Second Tri!

Todd and Chris finished the "Old College Tri" today both improving their time from a month ago by 10 and 12 minutes respectively. Yippee!
They are really pro's now since upgrading from mountain bikes to road bikes! Much better experience (except the seats are skinny are hard)!
It was a beautiful day in Texas making it fun for the rest of us to cheer our athletes on! Todd was #175 and Chris was #352 which allowed us to run from one to the other, earning us cheerleading/photography team medals.

The MC announced Todd crossing the finish line as the most appropriately dressed athlete of the day!



Lanae and Lane were in town for the madness but the boys were completely unaffected and chose to nap.
Proud husband and daddy!

a gratitude moment!

Needed some unwind time tonight and strolled through all of our posts back to blog beginnings and am left with a heavy heart of gratitude for our many blessings. My mind recalls the quote to
"enjoy the little things for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

Grateful we are a family that truly does seize the day finding joy in both big and small. Grateful for your individual faces and the contributions each makes to complete the family circle. Grateful for individual perspectives and the light each sheds. Grateful for occassional detours to travel God's beautiful world. Grateful for the memories to see and remind the roses bloom even in the winter. Grateful for weddings and new babies and the rededication they bring to make us even better, for them, for each other. Grateful dreams come true and the sun does shine in Texas, Utah and DC! Grateful we are family! xo

Best of Texas!

Had to snap some pics of our beautiful Texas bluebonnets! These were actually taken 4/11 as Spring was waking up and evidence of God's love all around! My yard is a symphony of color as everything is blooming all on command at the same time!

I love Spring - new beginnings and the promise and hope of great things ahead!

The yellow rose of Texas was the first to pop (that's probably why President Monson said his favorite color is yellow!).

More DC Trip pics...

Todd and I have been telling Heather for more than two years that we would take a trip to DC to see her and we can now be counted amoung those that have made their way to see her and that beautiful city! Here are a few more pics to add...



I was a little nervous about how Tanner would do on his first real family vacation, but as you can tell, he LOVED it! He was such a good boy the whole time.


This is right outside Heather's house. Tanner was so excited to see his aunt!


My only complaint about living in Texas is the grass - you can't run around barefoot because of fire ants and it is so prickly. I was overwhelmed with happiness when I found out the DC has fabulous little parks everywhere and soft grass! Tanner on the other hand, did not share my excitement. He wasn't so sure about the new texture in between his toes.


The weather was so nice the day we went and saw the monuments. Heather was the best tour guide!



This was inside the Capitol building. Heather new more about the tour than our actual tour guide and she was much more interesting to listen to. She is so smart!



One of my favorite stops. I didn't realize how large the Iwo Jima sculpture stood. It was in a beautiful area right above the city.


We left DC with a checklist of things we want to see on our next visit - Thanks for letting us hang out with you Heather! We love you!

loving this and him and them and that hair and that smile

best friends never go out of style.

though this is a late report... i have to mention what a great time i had when katelyn came to visit.  it has been years since she and i were able to spend a few days together without watching a clock or a kid (soon to be kids).  i am glad we have kept each other all this time... i guess we know too many of each other's secrets to back out now.

you can check her timely travel log for more snapshots of the trip...

spring 08 is turning out to be one of the best yet.... the weekend before this i came home for haley mae's party and the easter bunny; the weekend after this, mom and dad (and a new vacuum) came to see me; tomorrow todd, abby and tanner get here; and in two weeks, mom, ashley and i take chicago by storm!

Cute Litte Ky

Conrad and Jamie's little girl, Kylie, is the cutest thing around! And the cutest thing about her is how much she adores bobby. She chants his name, prays for him, cuddles with him, and even flirts with him. Its funny because at the beginning I was the favorite, but oh no, it has changed and everything is "BOBBY!" She would sometimes even sneak down the stairs and knock on our door and when I would open she would just look at me and say "Bobby home?"

the big bang

i got my haircut today.  you should be aware that:

1. my hair grows really fast.

2. never looks right when salon styled.

3. i took these pictures using mac photobooth, which i now want to use everyday because it is fun.  one push of a button and it just snaps away.  (mom, just wait until you "go back to school"... mac will change your life.) 

Pelting Paintballs

We took a road trip a couple weekends ago with our best friends, Conrad and Jamie. They are the ones that lived above us (they are moving today, as i'm typing this blog, and im so sad about it). Well we went to Rexburg for a couple different reasons but the main one was PAINTBALLING! He works for APX security systems so we got a free retreat of paintball for like 6 hours and dinner!

Just a funny story real quick: All week leading up to our trip Conrad and Bobby were like, "Are you sure you guys want to paintball? It hurts so bad. You have to wear a hundred layers becasue it stings and leaves welts......" So, needless to say Jamie and I were fully padded, we were the only girls playing and the only ones with literally 7-8 layers. Sure enough the guys played in long sleeve-T's and thats it. It was quite comical. Jamie and I kicked some butt, and the paintballs didn't even hurt us, talk about being prepared!

And the Flood came....

There's nothing like coming home from a beautiful day of snowboarding to a FLOOD! We were a little shocked when we saw a couple inches of water in our house and needless to say it was just the beginning of quite an adventure!

This picture is pre-a million fans in our house; I can't believe I don't have one documenting how many huge fans there were. Notice all the furniture stacked in our kitchen - it was nuts!

This room and our bedroom were the only dry places, hence everything we own piled high!

This is when creativity
emerged! Our little romantic dinner