This year my parents turned 60. And so, for my mom’s birthday and then on Father’s Day for my dad, we all wrote down what we love about these two incredible people. It was such fun! We are so blessed to have them. 
Our kids are the perfect age for this race. It’s basically like a 5k bubble bath. We got up early and made our way over to the Portland International Raceway. The start was seamless which was really impressive because there were about 6,000 runners. Here we are all nice and clean before we started. We…
Thanks to my wonderful parents, Rusty and I had a few days to ourselves before I had to head out to girls camp. With the kids shipped safely away to Utah, we packed our bags and headed for the hills. Or mountains, to be exact. We had a quadrathlon of events in Breckenridge—running, mountain biking,…
Every summer we make a list of all the fun things we want to do. Then we get busy! Here are some highlights”: Building little lawnmower pencil holders at Home Depot.Having a birthday party for Peanut. With Peanut Butter brownies, naturally. Touching sheep lungs, rocketing to the moon, and growing old at the Denver…
Per usual, we celebrated the 4th of July a little early. For some reason our neighborhood always does it’s big celebration a day early. The festivities started with a Firecracker 5K run. Kami always inspires me with the stories of her races, so I had to try it out. I was lucky enough to take…
The kids went easy on me this year. Halle was a baby, Blake was a Ninja Turtle (costume from the bin downstairs) and Josh was a tree. (where did he come up with that?) Josh’s costume required a little bit of creativity, but we had fun with it! We were at the mall and Blake…
Even Josh! It has finally happened. Josh is potty trained. After a failed attempt, and months and months of talking and motivating, he was finally ready. We told him when we got home from Utah after Christmas it was no more diapers for him. We got the cool undies, and just went for it. For…
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