I Did It!

I ran the July 24th Enterprise Fun Run 10K!  Last year I ran the 5K, and didn't think I could do it.  This year I stepped it up and ran 6.2 miles.  My time was 1:06, which was good enough to be the winner of the losers.  Next year I move up an age bracket.  Watch out old ladies, here I come!  I think my next step will be a half marathon. 

Anniversary

One of my very best friends growing up (Kim Wallin Palmer) moved to Enterprise last year.  I have had so much fun having her around.  She recently celebrated her 14th wedding anniversary, and invited Royd and me to help celebrate.  Royd was the travel agent and set us up on a great get away weekend.

We started out staying at a cute little retreat called the Homestead Resort near Park City.  When we got there the boys got right to golfing, and sent us girls shopping at the outlet mall.  Royd gave us directions to the mall, but somewhere we made a wrong turn.  We ended up on steep switchback up a mountain, in the rain and fog.  We were so lost but we kept going.  We drove up to the top of the mountain before we finally came down into old town Park City.  It took us over an hour to make the what was supposed to be 20 minute trip.  After shopping we met the boys for dinner.

The next day we traveled up Ogden Canyon to the Alaskan Inn.  It was so nice.  We each had our own little cabin.  We went to dinner at a very interesting restaurant, the Timbermine.  The food was super delicious! The atmosphere was incredibly strange.  The waiting area was full of all sorts of trinkets, some antique, some junk.  They had about 6 old bath tubs with Plexiglas lids.  When you looked inside it was filled with Christmas lights and old Pez dispensers.  One had Christmas lights and key chains.  When we were seated we were taken down a very dark hallway to a booth.  The booth had a light with a dimmer that we could adjust.  Everything else was pitch black.  It seemed like we were the only people there.  The waitress popped up out of nowhere occasionally.  It was a lot of fun, and a little creepy.

The final day we spent at Lagoon.  The boys got a little sick on the rides so Kim and I spent a lot of time together spinning around.  I enjoyed myself.  It was a little strange being at an amusement park with out the kids.  I was really happy to get home and hug and kiss my kiddos.

Reese's Trip to Idaho

The annual trip to Idaho is Reese's highlight of the year.  He gets to be outside, with his favorite cousin Clance, without shoes everyday.  He said he basically did the same thing every day: wake up, eat Popsicles, go swimming, play around, and work at the inn.  He loves to work at the Deer Cliff Inn.  This year he said he go to really work.  He was paid in scones and ice cream. 

 Reese and Clance always find interesting ways to spend their days.  This year they hid stuffed animals in the trees and shot at them with blow dart guns. 

The only part of his trip he didn't like was leaving.

Money Bags

Dace has been bugging us to take him to the bank to get a savings account ever since his Kindergarten class took a field trip to a bank.  He is a avid penny pincher.  He really knows how to save.  When he heard we were making a trip to St. George he was in the car with his penny bank in hand.  I know that the teller that was helping us was very annoyed.  It took us about 25 minutes to count out his collection of $86.  His penny bank was empty when we left, but he has already got another good collection going.

4th of July

The week of the Fourth of July was one of the few weeks that we all could be together as a family.  It was free of scout camps, school for mom and dad, football camps, baseball, and teaching for mom.  We really wanted to plan a great big family vacation.  We thought about going on a road trip to some of the highlights in America.  We could not talk are kids into it.  The idea of sitting in a car for days was not their idea of a vacation.  We ended up loading all into the car and visiting family in Toquerville.  It wasn't great and wonderful, but we all had a terrific time.  We went to Zion and hiked the river walk, and played in the river.  It was soooo cold in the water.  It was awesome!  When the kids (Dace) are older we are totally going to hike the narrows. 

Maridee was gracious enough to let us stay at their house.  She even took us to a pool in East Zion (which was also very cold).  We ate and swam the day away.  We had a nice barbecue that evening before travelling to St. George for fireworks.  They were beautiful.  The best fireworks I have seen in a long time.  If you turned the radio on they were set to the music.  We were down town and fireworks were going off all around us.  Dace was getting whiplash.  He didn't know which way to look.  He was pretty sure he missed out on a lot of the show.

It wasn't as grand as we were hoping, but we had a really grand time together as a family.