Half Marathon

Call me crazy, but yes, I did another run. But this time it was only half of a marathon :). July 10th Farmington was having their festival days with a half marathon, so I decided to sign up. It was a run I have run often in my training since we are on the border of Farmington. I was just paying and getting a shirt for something I always do.

The race started at 6:30 and it was slightly brisk, but the kids are troopers for getting in the bike trailer and waiting for me to come running by, then ride the last 5 miles with me. It was so nice having Scott there. His support is very helpful and means so much to me.

Here I come. (p.s. I beat the guy you see in front of me)

Finish line.....so beautiful! Nothing better than that!

Kids are always stealing my food.

To toot my own horn, I did finish 2nd women overall (first in my age group). There were only about 300 runners so really not that impressive.

I did have a PR (only ran one other half) of 1:30:32. If only I could sustain that for 26.2 miles.

House Projects

One of our top remodeling lists was our kitchen. It was fine, but the old yellowish oak cabinets were just looking a little out dated. We decided we would refinish them. That's when the project went from refinishing the cabinets to doing everything. I'm glad we did and in the long run, when it's our house for sale against the other one, hopefully our updated kitchen will win :). It was a process trying to find which granite we liked best, which back splash tile would go best with the granite and would black painted cabinets make our kitchen look smaller than it already is? Well this is what we decided.......

House hunting picture was the only one of the old kitchen we had.

This one is out of order, but here it is with the dry-wall up and counter tops off.

all the doors off (don't look at the messy cupboards)

We took the doors somewhere to be professionally painted but did the drawers and facing ourselves. It actually wasn't too bad, but for time sake, I'm glad we paid to have the majority done.

In the process....things got a little messy. Guess that's what you get for remodeling.

And the finished project. Scott added these island legs. I was skeptical at first, but glad we spent the extra $$ for them. They add a nice touch.

My husband is soooooo handy. We had old warehouse bubble lighting before and Scott put in these can lights. They look so much better.

My handy husband also did the crown molding up. He's definately a keeper :).

And there you have it.....our new kitchen. It's our new favorite room!

Raspberry Jam

Gotta love fresh raspberries and even better....raspberry jam!

From this.........

....to that!

4th of July

Don't fall out of your seats, but yes I am blogging. It's going to take a few days to catch up and I'll back track a bit, but here are a few posts. Over the 4th of July, we had my mom, sister Sarah and her husband Justin, son Dax and daughter Mykelti come for the weekend. Scott and I ran the Kaysville 5k (no photographer, therefore, no pictures). He made a PR of 7:06 min/mi ave. Not bad for an amateur. I ave a little faster because towards the end people started passing us and I couldn't have that. Scott didn't care so I took off. Anyway, back to the 4th, we ran that morning, then went to the Kaysville parade. The kids got way too much candy, but we helped take care of that :), then to my brother-in-laws family's house for a BBQ then back to Kaysville for the fireworks. It was a great small town day.

My mom, me, Molly, niece Mykelti and Fos waiting for the parade to begin.

My mom thought it'd be cute for Molly and Mykelti to get their faces painted.

Aren't they beautiful!

They had a dance off and Molly had no fear joining. Unfortunately, she didn't win.

Walton Family Reunion 2010

So, a little behind, but in June, we loaded the vans and headed to southern Utah to enjoy a wonderful reunion with the Waltons. We rented a huge cabin where we could all stay together. We arrived, picked our rooms (each family had their own), singles picked their couches and settled in. It was so much fun. We ate, played games, went on hikes through slot canyons, down in Zion National Park, through Bryce canyon, ate and played more games. I'm pretty lucky to have such wonderful in-laws.

The whole crew (minus Elder Walton)

Molly and Luke exploring

Took a little hike one day to find some very nearby slot canyons. It was pretty hot but boy was it beautiful. Fos does great in the back pack.

Molly and Me

Just a walkin'

Mike and his lizard friend. I think he was trying to make earrings

Me trying to sqeeze through. It wasn't very technical, but there were some parts we had to use more than walking abilities.

Mike is a pro at slot canyons. Here he is scaling up the wall to get a rope tied on so that the rest of us can get up.

Some of the Walton cousins

We played some fun board games and also some fun "Minute to Win It" competitions. Here, Ryan, Chris and Amy are pulling Kleenexes out of the box with one hand.

Scott trying to get quarters out from the bottom of panty hoses.

This day we went to Zion National Park. Molly and Fos just waiting for the hikes to begin.

Fos, Molly and cousin Luke

Dad and Fos

Quite the poser.....with mouth full of apple.

And she didn't even ever fall in.

Sporting Grandma Mary's hat. (Oh and his mom does rock :) hahahaha)

The fam at Bryce canyon

Bryce

......continued.....

Molly trying to do Sasha

The Kids

We haven't posted for a while, so here are a few pictures of the kids to get back into things. Here are the kids waiting for Elisha to run by on her 1/2 marathon.

Here's Foster at the 4th of July parade.

Molly being silly.

That's my boy.