Savanna's 2nd grade

Today was Savanna's class award/slide show. I was able to sneak away from work and go to it. Of course I cried again during the slide show. I can't believe that I will have a 3rd grader next school year. Savanna had a wonderful 2nd grade year. Mrs. O'Rullian was her teacher and she was so great! We love her and hope that next year Mitch gets her too. She is so kind, yet she pushes her kids to achieve their very best.

Today during the awards ceremony she gave each of her kids a binder that has some of their work from the year in it along with a few pictures. She also awarded each child a certificate with an award from her about something she loved about each child. Savanna was awarded the "Being an enthusiastic participant" award. She said that Savanna was always very willing to participate and was always ready with the answer to her questions.

Savanna did great during 2nd great, she is a wonderful reader and has been very motivated each day to come home and get her homework done without me having to nag her.

This is Savanna on the first day of school.
these are some of the pages from Savanna's book

Mrs. O'Rullian giving Savanna her award and book today.

Mitchel's 1st grade year

Today was Mitchel's 1st grade play, and slideshow, it was so fun to watch him perform and sing, he even knew all of his lines. He was one of the 3 little pigs. The play was called "Lemonade" and it was a musical for young singers and it had a whole bunch of characters in it from the Mother Goose nursery rhymes. The story was about how to turn lemons into lemonade and to try to look on the bright side of things. It was very cute. After the play his teacher had a slide show of pictures from the year, of course this mother couldn't help but shed a tear or two just to realize another year of my child's life has gone by.

This has been such a great school year for Mitchel, we have absolutely loved Mrs. McLaren. She is such a fantastic teacher, so kind and just perfect for our Mitch. He has learned so much this year, we couldn't have asked for a better 1st grade year. He has some nice friends and has done very well in his school work. We are very proud of Mitch for all he has accomplished!

This is Mitch on the first day of school!
This is Mitch with his teacher Mrs. McLaren today after his play
This is Mitch with his pig ears
It's hard to see him because he's in the back row, but you can see his suspenders.

There he is by the lemonade stand.

M.A.D. 1/2 Marathon

Today I ran the 1/2 marathon in Idaho Falls. It was called the M.A.D. marathon standing for Make a Difference, it benefits the Olive Osmond hearing fund. They get hearing aids for children that need them. I trained for several months for this run, but it was a very difficult run for me. On the advertisements for the run it said that it was meant for beginning runners, well it had lots of rolling hills- which I did not train for. And 2 miles of it was on a very rocky, gravel road that was hard on my feet. They also made a bit of an error and were routing the 1/2 marathon runners with the marathon runners which caused them to have to run an extra 2 miles. Luckily Reid found out about the error right before I got there and he told me to go straight instead of turning. So most of the runners ran 15 miles rather than 13.1. I luckily only did 13.2.

I feel happy that it is over and now I can move on to the next thing! Oh and my Dad brought his new recumbent bike and rode the whole time with me. It was nice to have someone with me the whole time.

Crossing the finish line!

My Mom and kids with me after the race.

Moses and Kalee fromt he biggest loser did the 5 k. I stopped and visited with Moses, he was super friendly and we had a nice chat just like we were old friends. I was very impressed with him.

Baby Olivia

I didn't get a very good close-up of Olivia- I will have to go back tomorrow and get some more pictures.

My sister Leah had her first baby yesterday. She actually had her on my brother Steve's birthday. She was due on the 20th. But her water broke yesterday morning. She was in labor all day and by evening they were worried because she wasn't progressing any more and they were worried because how high up the baby was and they were concerned about it being so long since her water had broken. Dr. Isbel decided it was best to do a c-section, it ended up being good that they took her c-section because she was 9 lbs 3 oz. So she was a big baby. She is such a cute little girl. She has big chubby cheeks. She was fun to hold today, I forget how fun it is so hold a brand new baby. I am glad that my sisters are still having babies so I can experience the new born stage without having to have any more of my own.

10 Year Anniversary

It was Reid and I's 10 year anniversary on May 5th. I can't believe it has been 10 years already the time has flown by. For our first official date over 10 years ago we went to Jackson Hole and went skiing at Snow King and then went out to dinner and then came home and went to a Movie in IF. We spent the entire day together and it felt so comfortable, I think that is why we didn't waste much time and we got engaged 2 months later and then married 2 months after that. So for our anniversary we decided that it would be fitting to go celebrate in Jackson. We stayed the night and went to dinner at the same restaurant that we went to over 10 years ago "The Teton Steakhouse", we walked around downtown Jackson, went to a movie and just relaxed in our hotel room. It was fun to get away without the children.

It is nice to know that after 10 years of marriage, knowing what I know now if I could go back 10 years I would still choose to marry Reid all over again.

Us in Jackson

On our way home from Jackson it was raining really hard, we could see water just rushing down the mountain sides. As we got closer to Swan Valley the creek's were over flowing- I think we could have a flooding problem this year with all the water as the snow melts. We took a few pictures. But it was much cooler in person.

This is a road that the water was rushing over