The Ragnar

For those of you who don't know I am running the Ragnar, a team relay race where I will run a total of 18.4 miles. I run three different legs 5.7, 4.9 and 7.9 miles. You may be wondering why I am running this race sometimes I wonder to. But the reason I am running is to fight cancer. Alot of us have friends and family that have had cancer and I am running to support those I know with cancer. In order to run the race I have to raise at least 400 dollars. I have had a few wonderful supports, but still need to raise 300.00 if you want to donate, anything will help even $1.00. You can donate by clicking on the link to the side of my page!

Sunday walks

Morgan loves to swing

Washington D.C. Trip

Danny had a couple of vacation days saved up at work, so we decided to take a long weekend at the beginning of May to visit some friends in Washington D.C. Since leaving BYU, a bunch of our good friends moved there so we tried to spend as much time with all of them as we could. We stayed with Jenna and Tyler Swinton and spent most of our time with them and their 3 kids, Thatcher, Sterling, and Avery.  We ate great food, went to a fun animal farm (which Morgan requests to go to every day), played at the park, and went on a fun date which included a great restaurant and a crazy game of miniature golf. We also visited the national arboretum (tree park) in D.C. with the Swintons and Erin and Corey and their daughter Kelsey. We spent all of time at the Banzai Tree exhibit which was surprisingly awesome. They have trees there that are several hundred years old and only a couple feet tall. The oldest tree was from the early 1600s. On our last night there, we had a pizza party and were again joined by Erin and Corey and also our good friends Bryce and Katie. Sunday morning was Mother's Day, so Danny and Tyler woke up early and made an amazing breakfast. When Jenna and I came down, they were wearing shirts that said, "We Love Our Jennas." (For those who don't know, my first name is Jenna). It was a pretty quick trip, but we had a lot of fun. It's amazing how you can not see good friends for months or years and instantly just pick right up where you left off. Thanks again, Jenna and Tyler, for having us and providing fun activities.

the rain in spain

It has been raining pretty hard the last few days. Yesterday Morgan was staring out the window looking at the rain and really wanted to go out in it. So I said if you get your rain boots you can go out. Before I knew it she got me in the rain to, then it started to pour since i was wet already we went puddle jumping. Luckily our neighbor Carl was out and we asked him to take some pictures... and he is pretty good, so we have this great shot.

Makes Me Smile and Makes Morgan Dance

Hanson, yes THAT Hanson, was on Conan the other night singing the new single from their new album. Who even knew that they were still making music? I loved the song, so since then, we have watched this video on Youtube everyday. Morgan loves it and instantly starts running around the house and dancing when she hears it.



Here's the video. Good stuff.



And just for good old times sake.

drawing

Once upon a time, I used to draw and I loved it. I still do it often, but never just for fun, I do it for my clients. I am not very good at understanding lighting and sometimes I shade things in the wrong places, one of my clients wanted a starfish on her wedding invitation... so I did the easy thing and decided there had to be good clip art out there, after looking for an hour, I realized there were NO starfish out there that looked (to me) acceptable, so I had to draw one, and it turned out much better than I thought. I had no clue I would be so afraid to draw a simple starfish that only took me 10 (or less) minutes to draw. Instead I spent hours looking for one. Lesson to be learned, we have talents and we need to use them, and google is not always the best answer.