There's no bathroom in the portable, so that means he has to go into the school for that. He's not going to like that in the winter. Lets just hope the teacher doesn't find any yellow spots in the snow behind the portable.

Kobe came home so excited about his teacher, friends, hot lunch, and P.E. I'm excited his good friend Jackson Greenberg is in his class. Now maybe between Whitney and I, we can figure out what they do each day.

Last minute I had decided to change Kobe from the 9:15am start time to the 8:00am start time. Call me crazy, I know. But he's surprisingly do well with it. I carry him into mine and Aaron's bedroom in the morning so he can wake up to Curious George and eat breakfast in our bed. Talk about a SOFT LIFE!!! But it works.

After school Kylee and I had made cookies for Kobe. I made his bed and wrote him a little card. He was pretty excited! Here's to a great year buddy!!!

What could be funner than this???

Didn't you just love building tents with blankets in the living room as a kid? Reading's so much funner under a tent!!

Girls Camp

I just Love Love Love Girls camp. We had it at the Heber Valley camp again. I was lucky enough to be able to go up half way through this year. Our theme was BOOT camp (Building our own testimonies). We all had so much fun. I just love the girls in our ward!

My favorite was our service project. We got to chop and stack firewood. It took me back to growing up in Horsefly. I LOVED every minute of it!!!

~Camping this summer~

Every year we go to Hades Creek for some great camping. Aaron's dad started going as a kid and then Aaron came here all growing up. Now we do the same, and we love it! It is so relaxing and beautiful, not to mention the fishing is awesome for the kids. It's pretty easy to catch a fish, which makes it fun for them. This was Kylee's first time fishing. She loved it.....that is until the fish started flopping around on the end of the hook. That kinda freaked her out! But she was fine once it stopped moving. I remember Kobe's first time fishing. The first fish he caught, he ended up carrying it around all day..kinda gross, but hey we're camping right?! I was surprised he actually let us cook it up for him at the end of the day.

For the first part of the week we met Aaron's mom and dad up there. The kids helped carry firewood and played with the dump trucks.

Last year we started taking friends along with us. We bring the kayaks and paddle around in the still water above camp, we make boats and have boat races, we fish, play games and go on hikes. This year we did more fishing, hiking and playing games more than anything because it rained allot!! We went on some fun hikes though! Grandma discovered a fun trail for the kids a couple years ago, so every year the kids want to do their hike.

The Funk's and Morris's met us up there this year and we had so much fun with them!

Here's the down pour! Thunder and lightning like I've never heard before! There was a serious river that ran right through part of the camp. I love thunder storms! I love the smell, the coolness in the air and the way everything looks so fresh afterwards. We had a good time despite how dirty the kids got. I think every time we go camping there's at least one shirt of theirs that I have to throw away because I can't get it clean.

Hopefully the rain didn't scare everybody off for next year. Maybe next time the weather will be good enough to get the kayaks out and do our boat races. Maybe we'll even convince the scaredy cats to travel up the steep road to the lake above camp. I can't wait until next year!

Baby's Got Style!!

Kylee LOVES to help me with the laundry. She likes to help me throw the clothes into the washing machine and watch as it's filling up with water. She'll help me load the dryer, sometimes even with the dirty laundry that's laying on the floor in piles. She loves to sit in the laundry basket as I carry the laundry up and down the stairs. She's my big helper....except when I'm trying to fold the laundry. Her very favorite part is running through and tearing apart all my nicely folded piles of clothes..ahhh! Anyways...this time, this is her idea of helping me. She kept digging things out of the pile and wanting me to put it on her. Very cute Ky!!

Scarred for life?...I hope not!

So... some of you have heard this story but I'm told I need to write this one down. I'm not quite sure why I'm doing this. I'm kinda hoping Kobe just forgets about this one.

So we came back from our Bear lake family reunion late Saturday night Exhausted and went straight to bed. After church the next day we decided we were all going to take naps. We put Kylee to bed and began trying to get Kobe to take a nap. He kept coming out of his room with excuse after excuse just trying to stay up. He tried telling me there was some big bug in my closet and wanted me to get out of bed and come see it. I was sooo done with him trying to prolong the inevitable that I told him he better get to bed or he was going to be in big trouble. He went, and we all got a good nap in.

Well because Kobe took a nap earlier, that night he wasn't tired at bedtime...ugh! So back to the whole process again. He began telling me about the big bug in my closet again. So this time I walked over to look in the closet. I did see something. It was much bigger than a real bug, so I thought it was one of Kobe's toy bugs and he was trying to play a trick on me by sticking it in my closet to scare me. Instead of playing along and acting scared, I decided to grab it and swing it around his face saying ahhh oooh. Well come to realize.... it wasn't a fake bug at all! IT WAS HIS PET FROG- DEAD!!! When I realized this I screamed chucking it across the room. Aaron asked me what it was, and I said, "IT'S JUMPER"! Poor Kobe...his mom stuck his dead pet in his face! Sad....I know! That night Kobe was kinda sad. He kept saying he felt like he was going to cry. I told him not to worry that Jumper was in heaven with all his Jumper friends and all the bugs in the world to eat. He was happy there!

We didn't take very good care of Jumper. I'm feeling a little guilty now, well... I did long before this happened and I was going to put him on KSL but never got around to it. He hardly got fed, hence the reason he got out of his cage. The poor thing was probably looking for food. When we found him he was black and mostly hard. We tried flushing him down the toilet and he clogged it! I guess Jumper was paying us back for the suffering we put him through that he clogged our toilet.

That night in Kobe's prayers he asked Heavenly Father to tell Jumper he was sorry for not taking care of him very well. It was pretty cute.

We really are good pet owners just not to the quiet ones that are in their cage all day. We kinda forget about them. Don't worry Tripp we could never forget about you!

A New Discovery

Yes.... That's snow in the background!!

A couple weeks ago we went to Bear Lake for a family reunion. Some of Aaron's cousins were trying to talk some of us into going to this rope swing up Canyon. We were all a little hesitant because it was a ways away, but mostly because it was glacier fed.

It was just a short hike up to the lake from where we parked and it was so so beautiful!!

Man... was it ever fun!!!

Note to self....Repellent a MUST!!!

So I'm not sure how many have heard this story about Kobe, but one day last summer I had gotten a babysitter while I ran out for a couple hours. While gone, Kobe decided to ride his bike down the hill up the street. He wasn't wearing a helmet and as he came around a corner someone had left there lemonade stand on the sidewalk and Kobe ran SmAcK into it wiping out. When I got home I checked his head out and there was no visible marks or bumps and he was acting totally normal so I concluded he was fine.

Later that afternoon he said he had a bump on his head that was kinda hurting...it was small...not to big. Well that night he was jumping on the tramp with some friends when I noticed his head. IT WAS HUGE! The bump on the side of his head had grown to the size of a baseball. It really made me gasp.

Thinking it was delayed swelling or something from wrecking on his bike we decided to play it safe and we took him into the Insta Care. They couldn't believe the size of his head and right away told us we needed to take him to the emergency room. Mean while Kobe is still acting totally normal and fine. No Fever....nothing. They do all these tests including a CT scan, and are unable to figure out what was wrong. Later that night as the swelling went down we noticed it was a bug bite! That D#$% Mosquito cost us $1200 bucks!!

So long story short..... This is how Kobe woke up the other morning. Poor Guy, he sure takes a beating from those mosquito's.