Football 2012

I am going to try to slowly get this record of our family caught up!

Brandon and Jacob both played football this year.  I wasn’t so sure about Jacob playing, but he reminded me that I let Brandon play when he was 10 so I needed to let him as well.  I am happy to report that we made it through another season with no injuries!

Jacob played several defensive positions and was an excellent hitter.  His coach knew he could always count on him to be doing what he should be doing.

Brandon started out the season continuing as center, he switched to another lineman spot and was very good at it.  His team went from last year not winning a single game to this year playing in the championship game!  They played hard in the snow for the title, but ended up losing.  Still a fantastic season.

Jonah, Bryan and I were excellent spectators!  Poor baby had to sit through a lot of football games this season.

School, again

My not so favorite day of the year came again.  Now we are 3 weeks into the school year and I stand by my preference for care free summer days.

Big 8th grader, cannot believe it!

And 5th grade???  I remember everything  about 5th grade.

Baby started a few days after the others.  Another year of preschool, he loves it of course!

Labor Day Triathlon 2012

I wasn’t sure if I would be able to do the triathlon this year due to a hip issue. (hip impingement, torn cartilage and bursitis, blah blah blah)  I didn’t run for a whole month and it was terrible.  I hated the feeling of not running.  Anyways a few days before the tri, I got the OK to start running again…..such a great feeling!  Brandon and Jacob wanted to do it with me so I signed them up for the novice division and I did the sprint.

Nice action shot of me after the swim and getting ready to ride.  I think after all the tri’s I have done I have finally figured out what to wear, that is always my biggest stress.

The pictures of the swim don’t ever work out.

Brando starting the ride.

Jacob getting started.

I guess there are no pictures of me biking, we have enough of those anyways.

After the ride I got back to quickly change shoes and run and found Jacob hysterically crying at my spot.  It turns out that his brakes were on for the whole bike ride so it was impossibly hard for him to ride.  Bryan found him and got him to the end, but he didn’t want to finish out the run.  The poor kid, he still had fun in the end.

So proud of them!

We always have fun when we tri!

My overall time is similar to the past ones, but I keep improving on the swim.

The best day of the year

This year was even better because school had not started and was not about to start!  I always say my birthday is the same every year, you could know where to find me at any time.  This year was no different except for we did mix it up a bit!

I woke up to presents and the boys made me breakfast.

Jonah opted away from his traditional bag of M & M’s and got me Oreo’s and a Hershey bar??????

It was a lime green themed year…the dress, of course…the chair….and the Le Creuset pan!

I greeted fans in the morning and then headed off for my day with Tiffany.

Here is where we mixed it up.  I went and got a pedicure without Tiffany, due to a chunk being taken out of her toe nail by her 3 year old.  We then headed to Farmington and ate at Settebello and shopped at Marshalls.  Much different than our usual Plates and Palates and TJ Maxx!

Home to greet more fans and my most favorite dinner made by Bryan.

Then a little more mixing it up as we went to my Dad and Judi’s for the cake and ice cream celebration.

Bryan, no joke, made Laurie Cutler’s carrot cake.  It was so delish!

Everyone is always happy when it is my birthday!

We go to lunch once a year and sometimes take our picture together once a year as well!  She celebrates my birthday big time and I go out of town for hers….not this year though.

We cannot stop laughing at baby in this picture.  Oh what a nut he is.

And there it is.  The green dress in all it’s glory!

Wildflower Pedalfest

My goal this year was a big bike ride.  I wanted to do Little Red, but didn’t get in so I opted for the first ever Wildflower Pedalfest 75 mile ride.  The plan was for me to ride with my friend Jill, but a couple of weeks before the ride she had to change plans.  Who else could take on a ride of this magnitude with short notice than Diane Lake, a very seasoned rider.  We had fun doing some rides together before the big day. 

The ride was great.  Diane went super slow so I could keep up with her.  She stuck with me except for on big mountain, the only timed portion of the ride.  5.5 miles straight on up the mountain.  I just kept on pedaling and made it to the top without stopping, of course I was SO slow.

Here we are at our first stop, East Canyon

And there we are at the top!  Diane did it in a brisk 48 minutes and I was right there behind her at  1 hour and 6 minutes, ha she was so nice to wait for me.

I felt good until about mile 60 and then I just ran out of steam.  We kept on pedaling to make it to the end.

We had a great time together even though it was a long long day.  6 1/2 hours of actual riding and about another hour of stopping and who knows what.

I sometimes get discouraged at these things I think I can do.  I am so much slower than everyone else.  I finally decided that I don’t train to do an event, I decide I am doing the event and then do it the best I can.  I am slow, but I still love the feeling of accomplishing!

And August 2012

The Olympics were a big deal to Jonah.  I had wanted to get into the Olympics this year, because it seems like I always miss most of them.  I moved a small TV into the kitchen area so that I could actually see a thing or two going on.  I still didn’t see much, but that is just because I refuse to be inside much during the summer and I don’t have a TV outside.  Well Jonah loved watching them and even more he loved re-creating his own Olympics.

This is him running through an obstacle course he set up all through the house.  I think he was trying to be the equestrian riders who had many obstacles to go through.


This was the famous volleyball course.  He decided the ironing board was much better put to use as a net.

Golfing into the heater vents wasn’t really an Olympic sport, but the boys all thought it was the greatest invention.

Until they lost too many balls!

Dinner at my Dad and Judi’s is a must do many times in the summer.




Jonah’s first time jumping off a diving board.

Swimming is a must many many times.  Why did it put that pic twice?  Oh well, I am not going to fix it.

Brando and I finally finished his cycling merit badge.  Over a year in the works we finally had the time for both of us to go on the 50 miler.  We rode out to the marina and back.  He did so great, no complaining, just a good good time.

I almost forgot about our whooping couch incident.  Jacob was the lucky person to get it from Luke.  We knew he had been exposed, and Jonah too, but we had to wait until he started coughing to get him tested.  Sure enough he coughed, I took him in, and we were all put on antibiotics.  Hopefully we didn't pass it on to anyone else!

July 2012

I am sure lots of things happened in July that I won’t want to forget about….

Bryan and Brandon spent a week at Camp Steiner.  They had a great time and really enjoyed scout camp.  Jacob, Jonah and I really enjoyed the relaxation that came with it!

The relaxing didn’t happen too much because I had a RS event to put on.  Fiesta night!   We served chicken taquitos, a great mexican salad, lime slush and cookies.  It was a great event with a record turnout!

How could it not be great with a pinata?????

And Si!

We of course enjoyed the parade,

especially the incredible “Army of Helaman”.

Barbeque at the Murdock’s (which Bryan was so sad to miss, his favorite event of the year) and fireworks from our deck…

Boondock’s on the 24th (right up there with Lagoon for me, not so much fun)

Cherry Hill water park , anything in water is a great day for me, and Jonah LOVED the water slides.

Brandon’s day of golf!  He and his friends Sam and Davis decided to golf as much as they could in one day.  They started at 7:00 a.m. at Bountiful Ridge for their junior golf club, golfed 9 holes, went to Eaglewood and golfed another 9 holes and then to Lakeside for another 9.  They were pretty tired by the end and headed straight to football practice for 2 hours.  I thought it was such a great idea for them.  A great way to spend a summer day.

Somewhere in there was a night at Si’s cabin with a bunch of ladies.  So much fun eating and laughing and laughing and laughing.