Sunday, August 17, 2008

My dog ate my blog, my grandma's blog died...

My blog is in the mail... my blog ran out of ink... my blog has asthma?...

Well there's really not much I can say except neglecting the blog has the exact same feeling as not handing in homework... I was always bad at that, sadly I still am. : )

But things that I had meant to blog but didn't were the following

June 18th-Born to Run- Myself along with five sexy ladies from our ward's enrichment group lovingly dubbed "The Bod Squad", completed our first 5K together in beautiful and scenic Mona, Utah. You may laugh because Mona looks like a whole lot of nothing from the freeway but it was one of the best days of our whole summer.

The 5K was part of the Lavendar Days Festival that is held at Young Living Farms and we literally ran through the lavendar fields. It was really great until I had my first allergy attack ever after the race ended. Those things are nasty. But despite turning into a human mucus factory everything else was the just a blast. It's always fun to take your church buddies on the road and experience new things together. The Bod Squad meets twice a week at the highschool track and are currently working towards another 5K in September. You go girls!

The festival itself was a ton of fun too. Samantha's favorite part was the Lavendar Fairies that are roaming around granting fairy wishes by sprinkling magic dust (glitter) in children's hands and having them blow it away while they make their wish. So cute you want to hurl right? It's definitely worth the admission. Pony rides, paddles boats and funnel cake, who could want more?

July 10- Just like peas and carrots - Brad and I celebrated our 1000th year of marriage, oops I mean 10th year of marriage. If you don't know already the 10th anniversary is the "Churro" anniversary. Naturally we spent ours at Lagoon. We did this last year and had so darn much fun we did it again this year and had a blast. If you haven't been to Lagoon in a few years, you should go. It's not as ghetto as it once was. That should be their new slogan right? Lagoon: Now 50% less ghetto. Man they better not steal it from me! If they do you all are my witnesses. Can I get a witness The new ride Wicked is exactly that, well I think they should have pushed it to the next level by adding Awesome to the end.. Wicked AWESOME! Wouldn't that be a great name for a ride?! I think so. But Brad and I lovelovelove it like flipping nuts we love it. We would ride it in the dark on a plane with a fox and on a train. Ridiculously fun.

I guess right here I could go into some lamo analogy of rollercoasters and marriages and crap but on the serious tip, I must say that I just love Brad to the moon. I gave a lesson on temple marriage the week of our anniversary, it just happened to fall on that Sunday which was pretty cool. Anyways I told my young women about when Brad came to pick me up to go to the temple the morning of our wedding. We were young, I was twenty and Brad was 23. On the ride to the temple I began to get nervous and all the things that I would be missing out on with friends ie., road trips, late night trips to taco bell, supergluing roommates toiletries to the bathroom sink... all those things came rushing through my mind. Looking back I really feel like it was a last ditch effort by the adversary to stop what was about to take place. Once we got to the temple I felt at peace but for about two minutes I was scared. I wish I could go back to that young 20 year old girl and give her five and tell her this is the best thing you have ever done and the best decision you have ever made. You have made so many stupid ones, but this one, this is a good one. Probably the best ever, so stop being scared and get your butt into that temple with this good, good man.

Sometime in July-Daycare revisited -started daycare in my home with
just a couple of babies. I did it a couple of years ago, but it was bad timing. The babies I have now both are very sweet, very happy little bundles of babyfat rolls. So far so good. Jonas, my big caveman of a two-almost-three-year-old is very sweet to them which is shocking to me and has even learned to tone down his hugs a notch or two so that the babies don't cry when he shows them just how much he loves them... : )


April-July-Brad's abyss Brad working like 90 hours a week on their latest work project. He customizes sleepers for diesel trucks. They make them, bigger with kitcens and showers and shiz. I'm so proud of what he can design and create but the hours required are craptastic. Kristin says we should name the truck "The Homewrecker". HA! Brad has taken my critical observation of this project and also my suggestions for the next project into serious consideration. : )


August 10th-Lucky number 7- Samantha is now seven and I am now crying. She is the coolest seven year old on the planet, to me atleast, definitely the coolest on the block for sure. She celebrated with a fifty-dollar shopping spree at toys-r-us in which she picked out a highschool musicl "i-pod"(it plays sevensongs) A High School Musical school supply set and a mini sewing maching that looks like the real thing and actually sews. She also got to go to girls camp with me which she has been begging for all summer and I surprised her at the last minute and let her go with me. She said it was the best present she has ever gotten which is why she is the coolest seven year old on the planet.

Well I'm going to end this because, really who the heck is reading by now anyways... Thanks to everyone for striving with our blog and I am going to spend the rest of today reading yours. I love Sundays. Peace!

10 comments:

tiff said...

1. Congrats on running the 5K! I'm envious and admiring all at once.

2. I've always wanted to go Lavender Days, but never knew if it was worth the drive and the cost. Glad to know. Was it the lavender fields that set off your allergies, though?

3. Congrats on 10 years! That was really sweet...I was crying. A little shocked, though. You wouldn't superglue toiletries to the sink, would you?!

4. Samantha sounds like one cool seven year old. Actually, she sounds like the coolest. (And I can say that, cuz none of mine are seven. :) )

Griffiths said...

Welcome back! So glad you decided to revisit the blog world. I have missed you (oh wait you live around the corner from me and you probablly see me more than you want to)...
I can't remember if I ever told you congrats on your 10th anniversary, Congrats if I didn't.

Peace out! & Smell ya later!

p.s. I have to agree~Brad is a good, good man, and Samantha is one cool 7 yr old!

jen&boys said...

A fabulous update! I had been missing you! Congrats on the 5K. They are harder than they look! 10 years... that is crazy! I have to say that I still miss the super gluing of toiletries...

mindy said...

I just love the stuff you write...I wish I could be like you when I grow up. Wait...I'm already old, there's no hope for me. lol It's good to see you catching up on the blog.

Kristin Sokol said...

I give this blog a 7. I wish I had time to explain why and make extranious comments, but bums need wiped and bottles to me made. More to come from me...don't worry.

Kristin Sokol said...

I give it a 10 for difficulty level, but where you really get dinged is on the execution.

It must have been very diffucult to remember all those things. As your blog coach I suggest you break it all up and write it in more real time.

Kristin Sokol said...

You and the rest of your running mammas are dead sexy. I wish I had a pack of moms to run with. There are a pack of moms that run in my neighborhood, but they run more like machines than moms. Make the most of that.

I can't believe it has been 10 years since your wedding. I remember it all like it was 7 years ago. A decade though...that is a real accomplishment. Lagoon worthy for sure.

I love the pic of the monster rig. I think you guys should shop around for a reality show. You could call it Pimp My Rig. It could be all about pimping rigs and the struggle it takes along with some real-life drauma trying to balance work and family. I see it appealing to all kinds of demographics...Men for the grease and welding and women for the tears, pain and joy of it all. I bet A&E would be interested or perhaps TLC? Check into it. I watched a show the other day about a bunch of alternative young adults who ran a bakery. I think Pimp My Rig has a much more interesting premise than that.

And yes. Samantha is cool. Especially for a seven year old, and I know seven year olds. We teach them at church. She's way cooler than them.

Kristin Sokol said...

SO I just looked at the pics at the bottom of the blog. Brad...does it make your chest swell with huge pride when you see a beautiful and enormous machine that you built basically all on your own? Because it should. You have a fantastic talent. I'm really not kidding about the reality show. It's at least worthy of a web cast.

Heather said...

i think you find it hard to blog BECAUSE you put it off so long... if you write once a week...its really not so daunting... just sayin'

you for sure have the cutest 7 yr old... i mean she's our idol. we hope all of our kids are as cool as she is. ( i realize we don't stand a chance since both mark and i are pretty lame-o but we can dream)


5k? what the....? you go girl...! i also ran a 5k... actually i ran a 500k... so there. ok. you got me. i didn't run at all.. i didn't even run after jaxon when he almost ran into the road... i suck.

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