I am getting old!

My birthday was on Wednesday May 19th. My parents came up the weekend before to help with our yard and celebrate my birthday. My mom stayed for a week and my dad and brother came up later that weekend. Me and mom had fun watching movies and and going on runs up a canyon getting ready for the Ragnar race. My dad brought me my mothers day gift a pergola so we could have more shade in our backyard. It was fun to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner outside under the shade. My dad and paul evened out the rest of the yard by driving their suburban around the yard pulling a box crate while paul sat on it. It looked pretty funny to see all the dust in Pauls face but the yard looked great after wards.

Cute pictures of Malia and Tacoma

 I finally got Tacoma to smile. And Malia is pulling her self up on to everything, crawling where ever she wants. She started crawling really well at 9 1/2 months. Malia now has four teeth two on the top and two on the bottom her two top teeth are coming in like Tacoma's did. Big front teeth with a big gap like sponge bob. I will be glad when the rest of her teeth come in to push them together.

Friends come for a visit

One of Paul's best friends from high school came to visit with his family from California. It was good to see Yoli and Hunter and their two kids Paulo and Andre. We went out to eat went to the Dino park and let the boys play in the dirt it was tons of fun. Thanks for coming to see us we love you guys.

SLC Marathon 26.2 Miles!

I ran the SLC marathon on April 17th. It was tough training in freezing cold temperatures and there were many times that I would have rather stayed inside than run. Thanks to Paul my husband I don't think I would have made it every time I was thinking about not going he would push me out the door and tell me to get it over with. Every marathon training schedule says to only run 20 miles. After doing 19 and 20 miles my legs would be so sore and I couldn't walk down stairs very well. I was really worried for the last 6.2 miles. Race day came came so fast, there were so many people at the starting line. I ran the first 13 miles in 1hour 50 min I thought I was doing great and would finish under 4 hours. After mile 13 I went down hill I started to get a blisters on the bottom of both of my feet. I felt pain with every step, I tried to get mole skin at the aide station but they only had band aides so I kept going. Then my arms started chaffing so luckily the aide stations had Vaseline. Then at mile 16-17 my legs started to cramp up It felt like I had a huge Charley horse in both of my quad muscles and I couldn't bend me legs. I kept going until I had to stop and walk a little and stretch which only made my legs tighten up more. Emily was waiting for me at Mile 20 I called Brandon (her Husband) almost in tears to see if he could drop her of sooner. He said she was already there waiting for me. The three miles to Emily were so painful that when I saw her I broke down crying because I was so grateful to see her. She talked to me the whole time to take my mind of the pain we had to walk when the cramping became to unbearable. It was cool to run up state street towards the state capital and in front of the Beehive house and down to the gateway mall. It was great to see my parents with my kids waiting for me at the finish line. I finished in 4 hours 15 min. After there were booths for the marathoners to get free food. I drank a small chocolate milk half a banana and a creamy ice cream boy did I pay, I was sick to my stomach for the next 6 hours. I couldn't eat or drink anything I just laid on the couch curled up in a ball with pain in my stomach. I don't think I will ever run one again I might just stick with 1/2 marathons but who knows Paul thinks it is like having a baby I will forget all of the pain and want to do it again. (yeah right!)