Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving in Cedar City?  Ok!

It's always fun to gather together with cousins!

And eat as much food as possible!

We are old fashion...one must let the menfolk eat first!!

So fun to see MY cousins too!  I love these boys!

Running in the Season

Thanks to our cousins we found a fun way to start off the holidays!  Everyone should dress up like Santa Claus and run in a 5k.  Every half mile there's cookie, drink and a candy cane waiting for you!  It was so fun, but a little pricey so we will see if there will be a repeat performance next year.  We sure had fun, just look.....

11.10.13

Happy Anniversary to the woman who gave me an accordion for Christmas!!!

No Competition Here!

This is how Kristin throws a party.....

This is how Lynette throws a party.....

Bubble Please!

See this beautiful face?  She is so sweet and innocent.  You might even say fragile....  See the scar over her eye?  You remember the fall and the stitches.  Of course who can forget the broken leg at 8 months?  I mean really!?  Whose child breaks their leg at 8 months old?  Mine does!

Now look at this beautiful face! What could possibly go wrong with putting a blanket over our head and run like a wild woman through the family room, spinning and twirling?  This can happen!

Phew!  Now we're done!  We've learned our lesson, right?  No more accidents.  Let's act like the beautiful little girls we are and be more refined; more careful!  So glad we're a quick learner......

What!?!

 Yes!  Three staples in her head.  Nothing like going to the doctor with a whopper of a black eye to get staples in your head!  Really, Child!  What is wrong with you?  Falling off a rope swing and hitting your head on the playhouse doesn't necessarily mean you have to split your head open, or does it?  Is this our lot with this beautiful little girl?  Accident prone?  (Beware when she starts to drive!)

Lone PeAk

  This is me.

Yesterday a group of us climbed our mountain. We started at 6:55am from Alpine.

It's kind of steep.

Here's the group.

Like I said, it's kind of steep.

It's pretty big. The wind was blowing like crazy. 

The end gets hairy. Those little tiny people are at the summit. You have to scramble over these boulders with huge cliffs on both sides to get there. Kind of like Angel's Landing, but no chain to hold onto and climbing over big rocks. Really cool, but pretty intense.

Around 12:30 pm. 

The summit is a little peninsula about the size of the key in basketball with cliffs on 3 sides. I've been up 3 times, and I freak out up there every time. Usually I'm telling people to SIT DOWN because it makes me so nervous. This time my hat blew off. Of course your first instinct is to lunge for it to keep it from blowing off the mountain. I moved about a centimeter, then fear froze me. The hat actually landed about 6 ft away and sat there. I made a girl get it for me because I was too chicken to scoot over closer to the edge.

Here's our buddy, Lee, that takes me up. His sister lead our group this time, she had gone this way before. She's amazing.

We made it back!! About 5pm.

Third time's the charm? I think I might be done. That is one bad mountain!

10K

I've never been much for running, but somehow this summer I trained and ran in the Peach Days 10K. Jennie B. Stevens, my sister, mentor, and coach ran with me. She has been injured and said she probably wouldn't finish, but you know what happened. Jill and Adam Frandsen were there, too. 

   

I was tired, but it was fun, especially to run in good old BC.  Jennie, you rock. Thanks for helping me stay on track! See you next year...