Tis the season....

......for school dances that is. School hadn't even started and Finn had asked a girl to Homecoming. And she even answered him last night---before school started.

I'm so glad that his room was straight....(how embarrassing).

He asked Ari Brockbank and her response was "I'd be ticked pink to go to Homecoming with you". His closet was filled with pink balloons and a few pink girly items like purses and dresses. Nothing like jumping right back in to school activities!

Back to School

You can tell these kids are not used to getting up early quite yet...especially Indy. But I think they were excited to head back to school.

Looking forward to a great year! Finn-junior, Indy-freshman, Emerson- seventh grade

First Day

Madeline, Devri, Makayla, Reagan, Emerson, Paige

Today is the first day of school for the 7th graders. These girls were pretty dang excited! Hope the day goes well......

PR-Updated!!

**So my official time was 1:52:34!**

I forgot that the big clock at the finish was gun time and I did not cross the starting line at the gun.

Not exactly sure of my official time yet..... but somewhere pretty dang close to above.

I was a little nervous for the Hobble Creek Half this morning. My stomach hadn't been right all week and I certainly had not trained enough this summer. I was just hoping to finish. But I surprised myself!! I was feeling pretty good the first half so I kept a good pace and didn't stop. About 10 my IT band started bugging me but not enough to hinder my pace. I walked off and on until the finish because I was winded. But I was able to shave about 9 minutes off my fastest time! It's not that fast for all you super-fast runners but it was quite an accomplishment for me. Now I can finally say I have finished 13 in under 2 hours.

Yay for me!

AT LAST...

We have hardly seen the Youngs all summer. We even had two different family vacations overlapping in the same place and were not able to connect. Finally, last night, we made time for a trip to Yogurtland! They were still missing 4 kids and we were missing 2 but we did it! Love them!

Reality Check

I just dropped Montana off at UVU so she could catch a bus for Cross Country camp. I had a teary moment as I drove away. She is officially a freshman in college. She moves in to her apartment next week. I'm so excited for her and a little hesitant to let her go all at the same time.

Why I got sick on the way to Hawaii

So I posted about how I was so sick on the plane ride to Hawaii a few weeks ago. I thought maybe it was food poisoning but wasn't sure. Well, unfortunately for me, I found out what made me sick when we were in Laguna Beach last week.

I went to Costco and noticed they had the 64 oz. bottles of Naked Juice which are so good. I had had a bottle of Green Machine with my lunch the morning we got on the plane. So I was so excited to have some after my morning run. Well I did and it tasted just as good as I remembered. But about an hour later my stomach started to hurt and I was feeling so nauseous (sounds familiar...). Sure enough I started throwing up again and continued throwing up for about 3 hours or so. It was a good thing the sun didn't really come out at the beach that day because I was stuck in bed sick as a dog.

Apparently something in the Naked Green Machine Juice does not agree well with my stomach. So here are the ingredients:

2 3/4 apples

1/2 banana

1/3 kiwi

1/3 mango

a hint of pineapple

spirulina

chlorella

broccoli

spinach

blue green algae

garlic

barley grass

wheat grass

ginger

parsley

I'm doubtful that it's any of the fruits or vegetables that would cause a problem. And I'm not sure what spirulina or chlorella even are??

Needless to say, I will not be drinking any more Naked Juice anytime soon.