Dirty Dash

Does this picture sum up this post or what??? Well when Holly told me about the dirty dash I didn't really know what to think about it. Then my whole neighborhood was doing it so I decided to get a team together.

What is the Dirty Dash, though, really? Well take a look folks:

It's a 10K through the mud, yes the mud! This picture really doesn't do it justice though. This was the hardest race that I have even done! You think you're in decent shape and then you run this and feel like you are going to die! I guess it's good to be humbled now and then!

What are we doing? There were a lot of teams that dressed up. We were lame and just decided to wear things that we could chuck. My outfit consisted of my beautiful soccer shorts I got from my sister-in-law Robs when she was getting rid of them. Let me tell you they are so comfortable, but Steve reminds me every time I wear them that it looks like I am wearing a diaper! Until I saw this picture I wasn't sure what he was talking about. I am eating his words now as I am looking like I am wearing a diaper! When he saw what I was wearing before we left, he was tried to make me take them off until I reminded him that I was going to chuck them afterwards! Then he was all for it!

We started out on a huge hill of mud. I was so suprised that my shoes didn't pop off! They were getting sucked down into the abyss of mud!, then it was the 3 1/2 foot high hay bails...this is when the legs began to feel like jello, we then enjoyed the tunnels, followed by 5 foot 2x4 walls we had to scale, then a tire ally, a huge field of sulfur mud....stinky, a huge slip and slide and finally a mud pit!

We were laughing so hard when we would randomly look at each other and have mud in our teeth! I was later reminded by Steve that it probably was more than mud....and that's when I remember seeing all the huge cow pies and when we were going through the sulfur mud I'm pretty sure it was laced with duck poop! EWWWW! Considering this later, I am very grateful that Steve was still willing to give me a kiss...after I brushed my teeth!

Here we are making the final sprint for the finish!!!!! This was right after the huge water slide. That was probably my favorite part. The hill right after though is where I ate it several times. Can you break your butt cheek? Because I landed on mine so many times I think mine may be broken!

Steve stopped us to take a group photo.

Then we finished in the mud pit! Steve said it was so sick to see people go through here. He said that people came through in waves and when no one was going through it all sorts of questionable things were settling at the top! He also mentioned that a lot of people were limping across the finish or being carried by there teams. Maybe they brook their bums too!

And the finish! We opted for a superstar pose! My team consisted of my neighbor Randi, Holly's neighbor Michelle.....who had a baby C-Section style 2 months before!!!!!, me, Holly and Melynda. I couldn't have asked for a better team, we had a BLAST!

Katy just kept wanting a hug and didn't get why I wouldn't give her one! Steve is incredible, he was so great to come up and be our unofficial team photographer! Probably didn't even get 5 hours of sleep before. You are incredible Steve, thank you so much for always letting me do crazy things and coming along to laugh with me about them!!!! I love you!

Good bye diaper shorts!!!!

Homemaking Craft Day Extravaganza!

Yup, you heard me right. Britney and I had a Homemaking Craft Day Extravangaza! Actually we were just looking for an excuse to get together maybe.

We were getting together to get ready for an upcoming birthday and Christmas. Britney has the cuttest pattern for a basinet for a baby doll. I have been trying to decide what to do for Katy's birthday and decided that she is really at a point that a baby doll would be a great idea for her. So now I need some baby accessories. We had great plans to get more done but you can only do so much when you have a houseful of crazy kidos running around!

Here is how the day went:

Even though Katy and Brynn seem to have a love hate relations ship most of the time....this was a loving moment. I had to document that for sure! "Cummon Katy, hold hands"

Britney whipped out her pie making skills and made us home made peach pies. She humored me and let me make mine too......

Until I wasn't doing too great of a job rolling out my pie crust. She happily obliged and helped me when I asked for it. So I really cant take credit for this beaut!

Yum, Yum!

Sewing went well.....well except until I cut out my pattern wrong! We made it work. Ha, measure twice cut once! That is so true.

But it turned out great any way. Here is my finished product.

Brynn sure liked it. She snatched that thing up so fast! I think we will have to be more sneaky when we are trying to make presents for our kids next year! Next up.....diapers and a diaper bag, perhaps even some accessories! We'll just have to wait to see what takes shape next!

I think Katy's part was all the animals. Brynn's cousin Marin came over and showed us her new cat. Katy was smitten! Not sure the cat enjoyed being poked in the eye!

Or squished to death! But Katy sure liked it!

And of course we got to see our favorite dog aside from Chuck....Chase. I am seriously going to steal him one of these days. He is so sweet!

And lastly Gage and TJ always seem to find interesting ways to entertain themselves! Ha!

All in all it was a great day. Thanks Brit, cant wait to do it again soon!

The Big 2-3 again!

I am seriously starting to loose track of how old I am, because Steve keeps telling me every year that he is turning 23 again. Does anyone else think that would age you if you had to add six years to that?

Needless to say that is one of the things I love most about Steveo - he is random. I guess that is a good way to put it, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

I was thinking today....as I made Steve get up at the crack of dawn to come to another race, how he never complains that I make him do so much for me. He comes to picture shoots with me, he picks up milk on his way home at the crack of dawn...even when he needs to get up early the next day, he even picks up tampons for me at the store when it was the only thing that I forgot to get earlier (not his favorite for sure), how he grew his hair out for me even though he thinks he looks tougher with it shaved. He always just smiles and says that he likes it. I guess what I am trying to say is that even though I completely know how lucky I am, sometimes I have to remind myself not to take if for granted how wonderful Steve really is. Not to take for granted the fact that Steve is the best thing that ever happened to me!

Hopefully this year was another great national holiday. We have been celebrating for about a month and a half now! He got a winch for his jeep a month or so ago in preparation for our upcoming Moab trip. Somehow those birthday presents seem to show up attached to his car even before the actual national holiday! Katy and I decided that he needed a new U sweatshirt to open (on his birthday), which he loved.

We were also lucky enough to meet Steve at work and go out to dinner with him and Ken and RaNae. Thanks again, we had a BLAST! Even though we had to eat at 10:00, Katy was in fact delusional by then! All in all it was another great national holiday! Hope your 23rd year is another great one for you Steve!

I can't help it!

I really couldn't resist posting some of my pics tonight of my beautiful sister Katie! Can you blame me? I can't help it.....LOOK!

I love her.

More to come on the photo blog....along with about a million other posts! Not really but a lot!

Field Trip

I had the chance to go on the Sweet's Candy tour thanks to my friend Nickie and my playgroup. We had so much fun, mostly because we were laughing at each other and how wonderful we all looked in our hair nets. I really think this may be a new look for me. Katy took more convincing thought, but was quickly happy to oblige and put it on when she was offered a piece of candy by our tour guide!

I told Britney about it and she decided that would be worth a trip to come up for....so I went again a few weeks later. Except no picture with hair nets. TJ tossed that thing as soon as we exited the factory!!!! Yup I got to load up on watermelon and cherry cola taffy again! Yum!

September 11th

September 11th was kind of a random day for me.

I started with some Forrest Gumping and joined my friend Aubry and her family for the South Jordan Marathon Relay. What a great time we had that morning....aside from the fact that it was freezing. I was second to run, and luckily did not have to deal with the freezing weather because it turned into quite a nice run!

Our shirts say Your Pace.....Or Mine? on the back! Ha funny if you are fast or slow!

Then I went up north to take pictures for my sister Britney and her family. Very quick and to the point for sure! One of my random pics, of Gage! Ha, nice Gage! I'll get them up on my photo blog this weekend.

After pics, we decided to hit up PEACH DAYS! Britney always tells me how awesome this is. In a way it kind of reminded me of a mix between Swiss Days and the State Fair a bit. Very fun for sure!

Katy is having a hard time keeping her eyes open with the sun right in them! Ouch!

Britney looked way pretty for her pics. My sister Katie did her hair and makeup and she looked hot! Hey I'm not lookin too bad myself here either.....ha ha! Hey I didn't really have time to get ready with the run in the morning and all!

Did anyone else know that Brigham City is the "Gateway to the world's greatest bird refuge"? What does that mean really? Britney can you help us out here? I haven't really seen any great birds hanging around....do you have to go to the refuge? What a pretty city though, very cute!

And of course mom got us some fresh peach cobbler. Steve was totally jealous seeing that this is hands down one of his favorites! It didn't disappoint! I guess it was worth the one hour wait! Okay it wasn't that long we waited but the line was impressive fore sure!

Of course Katy was more than happy to help me eat mine as well. Oh and this ensemble is part of her fall collection, very fashion forward!

Scary update....

This is about 20 minutes after the first one was taken. Darn wind. I hope they can save some homes tonight!

I feel like I am going to choke when I go outside, no sleeping with windows open tonight.

Ummmm....scary!

A view from my backyard......um, scary! I walked out of my house this afternoon to go to dinner at my in-laws and I saw a huge puff of smoke. It was crazy. I totally lost my cell phone (it was found, more about that later) and got a call from my sister-in-law Robyn at my in-laws before I left to come home. She wanted me to know that 14000 S and south had been evacuated. I'm not quite that far out....truth be told I'm technically in Riverton. Nice night not to have a phone tonight! Anywho....after I got home I couldn't see anything. I guess I'm too close to the mountain??? About 10 minutes later this is what I saw out my window! This thing is moving fast. I hope we can get it under control soon.

Somehow I don't think I'll be running tomorrow morning with my buddies because of the air. We'll see what happens tomorrow.....

Ye Ha

You know it's that time of year.....when the stink of cow dung and a chicken coop are in the air! It's time for the Utah State Fair kids! What's not to like about the fair? Seriously? It's my favorite place to laugh and people watch the whole year. This year was no doubt another one for the history books.

I guess I didn't think to take a picture but the part that made me laugh the most was another Katy moment. There was a Be Ready Utah area where they talked about being prepared in an emergency. Of course we had to check it out. They had a BEE mascot walking around with a big sticker that said "Bee Ready Utah" and had a picture of himself on it. Katy was less than pleased when he approached her to give her one. We grabbed it and said thanks all the same. We put it on her jacket. All we heard was "BLANKIE!!!" because you know that is what she says when she is scared. Well later that afternoon she looked down at her jacket and screamed "BLANKIE" again because the mere sight of the bee scared her again! Needless to say we took that off. Thanks anyway!!!! Ha!

Probably the most exciting thing for Katy was all the animals. A bit shy at first.....

But she warmed up after a minute....

She was pretty excited as you can see. We had to laugh because the goats kept trying to eat Katy's pony tail and jacket!

She also was amused by this guy....

But not so much by the crazy pig that was going absolutely nuts!!!! Truth be told I think he may have been in heat....too much info. He was pretty scary though. She actually thought most of the animals were scary when they made any kind of sound. She was scared again when the cows were moooing (is that a word?)

She did like the baby pigs though. Ahhhhh, aren't they cute? I think of Babe every time I see one of these guys. I have to laugh when I think that this was the only animal that had to be kept in outdoor tents because they smell so bad! Now you know why pork is not my favorite....cute and smelly!

Yup, another successful year at the fair!

Yeeee Haaaa! Until next year! Oh there is that sticker that caused so much grief! Don't worry Katy is not as big of a wuss as I portray her as!

Whatever!

Sometimes I wonder where Katy came from? Seriously is the thought in my head most days. Then at the end of the day I look in the mirror and am reminded that she is my kid.....OH THATS WHERE SHE COMES FROM!

Some funny things this week:

• She doesn't seem to mind running around without pants on.
• Even though she wanted the princess slippers we talked her into the Elmo (SO much cuter) and she hasn't been disappointed.
• She says "I don't know" a lot. Where is your blanket? "I don't know" she says as she shrugs her shoulders!
• Tonight when I asked for a hug before bed she wrapped her arms around me and gave me a big hug as she said "Ohhhhh cute!" She is really picking up on everything that we say now and thinks it's so "cute" when she gives us a hug because we always say that I guess.
• Mostly she makes me laugh because she swings her arms when she walks, talks and dances...which she is doing 90% of the time!
• We've also moved back to Mickey Mouse Club House....it's been Yo Gabba Gabba the last month and a half. I guess she's ready for a change of pace again. It will be "Yo Yo Gabba" in about another month and a half!

Wearin' her "bones" and elmo! No pants as you can see!

Party Time!

Happy Labor Day! Mom knows how to party so she had us all over for dinner on Monday. Can we say YUM??? She made the best chicken pasta recipe from Olive Garden and Britney brought the yummiest peaches from Brigham City it's self!!!! I totally over ate for sure! It was nice to have both Steve and Katie off so we could all hang out together!!!

Great idea mom, thanks for the fun times! Here are some of our highlights:

Girls only!

Sisters are the BEST!

Hangin on the porch...

Cute little miss

Katie and Zach

Katie and Katy. This picture makes me laugh Katie! You are so funny!

Brynnie. I love that she has nail polish on her face. Britney said that she is having a hard time getting this stuff out of her sink! Zach suggested rubbing alcohol. Good luck!

The hula hoops made an appearance

As did hands up, stands up..... a classic!

Katie gave it a shot....

Then TJ .......

and Gage showed her how it's done!

Thanks again mom! We had a blast!