Bryce Half Marathon

Well, we made it. It was super hard and I am definitely paying for it today (I can barely walk ) but we finished our 1/2 marathon that we've been obsessing about since January. It was "fun" if thats what you'd call it. The first 8-9 miles I felt great, I thought it would be a breeze, but about the last 3 miles I thought I might die. It was a lot of downhill and I liked the downhill - it makes you run faster :) But then there were the uphill times where I thought I would die (again) Anyway, I am very proud of Cory and I for finishing and actually DOING it. Cory beat me by 1 1/2 minutes because I had to stop at the port-a-potty at the 11 mile mark! Or man I would have smoked him..haha, no he did great I was dying way before he even felt anything. When I crossed the finish line I was mean and the first thing I said to Cory was, "I hate you, I'm never doing this again!" How rude am I??

Thanks mom and dad for going down with us. It was great to have you there rooting for us and playing with the kids. You're the best! Thanks for always supporting us in everything we do. (no matter how crazy)

We stayed at Ruby's Inn, ate good food, swam, walked around the rock shop (Walker's fave), shopped in the little country store, and had a killer game of dominos with Walker and mom. Anyway, I thought I should let everyone know that I am still alive and I think I may come around to doing it again next year. I need a month or two to forget. Oh, and thanks to everyone who wished us luck. We definitely needed it and it was great to have people thinking of us, you're all the best. :)

I didn't get enough pictures of this trip. It's too hard to lug the camera around with us everywhere. I didn't get any pics of my mom-don't worry, I'll get you on here one of these days.

Back at the hotel after our run - who loves my shorts? So dorky.

Grampa and Meggie

When we got home, Cory set the tent up in the backyard for Walker and I had to get a picture of the kiddos being dorks

Oink, Oink!

Cory's new love

So, Cory finally won and we bought a boat. I do have to say that it has been so much fun! It's a good toy to have for family time. It seems like we're out on it every spare second we have. It's not so easy when you have an 18 month old though. Anyway, I don't think I've ever seen Cory "GLOW" like he did the first time he took the boat out. He was definitely one happy guy. So, I've had to learn how to drive a boat, back up a trailer, hook the boat to a trailer, and I haven't yet to learn to drive the boat onto the trailer-I'm not ready for that one. Driving the boat freaks me out! I don't want to kill us all.

We went out on Saturday with Cory's little bro Brett and his girlfriend Stephanie. I took lots of pictures so sorry if you get sick of them.

Here is Cory happy as could be driving his boat

Had to share this cute one of Walker and dad.

Meg loves riding the tube!

This picture is hilarious! Look at our faces, I think we might have been a little scared.
(you can make the pictures bigger by clicking on them)

Brett and Steph

Brett

Cory

Me- I didn't want to put a picture of my jump. It would be a little embarrassing compared to Brett and Cory's.

This is one of the first times Stephanie got up and actually rode for a while. Look at her face...so funny.

Walker has gotten brave enough to do flips! I love this picture. Could it have been taken at a better moment?

Happy 4th

I can't get the pictures to do what I want, so you have to look at them while they're in some weird layout. Sorry :)

The things we do to entertain ourselves on a hot day is hilarious! Cory's mom set up a water party in the backyard on the 4th. Anyway, we decided to do an obstacle course and time everyone to see who was the fastest. I lost big time because I couldn't blow the balloon up with the compressor fast enough, and I didn't sit my butt down all the way in the pool fast enough. So, what we had to do was sit in the pool and dump a cup of water on our head, hit one out of three badmitton birdies into the pool, stand in the shark pool and let the water spray us for five seconds, run around the pole three times, run through the garden on the steps, sit on the chair, swing into the pool from the rope swing, jump on the doghouse, jump through the tree, dive under the pole above the pool and pop a balloon w/ the compressor. I took tons of pictures and I posted the funniest one of everyone on here.

Needless to say we had lots of fun. Our weekend was crazy, Justin, Mary, and the boys, and Kurt and Shay came down. They played in a soccer tournament, in a tennis tournament, took the boat out to the "rez", went to the parade, the park, and watched and lit lots of fireworks. I was a fun and very tiring weekend. Oh, Cory had to speak at a baptism during all of that too. Oh, and don't forget fight night either!