Confessional

I have two major confessions to make!!! I love free concerts and I hate being short!!! The Winter Dew Tour has been up at Snow Basin this week and on Friday night we went to the free concert of Dashboard Confessional. They had it on 25th street in Ogden and they had blocked off the entire street. It was so much fun! I thought we would be freezing but we kept following all the "pushy"people closer to the front of the stage. We got pretty close to the front. I had a hard time seeing since I'm so stinking short but it was worth all the "pushing". I've always wanted to see Dashboard Confessional in concert but seems I've never been able to go. They sounded great and with the atmosphere on 25th street, it was a night I will never forget! Some of my friends were able to come up from Herriman so it was fun to see them too. I hope the Winter Dew Tour comes back next year! I love outdoor concerts-even in the middle of the winter!

Side view of the concert where it was actually COLD!

SO many people showed up! O-town is crazy!!!

Best seat in the house was in the middle of all the warm people

My friend Angie, Sam and I enjoying all the awesome music

Hanging out at Roosers after the concert with Angie and all the other 20,000 people

Christmas Joy!

Here are a few pictures from Christmas time! Had a great December with all the fam!

Playing rock band at my family's adult Christmas party

Christmas day with Sam's family

Christmas day at my parents house

All the chaos at my parents house on Christmas day. 13 grandchilren, 12 adults, and 2 Grandmas It's a full house!

Sam's gifts from Santa

My beautiful gift from Santa. He thinks I'm a huge Twerd. Guess I better embrace it now!

Opening presents at home

Sienna got more toys than I know what to do with! By the end of Christmas day she was not wanting to open any more presents. It had worn her out to pull at that paper off!

This is as close as Sienna would come to Santa this year.

My silly girl

Christmas lights in Ogden

My grandma Bea is such a good sport! I love her so much!

Trying to smile with her new hat on!

Winter pics finally!!!

SO our computer crashed right after Halloween. We tried and tried a million times to get it to work but the poor thing was 7 years old and died!!! Finally we got a new computer (after christmas) and I am finally able to blog a little bit. Thank goodness my IPOD has the internet on it so I could at nleast check my email. I'm still a little computer illiterate so it's taken me a while to figure how to change things on my blog. I am able to at least show you all our new professional pictures we got taken a few days before Christmas. We tried to take them 3 times this month as Sienna was sick the first time, the second try she cried the ENTIRE time, and the third time was finally it! We ended up taking them inside our house and outside with my parents pony. We thought for sure she would cheese it up next to Trixie, her favorite pony, but Sienna did not want pictures taken. I think we got one smile out of her! I will hopefully be able do show you our Christmas pictures by February at the rate I'm going! Hope everyone had some great holidays!

Not sure if she will ever let go of THAT thumb!

My favorite picture-the only one she smiled in

We have known each other for 7 years and glad we can still smile and look at each other!

Festive fall cousins

Sienna has many many cousins in our family. She is starting to say each of their names and it so fun to see her remember who they are. She is starting to talk so well now. She is even starting to sing her ABC's and count up to 10. It's so crazy how fast kids learn things!

So this past month we wanted to do some fun fall activities and get out of the house! There is only so much Sesame street and Wiggles I can take! I'm glad it stayed warm so we could enjoy the outdoors just a little longer. We went to the Scarecrow festival at Thanksgiving point and my parents had their annual Halloween party. Fall is a great time of year for festive fun!

Scarecrow festival at the petting zoo part

I think this goat and Sienna stared each other down for 5 minutes straight!

Cousin Griffin, Sam, and Sienna loving the fresh kettle corn

Counting the pumpkins..1..2..3..

Pre- Halloween party with cousins-

Devon-cowboy, Julianna-Jasmine, Madison-hippie chick, Jackson-spiderman, Emma-supergirl, Sydnee-witch, Austin-monster, Stockton-Wolverine, Breanna-pink lady, Morgan-Southern Bell

The cutest Snow White ever!!!

Doc, Snow White, and the Wicked Queen

Just keep running...

Last week I did the Las Vegas Ragnar race. In case you don't know about the Ragnar races, it is a relay race you do with 11 other teammates. There are 2 vans of 6 people and we ran a total of 180 miles. It started in the Valley of Fire through Lake Mead and then ends in Las Vegas. I had one of the easier legs, but it was not easy! I ran 3 miles (mostly uphill), 2.9 miles, and then 5 miles. I thought I wouldn't make that last 5 miles on 2 hours of sleep, but somehow my legs pulled through! It was so much fun to run with a group of girls from work. You really learn a lot of things about people when you are in a car with them for over 24 hours! We came in 1st place for the corporate division and received batons that said "numero uno"! If any of you out there are runners or are looking for a challenge, the ragnar race is it! I'm so glad I did it and got a little emotional at the end when I could see the finish line! I'm hooked on running and hopefully will do the Wasatch Back relay next June!


Decorating the car before the race



My team was mostly nurses from my work- notice the Becky + baby. Our little pregnant Becky did such an amazing job!

Our team name-Dub nutrition sponsored us

My van at the starting line- Laura, Nicole, Katie, Bobbi, Becky, me

At the starting line with preggo Becky! We had no idea what we were in for at that point!

Another team called "the running impaired" There are some crazy runners out there. They were so creative with the team names!

Laura helping out Nicole on her 1st leg. Water please!

My happily handing Becky our slap bracelet after my 1st leg! It was so dang hot, and I was not excited to see a huge hill on my last mile!

After our 1st leg was over, we were able to rest at the Lake Mead marina area while our van #2 was running. Here we are being gangsta's and showing what number leg we ran. I was #4!

Nicole and Katie-gearing up for our night run. I ran at 11pm and thought a coyote was chasing me for a few seconds! It was a little scary to run in the dark, in the desert, and have no idea where you are going! But I had an awesome view of the moon!

After my 3rd leg- happy as a clam that I did it! I felt like wonder woman!

At the finish line with the entire team! We were able to use the spa at our hotel before the 2nd van came in. The shower was to die for! But as we were walking out to meet our team at the finish line, some lady said to us, "Oh you will feel sooo much better after you shower!" We were like do we look that bad after our showers? Thanks a lot lady!

At the finish line with our medals of honor

Receiving our 1st place batons at the pool in our swimming suits! It was an awesome experience and am so glad I got to do it with 11 other awesome women! Can't wait for next year!

Outside please!

Sienna is such an outdoors kind of girl! She loves to play outside on her slides, pushing her car, or feeding the horses. Now that the weather is a little more chilly, we are having a hard time keeping her cooped up in the house. We did catch a few days that were still warm and took advantage of it.

There is a river walkway in Riverdale. In the 31 years I have lived in South Weber, I have never even been there or even heard much of it. Sad because it is only 10 minutes from our house. It was pretty nice. It's paved and they even have a Ultimate Frisbee course through out it. I was surprised that people were playing Frisbee. Kindove funny to watch. There were a lot of bikers and runners on the course also. Sienna had a great time with all the bugs and flowers.

We also went to Beus' pond in Ogden and fed the crazy ducks. They must have been starving because I have never been so close to a duck or swan before. It made me a little nervous of how close they would come up to you. Sienna also loved the little park next to the pond. She thinks she is just as big as the 5 year olds and is now daring to go down the big slides all by herself. Hope there are a few more warm fall days ahead of us before the snow hits!!!

Hanging out on daddy's shoulders

Look at my photography skills-so professional I know!


Smelling the sunflowers


She will literally inhale the entire flower

Beus pond with friends Michelle and Kynli

Massive swan ready to eat your fingers off!

New friends-Sienna and Kynli