Chicken Pox, Birthday & Beauty and the Beast and Running

Chicken Pox:  Last week I noticed some bumps on Mr. E's back and torso.  He complained of a headache and had a slight fever.  I thought it was chicken pox but I knew he had the shot so I wasn't sure.  Well, after looking at his shot records I found that he only had one of the two required shots for the vaccine and the following day his spots multiplied so there was no doubt. Even though he still wound up with the chicken pox it wasn't as bad as when G-man and Liv had it when they were little. Lucky him, he now joins his older siblings into the "Chicken Pox club."

Birthday: Last Thursday was Liv's birthday.  It was a busy day and between seminary in the morning  and hubby working the evening shift, there was not one time during the day when we were all together.  We tried to celebrate throughout the day so everyone could participate. Hubby was home for presents in the morning and G-man was  home for cake in the afternoon.  Liv had to take STAR testing for school in the morning and then we went out to lunch.   She had some friends come over in the afternoon  for cake and then we were off to opening night of her play.

 her friend gave her ballons

Beauty and the Beast:  Liv participates in a local theater group and twice a year they put on a production.  The spring production was Beauty and the Beast.  She was a milkmaid, a wolf and a napkin.  The group did a wonderful job and it turned out really well. The costumes were fabulous.     Because I'm such a terrible photographer, I only got her picture in her milkmaid costume.  (I wonder if that's because that was the only one I had to make?)

( Isn't that a cute dress?)

Liv and friends

Running: One more week until my half marathon.  When I signed up for the race, there was a box that you were supposed to check.  One if you thought you would run an over 2 hour half marathon or under a 2 hour half.  I guess I was feeling pretty ambitious because I checked the under 2 hour box.  Since then I've lost my ambition.  I can give you plenty of excuses. The weather, an illness, a vacation, but the latest has been my feet.  I'm definitely an advocate of having good shoes so when I needed new shoes a couple months ago I spent more than I normally would on a better pair of shoes.  Well, they were not better for me.  They were fine for runs under 5 miles but anything over I would end up with a pain in my toes that ran under my foot and end with a knot in my calf.  It was getting too painful to run through and I finally went and took them back.  Tomorrow I'm supposed to run 12 miles.  We'll see how my new shoes work out.  I'm not too optimistic anymore but we'll see how it goes. Therefore, I'm playing my running song in hopes of motivating me. At this point whatever works.

April Birthdays

My six year old!  There was much time for celebrations because Little A had a baseball practice and Liv and I had to be at tech rehearsal for her play, but  Grandma and Grandpa came up and we were able to squeeze in dinner and cake.  He really wanted to go bowling but we just didn't have time.  But we will have a second change at celebrating after Liv's birthday.  Liv's birthday falls on the opening night of her play (this time they're doing Beauty and Beast).  So we'll have to celebrate both birthdays a little late.

I'll post more pictures later.

Spring Break

Happy Easter!

It's been a nice relaxing day, filled with uplifting talks given by the leaders of our church and a yummy Easter dinner (lunch for us, cause hubby had to work this evening).  A great way to end our Spring Break.

I mentioned before I left that G-man and I were going on a grand adventure and a grand adventure we had!  A friend of mine invited us to go with them to their condo in Park City, Utah to go skiing/snowboarding.  We left last Saturday getting in late that night.  Sunday was a day of rest and visiting.  My wonderful sister came up with her daughter and brought us a delicious dinner and had a great time visiting.  Monday we got down to business and headed to Park City Resort to do some skiing and snowboarding.  The boys, of course, went snowboarding and the Moms went skiing.  Luckily for me, I was able to borrow my niece's ski stuff so I didn't have to rent anything.  Again, my sister came up, this time bringing her son who practically lives on the mountain.  He's a great snowboarder and knows the mountain really well, so it helped ease my nerves in letting our boys go off on their own.

Here they are before they took off.  The boys made up nicknames for each other so from left to right we have Bert, Swe, Sunshine and Ernie.

Here's proof I went skiing.  I've only skied about 3 times before this trip and the last time was 20 years ago.  This is the first day of skiing.  As you can see we had beautiful weather, slightly cloudy but almost warm.  Sticking with the Green runs, I did pretty well that day, only falling once.

 My sister and her son, Sunshine.

Again, my funny nephew.  Like I said, he lives on the mountain, going up to PC about 3-4 times a week.  He's a great snowboarder.  Here he's showing off his prized winter tan that he proudly wears that shows everyone he's a snowboarder.

Eating lunch at the local pizza joint in PC.  The boys loved that you could board right down into the city, walk across the street and eat here at half the price than at the resort.  We Mom's did it too one day.  It was great fun, however, you have to go down a blue run to get there.  A little risky for me.  I fell multiple times but finally made it down. Whew!  My legs were shaking by the time I got down the hill.

My second day of skiing, the boys third day. It had snowed over night and continued all day.  At times it was hard to see where you were going as the snow pelted you in the face.  However, it did make for a more cushioned landing with all the falling I did that day. The next day, I found I wasn't sore from all the skiing but from all the falling!  Good times, good times.

This is what my friend's car looked like after finishing up our day on the slopes and a shot of the condo before we left for skiing.  I think we got about about 12-18 inches that day.

So that's my grand adventure We returned home late Thursday night to get ourselves ready for Easter and General Conference.  We had a great time and no one got hurt which was a blessing in itself.