Turned 30 and ran a half marathon.

On august 17th Jason turned 30!! In May he realized he was going to be 30 and started to freak out. He decided that running a half marathon would be a good way to celebrate. You would think that would mean he started to train everyday right. Nope, he ran a few times a week about 4 miles each time. I think his longest training run was 7ish miles. So the day of the big run I was secretly a bit scared for him. He went super early with his brother Shane and sister in-law Brenda. I packed the girls up a few hours later to wait by the finish line. Here they are patiently waiting for daddy to run by.


Olivia kept asking,"when is daddy coming?". I kept saying,"well it might be awhile.". Brenda had run a half a few months before and finished in just over 2 hours, so I figured with little training Jason would come in after that. To my surprise I looked up just in time to see him round the corner towards the finish line. He finished in 1 hour and 48 minutes!!!! Not only had he finished, but he did amazing! He came in before Shane and Brenda which I know he loved. I am so proud of him and still a little annoyed that he did so awesome with hardly training.

Busy summer

Like everyone we have been enjoying our very busy very fun summer. Here are a few updated pictures of the girls. Mostly of Mya, but heres cute olivia hanging out with her baby Tina.

Check out those baby blues.

Our little Mya is growing up way too fast. She will be 7 months old tomorrow. She is so sweet and we love her so much. Her and Olivia have so much fun together and she thinks Olivia can do no wrong. She has figured out that food is yummy and loves to eat. She can't crawl yet but its coming soon. She has figured out how to scoot backwards.




Olivia got her face and fingernails painted by some cheerleaders at Cedar Hills days. Notice the cute hair clip we got from Rachel Gunnell who just happened to have her booth there too.

We love to get the kiddie pools out. Olivia has a bigger one, but this one is perfect Mya size. The water must have been cold cause she wouldn't put her legs down.

playing catch up as usual

Mya is 5 1/2 months and growing up way too fast!! Olivia loves to hold her. She is rolling over and sitting up. Like her big sister who started crawling at 6 months she is already trying. This does not make me happy. I am not ready for that yet.


After 2 days of Olivia picking her own clothes and looking like this we now have a rule that she gets to choose either the top or the bottom first then i get to choose the other. Now if we could just get rid of the head band!

We went to the zoo with Anna, Addie, and Izzie. We didn't see too many animals but we had a great time any way. Izzie dropped her binkie in the giraffe cage and Olivia is still talking about a month later.




We have a ton of pix from disneyland but here are my faves. This will be an annual trip.




The humming bird that joined us for lunch.

Olivia met her favorite fairies, Tinkerbell and Fawn. This one moment was by far my favorite part of the trip. I have never seen her light up like she did when she saw them. It was the cutest thing I have ever seen.


Could she be any cuter!

Mya hanging out with Eli and Mason.

Visiting our sweet little Deven. I tried to get Carol to give him to us so she could try for a girl but she was mean and said no.

Mya's first taste of rice cereal. She has since decided she really does like it.

Maiden voyage

Jason's parents bought a chunk of land this past fall in Spanish Fork canyon. They also bought a trailer so we have somewhere to stay when got up there. We took it to Moab for its maiden voyage so Shane and Brenda could run a 5 mile race. Even though it was freezing and someone (you know who you are) kept turning the heat down and having 12 people in one trailer it was a blast. All 3 babies did great and I'm pretty sure Olivia wants to live in the trailer now. Here are a few highlights.

Snuggle time before bed

Nana and Brody.... I think

3 little monkeys jumping on the bed

Papa really is having fun you just can't tell from this picture!

Olivia with the twins.

Olivia on our one and only hike

Little Mya sleeping through all the fun


Shane, Brenda, Donovan, Chase, Bryce, and Brody

Dave and Nancy


Top model pose for Rosie



Jason running in slow motion

Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time, Olivia got her first black eye when she got hit with Chase's golf club. He felt so bad he cried more than she did.

Black eye the second day