s t r e t c h i n g

{Brenna and Emma Grace stretching with me in the bathroom

after my run this morning. They were very funny trying to get

their feet up there since it's kind of high for them}

I love stretching! I love YOGA! I would probably go to Yoga everyday if I could. So there is an ongoing conversation{or my husband may say nagging} that goes on in my house. He says he stretches after his run and I'm not sure that anyone would really consider what he does to be stretching. So the other day he went to see Dr. Brimhall after the 1/2 marathon because he was having a ton of pain in one of his legs. One of the first things Dr. Brimhall asked him about was stretching. Then he had Todd lay on the table and he lifted Todd's leg up until Todd couldn't stretch it anymore and Dr. Brimhall said, "You're kidding me. Is that it?" And then proceeded to tell Todd that he needed to stretch. THANK YOU DR. BRIMHALL!! I'm not saying that Todd has to come to yoga with me but if you're going to run you've got to stretch.

just keep running!

So what do you think...does it look as painful as it felt at some points in the race? {these are "official" race pictures from www.zazoosh.com}

st. george 1/2 marathon

I ran my first race in these shoes{the middle ones}! Nikes{they are even pink}! How often do you get to eat whatever carbs you want and not feel bad about it? Everyone says you should carb load the night before a race. So we went to a very "carb-o-licious" place to eat...The Pizza Factory!! The breadsticks are so awesome{check out the picture below}. They taste even better than they look. It's a good thing they don't have one of these restaurants here or I would be carb loading when I shouldn't. We loved it so much we went there for lunch the next day before we went home.


Because I was so excited about the race, I didn't sleep very well after about 4am. We finally got up at ....

Here is the three of us just starting the race. Some of those layers of clothes were dropped at mile 2. Do you see the smiles?...that's how you can tell it's the very beginning of the race!
Okay, so we're smiling here too but is only because it's over. We made it!! It was so awesome!! And now I'm looking forward to more races with Todd and Tara and anyone else I can recruit to do it with me.
These are the "runner cards" that show what our stats were for the race. I met my goal for the race...to run it in under 2 hours!!
My ipod is my best friend while running. It helps me not think about what my feet and legs are doing!! Thank heavens for the ipod!!

pancakes

Brenna set her alarm for 6:00am and got up and made pancakes this morning. Yes...you read that correctly. Could my life be any better? And they were really good (from scratch) pancakes. She's awesome!!

jelly donuts

This is why you should never leave your husband in charge of breakfast!! Todd inevitably gets a box of donuts for the kids. They LOVE it!! Charlie pounded a jelly donut. Fortunately for me and the children AND TODD, I only saw the pictures. Oh well....what do you do!!

pinecone hunt

Last year we collected some pinecones while on a walk and they were still hanging out in this basket in our garage and Eliza discovered them the other day. So we decided to hide them around the living room and Eliza and Charlie (Brenna & Emma were at school) found them. This was Charlie's first time to find and collect things in a basket/bucket and he loved it. All of the girls have always loved for me to hide things around the living room or in the back yard. One day we took lot of random little items from the "junk drawer", counted them(so we would know how much they were looking for) and then hid them. They played that forever!

This past year for Brenna and Emma Grace's birthday we hid the presents around the room and they had to find them. We told them if they were "hot" and "cold". The girls liked it so much they have insisted that we continue it for all family birthdays.

i want you

This picture reminds me of Uncle Sam and makes me want to laugh. I, of course, wasn't trying to get this shot but it just happened. I couldn't help but to put it on my blog next to Uncle Sam.

But my mind couldn't stop thinking of how I could use this on my blog other than just for laughs. So there is something "I want you" to do. There are lots of you out there reading my blog and not leaving comments...you know who you are. For a lot of you that are not familiar enough with blogging you may not know how to leave a comment. So here is a tutorial:
1. Read the post.
2. If you think of something and you would like to make a comment, click on the link under the post that says "comments".
3. You will have to type in your email address and a password(something like that...it's been a while since I very first left a comment).
4. Type your comment.

It's that easy!! I love to hear from all of my friends and family who are reading!!