Wednesday, June 26, 2013

To Bone and Back

I have heard about the relay To Bone and Back for lots of years.  This was my first year running in it.  It was lots of fun.  It is a 40 mile relay.  20 miles to Bone and 20 miles back to Idaho Falls.  Each team member running 5 miles.  I took leg #2.  It is all uphill.  My goal was to run it in under 60 minutes as hills are not my favorite.  I made it in 54 minutes!  We ended up finishing in 3rd place overall in the All Women's Division! With a finish time of 6:08.  Yeah us. 




Sunday, June 23, 2013

Summer

Summer. . . . My FAVORITE time of year! I love having the kids home! This is our second year creating an ABC Summer list. The kids loved it last year so we are doing it again. We tried to think of different activities for each letter but some of the favorites are the same.  There are some things you just have to do every year.  We are already making great progress on the list and still have lots to look forward to! 


Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Trek

Todd and I were asked to be Ma and Pa for our Stake Trek this last weekend.  Braeden and Tyson both went, it was fun to see them but they were both in different families!  We had 6 children in our family: Sarah, Maria, Morgan, Jared, Nate and Braden (not our Braeden) and Grandpa Dennis.  We were so proud of our children.  They got along great with each other and they all helped along the way.  It made it even more fun than we hoped!  The stake did a great job!  They had lots of fun activities, games, dance and food.  The kids had a great time.  The weather was awesome only getting into the low 70's during the day.  The only bad part about that was that it rained Thursday night and it was COLD.  We are so grateful we got the chance to be a part of our Trek!  I made this video for our trek family.  Enjoy! 


Sunday, June 16, 2013

Little Red Bike Ride

I got 10 friends together and put in for the lottery to see if we could get in to the Little Red Bike Ride in Lewiston Utah.  And lucky for us we got in!!!  I did 50 miles last year with my sister Jen so this year we were all for the 100!  As we started training in our lovely Idaho wind and freezing weather some decided the 50 would work best for them.  We drove 3 cars to Utah the night before and had a great time together!
Dinner at Olive Garden.  Look hard to find Stacy and Christy hiding in the back!
Biking in the halls of the hotel!
So funny :-)
Shopping for a shirt for Christy since we didn't order matching shirts.  Oops
Ice Cream at Charlie's. . . . . yummy
The five of us doing 100 at the start line
Perfect weather,  perfect company, perfect ride
We met up with the three that rode 50 for lunch.  We were so happy we got to see them!
Subway for lunch
The 100 mile ride started in Lewiston went all the way South of Logan through the farm lands and back around leaving Utah and crossing into. . . . 
IDAHO!!!!  All the way into Preston and back around to Lewiston.
We made it!!  All five of us 100 miles.  So proud of us.  Total time 8 1/2 hours ride time 7 hours.
Enjoying Ice Cream once again after the ride before racing home to get all the rented bikes back to Bills!
 Come to find out Stacy and Christy forgot to ride! Ha Ha.  They decided the mall sounded a little more fun.  You two crack me up.  We were happy you came and played with us!!