My First Half-Marathon

Mile 10...3.1 more to go and my legs are killing me!

Here I come...final stretch!

Yes, I made it! 2hrs, 16min and 59sec

I'm exhausted...can we go home now?!?

First Day of School

Zak entering 5th grade

Jonah is a Junior

And Ana is in 8th grade

Riley started college the same day
but since he is 3 hours away
I did not get a picture of his first day!

Bear Lake

As a last hoo-rah of summer, we spent the weekend at Bear Lake with some families from our ward. This has become an end of summer tradition for us, making this year our 3rd visit. It was a perfet time to be at the lake.

LAKE POWELL

Can anyone say "speedo"

This year for our summer vacation we combined our family trip with Riley's graduation trip. We rented a house boat and spent a week at Lake Powell. There were 14 of us in all...our family, along with Riley's friend Bodey and his family, as well as 3 other friends from school.(Ana, myself and Marla, aka Bodey's mom were the only girls!) The temps were into the 100s every day so we did whatever we could to stay cool. Our activities including things such as:

Fishing
Swimming
Sliding off the Houseboat
Cliff Jumping

Hiking to Rainbow Bridge

Wake-boarding

Knee-boarding
Tubing
And of course sleeping!

He did it...

Riley graduated!

Look at those proud grandparents!

Mt. Timpanogos Or Bust

2 days, 7.5 miles, 4,580 feet and more energy then either of us expected...

That's what it took Tuscan and I to reach the 11,749 foot summit of Mt. Timpanogos. We started Wednesday night and hiked about half way. We camped in a meadow, then Thursday morning we finished the final climb to the top.Tuscan just getting up.We have to go where? Looks like we made it!

First Day of School

Elementary School Bus

Autumn 3rd Grade

Ivie 1st Grade

Besties!!

Autumn, Ivie and Sophie (the friend across the street)

Lily 7th Grade

We'll Go First...

OK, since Missie and I started this thing, we'll begin with the first post.

In June we took a family vacation to Washington DC. We stayed with Missie's brother Doug, who lives just outside the capitol city, in Centerville, VA. In all, we spent 9 days touring the city, visiting memorials and museums.

It was an amazing trip and we wish we could have spent even more time there because there's just so much to see.