My summer workout plans...

I signed up for the Imogene Pass Race in Telluride, CO this fall.  I have started training and am SO excited for it.  This morning I got up with the sun and hiked Mt. Elden with my mom and a friend.  2.9 miles to the top.(and the same back down!)  6,990ft at the bottom to 9,200ft at the top.  I have been trail running about 25-30 miles week.  10 more weeks until Race day!

 

Road Rash

Poor Brooke.  If it isn't one thing, it's another.  She has constantly had some form of road rash this summer.  Her arms.  Her legs.  Now, her face.  (These pictures are taken 12 hours later, so she isn't upset about it anymore.)  We went for a walk last night and she was running in front of us, and looking back to see if we were coming.  You guessed it...she tripped.  Going up a hill.  She didn't catch herself with her hands.  100% of the impact was in her face.  She has a huge goose egg on her forehead too.

Pictures of other people!

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I have pictures of the H family, Miss Natalie, and Baby C.  Thanks guys for the chance to get out my camera!

I love summer.

 Brooke LOVES to put on "shows" for us.  Every night this week she goes out in the front yard and climbs on the 'box' and sings and dances.  The songs are COMPLETELY made up.  They last about 20 minutes a piece and have improv choreography to go with them.  Peter jumps in when he can and trys to get Brooke to sing "real" songs.

 Heath isn't a fan.

 Peter sings songs like "I will GO, I will DO...the things the Lord Commands", complete with arm motions.

 We have spent almost every day at the Bear Paw pool.  It has been so fun!  My cousin Erin stopped by for a visit too!  It was so great to catch up with her.  I haven't really had a chance to spend time with her since High School!

 (I am going to the pool.  I promise I don't dress this skimpy on a regular basis!)

Las Vegas

Bryan and I took an AWESOME mini-vacation a couple weeks ago.  My parents watched our kids and we went to Vegas!  I loved every minute of it.  We started the trip off with a trip to the Las Vegas Temple.  I have always wanted to go there and was super excited to finally get the chance.  We stayed in the Paris Hotel, layed out by the pool (in the hot Vegas wind....), got a "buffet pass", and spent time with my favorite person in the entire world.  If you haven't heard of this "Buffet of Buffet's" pass, let me enlighten you.  You buy the pass and it is good for 24 hours and you get all you can enter and eat to 6 buffet's on the strip.  I don't think I have ever eaten so much food in my life. The Paris and the new buffet at Ceasar's Palace are the best.  Actually, I don't think anything could top Ceasar's Palace. 
We stopped on the new bridge they built to bypass the Hoover Dam.  If you are an Arizona native, you are all too familiar with the crossing of the dam.  It is slow, hot, windy and long.  The bridge they built is incredible.  It is SUPER high.  Like scary, take your breath away and make you dizzy kind of high.  The best part is, it takes about 30 minutes off of the trip.  Awesome.

Oh my. Its been a while! Here is the beginning of May.

We have had such an action packed 6 weeks.  I haven't even thought about posting until now.  I have taken about 200 million pictures and don't even remember what I have or haven't posted.  So if I have posted these to fb and you have already seen them, I am sorry!
We had Peter's birthday, which warrants its own post.  Plus tons of family, friends, and a mini-vacation for Bryan and I.
We attended my adorable nephew's blessing the beginning of May.

 Then we got back in time for Brooke to attend my Mom's studio recital.  She was more than a little excited!

 Any time there are more than 2 people at my parents house, there is somebody baking.  It is just a wierd phenomenon about their house.  Walk in and you are guaranteed that if there is someone at home, its a party for your taste buds!

 Naptime doesn't go quite as smooth at Pooba and Abby's...

 And this little monkey is terrifying.  He climbs on anything and everything, balances for about 2 seconds, and topples head first onto the ground. 

 We went to a kite festival...

 Visited the Nelsons, went to the park and swimming!

 This one is a little out of place...Bryan's graduation dinner with the other LDS couple's that were in his class.

Splash Pad with Jessica and her kids...

More of May!

 

We took 2 trips down to Prescott (Chino Valley) to visit Bryan's parents.  Peter had his actual 'birthday' there.  We celebrated with cake and his present...(the bike!)  We took a trip to "Out of Africa" too!