Pocatello Marthon.

Did you notice that I have on the same outfit that I wore in the Deseret News marathon? That is because I only have 1 official running outfit. Most of the time I run in my sweats, but this makes me look like a "REAL" runner. This is my good friend Holly, she ran the race with me. Or rather she started the race with me. She got to the finish line about 5 minutes before me. But it was still great knowing that I wasn't doing this alone.

Shawn, my sister, my brother, my mother and her husband, and all of our children were the greatest cheering squad. They made posters and signs and cheered for me all along the race route. After I passed them they would get back in the van and go another 1 mile down the road and cheer again, then went another mile and cheered again. It was wonderful! It just shows that if you have a good support system you can accomplish anything.

Don't those look like Gold medals? My kids are convinced that I won the race. I did get 6th out of 20 in my age group. Actually those are participation medals, but who cares, they still look cool. My 2 goals this race were to be under 1 hour for the 10K and to not walk, to run the entire time. Well I missed my first goal by 1 minute and 51 seconds, so sad. But I didn't walk at all. The real reason I didn't walk was because I didn't want to disappoint my family. They knew what my goals were and every time I saw them cheering for me I knew I didn't want to let them down by seeing me walk.

So if anyone wants to run next year let me know and maybe we can start the race together:) They did give away some fun stuff, better then the Salt Lake race. You got a duffel bag, a microfiber t-shirt, a bag of potatoes, and bunch of coupons for stuff around Pocatello.

I did it!

Look at that home grown goodness! Yes I actually got out the pressure cooker. My mother-in-law gave it to me when they moved 9 years ago, this is the first time I have used it. I must admit it was a little scary to use. And then we couldn't get the lid off when they were done cooking. I truly thought I was going to have to throw the whole thing away with the green beans still inside. And in 30 years when the pressure finally released someone would find this treasure of canned green beans. They took a lot of effort to make so you will have to be pretty special to be allowed to eat them, seeings how it took 2 hours to make 4 pints.

Golf

This morning as we're getting ready for church I kept hearing this "knocking" sound. So I went into Austin's bedroom and this is what I found. He had shoved a golf tee into the carpet and was hitting it against the closed door.
He is such a boy. Look at that cute face, he makes it hard to be mad at him for making dents in the door.

School has started.

The first week of school will have come and gone today. It made me a little sad but a little happy at the same time. I miss my girls when they are gone all day. I miss talking to them and I miss how well they play with the younger 2. But I do not miss the fighting that seems to happen every day. They are girls, 2 years a part, and they can fight with each other pretty bad. They both love their new teachers and enjoy school altogether. I just miss them!