Foster's Preschool Graduation

Still catching up.........

Foster graduated from Preschool last month. He had a great teacher and he was always excited for Tuesday and Thursday to come around! He learned so much and we are glad Miss Lesli will be taking him back next year as we are not ready to send him to Kindergarten!

I had the close up lens on and didn't have time to change it before all the kids left their position. That is why some kids are cut out of the photo......oops! 

Foster and Miss Lesli

There was a fun pond and park the kids ran down to after the graduation.

Puerto Penasco

A friend of Scott's asked us to go to Mexico with them a few other families. Not sure if he realized we would actually say yes. Scott and I talked about it and how we want to take the kids to a warm Mexican beach and how this would be a great opportunity so we agreed to go. It was spring break for Molly so a perfect to go. We loaded then van and drove to St. George and stayed with my brother and his family for a couple of days then to Phoenix Sunday to stay with Scott's brother then on into Mexico on Monday. It was a great way to break up the 16 hr drive. The kids did great too!

All loaded up!

We stopped at Hoover Dam on our way to Phoenix. Pretty amazing!

We'd get up, I'd go for a run on the beach, I'd get back, Scott would take the kids to the beach while I showered and let Nate take his first nap. The kids loved wherever they were. They didn't want to leave the beach to go to the pool and if they were at the pool they didn't want to leave that to go down to the beach. 

It was a great beach. Sandy, not rocky, with lots of shells and soft sand. 

The view looking at our condo

The kids jumping the huge waves!

Nate loved the water. In fact, he didn't want Scott or I to hold him. He's a very independent child, but realized we NEEDED to hold him in the water!

He loved the sand and seaweed!!!

 

View from our condo. Our friends had a ground level just down in the left hand of the building across from us. We ditched the me waiting in the condo while Nate slept and put him down for a nap in their condo after the first couple of days. It was a perfect set-up.

Two of the guys we went with. They like to fish!

My cute boys!

We went in to the local markets to buy groceries for the week. This was our choice of meat! Not your regular Smith's!!!!

One of my favorite pictures!

Down on the "rocky point"

We love trying the authentic restaurants. This one was really good and recommended by Mike. Scott's brother lives in Phoenix and came down for 2 days. 

Yummy Mexican food!

Fos on the mechanical bull

Jumping the ledge to the beach

Muscles!!!!!

The locals were selling these chili powdered mangoes on the beach. Super yummy!!!

The kids got cool kites for Easter and it was a great place to fly them!

Up by the pool

We had to get some pictures with a cactus

Molly's Gymnastics

Molly was in gymnastics this year and really improved. She started with a sideways cartwheel to a more straight up one. I think she enjoyed it, but is a dancer at heart! 

Ogden Marathon

I ran my 5th marathon in May. It was the Ogden marathon, so very close to home which is nice for travel expenses! It was a beautiful WET course. About a week and a half before the race, the weather was supposed to be in the 80's for the high (which would have been almost perfect in my perfect world). Then it slowly started changing and then changed to rain. Fine, I could deal with a little drizzle. And it only called for a 50% chance of rain. Better yet.....overcast! Nope, it was pouring down rain the entire 26.2 miles. Not so much fun to run in. I had a long sleeve shirt I was just going to "warm-up" in, but ended up wearing it almost 15 miles of the race. When I finally decided to pitch it (because it was hanging down to my knees) I could barely throw it to the side of the road because it was completely saturated and heavy. Guess it was a good thing I ditched the extra 5 lbs of water. My hands were so cold I could barely open my GU's and drink at the water stations. Thank goodness for my teeth! Overall, it wasn't too bad though! I missed my PR by 28 seconds, which later I realized was not bad compared to a lot of others given the weather conditions. I finished in 3 hrs 16 minutes and 40 seconds. My legs were spent by mile 19 and Scott jumped in at mile 22 with me. Thank goodness he did not care that we were going way slower than I wanted to be at that point! At first I told him this would be my last marathon.....but he knew better and just laughed. My cute sister came down for the race and was sweet enough to stand in the rain and take a few pictures. Most are blurry but you get the idea.  I kept trying to talk Scott into giving me his fresh legs but he just couldn't do it! I am grateful for him jumping in with me though. It was a great relief when I saw him and great to have him by my side when I wasn't strong enough to do it on my own! I hope to run another one sometime and PR by 28 seconds (or more)!

Scott was ready to take off and pull me behind!

Soaking wet and freezing cold in the recovery area!

Trying to look cute when I looked like a drowned rat!

Thanks sister Sarah for your support and taking pictures. Thanks Cassidy who encouraged me to sign up for the race and for coming to Utah to run it too. Thanks Scott for the amazing husband you are. For watching the kids through all my training and for running with me when the going got tough!

Mother's Day

I am one of the luckiest mom's around! I have an amazing husband and 3 beautiful, healthy, smart, funny kids. I am grateful to be a mom. It's a challenging yet one of the most rewarding jobs EVER! Thanks to my family for making me feel important and special and like I'm doing an OK job!