Training for My up coming Marathon's, I love to do a few Half's (13.1 miles) for race training! This year I did Bryce Canyon 1/2 Marathon and the Hobblecreek 1/2 Marathon. The hobblecreek I had the chance to Beat my time, finishing in the top 100. Although when I run a half I always wonder how I am going to run a full marathon, I can't believe how mental running is. My Logan Marathon is coming up in 3 weeks and I had a friend who transfered her number for the St. George Marathon into my name so Yes I will be running 2 marathons in 2 weeks!!! I really can't wait.

Thanks for the great weekend Girls I had a blast!!!

Camping

Our yearly trip to Beaver Mountain!! The Styler Family has started a really fun tradition for our family and friends. The Stylers go up to Beaver Mtn for a week and camp and the rest of us come and go as we can, it really depends on everyones schedules but so far we have all been able to go for at least a few days out of the week. This was my first year to go up with our new trailer and I have to say it made a huge difference to have somewhere to sleep and bathe the kids, the kids and I actually stayed for 6 days this year and we also had the opportunity to take my Nephew Russell Nakken with us for the week. (it was his first time camping and he said he loved it!) Brian had to go back and forth to work but it was still nice to have him there. Thank you Stylers for starting this great week long tradition for us!!!

Our entire camp packed a lunch and went on a big 4-wheeler ride we ended at this beautiful meadow to have lunch. The kids played in the water and fished.

We found bear tracks and a half eaten Beaver down by one of the lakes the kids thought that was pretty cool. They were only cub tracks that is Daxton's little hand next to the bear track.

4th Of July

HAPPY 4th OF JULY!!













Another 4th in Delta! The kids have a blast, Daxton loved hanging out with his cousins, helping with Gracie and getting a huge bag of CANDY! I threw in a picture of my cute sister Shannon's family she just had baby Carter 3 Weeks before the holiday, you go girl! And then sad little Maddie who fell off the playset the night before the parade I got a great shot of her black eye. After the parade we all went to The Delta Res I haven't been there in years it was soooo fun!!

LaKe PoWeLl WiTh ThE LuNtS!!

We took the Lunt's with us to Lake Powell this year and it was a great way to start our summer!! I love everything about Lake Powell it has been a tradition that our little family has done since I can remember. We try to go as much as we can and love to have our cute friends come along. Thanks for coming you guys, We love ya!

Tubing Beauties, Brecklee, Bailee, and Sandi

Koden and Daxton, when you gotta go, you gotta go!

Boys will be Boys!

The Cute Blonde sista's!

The Frog Pond

My mom, Lance, Margo and the kids came to our house for the weekend and we had a blast! While I was in my salon doing the girls hair lance took the boys out on our Rino for a tour of all the 4-wheeler trails behind our house. He was gone for an hour and we were starting to wonder what happened, until he showed up with a cooler clear full of Pollywogs!!! He was laughing because he new exactly what he started, he had immediately given us about 20 pets to take care of. I never did get a picture of him with the Pollywogs, but he has started an summer event in my neighborhood. This pond that he has found has been a hit for alot of the kids some have compared it to Disneyworld. We ended up taking the Pollywogs back and discovered they were all turning into frogs so now I have a backyard full of little bitty frogs, daxton has set them loose because he said they asked him if they could get out of the bucket and play! (who knows where they are now) Catching all of these frogs has sure taken me back to growing up in the good ole country!! Thank you Lance!

Daxton and Dad on the Hunt!
Aunt Stephanie was at the pond one sunday catching the frogs with cousin Russell and his friend Trevor
...... And Gracie didn't love the frogs too much! Such a girl.

Marathon Drama

I was going to make it a lucky number 3 and run the St George marathon again this year but me and a few women in my running group didn't make the cut. Its a lottery marathon and they only take 7,000 people and there were 10,500 that registered this year! Its been kind of a bummer but to have a goal and run a marathon this year me, amanda Giles and Jenn Boyer signed up for the top of Utah (Logan) Marathon. It will be a good change. The training has got me completely exhausted we are training a lot harder this year and I am going to use it as an excuse as why I haven't updated my blog for so long!! Its not a good excuse, but it seems like as soon as I get my kids settled down I crash also! The 5 O'clock runs every morning sure catch up!

More pics for Robyn!

The view was great from here!!