Sticky Situation

I was taping a book that got ripped and Noah got some tape on his hand. Is it bad that I just thought this was so funny?

We have a Fence!!

For the past 3 years, I have wished for a fence and we finally have one! With the pond and the road, I have had to be super vigilant. We have been enjoying it so much over the past couple of days and I am left asking myself, why didn't we do this 3 years ago?

Cousins at the cabin

We were able to spend some time with family at my parent's cabin near in the Sawtooth National Forest. My boys had a blast playing outside with their cousins. It made me so happy to see them enjoy the same things that I did when I was young. I am so glad that the cabin will be a part of their childhood memories, becuase it is a huge part of mine.

Mom's On the Run!

4 of my sisters, our friend Ginger, and I ran the Sawtooth Relay on June 13th. We had a blast! We are thinking this is going to have to be tradition. I already looked next year's is on June 12th, so team memebers put that on your calendars. We ran 61.9 miles from Stanley, Idaho to Ketchum, Idaho. We each ran 2 legs for a total of 12 legs. I have yet to get copies of the pictures (hint, hint Lori). I stole these off of Cara's blog (thanks Cara). I am super sad, my favorite picture is not on Cara's blog, but I will say thank you to Lisa for giving me one of the best laughs of my entire life, love ya! Also many thanks to Dad, Mom and Kendra for watching my sweet boys so that I could run, and bringing them to watch my second leg so that I could hear them cheer me on.

Here we are at the starting line at 6 am. It was 34 degrees. We were freezing! Ginger was in the car with her 4 month old baby.

It rained both of my legs, but I actually enjoyed running in the rain.

Lori ran up Galena. It was 1331 feet up to the summit of 8701 feet! Way to go Lori, you seriously impressed me!

Erin was the reason we did this race. Thanks so much for all of your hard work getting everything organized and seriously sister, you ran awesome!

Cheesy picture, but there couldn't have been a better place to run! It was gorgeous.

Here I am celebrating finishing my second leg. I was super happy to be done!

Here we are at the finish line. It really was so much fun to run this relay. It felt so good to finish and celebrate!

As for the results: we finished 2 hours and 10 minutes faster than we were projecting. I think we were being a little pessimistic!!

Some things Never Change

This picture was taken February 12, 2006.


This picture was taken today. He's still sitting on the counter helping me clean my mixer. Some things never change. Thank goodness!

Thank you Terminix!!!

If any of you have been to visit lately, you may have noticed the mass amounts of bugs that swarm our house. It has been almost unbearable to be outside. Today Terminix came and saved the day! It is amazing how much better it was today, not bugless, but much better! They're coming back in 2 weeks and we just have to say THANK YOU!!!!

Bandaid Solutions

Today I am grateful for duct tape. Connor has an old helicopter that he recently started playing with again. The rotars on his helicopter kept coming off and he would come to me every 3 seconds to have me put them on. I tried teaching him how, but that was very unsuccessful. After a few meltdowns, I decided to see if duct tape would work.

He hasn't been back once to ask me to fix it. Thank you duct tape!