Halloween 'n stuff

It has been way to long. I'm just so overwhelmed with the amount of stuff I want to say on here! BUT it would be to hard to recap. So I will just (try) to keep up with my life a little more often. First up- Halloween The cute Trick or Treaters:) They had a fun Halloween this year.

First up- we had a party with my Dad and Patty's house. So much fun when everyone participates.

Mitchell had his first school Halloween parade, and I had to take him early in the morning for it. He LOVED it! And Garrett and I did too. SO CUTE!

On Halloween we went up to Park City on Main street to Trick or Treat. We did this last year as well and it is so fun. It starts at 3:30 and ends at 5. Seriously so lovely that we get to do that during the daylight. My Mom and Rick dressed up too. Always fun:)!

And finally- the cute Nemo

And the cute Batman

It was a great, uneventful Halloween! Next up. I am 13 weeks pregnant. Ben and I are super duper excited. This was planned :) I am starting to feel a little better. I have been much more sick on this pregnancy then my others...(I know, you think it's a girl) Well we would love a girl, and it would be very fun to end with a girl, but we would be thrilled to have another boy a HEALTHY HEALTHY baby, and if it's not to much to ask- a healthy Momma! More to come about this- but for now I will publish my first post in 6 months and eat some Halloween candy!

THE Garrett turns 2!

This is my little guy. I cannot believe he is 2. SERIOUSLY..2!!! WOW! He is a sweetie, he is a terrorist, he is SO different from Mitchell. It is funny how different they are. This is him on the morning of his birthday...that face is so perfect!


We went to McDonalds to play because it was very rainy and cold. He had a blast!


His Party was fun. We had a hot dog bar, and played in the yard. He was not interested in presents and he was a little confused about everyone singing to him. But he knew just what to do when he saw the candle.






This is not that great of a post, im so tired these days. We moved back to our old house. And we have been doing tons of work to both houses. I will post pics of the before and after as soon as its done...so NEVER! haha!

Happy Birthday my baby Garrett. I love you with all of my heart!!!!!!!!!!

I Want To Ride My Bycicle

So there is soooo much to post about these days....but I am just going to post about this.
I did my first 50 mile bike ride. And Ben rode with me to help support me. And it was.....an experience??? I am very very glad that I did it. I learned so much! THAT is the only reason why Im glad I did it! I will tell the story of all the crap that happened. The ride was so so soooooo unorganized, so as you can imagine, it was not the best experience....

We arrived in St. George on Thursday the 24th of February. The weather report was looking yucky, but some locals said that when they say it will snow or have freezing rain that it would not happen. So we were hopeful that they were right. I knew that I wanted to show up at the VERY least! So that was the plan.
Friday the 25th was a BEAUTIFUL day! We went and picked up our bags, and got all the official registration stuff. We were hopeful to say the least. And I was getting so excited to do this. Then came the first BIG mistake....the lady who checked us in told Ben and I that the 50 mile bike rides start at 10am. Just the 80 and 100 mile bikers would be starting at 8am. THAT was wrong!
SATURDAY the 26th. COLD as we walked to our car...(shoulda known) We get to the bike start line....ummmm there wasn't one! So my friend told me that we just jumped on our bikes and started riding. IMMEDIATELY I was freezing. It was 37 degrees. As we got to about the 2nd mile- we had to stop and ask another guy on a bike if he knew where to go.....there was no signs, no marks, no people who were in the ride on the road. UGGGGGHHHHHH I was soooo irritated! He said that there was yellow markings on the road where we need to turn. So that we did.
At this point, we could not figure out why there was only 4 people on the bike ride? And any one that we did see was coming the opposite way. We found out later.... So we got to mile 11 and I was feeling great! I was not cold any more (as long as I kept moving) and I was ready to ride. We stopped at the first aid station. And low and behold there is NOOOOOOOO water! ...... UMMMMMM OK? Whatever- lets get back to the ride. So we hopped back on and made it to 25 miles. At this point I am absolutely FREEZING!!!! I am miserable. I am FREEZING!!!!!!! I was not tired, or sore....just FREEZING!!!! did I say that? Anyway it took us 3 hours to do 25 miles. Then came the great news. haha! The ride organizer found out that we were told to start at 10 and said "oh.....YOUR the people my wife told to start at 10"! NICE real nice! THAT was why anyone we did see on the road was finishing..not starting. LOVELY!
So the guy had a big huge van and said...if your wanting to be done, we can take you back. WELL that was soooo appealing and I really really really wanted to jump in that van, but I really really really wanted to finish too??? So he gave us his cell number and said to call him if we chose not to finish. Well we jumped on our bikes supporting each other, and headed back. 1 SECOND into that I regretted not getting in that retards van and just going home. I kept thinking that this was NOTHING to be proud of....I have NEVER EVER been soooooo cold in my life! Anyway, I got my head in the game and tried not to think about the cold and just road my heart out. I kept thinking that I had trained sooo long and hard for this and I was not not going to finish. At about mile 35 I looked back and saw Ben walking so I stopped. I thought he needed help, or had a flat or something. He signaled to me to keep going and yelled.. "I'm done, keep going...you can finish" He was so cold that he had to walk to stop the wind chill that was in our face. So it was very miserable. I didn't want to finish without him. So I stopped and we called that guy. He came and picked us up.

So there are just a few things that, had they been different, we would've finished!
1. Wearing appropriate attire considering the elements.
2. Starting and riding with everyone else at the correct time!
3. Mile or even 5 mile marks...I would've known that there was only 12 miles left then I would have finished.

All in all.... I learned so much. I am glad that I did it. Ben was not so glad. But he was very supportive!