Living Planet Aquarium

Today, I went to the aquarium with my friend Natalie and her family. We went in the morning, so I only took Donovan with me. He showed some interest at first, but lost it towards the end. He was most interested in the penguins. He also enjoyed trying to touch the sting rays. That's mostly because it involved water, and he was able to splash. We had fun. Looking at jelly fish.

Van with Valicea and Leora.

This octopus was pretty cool. It was going up and down on the glass. My friend said that she has gone to the aquarium several times, and had never seen it move before.

I find sea horses very interesting. They are just so unique.

He pointed at the tarantula and said, EW.

My friend Natalie, and her friend April behind her.

Pointing at a penguin .

There are a couple of frogs on the right. Van was holding on bouncing up and down saying, ribbit ribbit.

Happy 3 Years!

Today, Jason and me celebrate three years of marriage. I said a bunch of mushy stuff in my last post, so I won't do it again. I'll just say that, I've really enjoyed the past three years. I'm glad I have Jason to spend the rest of my life with. I look forward to being sealed to him soon, and spending all of eternity with him.

Happy 34th, My Love

Happy Birthday, my sexy man!

I wanted you to know on your Birthday, just how special I think you are. You are my everything(I know, cheesy). Sometimes I feel that if it wasn't for you, I would have no one. You are such a good man, husband, father, provider, friend and many many more. I love how unwavering you are with your faith. I love how loyal you are, not only to me, but for everyone around you. I love your sense of humor. I love how much passion you seem to have for everything you talk about(even if it bugs me sometimes;). I love how talented you are, and sometimes feel like I have none compared to you. I love and appreciate more than you know, how you're killing yourself right now with work and school, just to ensure that we have a better life. I could go on and on. I just love my Jason. You're my favorite. If I ever have to go to war, I'm calling you first.

P.S. I know this was posted a little before his Birthday. I wanted Jason to see it when he got home.

The Zoo

I went to the zoo a few weeks ago with my Mom, sister, and niece. I had been wanting to take Donovan for awhile, and was excited to finally be going. However, I was pretty disappointed in the zoo. There's hardly any animals there. I really wanted Van to see a bear, but there was none. We still had fun though. So, here's a bunch of pictures. We got this new pocket video camera, and this was my first time taking pictures with it. All the indoor pictures suck. I need to figure out how to change settings on it. Anyway....

Looking at the penguins.

My mom was being silly trying to make them smile.

Here is Van playing in the mist. He loves anything that has to do with water.

Van with the monkey my mom bought for him. He sleeps with it now.

New Haircut

I got me a new haircut. I haven't had it this short for quite some time. It was time for a change. I think I like it. My bangs are messy, but I think you still get the idea.

Van's Ouchies

Our poor kid got beat up this weekend. You can faintly see a bruise on the right side of his forehead. That is from him slipping in a wet bathroom, and hitting his head on the toilet. He has three blisters on his fingers from grabbing my flat iron Sunday. I couldn't get a great picture, but you can kind of see them. He also got some scratches on his legs from playing with a bunch of kids in our ward. Then Monday, Ashley and him were running on cement, and he fell and I watched his head bounce off the ground. As you can see he scratched up his forehead and around his nose. With all of these, he maybe cried a total of a minute. He is one tough kid. He gets that from his Dad, right hun?(inside joke between Jason and me)

Wasatch Back

Thought I should post about this, since I've been talking about it with people for about a year. Ran the Wasatch Back, a little over a week ago. For those that don't know, it's a 188 mile relay race. It starts in Logan and ends in Park City. We had a team of twelve, and each member ran three legs of the race. I had one of the easier legs. My first leg was 6.7 miles(but really was 6.81), 2nd leg was 3, and last leg was 3.3 miles. I did pretty good overall. I had a pretty ugly hill on my first leg, and walked about half way up it. I was congested and having trouble breathing, so thought it would be faster if I just walked and took longer strides. I was sick through the whole thing, ended up having a wet sleeping bag (which meant no sleep), had to listen to Mindy complain about hand sanitizer ;), but in spite all of that I still had a blast and can't wait to do it again.

The team did so awesome! I was really glad Ken put it together, and asked me to be apart of it. Mindy and me looking fabulous. ;)

Ken after his first leg

These are the members of the 2nd van.

Lisa, Kari, Ken, Mary, Joel, and Geoff

This was our van.

Me, Adam, Mindy, Brandon, Martha, and Anette was running at this time.

Mindy after her last leg.

The team running to the finish line with Ken.

We rode this cool tram down the mountain.

Wish we had known about it going up.

A view of Park City from the tram

Lemon Fun

Here's some great pictures of Donovan eating lemon slices. He loves them. He made a funny face every time, but just kept on eating. He begged for more the whole time. He kept Jason and me laughing during the whole time we were eating dinner.

"Operation 61" 10K

I ran my first 10K on Saturday. For those that don't know that's 6.4 miles. I ran it in 1:06:01. I was hoping to get under a 10 minute pace, but didn't quite get it. I think this is about a 10 min 20 sec pace. It still excites me though that I can even run this distance. When I feel a little slow, I just think about how not a lot of people can run this distance. The race was at Liberty Park. You had to run 4 1/2 loops around the park. I've only ran two races, but I've decided that I don't like loop races. I think it hinders me some. The whole time I'm thinking about how many loops I've ran, and how many left I have to go. I drove up with a friend and her friend. Listening to them talk about running, made me realize I am not dedicated at all to running. They have pretty much been lifetime runners. My friend ran it in 49 minutes. She placed 3rd in her age division. Her friend ran it in just over 50 minutes. I was pretty impressed. I ran most of the race with my father-in-law. I felt like he could have passed me up. I'm glad he didn't though, I enjoyed the company.

Well, overall I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Now I need to focus on getting ready for the Wasatch Back. I'm nervous!