Fame & Fortune

So- we're pretty much famous now. Rod's hospital pic got published in Mountain Bike Action! And my little blurb I wrote with it, too. So Rod can say his picture's been in MBA and I'm a published writer!!!

Rod hasn't even gotten his copy in the mail yet; his brother-in-law in Virginia just happened to buy this issue and see Rod in it! So of course, we just had to go buy it....

If you blink, you'll miss it.....

Every time I drive by this sign, I think to myself, "You've got to be kidding me." So this is where we live. Bieber is 2 miles up the road and that's TWICE the size, at a population of 500. The high school and middle schools are in Bieber, and the elemantary is about 10 miles away. There's a family in our ward about Troy and I's age with their fourth on the way. They have a boy Cameron's age and a girl Audrey's age and a 2yr old boy. We were so excited to meet them, they are very nice and we all get along great. So we all have one friend! That's what I figured I'd need to survive here. It has been an adjustment, especially shopping. I actually miss Walmart. There are nights I'd give away a child (or 4) for a Papa Murphy's pizza place. There is McDonalds 40 minutes away....
One of the cats had this special treat for us on our doorstep. Troy hates bats. Screams like a little girl. Seriously. :)

Our latest loyal steed, Neb. Thanks grandpa! He loves the kids and has been great with our other furry beast, Sasquach.

And Cameron is still in love with mud. He asked if Ethan could come over and play with him. He was really upset with me when I told him probably not. He wanted me to call Natalie and give her directions so she could just 'drop him off'. We'll have to work out a visit soon!

This is at Burney Falls, a beautiful camping area with some really neat waterfalls and trails. We've had fun exploring our new area and seeing so many beautiful sights! I think we'll survive here, once school starts I might be a little more sure. It's hard having them all home with NOWHERE to go!!! I thought I'd do a little experiment today, I wanted to see how many times my kids said "mom" throughout the day. It's been driving me crazy. Why does it take 10 'moms' for each child to say one thing? Anyway, by lunchtime I was at 87, give or take a few, and it took too much brainpower to keep counting. I think my brain is running on fumes anyways. So that's how far I got, and then I realized that Alex isn't even saying 'Mom' yet! What's one more...

Beiber Fun!!..and other fun pics! And Happy Anniversary Brooke and Troy!

Sasquatch-The new pup to be Neb's buddy!
Dev shootin' the BB gun

Brett and Trav at the city pool; Trav's favorite thing-other than tahoe and me
Breakfast in Beiber, keep in mind the wisdom teeth were still fresh out. I don't think cam is in pain either....
Cutest Boy!!

Sorry these are out of order. Mom and i had a fun time in Beiber. Brooke and Troy's house is very cute and perfect for a family of boys; mud, dirt, bugs-cam's in heaven. But we enjoyed helping brooke decorate the house, exploring Beiber(it took about 5 min-teasin!). And we even went to the Beiber city pool! (Consists of One pool, and one diving board) The only down side to the trip were the mosquitos, they're pretty bad up there. But it was a fun trip! Thanks Brooke!

AND.....HAPPY TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY BROOKE AND TROY!!!!!

my half marathon

so, i ran a half marathon on saturday. lest you
think i'm some freak runner- i'm not, but i just
wanted to give it a try. so we got up at 4:30am to get
bussed up provo canyon- the picture is me and ash
getting ready for our big day. we started the race at 6:45am.

everything was fine until mile 8, when my legs started
feeling the burn, and i thought, 'what the h am i doing?'
don't fret though, i pressed on thanks mostly to a little
whitney houston (i wanna dance with somebody),
pirates, and viva la vida on the old ipod.

it's interesting what you think about when you have nothing
else to do but run. mostly i found myself thinking things like
"if that 70 year old man can do it, so can i" or "i can't let this 10
year old overweight boy with glasses and a cast on his arm finish
before me." it was a beautiful run down the canyon though and
the weather was perfect...i also couldn't help but think of the Lord's
admonition to "endure to the end," this was a good object lesson
for me.

then about mile 10 or 11 i thought i might die. but i had
to finish, cause i was so close, so i quickly found viva la
vida again and FINALLY made it to the 13 mile finish line
after 2 hours 16 minutes.

what's the aftermath of an event like this you ask? well i'm
very sore and i look stupid when i walk, but i'm glad i did it
and kinda proud of myself for running the whole thing.

baby bump

I wanted to show everyone my little baby bump!!

my house and pookie

brooke, here's a few more pictures of my house...
notice the red door. :)




and another pic of em and me...cause, well, i have
no kids to post pictures of.

The Salsa Pregnancy

Hey! We went camping last weekend and I posted some pictures on the Lambourne blog, in case you're interested: http://lambourneupdate.blogspot.com/

Also, I ate an entire thing of salsa all by myself today. I've never had a problem bingeing on salsa before....There's this locally made salsa I had once at a farmer's market here, and now I can buy it at the grocery store! So I did...and I ate it all! It's GOOD salsa!! (by the way...this isn't the first time in the past few weeks, I think I'm having a very Vegas baby to be loving salsa this much!)