Las Vegas Rock N Roll Half Marathon

So, I have never been a runner. (I am no Meikle-the Tibbitts cousins will understand.) Since Chett was born I have been running a couple miles a couple days a week with some good neighborhood friends. We decided that maybe we could train for a half-marathon, so we started training this summer and worked up to running 11 miles on Thanksgiving morning. We probably do a lot more talking than running but we have a good time and solve all the world's problems while we run.
We went to Vegas the first weekend of December (also the first weekend of the National Finals Rodeo-Bonus). We shopped and ate, and shopped and ate, and then ran and ate some more. There were 27,000 runners. I kept saying that I could not belive the starting line and all the runners. We started at the Mandalay Bay and ran up the strip and back down. It was so hard and so fun at the same time. We finished the 13.1 miles in 2 hours and 19 minutes which we were proud of for our first time.

Halloween

We went to the Pumpkin walk in Shelley and trick or treated first, Chett was asleep in the car with Grandma, so that is why there is a seperate picture of him.

First Day of School

Keller and Isabel are in the 5th and 2nd grade school at Wapello Elementary. I really love the school and their teachers this year. They get to go to school with good friends and teammates and dance friends. Olivia started kindergarten at Irving Kindergarten Center. All the kids in Blackfoot go together for kindergarten. She has four friends from Wapello in her class. We are lucky.

Jackson

Me, Mom, and Jordan loaded the kids in the car for a quick overnight trip to Jackson right before school started. We went and watched Wade and Kyndall in the rodeo and then ate and walked around Jackson and ate some more. My Mom found us a fun little cabin to sleep in, it had a queen bunk bed up and down.
These pictures crack me up because Olivia was pouting on the other side of the antlers and she is real happy in the picture of the grandkids and Grandma. I kind of like her attitude sometimes (reminds me of Grandma)

Baseball and more baseball.

Keller has been playing baseball non-stop since March. He played on the Blackfoot Broncos traveling team and we played every weekend through June. Then the played the all-star season. They played in three tournaments. They played sixteen games in three tournaments and only lost one game. They won the Pocatello tournament, the Blackfoot tournament, and lost their one game in Bear Lake to the Idaho Falls Chuckers, which was a tough game. It was fun and now we don't know what to do with ourselves. We need to cram our summer vacation into one week after the county fair and before football.

It's great to be eight.

Isy turned eight on June 12th. We went to Becky's for three days to celebrate. The boys went the Utah State Football camp and we did everything on Isy's wish list. Shopping at the mall, lunch with the girls, and a trip to the zoo.
She was baptized on the Fourth of July. We went to the baptism and then had a barbeque with our family and went to town for the fireworks. I think it was a great day to be baptized, she won't ever forget what day it happened on!

Just call him crash.

Keller was jumping of Cody's truck and dunking the basketball and ended up with a small concussion, a black eye, and a black ear.

Catch up!

What a slacker, I love reading everyone's blogs but I slack off on our own. I started the blog to document the kids and keep in touch with our family and friends that are not close by so, here we go.
Chett's 1st birthday.


New Easter Duds.

We went to Preston for the annual Easter party. Fun with cousins, great dinner and games, and one awesome hunt.
Olivia's preschool graduation. Livy had a fun preschool year with some good friends. She is now going to start kindergarten this fall. She is excited and so ready to get on the big bus with the big kids.


Isabel and Olivia danced in the Downtown Dance Recital. They loved dance all year and both did a good job shaking their booties.

For Memorial Day we took the kids to Bear World, it was such a nice day and the kids ripped around and checked everything out in record time.

A year goes so fast

We were bringing home this sweet guy one year ago. He was such a happy and content baby. I guess he had to be good, it seemed he lived in his carseat with being the youngest of 4. He had to go to baseball, school, dance practices, barrel races, and everything else that was starting in the spring. We are blessed to have him in our home, he is a loved little guy.

February so far,

We have had the daily running with dance, gym, school, preschool, scouts, church, throw in a school carnival. I can't believe the month is more than half way gone.

For Valentines, eight couples got together for dinner at the Lindsay's and then we all went to the Senior Citizens Dance with a live country band. It turned out to be so much fun. Megan had the bang up idea. The dinner was so yummy, everyone brought something to eat, but Nicole needs a big shout out for the awesome main dish. Julia had a fun game, you had to write three things that you love about your spouse without your name and then she read them and you had to guess who wrote it and who it was about. I laughed way too hard. The dance was totally senior citizens, Rulon had to pick up a couple that was two-stepping that fell clear down, but they were good sports. The night was more fun than I expected it would be. Let's do it again.

Cody left on Saturday to go to a race in Louisiana, it is a big one-I'll update, but only if he does good.

Two Brothers

Chett fell asleep sitting on Keller's lap. You can tell that Chett is pretty comfotable just being with big brother.

January came and went!

Well, this month Cody and I celebrated our 15th anniversary. We went to Phoenix to a race and it was perfect! Chett flew down with me and was good as gold for the trip. The weather was so nice and Cody's horses did good. We accidently left the camera at the security desk at the airport and after 5 calls to Lost and Found and no return calls, Cody is starting to get a little hot.
We also took Keller to a Jazz game this month, I have to bum some pictures from Becky to post. After watching LeBron, Keller has been dunking his imaginary ball all over the house.
Cody is on his way back down to Arizona with his Dad this time for another race. I was going to weasel Brian's airplane ticket away from him so I could go back down but I never got up the nerve. Hopefully when they fly back in he can grab someone at the airport by the collar and find our camera.

Olivia is 5!

Olivia turned 5 on December 30th. We took her pre-school carpool buddies to the pool for some swimming and cupcakes, then we met Grandma and Grandpa at Red Lobster for dinner.

She is such a funny girl, some things we laughed at this month is she asked for a Jesus Farm Set for Christmas, it took a little bit until we realized she was asking for a nativity. She also sang about a reindeer named Honker. She would sing, "You know Dasher, Dancer, Honker, and Blitzen."