Madalyn Jane

Congrats to Kevin and Becky welcoming their new baby girl, Madalyn Jane. She is adorable and I can't wait to meet her.

Becky and the baby. Becky looking as good as ever shortly after having a baby!
Precious Madalyn Jane

Las Vegas

Last weekend I went down to Las Vegas for a quick trip. It too short of a trip and I will have to get back down there again this summer. I went down and stayed with my old roommate Samantha. We had lots of fun together!

Me and Sam
Sam and Nick
Nick made us lots of good food on the grill Sunday. It was quite a feast and a great way to end the fun filled weekend!

Lupe and me
I got to go to my old work at Kelly Hawkins and see some of the people I worked with. It was so much fun to see them and catch up. I went out to lunch with my old boss' and they offered me my job back! :) I also enjoyed being at the office and visiting with all my friends there. It definately made me miss Vegas.

Visitors

Last weekend we had visitors come into town. Aaron and Sarah came into town for her mission reunion and family reunion so Sam, Lisa, and their kids along with Staci and Kyle came down as well for a fun filled weekend. We missed Kevin and Becky and also the parents but we had a good time. We got to have them stay in our new house too so that was great. We enjoyed time together at the swimming pool, temple open house, Aunt Barbara's, temple square, and Aunt Deanne's. It was so much fun to see lots of family and all be together. We wish it could happen more often!

Me, Staci, and Laura

Simon, he's so cute!

Simon with Laura. He was so cute while he was here and he followed Laura around like a puppy dog, as well as Kimall. They sure miss their Aunt Laura living with them and you can tell they had so much fun being with her this weekend. They sure do love her.

Spiders

A while back (over Memorial Day weekend) we found a couple of interesting spiders in our house. We have had lots of them but don't worry we sprayed and what not for them and so hopefully that takes care of the problem.

I came home after church one Sunday and found this on the kitchen floor. But this was after I had already seen it outside (below) and done research on it because it freaked me out, needless to say. It looks poisonous and like it could do serious damage. But actually it is a jumping spider (it can only jump about length of body) and they are not aggressive with humans and actually eat other spiders. So I felt better after that but still I hope to not see anymore in the house!

This spider is also very freaky and looks poisonous and we found it on the wall downstairs in the office. I am not sure if it's dangerous or what kind it is but hopefully since we sprayed they are all long gone. I dislike spiders but not as much as I HATE bees.

We also killed a black widow outside the house on the front wall a couple of weeks ago (before spraying). So i really hope the spray we bought works well!! :)

Memorial Day Weekend

Over Memorial Day Weekend Laura and I went up to Idaho Falls and then stopped in Logan. We got to Kevin and Becky's Friday night and spent through Sunday with them and also Staci and Kyle. We had lots of fun up there. We spent lots of time jumping on the new trampoline with the boys and then Saturday we went for a hike. Sunday night we went and stayed with Sam and Lisa in their new home and then Monday we went to the park for a picnic and then looked at their little zoo they have by the park.

Tyler, Sam, me, and Laura

Brian giving Laura a big hug!

Laura and Brian in their cool sunglasses

Brian and Tyler playing the back yard.

Wesley and me before church.

Kevin and Owen

Laura and Wes
Laura riding
Me and Owen

Kyle and Owen giving the thumbs up. Kyle was nice enough to bring his 4 Wheeler over for us to ride on Saturday evening. We all had lots of fun taking it around Kevin's backyard. It was Laura and mine's first time riding one and I loved it! I can't wait to do it again! Thanks Kyle! You're the best brother-in-law ever!! :)

The boys love their new trampoline and wanted to jump forever! I sure got a good workout with them this weekend. It was lots of fun. The boys are so cute! Wes liked to sit in our lap while the other of us jumped because he was too scared to sit by himself and bounce that high.

Owen sure enjoyed bouncing around too.

Saturday morning I went on a hike with Becky, Owen, and Wes. We met up with some of Becky's family who went camping the night before. It's always fun to hang out with Becky's family. I enjoyed the hike and it had some very pretty views!

Owen and the other kids touching the water, it was warm spring water.Stopping for a drink of water.

Wes wanted to walk the dog but he had a hard time keeping up :)

Thanks everyone for a great weekend!

Ogden Half Marathon...13.1 Miles

Well back in December I was at a mission reunion and I was catching up with a girl from my mission. She told me she had run a half marathon in Ogden back in May and that she wanted to do it again the upcoming May but didn't have anybody to do it with. So I gladly volunteered. I have always wanted to run a marathon, I thought it would be a great accomplishment but thought it best to start with a half!! So we signed up and I started my training towards the end of January. Training was a good excuse to get back into jogging, which I hadn't been doing for a long time! I enjoyed getting back into it but I started to get burnt out the beginning of April. I started slacking a little because of being burnt out and I was in the process of moving. I managed to pull through and got back on track, but I wish I would have worked harder the last few weeks.

After completing the Half Marathon

My official time 2:33:30.64

Laura got me some nice flowers afterwards. I was pretty sore Saturday and Sunday. My knees and back are what hurt real bad and they didn't even bother me while I was training. I think because alot of the run was downhill through the canyon and I wasn't use to that. It was easier running on the flat ground. I missed my goal by a couple of minutes but I am not bothered by it because it was my first marathon, I finished, I ran the WHOLE time, and I was super close! We shall see about the future. I would like to do another half this fall and maybe the full marathon next May....

New House

Laura recently moved back and we moved into a cute little house. It's so fun and so wonderfully nice to have our own little place. I love not having roommates anymore. So far we have gotten along just great ! :) And I'm sure it will go well. It'll be fun to have this place in the summer and hopefully have some bbqs and parties.

Front view...the grass is dead and they are working on killing the weeds and getting new grass put down. Laura will have a little flower garden there to the left. She has already cleared it out and is getting ready to plant!
Two views of our living room...I want a nice big flatscreen TV!! If anyone wants to buy that for me that would be great! Hehe :)

Laura in the kitchen (pretending to cook). It's a little small and not a lot of space to put food but it works for us.

The dining area with my new table from Walmart. Laura and I put it all together, it wasn't that bad. Too bad I didn't wait until Mother's Day sale, they were way cheaper at K-Mart this last week. But now we are ready to invite some people over for dinners!

The family room downstairs. We divided the room because it was so big and it is a multipurpose room. This is Laura's little piano area.

A couple of views of the TV/couch area. The TV is a little small but once we get a nice big one upstairs we can bring that one up there downstairs...

The office downstairs. We have both our desks and computers down there and some bookshelves. It was very organized last week but I didn't get a picture of it then.

Laura's bedroom. She loves her room and is very happy that she has all her furniture from home (thanks mom and dad for bringing it all out!!).

Laura on her bed in her pretty pink room :)

Now if she could only have pink walls like at home...

My bedroom.

We (well I) LOVE our new place and am so excited to be in such a cute little house! So we would love to have visitors!! We even plan on getting a little bed for the guest room/music room (not pictured).