"Let's put this Bad Boy to BED!"

Or, in other words, Welcome to the St. George Marathon, 2009!

Before: Sparkly eyed and ready to go at 4:50 a.m. Kelsey wore a cute headband and pink shirt, I had on make up and Boyd was just trying to psych himself up to get through the race.

After: Victory! The goal has been achieved and all came through (fairly) unscathed. The only thing that really kept me going by mile 18 was the MEDAL (and the Blue Bunny treats at the end).
Kelsey ran SO STRONG! I was so proud of her. We kept together most of the way, but through out the race, and especially at the end she just pulled ahead, running her own pace, which made me so happy to see. Her time: 4:24. My time: 4:31. Boyd's time: 4:52.

AWESOME!

Unknown Brush with Future Fame

The other night Steve mentioned reading that Glenn Beck graduated from Sehome High School (Bellingham, WA). We speculated on how old we thought Mr. Beck was and if it was possible that I had gone to school with him, and I insisted that there was no way he went to my school because I would have remembered his name. The next morning I received an email from my mom that Glenn graduated in 1982 from Sehome. Okay, now I am bugged and have to get to the bottom of this--I trudged downstairs, pulled out the box that contained my yearbooks and pulled out my 1982 Windjammer (I was a Freshman that year), turned to the B's in the Senior Class section and lo and behold: Glenn Beck. Okay, I remember that face! He was in the Concert Choir and the Jazz Choir with Mr. Mattson (my most favorite class and my most favorite teacher at Sehome), and he worked with Dr. Beath in the theater department (another favorite teacher, plus I was good friend with his son, Joel). Who knew? (I actually thought the famous radio personality from our school would have been Allan "Al" Fee...)

FHE--We are on a "roll"

Family Home Eveing is something that Steve and I have tried to hold consistently, but it seems that more often than not, it ends up being me giving a last minute dissertation from something I read from the Book of Mormon earlier in the day. Over the years we have tried the "assigning" of the lesson to the kids and taken turns with who picks/makes the treat, who does the song, the prayer, the scripture, the lesson, etc. We've had times in our lives where the Family Night was going to soccer games (that was when the team was scheduled to play, can you believe it? And we live in Bountiful where "they"--the powers that be who schedule these games--should KNOW better!) If we are on a week long vacation and we get home late Sunday night or on a Monday, and I try to gather them for FHE, my kids tell me, "We just got done having a Family Home WEEK!" Although we do a lot as a family--vacations and just hanging out--I do feel that I need to make sure that we have a scheduled time to sit down together as a family and actually have a gospel discussion. Or at least an officially recognized "Family Home Evening." This month I have noticed that we have fallen into a pattern with our FHE's--the first week we helped Ashley with a Faith experience from her Young Women Personal Progress, the second week we took a pie to the Kelsch Family and thanked Deanna for all the wonderful things she has done for us over the years, and this week we played Yahtzee. So, we have had a Spiritual, Service and Fun FHE so far this month. Now for next week...

P.S. The update on Deanna is excellent. She has had surgery and the Dr.'s feel that they were able to get all the cancer, so they will not have to do radiation!