The Lately Life

Hello!

So you though I had died... but I have not. It has been a long time since blogging, but hey, I do what I can! Let's think of what has happened that is exciting lately...

And I've got nothing.

So here's what's almost exciting that has been happening lately!

After Christmas, we went snowmobiling with my family in Fairview, UT.
There wasn't much snow, so we spent the day sledding.
It was GREAT!

Then a few weeks later,our exchange student decided he hated us and moved to another family. For Real. It was crazy.

So the week after that, we went down to Utah. Adam went to an MMA fight and I stayed up all night with my BFF Jamie and her husband Lynn at their house. James and I tried to go bowling, but it didn't work out so we spent the evening shopping and snacking at her place. Nothing better!

Went down to Utah again the next weekend for Taylor's birthday. We went to my sis-in-laws baby shower, then had lunch at Tucanos, then went SWIMMING for Taylor's bday party at the Lehi Rec Center. It is a FABULOUS place to take your kids to swim... she had a ball. Then we had some cake and icecream, went to breakfast with Grandma and Grandpa Bench the next morning and came home just in time to watch the Superbowl!

I LOVE THE SUPERBOWL!!! WHAT A GREAT GAME THIS YEAR! Also... the commercials weren't that good. SAD DAY.

Spent last weekend home (finally!) and built some shelves in Taylor's room, got her dresser and closet cleaned out and cleaned the house. I LOVE BEING IN A CLEAN HOUSE!!! Then we decided to drive the hour to Montpelier, ID so Taylor could play on the toys at Arctic Circle and we had dinner. Hey... it was a long week!

Adam is still in school and is boasting a 3.9 GPA. Uber proud of that guy. He is awesome. Hopefully he will be graduating in a year from March-ish so we are looking forward to that.

Taylor is hilarious. She makes me laugh every day. She had her first trip to the dentist last week and kind of let them look in her mouth. She was thrilled that she got to pick TWO toys from the treasure chest. And no cavities so far, so good.

I am doing great. I have decided I need to make more of an effort to do the things I WANT to do, not just the things that need to be done. So this is my quest for the next little bit. Do ME things.

Oh... and the scariest thing of all.... Somehow Adam and I decided we could run the Star Valley Half-Marathon in July. I have never even run a 5K and so now I have never been more scared of anything in my life! Today starts week 4 of training and so far I can run a mile without stopping.... if I try REALLY hard. One down, 12 to go! And because Misery loves company, we have recruited some other family members to run a half as well.... Adam's sister and her husband, his other sister, my brother, my sister, me, Adam, and (hopefully) my parents as well! I think we are all crazy but it is kind of a fun challenge. I have already decided that I don't care what my time is; my goal is just to finish before they start taking down the race. That's all I'm asking for :)

Yesterday we got quite a bit of snow. Adam was out snowblowing, so Taylor and I put on our snow duds and had a mini-snow day. We pulled Taylor (and Taylor pulled Ellie) in her sled, we slid down the snowdrift in front of the house, and threw snowballs at each other. Taylor thought that was great and told me to hit her again. It was awesome :)
Here she is packing her elephant around.

I'm not going to lie to you... she is a DOLL. Love her.
And she saw me pull out my camera and told me to take a picture.
So there you go.

Happy Monday!