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Friday, December 31, 2010
Goals from 2010 and Goals for 2011
One of my big goals of 2010 was to do at least one race a month up to the St. George Marathon in October. I did accomplish my goal and I got Kade to do many of them with me, which is way more fun than doing it alone.
January:
*Painter's Half Marathon, (Kelli) 13.1 miles.
February:
*Tuacahn Duathlon.
Kade's Sprint: 1.5 mile run, 12 mile bike & 1.5 mile run
Kelli's Olympic: 5 K run, 24 mile bike & 5 K run
March:
*Lake to Lake Team Relay
Kelli's distance running: 10.91 miles
Kade's distance driving: 50 miles
*Spectrum 10K (Kelli unofficially ran it.)
April:
*SHAC Triathlon
Kelli's Sprint: 400 m swim, 10 mile bike, 5 K run
*Hurricane Half Marathon (Kelli) 13.1 miles
May:
*Hell Hole 5K/10K in Washington
Kade - 5K
Kelli - 10K with two of the kids in the bike trailer.
June:
*Tour de Cure
Kade - 35 mile bike ride
Kelli - 100 mile bike ride
July:
*Carnival Cruise Half Marathon (unofficial)
Kelli - 13.2 mile run
August:
*Pine Valley 5K/15 Miler
Kade - 5K
Kelli - 15 Miler
*A heck of a lot of other 15 milers every weekend to train for the St. George Marathon. (What happened to MODERATION in all things? Oh, I am learning about the Word of Wisdom, a Marathon may be against the Word of Wisdom for me.)
September:
*Cedar Canyon Half Marathon
Kelli - ahhhhhh, the St. George Marathon is in two weeks!
October
*St. George MARATHON!!!!!!!
Kelli - 26.2 miles in 5:06.57 Hooray!
November
*Snow Canyon Half Marathon
Kelli - 13.1 miles
Goals for 2011:
I won't be paying to run a race each month this year, it is just too expensive. I will do the St. George Marathon with my brothers again. I will still run regularly and the goal is to be healthy and not get hurt. I have decided that being healthy and enjoying it is the most important so I can do what I want when I want with my body and have a lot of fun! That means I could go on a big bike ride or go hiking or play tag with my kids and just enjoy being healthy. Sleep is key for me now. I'm not sure if it is because I am almost 32, or if it is stress from work, but I am more dysfunctional without sleep, more so than any other time in my life.
So, I must get a good amount of sleep, exercise - both cardio and weight bearing, and eat healthy food, not just give it to my family.
I do want to write another Murder Mystery Dinner - Renaissance theme. I want to make another memory book for our family from this blog, and digitize all the other scrapbooks that I have done.
I want to have us go camping a lot and do lots of biking and hiking and just enjoy and love being outdoors. I don't want to be toooooooo busy though. We need days that are occationally not planned that we can recuperate from our busy lives. With camping I would love to visit the Grand Escalante Staircase with the Grand Canyon, Zion and Bryce Canyon. Maybe we can get going on that with the Grand Canyon in Spring Break, we will see.
I also want to enjoy my children and my hubby more, just going on dates and taking time to remind them often of how special they are and how much I love them and having them in my life.
I am enjoying black hair because of my fair skin, but wouldn't mind going lighter in the spring. The reason for the black hair is because of our little 4 1/2 year old Kya. She and I have really had some terrible struggles for a few years now, but the day Kade dyed my hair dark her attitude toward me changed. She said I looked beautiful, like Snow White and we have not had any big fights since then and that was almost 3 months ago. If dark hair is what is needed to have peace between us then I will have dark hair forever. I have a feeling though, that she may be growing up enough that I might be accepted as just being me, and not Snow White. We will see in the spring.
Kade wants to get his truck finished and paint all the cars again this year. We will do the Tour de Cure again in June. I think he would like to do more things with his brothers and with his Uncle (although he is more like a brother) Ryan Rasmusson. Kade also wants to stay healthy. We both want to increase our savings and enjoy each other as much as possible.
For further on in the future we would love, someday, to take all our kids to somewhere in Central or South America on a service trip. This will be when all the kids can speak Spanish and we would go do a service project in a Spanish speaking country and our kids will get to see real poverty, real needs, and what life is like where people are not nearly as privelaged as we are here. Kade and I feel that an experience like that will help our children appreciate all the wonderful things we have here. We don't have the very best of all, but we have it so good and we have so much. We would really like our kids to apprciate that and we feel that will change their perspective of life as they become adults and make their priorities for their lives and their own families. Of course I would love all my kids to get to serve a mission, but that may not be their choice. Experiences like a service trip would give them great learning and growing experiences as they see the world and give of themselves in service and maybe even sharing the gospel. So much of life is learning by experience and doing. This would be a wonderful family adventure! Adventure is out there! Let's get busy having our adventures!
January:
*Painter's Half Marathon, (Kelli) 13.1 miles.
February:
*Tuacahn Duathlon.
Kade's Sprint: 1.5 mile run, 12 mile bike & 1.5 mile run
Kelli's Olympic: 5 K run, 24 mile bike & 5 K run
March:
*Lake to Lake Team Relay
Kelli's distance running: 10.91 miles
Kade's distance driving: 50 miles
*Spectrum 10K (Kelli unofficially ran it.)
April:
*SHAC Triathlon
Kelli's Sprint: 400 m swim, 10 mile bike, 5 K run
*Hurricane Half Marathon (Kelli) 13.1 miles
May:
*Hell Hole 5K/10K in Washington
Kade - 5K
Kelli - 10K with two of the kids in the bike trailer.
June:
*Tour de Cure
Kade - 35 mile bike ride
Kelli - 100 mile bike ride
July:
*Carnival Cruise Half Marathon (unofficial)
Kelli - 13.2 mile run
August:
*Pine Valley 5K/15 Miler
Kade - 5K
Kelli - 15 Miler
*A heck of a lot of other 15 milers every weekend to train for the St. George Marathon. (What happened to MODERATION in all things? Oh, I am learning about the Word of Wisdom, a Marathon may be against the Word of Wisdom for me.)
September:
*Cedar Canyon Half Marathon
Kelli - ahhhhhh, the St. George Marathon is in two weeks!
October
*St. George MARATHON!!!!!!!
Kelli - 26.2 miles in 5:06.57 Hooray!
November
*Snow Canyon Half Marathon
Kelli - 13.1 miles
Goals for 2011:
I won't be paying to run a race each month this year, it is just too expensive. I will do the St. George Marathon with my brothers again. I will still run regularly and the goal is to be healthy and not get hurt. I have decided that being healthy and enjoying it is the most important so I can do what I want when I want with my body and have a lot of fun! That means I could go on a big bike ride or go hiking or play tag with my kids and just enjoy being healthy. Sleep is key for me now. I'm not sure if it is because I am almost 32, or if it is stress from work, but I am more dysfunctional without sleep, more so than any other time in my life.
So, I must get a good amount of sleep, exercise - both cardio and weight bearing, and eat healthy food, not just give it to my family.
I do want to write another Murder Mystery Dinner - Renaissance theme. I want to make another memory book for our family from this blog, and digitize all the other scrapbooks that I have done.
I want to have us go camping a lot and do lots of biking and hiking and just enjoy and love being outdoors. I don't want to be toooooooo busy though. We need days that are occationally not planned that we can recuperate from our busy lives. With camping I would love to visit the Grand Escalante Staircase with the Grand Canyon, Zion and Bryce Canyon. Maybe we can get going on that with the Grand Canyon in Spring Break, we will see.
I also want to enjoy my children and my hubby more, just going on dates and taking time to remind them often of how special they are and how much I love them and having them in my life.
I am enjoying black hair because of my fair skin, but wouldn't mind going lighter in the spring. The reason for the black hair is because of our little 4 1/2 year old Kya. She and I have really had some terrible struggles for a few years now, but the day Kade dyed my hair dark her attitude toward me changed. She said I looked beautiful, like Snow White and we have not had any big fights since then and that was almost 3 months ago. If dark hair is what is needed to have peace between us then I will have dark hair forever. I have a feeling though, that she may be growing up enough that I might be accepted as just being me, and not Snow White. We will see in the spring.
Kade wants to get his truck finished and paint all the cars again this year. We will do the Tour de Cure again in June. I think he would like to do more things with his brothers and with his Uncle (although he is more like a brother) Ryan Rasmusson. Kade also wants to stay healthy. We both want to increase our savings and enjoy each other as much as possible.
For further on in the future we would love, someday, to take all our kids to somewhere in Central or South America on a service trip. This will be when all the kids can speak Spanish and we would go do a service project in a Spanish speaking country and our kids will get to see real poverty, real needs, and what life is like where people are not nearly as privelaged as we are here. Kade and I feel that an experience like that will help our children appreciate all the wonderful things we have here. We don't have the very best of all, but we have it so good and we have so much. We would really like our kids to apprciate that and we feel that will change their perspective of life as they become adults and make their priorities for their lives and their own families. Of course I would love all my kids to get to serve a mission, but that may not be their choice. Experiences like a service trip would give them great learning and growing experiences as they see the world and give of themselves in service and maybe even sharing the gospel. So much of life is learning by experience and doing. This would be a wonderful family adventure! Adventure is out there! Let's get busy having our adventures!
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Kerchek - our new puppy!
For Christmas we gave the kids a new puppy. Kolden is just crazy in love with dogs and puppies and is so inamored by them that we decided it was time to go ahead and get a dog. We did some research and decided we would want a miniture weener dog. I went to the skin doctor and the esthetician lazering my facial hair said her X-mom-in-law breeds them and sells them. She happened to have one extra that didn't sell and she was going to be having surgery and wanted to get him sold. We got her number and called her up to see the dog. On our way to go see the dog we decided to just check by Sue's Pet Castle to see some of the little dogs there. It gave us some ideas of what we wanted to be looking for in our dog. We got to the lady's home and as soon as she opened the door and we saw this little red haired miniture weener dog Kade fell madly in love and so did Kolden. He was very cute and we soon realized we had surprizingly found our dog.
We left him there that night so we could buy a kenel and dog food. We bought the puppy for $150.00. We showed him to our kids and they were overjoyed to get to have our own dog! We named him Kerchek - like the dad Gorilla on Tarzan. Our Kerchek is not big or fierce, but he does protect the kids. If anyone gets near them while they are sleeping he will growl at them. Kerchek love the kids and I think he thinks I am his momma and Kade is his daddy. He sleeps in either Kiera or Kya's bed at night and they love it.
It is hard to have a new puppy because he is having trouble potty training. Great things have come from having our puppy though. Kolden runs now. He will run and play with the puppy. They tease each other and run around throwing and fetching balls. Kolden with get laughing fits while playing with the dog.
Kiera finally started pooping in the potty. She has never pooped in the potty and then she started helping to clean up after Kerchek's poop messes and she started pooping in the potty for herself and has done so ever since. It is great!
Ther are some frustrations with our little Kerchek, like him chewing up shoes and my bra, but we are having to keep the house picked up better so the dog can't get our stuff and ruin it. We love his companionship and will be excited for him to get to join us camping this spring and summer. Welcome to the family Kerchek!
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