Merry Christmas!

Christmas day is here. What fun it has been so far. KJ got up at 7:30am and didn't even realize all the presents from santa until about 8am. We had a feast for breakfast with options of french toast, blueberry muffins, eggs, ham, sausage, and bacon. After breakfast we opened the gifts then played with them. Tonight is our first attempted at a turkey dinner that we made for the first time in 10 years by ourselves thanks to Darrell's work. We have also enjoyed christmas vacation with over 2 feet of snow, basketball with the family, and christmas eve at Grandma and Grandpa Mangums.

Footlocker Cross Country Championships

Well thanksgiving came and went, the snow came and went, then the footlocker cross country race arrived. Darrell and I travelled with 64 kids to California so they could race in the western regional race. We had a lot of fun, with many sleepless nights, lots of walking, standing, talking and cheering on. We had six kids medal this year and lots that just came to have fun. We enjoyed the beach, the day before the race, and disneyland after the race. Thanks to Rick and Andrea's family for watching KJ while we were gone. Now it is time for Christmas, we got our tree up, our lights up, and we made a fireplace to hang our stockings from so now we are ready for Santa to come.



13.1 Miles

What a fun adventure we had as family and girls as we set out to St. George for a night to hang out and run or cheer on others as they ran a half marathan. Thanks to all those that came, and the husbands that let us go. We enjoyed a drive full of talking and laughing, eating at restaurants where we must of been cursed because each one we went to took forever to get our food, a night of no sleep even without our kids or spouse there to interupt, and shopping at the outlets. My mom and Andrea where the greatest fans to sit and wait for us to take over two hours to run a race, and cheer us on and take pictures for us. Angela and I survived the half marathon finishing in 2 hours 17 min. to 2 hours 22 min. I describe it as survive Angela may say it differently, but the first 7 miles where great, then miles 7- 10 the exhaustion set in and the soarness started, and miles 10-13.1 was just hanging on for dear life knowing you have made it this far, you had to finish it now even with a numb, hot blistery foot. Thank goodness for a blessing from my husband I was able to run without any pain in my foot after not even being able to really walk on it for three days leading up to the race. I am extremely grateful that I got to race and finish what I had started, after almost not even getting to race in the end. Of course I had no pain in the injured foot and tons of burning and numbness in my other foot. So the joke is we should have blessed both feet and not just the injured one. Thanks to Angela for taking me up on this crazy adventure, and finishing it with me. It was a fun adventure!

Halloween 2010

This year for Halloween KJ got to dress up many times and had tons of costumes to rotate between.  For preschool he was spiderman, for just dress up he was bumblebee, and for the Halloween dance at the school, and Halloween he chose ironman since I got a $50 costume for $15 and couldn't pass up a deal.  We took KJ to the madness in downtown spanish fork to trick or treat on saturday, and he really enjoyed it.  Not really the candy, he doesn't eat it at all, but all the kids dressed up made him more excited than anything.  He had no interest in trick or treating that night instead he wanted to help at the door handing out candy.

Preschool

Today was the first day of preschool for KJ. He was so excited to attend at daddys school he was literally running down the hall to the preschool.  He has been telling us for over a month that he was excited to go to preschool and today it arrived with lots of excitement and alot to tell us about afterwards.  He learned the letter A, learned about the nose and made a puppet and binoculars. He loves that the high school kids get to teach him and he is having fun and it has only been day one.  I on the other hand enjoyed the running with out interuption from a three year old today and am going to enjoy the little break that I get.

On another note. Darrells boys and girls cross country team won region and compete this week at state.  It has been a fun year.

Look who is 31!

Yesterday Darrell turned 31. We let him sleep in, eat donuts for breakfast, gave him a new wallet with money in it, took him to Olive Garden for the never ending pasta bowl, let him come home and watch football all afternoon, and evening, ate cake and ice cream and enjoy many happy birthday wishes from family, friends, and athletes. He got everything he asked for and more. Happy Birthday Darrell!!