The holidays were great this year. I went to St. George for Thanksgiving with my sister and brothers (Blake of course had to work the day after so he could not come). It was fun even though I missed my husband tons. It was so nice to relax and not worry aobut doing anything. Even though I had to take care of our two daogs and make sure Kita did not get into any trouble. (She is a handful and likes to test the boundaries with us). It was also nice to go and see my dad and step mom they are always so welcoming. We did go shooting but since I am pregnant I wa a little scarred about shooting the bigger guns so I just shot the hand guns and just took pictures. It was great weekend of food and football what else could you ask for? (Well for my husband to be there!)
Then for christmas we just hung out with our families. Bryce called on christmas so that was exciting to talk to him. I can not beleive that he comes home in 6 months it is crazy. He is doing so good and would probabally like to stay out there longer. I did have to work on christmas night but not a bad shift. Blake on chrsitmas. I thought everyone would enjoy a good angle of Chace's butt! whoops. Jaxson helping his uncle open presents. A family christmas party.
If you don't know we have a friend that has a sick baby that needs a liver. There was a benefit dinner that was set up in thier honor. We went to that and it was so nice to see everything that people were donating in thier honor. There were tons of stuff for the auction. They got John Schmidt to come and play the piano. He did a great job. We love the Badgers and wish them all the happiness in the world!!!! Well if you don't know Blake is the biggest Jazz fan and all he talks about is getting an official Deron Williams jerzey signed and framed for our basement. Well my sister called me one day and said that for the benefit dinner they were getting a jerzey signed by Deron Williams and that if I wanted one signed for Blake I should go and get one. Well I secretly did and had my Brother-in-law take it over with the other jerzey. Then one day we were all at my moms house having dinner and talking about what would be at the auction. When someone said a signed jerzey by Deron Williams Blake was ready to hand some money over so he could get it. Then Scott came in with a sack and handed it to Blake. When he looked in the bag he did not want to touch it becuase it was a signed Jerzey, and he did not want it becuase it was not his. Well it was his and after we told him he could not beleive it. He was so excited. Thanks to Chantell and Scott for making this suprise work and even possible! He is still talking about it today.
So I am so excited to be done with school for the semester. I was planning on totally catching up on this blog but wait our laptop crashed the last week of school so all my plan went down the drain. I hope that some how I can update it. Well to catch up we are having a baby boy that is due April 17th. We are very excited and have not picked a name yet. I will try and keep this updated a little bit better.
Well I have been a little preoccupied with school lately. I started the bachelor program at weber and I do not have any time for anything. I am glad to start but can't wait to finish next winter. We went on vacation with my family over the weekend to Steamboat Springs Colorado. We stayed in a condo and were able to take the dogs. We had so much fun. The first day we went on a small hike and just enjoyed the day blake and scott arrived that night with the dogs. The second day we went a 8 mile hike we took kita and had a great time. There are the pictures of the view and it was amazing. Then we hungout and watched some football games on saturday. Kudjo was having back troubles so they had to take him to the vet and get pills for him. It was very sad to see him in pain, kita and zoie were very concerned about thier cousin. It was very cute how they would sit outside of the room and make sure that he is okay. Then the last day we went to the hot springs. It was the only day it rained but that was fine. Well this is the time to announce it we are having a baby. We are due in april. So I could not get into the hot springs. I was standing there with shorts on and a sweatshirt also holding an umbrella. It was pretty funny. Well then we came home. I want to say thank you to my family for making the vacation so much fun even though I was feeling the best. THANK YOU!
Well it has been a while. So this is what we have been doing. 4th of july we went to the parade with Blake's family. Jaxson got scared with the loud noises but had fun besides that. THat night we went over to Chantell's and Scott's to have a barbaque, roast marshmallows and watched fireworks. It was so fun to have Blake's family and my family all together. We watched Jaxson one afternoon and I had these plans to go to wheeler farm or a water park. We chose to go to wheeler farm. Well Jaxson fell asleep in the car on the way over. I tried to wake him up and he was not having it. SO we came back home and he woke up as Blake was carrying him in the house. So he was having fun putting the phone up the each dogs ear and his own ear. We love our nephew! Then next time I was watching him I took him to my grandpas swimming pool with my mom, she loves him. He had a blast in his little pool. It was fun.
I can't believe how busy we have been the past few weeks. I can't keep up. We usually do not have anything going but lately we have had a lot. Here are a few things. Chace my brother got his mission call last week and opened it at my mom's house. He is called to the Salvador, Brazil mission. He gets to go to the MTC in brazil and has to report on Nov 4th. It is a long time but that means we get to spend more time with him. We are very excited for him. Later that week we went up to Jordanelle and camped with my family. We took the dogs and that was an experience. Kita is so scarred of water she yelps and yelps when we have to give her a bath so we were very suprised when she went in to the lake after sticks that we were tossing in. She wined everytime we walked away from the lake. We loved it!
So my sister called me last tuesday saying one of her team members in the wasatch back had to back out and was wondering if I would want to run in her spot. I have heard about this race from her for the past 3 years and I have always wanted to see how fun it was. Well I said yes and did not know what I was getting into. I don't run but I do go to the gym a few times a week. I told her not to expect to much from me. Well I did a lot better than I thought I would have done. My first run was 3.6 miles and I did it in 8:30 min miles. I was shocked! After the first run we went up to the next spot that we were going to start and took a nap. It was not a very good sleep due to we were in a huge parking lot and other vehicles were going and coming the whole time.
Here is our second run. Pictures did not turn out to well due to it was night and we had reflector vests and head lights on so there was a lot of glare. This run was 3.6 miles and a steady climb. This was my slowest run averaging 10:30 min miles. After I ran I tried to take a nap in the back of the truck. That did not work out to well with everything around me I think I got about an hour.
This was our last run. We had a hotel room that we slept in for about an hour. We showered and that was worth the room. The last run was 4.8 miles which was pretty much flat. I did pretty good on this last run. I averaged 9:30 min miles. By the end it was so hard to move my legs and arms but I did it and that to me is a huge accomplishment. This experience was so fun I am so glad I was able to fill in. Thank you sissy!
