New Family Picture

My friend Heather took pictures for us the other day - Thanks Heather! :)

New Pictures of the Kids

I know I never blog anymore, but I just took some pictures of the kids this weekend with the leaves and thought I'd post them. I think this is the first time I've really sat down at the computer for months. It was kind of nice for a change. :)

Sam's First Karate Lesson

I decided to sign Sam up for karate this week. He LOVVVVED it! He has a lot of confidence issue and I hope this helps out. Joni and Dave gave us a Flip camera for Christmas and so I thought I would use it to record the event. I am pretty bad about taking videos. Here is a little movie of Sam's first lesson.

True Grit 2011

Drew After the Race

So Drew had a race last weekend in St. George. It was his first endurance race for the season. I think he started training for it about 4 months ago. The day actually looked like it might not be that bad - a little cold in the morning - but not bad. However, that quickly changed. By the time Gigi and I got to the first checkpoint it started to rain. It rained the ENTIRE race. It was not one of the better races for being support. Drew did amazing. Every time he came through a checkpoint he looked great and transitioned well. By the time he came through the 3rd checkpoint the course was a mess. They even had to change the course in the middle of the race because a couple trails were too muddy to even ride. There was thick red mud/clay everywhere. We had to dump gallons of water over his bike to try and release some of the mud so he could continue pedaling. At this point Drew's friends Ty and Bob threw in the towel - they were done! As we headed down from the 3rd/4th checkpoints to the finish we picked up racers all the way down who had decided to quite as well. While we were waiting at the finish line we found out they called the race because people were starting to get hypothermic and it was getting too dangerous. I started to get a little nervous at this point because I wasn't sure where Drew was - but he had looked good when I saw him so I kept with our timeline we had discussed and stuck it out at the finish line hoping he wasn't in any of the truck load of riders coming in. Drew finished and took 5th place. There were only 11 men that finished after they called the race and two of them were disqualified. No women finished the race. There was a challenge category which was a distance of 25 miles and my friend Lyna Saffell took 2nd place. Even though it was miserable handing out bottles and taking pictures in the rain it still ended up to be a great day. :)

Gigi helping out with support and photography

This is Alex Grant he came in first - crazy fast!

Ty at the first checkpoint

Bob at the first checkpoint

My friend Lyna (Bob's wife) took 2nd place in the Challenge Category.

Drew right after he crossed the finish line. It took us a second to recognize him because he had so much mud on him.

This was our friend Jenelle's bike just to give you an idea of how muddy it was. :)

A Precious Angel

I don't know if anyone even reads my blog (I don't really update it), but I wanted to share a story. A friend of mine from high school had a baby (they named her Logan) and she was born with a heart condition. They were able to share a few days with her before she passed last night. I have been so touched by their faith. My testimony has grown from sharing in their experience. I have been so blessed to have healthy kids and a loving supportive husband. My prayers and thoughts are with my friend and his family.

If you would like to read about Logan here is a link : http://babyloganbostrom.blogspot.com/

This is a picture of my friend Bryan and his precious daughter Logan.

Ellie's first Day of Dance

Ellie was so excited for dance but once she got there all she wanted me to do is hold her. When I left she cried half of the time and had to have her teacher hold her the other half. We decided that it would be better to stop and try it again in a few months. But if you ask her about it she said it was the greatest thing she has ever done!

Skiing this Winter

Sam and Ellie had a great time trying on their ski's this year. Sam actually had ski lessons - Ellie just liked putting them on and being like her big brother. Sam loved ski lessons and did really well. I'll post a video later when I get a second.

Sam's first day of ski lessons

Sam insisted that I take a picture of their boots together

Ellie's 3rd Birthday

I am so bad about blogging but I thought I would hurry and post some pics from Ellie's 3rd birthday back in December. She wanted an Ariel birthday party.

Uncle Mikey is a good sport.

The cake - everything is edible except Ariel and flounder.