Family

So I am trying to get some of my family members to blog but its not really working, but I love them all to death so I decided to post some pictures of my family. My brother Jake is 18 now and plays football at Snow College. He is getting ready to go on a mission and I am so excited for him. He will be such a good missionary and it will be so good for him. My sister Jenay is living in AF and goes to UVU and works and cheers. Its nice to have her so close. Jeanie lives in Fielding and has a cute new baby Colter. Ben lives Mount Pleasant and has a cute wife and two kids (but I don't have any pictures of them yet). And my brother Sam lives in Highland and has a cute 18 month old, Brooklyn. She is the little blonde. Here are some pictures of all of us this summer on our annual trip to Jackson Hole, Jake's football games, and me and Taylor and Sam skydiving!

Vacation

So me and Taylor took our first vacation together in a while. We have gone on family trips and cheer trips but not one with just us two in a couple years. We went to Cabo San Lucas and it was so much fun. We stayed for 7 days! It was in the 90's the whole time and we just laid on the beach and by the pool and read books. I think we both finished 3 full books! The hotel we stayed at was all inclusive, which I loved because you don't have to worry about where you are going to eat next the whole time. They brought us endless drinks and we ate whenever we wanted. I did have a hard time with there being no Dr. Pepper. Really, who doesn't have Dr. Pepper?! We only took 4 pictures while we were there because every time I told Taylor I wanted to take a picture he said, we already have one by the ocean! So I am posting all 4 pictures that we took while we were there. It really was so beautiful there and made us appreciate what we have here after seeing how they live. We really are so blessed! And I don't know how to rotate pictures and one of them was in the sun so I guess this post is kind of special! I keep remembering more so this post keeps getting longer and longer. There are locals all over the beach trying to sell things and it was so funny that after they would ask if you would like to buy a hat they would say, do you want some weed! So for the first time in my life, I got asked to smoke weed! ha ha

Happy Halloween

So friday was Halloween, and the last Springville football game of the season. We made it to the state playoffs and drove to St. George on for the game. My girls were pretty good sports though about cheering at a football game for halloween. We played Dixie High School again so once again me and Taylor got to tease each other. It was better this time though because it was a close game and Springville was actually up 11 points in the 4th quarter. We did loose though 36 to 40. So that led to Taylor reminding me that 10 years ago his Dixie High football team took state. We even watched his highlight video last saturday with a few of his friends and their wives. All of the wives were so proud but laughing pretty hard at them. It's always fun to look back at the good times and remember all we've done since then. Here are a few more pictures of my cute girls. I have to post about them since I don't have any kids! ha ha

St. George Marathon 2008

So last weekend Taylor ran the marathon! He did so awesome! He finished in 4 hr 12 min which is pretty amazing. It rained and was cold the whole entire time so I am so proud of him. I think his lips stayed blue for about 3 hours after he finished. He ran the first while with his sister Amy, who had a knee injury and still finished in pretty good time. Then he took off by himself and ran like a champ. I think he is hooked for life! He said he is ready to run another one. I told him he had to do it again next year with me since I missed out this time cause of my knee. Here are some pictures of him before and after the marathon. They did so awesome!

So last week was Springville High School's first football game! Im sure that sounds really random unless you know that I coach Springville's cheer squad. This is my third year and I think it will be the best one so far. I have a really fun squad this year and they work really hard. Anyways, back to the game. We played Dixie High School in St. George. This is where Taylor went to high school and every time I say anything about Dixie, Taylor reminds me how they took state in 98' for football. So you can imagine how hard it is for him to decide which side he should sit on even though that was 10 years ago! Well I was supposed to ride down with Taylor to the game but he had a conference for work and ended up not being able to come. So that left me riding the bus with the football team and cheerleaders! It was just like high school all over again! We had to double up seats and even triple some seats all the way down to fit everyone. And the football coach warned me ahead of time to make sure the girls weren't wearing any kind of perfumes or lotions! Because you know how those boys hormones get out of control when they do. Yes that is what the coach said to me. Needless to say it was a very long and hot ride down since busses have no air conditioning. All the windows were down and I felt like I had just gotten out of a wind storm when we finally got off the bus. We stayed in Cedar City the first night and went bowling and shopping on friday, then drove the rest of the way to St. George. It was a good game but I'm afraid its not looking so good for Springville this year, oh well at least the cheerleaders are good, right! It ended up 20 to 3. We headed home after the game and I got home at 4:00 in the morning which was kind of funny because Taylor had just woken up to leave for Springville to run the Hobble Creek Half Marathon. I didn't get to run it because there was no way I could run 13 miles after not sleeping. But Taylor did very good and is quite the runner now. I decided to post some pictures of my cute little squad though. Go Devils!

Ok, its kind of random that there is just suddenly wedding pictures but I was trying to make a slide show and I wanted it to stay on the side but I don't know how so I guess it will just be random.

So I got some pictures back from the Ragnar Relay.  It was one of the hardest things I've ever done.  It is a relay race from Logan to Park City.  We had a team of 12 members which I decided isn't enough.  I ran 15.6 miles altogether and Taylor ran over 16 miles.  We rode in two big vans of six people.  The race was 180 miles altogether and it took our team 28 hours to finish.  The fastest team ran it in about 17 hours!  Lets be honest, who really runs 5 minute miles?!  There were also Ultra teams who only used 6 people.  People are crazy!  It was a lot of fun because we had of fun people on our team.  We rode in boy and girl vans so the only person I knew at first was Taylor's sister Amy, but all the girls were really funny and we made it fun.  My knee decided it didn't want to run anymore in the middle of my second run and so the rest of the time I ran like a gimp and everyone made fun of me.  Taylor did awesome on his runs and made really good time!  We hope we can do it again next year.