track meet

well today was the redo track meet for kay and jeh they both did pretty good in all of their events. they both got into the finals for the 400m and kay is running the 800m tomorrow. jeh's relay team came in first. the funniest event for me with jeh was the discus. he just couldn't figure it out.






this was the funniest face that he made today. and where the discus is in this picture is probably his furthest throw. he just couldn't get, but he really didn't care so it was all good.


here is the only picture of kay that i got today. she didn't make the jump but she had a good time today anyway. she is really more into the running and not the other events. the camera kept messing up so that is why i didn't get many shots. we were lucky to have a nice day the wind was blowing so that is why they are both wearing their hoodies. they will be running the 400m finals tomorrow they ran out of time today.

new look

trying to figure out how to make my blog look different more like me. so it may change from time to time as i try to perfect all of this. it is kind of confusing, but i think that i am slowly getting the hang of it we shall see only time will tell.

early morning runs

for the last month i have been doing early morning runs with kay and jeh. they are training for a mini marathon at school and it will be happening this week. friday actually it has been really fun to do this with the kids. this morning we ran for 1.6 km which is a mile. i started with kay but she was running to slow so i went ahead of her and caught up to jeh. this is the first day that i have caught up to him he is usually way at the front of the line and i guess that he was today too i just happened to make it up that far too. i had to actually encourage him to keep running near the end but we both made it and it is amazing to me at how much easier it is getting i have actually started to enjoy running. i didn't think that the day would ever come when i enjoyed doing anything like that, but here it is. i have this crazy desire to exercise like all of the time. it lets me leave everything behind because i am way too tired to think of anything while i am running. i think that i would like to do a real marathon by the time i am 40 so that gives me five years to prepare for one now i just need to find one to do. i think that the boston marathon is a little to far away maybe one that is closer but who knows it might be fun to say that i ran in the boston marathon. how long is that one anyway? i don't remember. now i challenge all of you to go out and start running too. okay maybe don't start just running but start walking at least and make sure that it is a fast walk. it will make you feel so much better. happy running!!!

boat races

here is what our family decided to do today. it was actually a dry day and we ventured out into our yard and the kids discovered that the ditch beside our yard was full of water and that gave them the idea to make some boats and float them down the ditch. it was kind of fun to see how we each made something different and how they each floated. in this first picture the boats are kayla's, phill's, mine, joe's, and hyrum's. if you notice on joe's his boat is equipped with cannons.


my sail wouldn't stay put so kay held it in place and this is what it looked like.


placing the boats in the water.

traveling down the water. there were many obstacles in the way and we needed to help them get unstuck a lot.
notice the hockey stick. this is what we use them for. we have one but i don't think that any of us has ever used it on the ice. none of us are good enough skaters for that. so we will just use it to help our boats travel through the water.

the dogs were also quite helpful. oh wait no they weren't. they couldn't figure out what the heck we were doing. they wanted to eat the boats.

odds n ends

first off i think some how magrath has been placed in oregon but no one told us. it has been raining for a whole week and it is not letting up until sometime next week. kay and jeh had a track meet on wednesday that i stood outside in the rain for and all most froze my fingers off because of the wind. they finally cancelled it but only after i had ran home and got some mitts. the only event of jeh's that i got to see was the high jump and he did really well. i think that he ended up in the top 6 which means that he gets to go to divisionals and do it. we will see. i didn't get to see any of kay's but she wasn't able to do her ones that she is good at so this next wednesday i will be able to watch. she is in to the longer distance running like the 400m and the 800m. i guess that she is like her mother we just aren't sprinters. she also does pretty good at the long jump and the triple jump. i didn't get any pictures from wednesday because of the rain so hopefully when the do this coming wednesday it will be dry and i can get pictures.

phill and i went and saw ironman last night we were going to go and see indiana jones but all the showings were sold out. that is okay though because i really liked ironman and it was nice to see robert downey jr. sober in a movie there are not to many of them where he isn't all strung out.

he actually looked healthy it was nice. i like him i think that he does will in most of the movies i've seen him in even when he is strung out maybe now he will have even better roles.

it was nice to see a movie too that wasn't full of swearing and naked women the kids can go and see this one too and enjoy it.

i would recommend it the ending kind of sucks but they have to leave it open for another one and i think that is why it was ended that way.

here are a couple of the cutest pictures that i have seen on one of the blogs that i read. it is one of there baby pigs it is a runt and the other piglets were mean to it so it decided to hang out with the kittens. so cute. this is a really cute blog. she talks about their farm life and she takes pictures. here is a link to her site, it is called that's how we roll

i seem to be drawn to blog where people take amazing pictures. i really need a good camera and to learn how to take those great pictures too. well i need to go and get people out of bed now. need to make a quick run into town for some last minute things.

gone but now i'm back

okay so it is the middle of may and my last post was in march. it has been awhile no wonder mom was getting so mad at me for not posting, but it hasn't been very exciting around here. the weather sucks, as is the usual around here. kids are still in school for about another month and a half. the boys are playing soccer now so i need to get some pictures up here of their games. kayla will have her dance recital in about two weeks so there will be even more pictures now to make sure that i charge the camera so that i can actually get these great pictures. we are all ready for summer to come but i don't think that we are going to get any this year. it is the middle of may and it is freezing outside. we really want to get our garden in this weekend lets hope for some good weather. i am going to do my best to post something every day it may just be a quick hi some days but i hope to be more vigilant in my posting now.