#3

Thankful Post

 

 

So thankful that I have a body that allows me to run. Running is a major part of our lives. Most of our kidless getaways are for races. Glad Trent and I (and others in the family circle) have something we love to do together.

 

We headed down to St. George to run the Snow Canyon Races this weekend. Kim and I were pansies and just did the 5K, which gave us plenty of time in the morning to have a small photo shoot. The photographer didn't think we were as funny as we did....

The finish line pics. Unfortunately Brad whizzed by us in a different shirt than planned and we didn't even get to see him finish. Hate it when that happens.

 

We had some pretty good spectators cheering us on. Wish I had a picture of Teri dancing to the music though.

 

Always fun to run races in a group. I am glad a lot of the family is getting the running bug. Makes for fun times.

 Trent and I even placed in our age division. I got 1st and Trent got 2nd. We both got a couple of gift cards and medals. I already spent Trent's at the Outlets and mine is still burning a whole in my pocket.

 

 

Overall it was a great race and loved everything about it. So glad I get to have running and racing in my life.

#2

I am trying to keep up with the posting and keeping them pretty similar to my Instagratitude's as well. It just takes a lot more time to blog than Instagram.

But here is my #2

Cousins

 (sorry, missing Sarah, who didn't want to be in the pic and James, Jackson, and Jude who simply just live too far away)

(sorry to be missing James and Josh, who just happened to be in school at the time of this pic)

So glad my kids have lots of cousins. They love hanging out with them and are excited every time they get to see any one of them. Some of my favorite memories growing up our those of playing with my cousins. We had a great time. And I love that my kids are making those same kind of memories. Love having so much family and the friendships we have.

Thankful

All right. It's that time of year again. Time for my Thankful posts. I, for one, love them. Makes me focus on all the good in my life instead of the "bad." I will try and do a post each day, but with my blogging abilities as of late, I will believe it when I post it.

So for your viewing pleasure, Thankful post #1:

I am thankful for this girl. She is the best. She would do anything for me and I would do anything for her. We see each other almost every day, parent each other's children, have the same views on most everything in life, and simply just get each other. Love that Luke found himself a good one.

And tonight I am especially grateful because I wouldn't have gone running today if it weren't for Kim. She helped me get off my fat behind and hit the pavement. It's always funner to run with someone right?

Happy Halloween

 

From the Land of Horror

 

 

 

Love, Ghost Face, Chucky 1 and Chucky 2, Samara, Micheal Myers, and Leather Face.

 

Carrie, not pictured, also wishes you all a Happy Halloween.

St. George Marathon 2012

I am breaking our vacation up into a few parts. I couldn't tackle it all at once. First up is the Marathon. We had quite the crew there to watch him cross the finish line.

 

 

 Love this pic of Grandpa Brad and Oakley.

 

 

 Me and Jenny

Heidi and the children.

 

Trent beating out tube socks guy.

 

Trent had a rough run. Had some leg/muscle and bowels issues. He went straight to the massage table. Not a lot of chatting it up for him. Even though he had issues he still PR'd with a time of 2:41:11. Amazing.

 

So while we were waiting for him to recover I tried to get a shot with me and the kids. No one was really happy about it.

 

After Trent had a massage and threw up a few times we snagged this picture of him and his running partners.  They all did amazing.

And finally a group shot. Love this family of mine.

 

Another marathon come and gone. Peace out until next year, which I, for some reason, signed up to run. Eeek!

School Pictures

Here are the kids school pictures for your viewing pleasure. Mostly because I need a post and I don't have time to go through all our vacation pictures. Hopefully that will happen this weekend.

Enjoy!

 

Morgan

 

Paige

 



Oakley

 



Andrew

 



Aiden

 

Soccer

 

We have started the soccer season here at The Hoard and it has made our life total chaos. We have a game or practice every night except Friday. We can barely keep up with it all.

 

The boys are on the Green Lightning team.

 

Oakley is on the Red Race Cars. Not sure where they came up with that name.

And the girls are on the Pink Unicorns. Which Aiden informed them was dumb because all the unicorns can do is fly and make rainbows.

Here is to Soccer!

Labor Day Weekend

Over Labor Day Trent took The Hoard up to the cabin for the weekend. Unfortunately I had to work so I had to stay home by myself. I am not going to lie, it was pretty relaxing, but I would have rather been "relaxing" up at the cabin.

They arrived late and had a midnight snack.

Trent had to fit all 6 of them on one 4 wheeler. The kids didn't seem to mind.

 

They found this cute little frog.

Which I am sure Aiden either wanted to keep as a pet or try and kill it.

Some deer came up for a visit as well.

It rained and apparently the kids were amazed. It must rain differently up there.

So differently they needed a different view.

 

But since it rained they were able to roast marshmallows. Trent gets extra points for this. He hates smelling like smoke and he hates making smores.

 

They travelled to the "yelling place." The kids love this.

Trent was so nice to take the kids and entertain them all weekend. Some of his family joined him near the end of the weekend and he was so glad. They were all so good to help with The Hoard and give Trent somewhat of a break.

Speaking of how amazing Trent is I realized even more how much he does around here.

The counter stayed a little messy for a while after they all left.

The garbage was full for most the weekend.

 

My bed never got made.

And the laundry piled up.

Just had to document how awesome Trent is and how much he does to make our lives spectacular and super clean. ;)

And don't worry, I am not as much of a lazy wife as you might think. I had every thing cleaned up by the time he got home.

SG Girls Trip

Back in August we went on a Girls Trip down to good old St. George. Love St. George and love these Jensen girls.

We spent a lot of time playing in the pool. We even had our own Olympic Trials.

 

And of course what is any vacation without eating? We ate it up at Larry's Diner, Pizza Factory, In & Out, poolside....and it has been so long I can't remember where else. What a shame...

 

  And as always we did a lot of shopping and had show and tell afterwards.

There were a lot of hours spent just hanging out, reading books and magazines, and laughing it up.

We took a few GQ photos.

 

And some "normal" ones with our beautiful goggle eyes.

 

We had some fun with the underwater camera.

 

 

And tried to capture us going down the slide. I left the unflattering "stirrup" pictures off.

 

And when I got home I noticed a few people had a great time taking pictures of themselves.

 

Jill.

Jenny

 



Brooke

 

 

And to finish the post with a beautiful portrait of me.

 

Just call me Floyd from Dumb and Dumber.

 



It was a fabulous trip and loved relaxing to my hearts content. Thanks to all you girls for making the trip and thanks to Teri for hosting it!!!