25 ways to wear a scarf.

I found this video on a design site I like to visit every once and a while, http://jonesdesigncompany.com/. Thought it was fun. I love wearing scarfs and video gets me excited for cooler weather.

Napa Valley Ragnar

I made the mistake of letting Marston play with our camera and it is now broken. So I have no pictures from my Ragnar race. Okay, I have a few from the other girls but I have none of my own. These I copied from facebook. Hopefully I'll get more later.

Ragnar was awesome. It's a relay race that went from the Golden Gate Bridge to Napa Valley (a little under 200 miles). There are teams of 12 and each teammate does 3 legs. We run for 30 plus hours straight. I was runner number 10 and I had a total of 20.8 miles. My first leg was 7.8 miles through the hills north of San Francisco on Point Reyes/Petaluma Rd. It was beautiful. I got to run past the Cheese Factory where Dan and I went when we were first "friends". After my leg I felt pretty good. Tired from the hills but okay. A couple hours later, I started to feel really sick. I began to throw up and didn't stop for hours. I couldn't keep anything down. I think I throw up 8 times. At one of the exchanges we ran into my home teacher and he gave me a blessing. After that I went back to the hotel and slept. They just drove through my second leg. I was really bummed. I was looking forward to my night run but I think if I had not slept I would not have been able to finish. After some rest I got back in the car and continued on with my team. I felt much better, not 100% but okay enough to finish. I ran my third leg of 6.8 miles and had my team van stop often to cheer me on. It was incredible. I ran on this road that went stright through the most beautiful vineyards I've ever seen.  I finished it, hot, sweaty and tired. I'm still sad I didn't get to do my 2nd leg. I was so sick. I still can't figure out why. I did everything right. My body was ready. I drank lots of water the day before and that morning. I had a good breakfast and energy bars. I carried water on my run and ate a package of Stingers. I don't know what happened. Part of me thinks that I needed to go through something like that so that I would have faith and trust in a Priesthood blessing. I know that's what allowed me to feel well enough to do my third leg. I felt lifted up when I should have been totally energy zapped. The power of prayer. Heavenly Father knows each of us and is ready to support when asked. There were many prayers on my behalf and for that I am thankful.  It was a very rewarding weekend. Good times with girlfriends, pushing our bodies to do something incredible. Well worth the sweat and tears.

i phone pictures

We came home from our trip to Idaho and found this. I had my neighbor come by to pick veggies while we were gone. I guess they miss this one.

We went to Tahoe for the day with Daniel's sweet parents. We love burgers from this dumpy place. And shakes too, of course.

This is the first time we saw Hazel pull herself up on the table. She is hard to keep up with!

My Dear Friend

My heart aches. My dear friend and mission companion passed away last Sunday night. She lost her short life to cancer. She was such an amazing person. She was always smiling and making people laugh. We were companions while I was in a small village called Wollerau. We were together for 5 months there. We has a grand time together. I have many great memories with her. She has touched my life and taught me to smile when I don't want to and to see blessings everywhere. I will miss my friend.

Going up some ski slope in Chur Switzerland.

Camping in Tahoe

We went camping at Lake Tahoe to celebrate Darlene's birthday. It was fun...mostly. It's hard camping with 2 little ones. The best part was boating. Daniel's dad rented a really cool speed boat and we spent the day on the lake. It was beautiful. Just breath taking.

Marston never wears clothes.

Love our tent. It can fit an aerobed air matress, a pack and play, a sleeping bag and still have room for our gear.

Still just in a diaper.

This is in emeral bay at Vickingsholm. Dan is swimming to the island with the tea house.

This is beginning to be a joke.

I like blogs. I read blogs all the time, everyday. But for some reason I'm having a super hard time keeping up with my own blog. There are a couple of reasons, really, just plain excuses. Number one, I see other people's blogs and think; how in the world did they make theirs so cute. Cute backgrounds and beautiful photos. I decided it is time for an upgrade on my camera. I want beautiful photos. Especially of my kids. I think I'm ready for an actual lens camera, looking at the Canon Rebel series as a gateway lens camera. Not too expensive but I still have to save for it so it might not be till Christmas. I can wait. Number two, I can't figure out blogspot. Stupid-I know! I'd like to think of myself as being a smart and fairly computer savy but for some dumb reason this stuff is comfusing to me. Sometimes I can add pictures and videos and sometimes it won't let me. Today, it's letting me. And I just want a simple background, large pictures and text. Oh well. I'll settle for this. And number three, I have a beautiful life. I have wonderful kids and a sexy husband that provides enough for me to stay at home. I am an overall happy person. Heathly and happy. I cook, clean, change diapers (more than I'd like), wake up early and run and have fun with my kids. Nothing really that interesting to write about. Nothing that will send anyone into deep thought or reflection. Nothing that will change the world.

Okay so here it is, I am going to do better. I am not going to care that my blog might be boring to some people. I think it is good for me to share my life with my family and friends that don't live near me. And that happens to be a lot of people.  There. Enough said.

These pictures are from our recent trip Idaho for rodeo weekend.

Our Yosemite Trip

I've been wanting to go to Yosemite for about a year now and I finally booked the trip. I just got a unheated tent cabin in Curry Village for 1 night but was super excited. I was hoping for a peaceful couple of days, relaxing in one of the most incredible places in the world. But I forgot that I have a very busy almost 3 year old boy and a 6 month old baby. Marston got so excited to be in dirt and have a world of sticks and rocks to throw it made it a bit hard to hike. He had to touch every single rock he came across and he wasn't keen on sitting in the stroller. This made things difficult when hiking. Okay - maybe not difficult but very very slow. It was beautiful nonetheless. A perfect time of year to go. 65 and sunny, waterfalls everywhere, and not so many people. We hiked the whole time we were there. We went up to Yosemite Falls, to Yosemite village, up to mirror lake, to the Awahnee hotel and back to the village. Between the 2 days I think we hiked about 15 miles. The night was cold. Marston and Daniel slept soundly in their very own sleeping bags, while Hazel and I had 8 wool blankets. Hazel woke up 6 times and was not happy. I nursed her for what seemed like the whole night. I was pretty tired the next day but happy to have the night over. It was a good trip but I was glad to come home and sleep in my own bed.

By the way, we saw a bear. Check out the photo!

Yosemite Falls.

Yosemite Falls. 

"Must throw rocks! Must throw rocks!"

It's terrible but to settle Marston down we brought our dvd player. Always does the trick!

Our tent cabin. Very comfortable. 

On our hike to Mirror lake we came across a very large bear. Scary! We backed away slowly and let it have it's space. 

In the first 10 minutes, Marston fell and busted his lip.