10K 2008

Today was my anual 10K race with the Teton Dam Marathon. It was a harder race this year than last year. If any of you are familiar with Rexburg, two of the miles in the middle of the race were up Millhollow road (which is a steep, long hill). My goal was to beat my time from last year but I took a few minutes longer this year because of the hill. At the awards ceremony, though, I was surprised to hear my name called out as second place in women 35-39, especially since I was 2/3 of the way back in the line of runners. But the older you get the less people your age run, so the better your chances are of winning a medal. In some of the groups 50 or older their were only two places because there were only two people running in that age group. Because we live in a college town, there are a lot of 18-30 year old runners.

Zoo

If you have read Tracie's most recent blog posting, then you already know we went to the zoo in Idaho Falls. It's not a big zoo, nothing like the Hogle Zoo. But it is a nice small zoo that is fun to go to a couple of times a year without big crowds or expensive prices. Here are some pictures I had. Most of the time I was using the video camera but I did get a few still shots.


















The boys in front of the zoo.


















Kevin pretending he's an otter.


















The boys and Tracie on the tiger. I didn't notice Jacob was biting Ethan's jacket when I took the picture. I'm not sure why he's doing that but he's probably pretending to be a tiger.

Catching Up

I've been a slacker and haven't updated my blog for a while. I've had things to put on it but just haven't done it. So this will be a long post.
A weekend or so before school got out, it was a warm day/night. So Darren put up the tent and the boys invited their friends over for a sleepover. I wasn't sure they would make it all night, especially Ethan, but they did and they had a great time.


















Ethan, Kevin, Layton, and Daylen in front of the tent.

T-ball started on Tuesday. I am the coach so I didn't get to take any pictures. My neighbor, however, did and she was nice enough to share them with me. So here are two pictures of Ethan and T-ball. He was so excited for his first game and he did a good job. We just have to work on the kids actually getting the ball when they are in the outfield instead of just watching it roll past them.



















Ethan and his buddy, Jud.


















Ethan running to third base.

We finally got some shrubs planted in the front of our house. We planted burning bushes and another one I can't remember the name of right now. Darren will know.


















Ready for planting.


















Darren and Jon planting. My job was to photograph.


















All planted.

Darren posted about our trip to feed the fish. Here are some of my photos from the trip.


















Darren with a stonefly on a stick.


















Darren was photographing the stonefly on his own hand but decided he needed someone else to hold it. He knew that the only other person in our family that would hold it was Ethan. Here is Ethan patiently holding it so Darren could photograph it. Ethan ended up taking it home as a "pet".


















Ethan and Kevin feeding the fish.























Darren feeding the fish.

Last Saturday we attended Pack Meeting. It was a hike along the Cress Creek trail south of Rexburg and then roasting hot dogs and marshmallows. Kevin, Ethan and me went to it while Darren stayed home with Jacob.



















Ethan wanted to roast a hot dog but didn't dare get close enough to the fire to roast it. I ended up doing it for him.























Kevin hates hot dogs but wanted to roast one so he roasted a hot dog for me.


















They had a tug of war at the end. Kevin is on the end.