Flaming Gorge 2011

Our annual Flaming Gorge trip was a great success! We had tons of fun.  We are getting older though, I don't think we stayed up past 11 at all!!

 Daniel giving us some tunes the first night.  It was a little chilly!

Sad Guitarist 

 Daniel is getting really good at wake boarding

 Sami....HIT IT!

 She is so pretty!

 Book and a V8.  It's a hard knock life!

 More tunes.....

 Taking the Chloe dog purse for a swim.

 She made it!

 Blowing up the floating island

Sami holding all drinks and snacks for the day.  Hostess with the mostest!! 

Kids are awesome! 

My mouth still kills me.  Every smile looks more like a constipated look.  Sad. 

 Daisy

Some boat antics!  Sassy Girls 

 The floating island.  Wicked cool!

 AWESOME

 Some wicked air

More air 

 ALMOST jumped the wake

Jonathon.  He didn't want his pic taken but I snuck it in anyway! 

Matt. He's doing great! 

 Spending a few hours a day on the floating docks.  It's a blast.

 Jo and Somchai's girls.  Little Chloe sitting with them.

Kelly, checkin the prop. 

 My social animal.........not!

Chloe tried to bark all up in a big dogs face.  Not a good idea, Chloe.  Good thing for my awesome first aid skills. 

Preparing the track for the Crawdad races. 

 First race

 Big crowd!

 Go go!

We let the winner go back to the lake.

Kelly and her cheater stick! 

 Gary's dutch over delight!

Jo and Somchai and their brood. 

 Gary, Loreen and Sera along with Brandy and PJ

 Our camp

 Sami loving on PJ.

Brandy 

PJ 

 Crawdad losers.  Delish!

 Brimley-Rydmans

 Cook for us Gary...COOK!

 The crowd

 Kelsey

Sunset 

 The Bathroom Bus

 Evening fishing

Jo and Loreen laughing around the fire. 

Burning the evidence. 

Love camping and fires! 

Real men and their poodles! 

We had such a great time.  The nights were cool and the days were hot.  The water was even just cool instead of bone chillin cold!

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Lake Powell 2011

What a great year for the family at Lake Powell!!  I worked the night before so Sami and Daniel took turns driving my new car so that we could get there safely.  Cody, Dad and Marie picked us up and we were off to the house boat for some great fun!

My dad gettin the jump seat

Me and the kids on our way 

Daniel taking Charlie out for a ride

Joe and Dad..I have no idea what they were looking at.....a bird? a plane?

Back of the houseboat chaos

Sweet Xadi waiting in the Jackson's boat

Dave keeping Charlie in one spot and safe.  He loved the boats.

Boat coming in with a couple of tubes.  Look at that view from the back of the houseboat!

Cool huh?

The paddle board.  I loved it!!!  This one was Melissa's and I ordered one.  Mine didn't come home until I was back from Flaming Gorge so I returned it.  I will look for one next spring!  Keeping my fingers crossed.

Watching the kids on the tube.

Alec, Sami and Daniel

Dashing brother Dave driving.  (teehee)

Lake Powell is awesome and beautiful!

Tubing PICS!!

Sami waiting for her turn.

Emily and Sami

Our camp site

Cliff Jumping

Daniel jumping just like me....hahaha

Freelance???  what is that?

WAKE BOARDING!!

RUNNING THE SAND HILL

Melissa showing her sand tan!

What a great trip!!  Big thanks to Cari and Cody for providing  the house boat and Mom and Dad financing the shin dig.  

SEE YA NEXT YEAR.

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The Cookie Chaser and an April Snow day.

When I signed up for the Cookie Chaser 5K, I was pretty sure that it wouldn't be a snow run on April 30th.  I was wrong.  The snow storms keep rolling in about every 3 to 4 days here in Utah and I think it's really starting to irritate people.  On the way to the race today, we saw at least 4 accidents on the freeway.  I'm hoping that we will at least have a nice mild May and the weather won't go straight to blistering heat!

Be strong little tulips!!

By 2 in the afternoon the sun was shining and there was no sign of snow.  These are hearty little flowers, that is for sure!

The Cookie Chaser 5k turned out to be a blast.  My friends Paul and Susan Spiers were there and I ran into some people from work.  I packed jackets, coats, rain gear, gloves and hats for any last minute adjustments.  The cool news is that I wasn't nervous at all.  I didn't really have any big expectations for the race, I just wanted to get more race experience.  I love the idea of having friends there, even though we all run at different paces.  Before the race I stayed bundled up!  I was talking to my friends from work, the Delpino's and I met their kids.  They had two kids running it and they were so adorable!  They kicked my butt too!  Someday I will be faster then a 10 year old......some day!

 Brrrrrrr.  At least the sun was shining!

 The finish line.  A little run through the snow and grass......

Before the race and ready to roll!

The race was great.  I felt awesome!  Did a little walking, but wasn't too strict to stay on the plan. Watched my pace and started out at 10 min/mi and after about a mile and one walk break I was running under 9 min/mi for most of the time.  I didn't even feel like I was going to die!  Maybe all this training is helping me out!

Good times!  Thanks Susan for running with me for a little bit and telling me about the race.  It was great!  A special thanks to Matt who drove me there, took pictures, held all my crap while I ran and took trips back and forth to the truck to get me coats and blankets afterwards.  I have the best husband!!  

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Easter

Easter was pretty relaxing this year.  The kids are older and so there is no Easter eggs to hide.  HALLELUJAH!!!  We put together a basket for each kid and then cooked a brunch Sunday morning.  Unfortunately Matt and I didn't really think about it until the night before, so most of our kids had other plans.  Luckily Sami and Daniel were here and Logan and Corinne came over also.  I didn't get any pictures but it was really nice.  

Later that night I had to go to work, but after I left Chris and Rachelle stopped by with Ryder and Ryder was able to get his Easter basket from Mima and Pipa.  I'm sorry I missed it but I heard that he had a great time!  Judging from the pictures he was having a blast.  So much so that in most of them he is just a blur!  Such a cutie!

 

Happy Merry Easter!  

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