Snow Canyon Half Marathon...AM I CRAZY???

this is our nephew Ben and his Daughter Annie. Aren't they cute. She was so delighted ot see her Daddy after the race, and he was so tired.

Here I am after the 13 mile run, I can't believe it, who would have thought that I would have been doing this a year ago? NOT ME! the weather was beautiful.

The best part of this was the complimentary message, I asked are you sure that was 5 minutes? I think it was 30 seconds. It was not nearly long enough.

This is Ben's wife Kim. She looked and acted like she had just done a short walk. not fair! I wanted to die.

Here comes Ben. we were all starting to get worried about him.

Halloween

I know it has been a long time since I have put a new blog on this site. Shame on me. This was Halloween Mckenna decided at the last minute to be a witch. So we went to Smith's to find a costume. It was too short and cold looking so I stayed up late making her some warm pants to wear under her dress. Ellyce was a poodle girl and Carolyn had fun making her skirt.

How does Your garden grow?

Here is my garden, it has really taken off. The beats are just about ready to pick and bottle.

Temple open house

We reciently went to a family reunion up at Morgan Utah. On the way there we stopped at the Ocre Mountain Temple to go through the open house. It was great. The Girls really enjoyed it, the temple has been a source of many questions for them and for them to get to see it was good. It answered alot of questions for them.

Here is Ellyce posing for her pic in front of the temple
Then McKenna posed for hers

The whole family

Here we are again. Think the sun was a little bright?

Heres the girls.

While we were there at the reception tent we ran into Brandon Spevak and his wife. They were there as the Coordinators of the reception tent. It was fun to get to see them and visit with them.

4th of July

We had an eventful day on the 4th. We started the day off by going down t the church for breakfast in the parking lot that the Young Women and Young men were putting on. then to the Parade so that McKenna and Ellyce could march in the parade. They really injoy it. Then to the park for visits and booths for the kids. We then went to St. George for a bar-b-que and fireworks show. Here is McKenna, she is growing up too fast.

Ellyce doing the pom pom thing.

While we were in St. George we took the girls to the new water park on main street for some cooling off. They needed it!

Then it was time for the fireworks. My parents live right in the middle of town around the corner from the Sun Bowl where they light off the foreworks and just down from the Red Hill where they light of the other half. A perfect view to both from thier front lawn.

This is my favorite pic of them.

This is my Mom and I watching the kids light fireworks.

The Garden and back Yard

Okay, so here are some pics of the back yard and the Garden. This has been the strangest year as far as the weather goes. My poor garden is slowly growing, I mean slowly! My poor Zuchinni won't even come out of the ground. The Water mellon plant died. We need to have grave side services for it. The Cucumbers haven't grown since I put them in the ground too. And last of all the peppers are dying too. Hopefully it will warm up and decide to be summer. I spent several hours the week before Ellyce's baptism trying once again to fix the pond. It still has a hole in it, it's just down one foot instead of three feet as it was last year. I guess I should be thankful for that. I think it turned out really nice. Maybe I will tackle it this weekend again to see it I can get it fixed right. Wish me luck.