St. George Half Marathon

This past weekend we headed down to St. George to run another half marathon.
Scott's parents live down there during the winter so they helped out with the boys.
We ran this same race last year in perfect spring time weather....
this year we were welcomed with rain.
It ended up not being too bad and really didn't start down pouring until we finished.
My dad, Bobby and Rachel also ran with us......
and as shown in the pictures, Scott had a blast :-)
He really is a good sport and I love that he runs with me!!!!

Skiing

Last weekend we took Dakota skiing for the first time.
He was so excited and so nervous, but he ended up doing great!

My family was already up skiing at the Canyons, so my mom, Bridger and I rode the gondola up so that we could watch all of the action.

Me, Scott and the boys stayed that night at my parents condo and we had so much fun just relaxing and hanging out.

Dakota is so excited to go skiing again....
We were going to take him today because of the holiday,
but it ended up being a little to cold and windy :-(

Happy 3 Bridger!!!!

I can't believe that it has been three years since Bridger joined our family....

Chantell helped me make this cute cake!!!
Bridger spent the whole day trying to dump the cake out
so that he could play with the dump truck!

We also celebrated Matt's birthday (he turned the big 2.3. on December 30th)

Bridger got this really cute Mater Trike, which he has gotten a lot of practice on
thanks to the unreal, warm weather.

Bridger also started Preschool today.
Learning Dynamics has a mini 3 class that runs the same time that
Dakota has his Kindergarten Enhancement class.
2 hours, twice a week.... all to my self, whatever will I do????

2012

I absolutely love date night nights with Scott!!!
That is why the ultimate New Years Eve activity includes dinner and a movie.
This year we had to make it a little early, because I had to work Sunday morning and our baby sitter had real New Years plans that started at 9 pm.
So we decided to go see the afternoon showing of Sherlock Holmes (loved it)
and dinner at Mi Ranchito!!!

When we got home we had a little party with the boys,
which Dakota insisted was dumb because we didn't invite anyone :-)
But I think that he still enjoyed staying up late.

2011 was a year of buisiness and lots of changes,
my wish for 2012 is that we can slow down and focus on what is important in life.

Happy New Year!!!!

Merry Christmas

I am so sad that Christmas is over and now we have to wait
another 11 months to start over.

I really am like a little kid this time of year....
and this year did not disappoint.

The boys were so much fun...
especially Dakota who is just like his mom, loving every aspect of the season.
He was so cute to help me set everything out for Santa, and he could not have been more excited to wake up Christmas morning and see that Santa had come.
Bridger started out excited, but once he had a few Tractors and Dump Trucks,
he was ready to play and be done with the nonsense of opening presents.

When all the presents were opened I was surprised and the lack of fighting that occurred about going to church
(we did have to let them take a quick spin on their scooters in their church clothes).
I really liked the fact that going to church helped us stay focused on the true meaning of Christmas.... It is so hard with all of the buisiness to keep it in focus.

It really was a wonderful day,

Dakota thought of the idea to make the cookie plate look like a smiley face.

the little cheerios with chocolate chips were cookies for the elves.

Thanks to help from Chantell, I found these super cute Santa Bags,

Which were more for me than the boys, who I don't think even noticed....

but I loved them.

The boys got these light savers in there stockings, which have lead to many injuries since.

Everytime that Dakota saw Santa this year, he asked for more Trash Packs. I told him that he would probably just get a few in his stocking, but at the last minute I decided to get a whole bunch and put them in a big box.

After Dakota went through his stocking he didn't say anything, but as the presents ran out he started to get nervous and asked if I thought Santa forgot.

Some how it worked out that the Trash Packs were the last present he opened and he of course was so excited!!!!

Scott got me these UGG boots with built in socks and I absolutely loved them!!!

Even the Dogs got presents, which kept them quiet and busy all day long!

Merry Christmas.... onto a new year!!!!