3 out of 4...

... of my days off are over with....

And I'm exhausted- but a good happy satisfied exhausted. I think I need to go back to work just to have some down time LOL

So I had Friday off. And I was going with my friend, Jane from church, to Sol Duc Hot Springs. She has a season pass up there, so it just costs a little bit to get into the actual resort. You may remember earlier in one of my blog posts that Jade went with Jane and her son Eli and friend Josh a few weeks ago. And it looked like alot of fun, and I hinted how I would LOVE to go. So Jane said she'd go again!

We packed alot of healthy snacks!

So Friday, Jane, Jade, Kent and myself all headed out. It takes about 2 1/2 to 3 hours to get there, can't remember exactly where it is but I do know we headed north.

The water was so warm I think Kent was falling asleep. I asked how he was doing and he said he was just relaxing!

It's a rough life...

Love these pasty white kids!

Kids and I got a cappuccino smoothie.... mmmmmm.....

Kids just lounging about... hey- somebody had to do it!

My friend Jane and I...

Jane took this picture of us 3 at the entrance...

Here's a quick video of the place. When the video starts it's scrolling past a large regular pool, then it's kinda hard to tell but it finally lands over 3 smaller circular pools that are different degrees of HOT!

Soooo, Saturday morning Jade, Kent and I were running in the "Over the Narrows" run! This is the first time we've done this particular run. And actually it's only the second annual run for this event! So I was doing the 10 mile course that actually runs over the narrows and back, and the kids were doing the 2 mile run. Here were all are bright and early with our numbers pinned on... (Kent loves wearing that crazy head thing. I try to talk him out of it but he says it acts like a sweat band, and he always get at least one compliment from other runners so I give up!)

Aurora and Jeromy there to cheer us on...

Here's comes Kent finishing his 2 miles...

A little blurry but here's Jade finishing her 2 miles...

Coming around the last bend. This was a tough but awesome 10 miles...

Of course my amazing husband got an amazing video of me crossing the finish line! As I was running by Jade asked me "Mom! Are you going to sprint across the finish line?" And I said "No! This is all I got" and I jogged nice an easy over the finish line. And the announcer announced my name when I crossed- kinda cool! So I finished the 10 miles in 1:40:56. That averages to about a 10 minute mile! I'm definitely improving! I used to average a 12 minute mile! And I was the 220 person to cross the finish line out of 356 people.

Then Grandma Cindy invited us over for homemade pizza... mmmmkay!!!

Jade making the pizza into thirds and the kids picking from a massive selection of toppings for their individual third- including minced garlic, a basil spread, sun dried tomatoes, bacon (freshly cooked), 4 kinds of cheeses, pepperoni, chicken... so many others! She also made fresh cupcakes with chocolate frosting! My mom knew I needed to recharge after running 10 miles! And I had no guilt eating my dinner!

Grandma Made Kent a cool pillow with the colors orange and blue that he picked out with his name on it, and it's on both sides- so cooool!

Oh here's the kids and I in our cool shirts we got from this mornings run! Ya we're dorks, but we're COOL dorks!

Aurora diggin' her pizza. Can you believe she ate all that? Me either...

Dividing up Jade, Kent and Aurora's into thirds...

Looking pretty good there... this is Jeromy and my pizza! His half has goat cheese that he can eat, mine has 4 other kinds of cheesy goodness on it!

Oh my gosh! Look at that! Grandma and Grandpa... thanks again for dinner and dessert!

Afterarda we were able to visit a couple of the Trig kids! Julia, and Beriah were with Kyle downtown at the black berry festival. Here's Beriah and Aurora- who haven't seen each other since February...

Julia and Kyle...

Jade and Julia...

Julia and Jeromy, like no time has passed. Julia messing with J3 and he messing with her!

Are these girls adorable or what? I can't stand it! Beriah's really grown tho! She's squatting down in this picture but she's about 2-3 taller than Aurora and Aurora is older!

Daaaa boys....

Beriah and Aurora were having so much fun splashing in the huge sprinkler...

Julia and Jade...

Awesome kids, Kyle, Julia, Jade, Aurora, Beriah and Kenton...

Jade and Kyle.... or Sponge Bob and Patrick...

Beriah and Aurora, Beriah's eyes are just beautiful! Aurora's are quite beautiful, too...

Onto sunday! First we went to church and our Pastor Kevin is still in Sudan. And he called during the service to have the chaplins he's teaching/training down there to sing us a song! It was amazing! He comes home sometime in the next week. Can't wait to have him back!

Afterwards, my auntie Mary was having a HUGE BBQ for my uncle Jim who was retiring (for the 3rd time?)... Here's my uncle Jim...

BBQ line...

Chillin' inside...

Sweatin' outside...Looks like uncle Jim is going to ease into this retirement thing quite easily... grandpa playing with Zoey! I finally got to see her in real life- sooo cute!!!

Jade was also watching little Emma for a little while later on this afternoon. She is such a doll. On the way home she had a conversation with Kent. Remember: Emma is 3, Kent is 17.

Emma: You're crazy! (giggling)

Kent: No I'm not, I'm quite sensible. (Kent very serious)

Emma: No, you're crazy. (more giggling)

Kent: Why do you say that? (Kent trying to reason with a 3 year old)

Emma: You're just crazy. (still laughing but starting to get bored)

Kent: You're not answering my question, why am I crazy? (Kent patiently trying to understand her logic)

By this time, Jeromy, myself, Jade and Aurora are all busting up laughing. We told Kent he could not reason with a 3 year old, she didn't even know what crazy really meant. Man that was so funny! Here's Jeromy showing Emma our baby chicks, she wasn't too sure about them, she said "put them back in (the cage)".

Jade, Emma and Aurora...

Ok, some random misc stuff. Here's a picture I ordered from the Seattle half marathon in June. They didn't have as cool selections of backgrounds as they did last year, but I gotta have the picture! Creepy people please ignore my last name.

I finally got Kent's poster pictures done of his Europe trip. They have such cool things at Walgreens, and Costco, too. I can pick up to 30 pictures and then they get put into this collage and I can put a title on it! Kent's is the larger one with 30 pictures he takes with him when he moves out, the smaller one with 16 pictures (I think) is mine to keep when he moves out. These were sooo cool!

Here's a close up of mine- ignore glaring flash in the middle of the frame...

Here's a close up of Kent's...

And lastly, here's the cute frogs my mom made me... I named them "Jeromy and Katie", and they sit on this shelf in my room. So cute mom, thanks!!!

GOOD NIGHT!!!

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