Pumpkin Stew

Annual pumpkin contest at school. Kade came up with the idea as well as all the stuff to put in it. The template in the background is a list of the ingredients. Good job Kade.

Cascade Springs....

Grand Junction

Kade and I went with Cindi and Aiden to Junction for a quick overnight. We picked up Kirby (Cindi's sister) and her two boys Truett and Rylee, and other sister Kelly's boy Grey. We braved the mesquitos they were horrible but we made it to the lake. (lost lake) This is Truett, Kade and Rylee leading the way.


Aiden and Cindi. Aiden wanted to be held, he was a trooper and made it all the way though. He loved my camelback and kept saying water, water, water. So every so often I would lean down and let him get water from my camelback and it kept him focused.

At the lake eating chips and looking for fish.
We had a great time, we went to shreks forever after the night before and swam in the hotel swimming pool, and I got my fix at 8am. (starbucks) Our hotel was right next too it. Thanks Cindi!!!

carbon transfer.....

Some that follow my blog will know what Carbon transfer is..... however most of you will think cool door that Kade is standing in front of. We were on our way to go golfing and I thought picture!!!!

My new watch........

I went shopping for a new ROAD BIKE and well this is what I bought instead.... Whoops! Lets just say the watch was a ton cheaper. I love it!!!! Still looking for a bike....

2nd Grade Program "Disney Style"

Kade and I after his 2nd grade program. I cant believe he is going to be a third grader.

Singing all the songs, however we were sitting on the front row and he kept smiling at us everytime the camera went up, his BFF was sitting next to him Chloe.

Kade getting ready for his speaking part in the 2nd grade school program. He did such a great job, he was not nervous at all.

Where have we been???

Ok so...... I have been out of the blogging, facebook world since before the holidays, my bad. A lot has happened lets just start at the top- I mean November.

November: The usual Thanksgiving dinner was yummy and was in the middle of training for Footlocker championships in California with my athletes.
December: The first weekend, 16 of my athletes from the cross country season ventured to Walnut California for the Western Footlocker Championships. I had some stand out performances and was pleased with how the trip went. We had a huge success in October with our fundraiser with the help of Pierce Oil and the local community, which lightened our trip expense tremendously. We were able to spend time in Disneyland along with the four day trip.
Christmas was nice and relaxing spent a few days with my parents and Kade enjoyed himself ofcourse!!!
New years was full of excitement lot of pots banging and well just trying to stay awake until midnight. Oh yeah I turned 31 on the 29th of December....
January: Hmmm....... flew by!
Febuary: In the middle.
Sorry no pictures I know I am lame. I will try and work on that.

Worms!!!!

Have not posted for a long time..... maybe my TITLE caught your attention.....NO I dont have worms or the swine flu..... its just Kades annual pumpkin contest at school.

3rd Annual pumpkin decorating contest!!!

Kade is now in the 2nd grade! This is our third Halloween and third pumpkin!!! He decided to smash up cookies for the dirt, and poke holes in the pumpkin and put worms coming out all over the place. We have won every year so...... we had too hold up to our previous year.

Let me try this again.........

I posted these pictures a few weeks back, however they were taken with my phone and uploaded really small so here we go again the pictures from our Roberts family reunion.

Sarah and I had corn on the cob and it shows.....


This was the cool whip and m&m challenge. There were 15 m&m's on the plate then Linda (my mom) covered them with cool whip and you had to use nothing but your mouth to retrieve them. Also a fish was the prize. Dal won the older group and Brynnli won the younger group. Kade didnt try as hard he had already won his fish and wanted Brynnli to also win a fish. She did by one m&m.






This is Kade getting ice cubes out of a pool with his feet and trying to get as many as he can into his bucket.... this was too win a fish. Well lets just say Kade was determined and was not going to pass up an animal or pet of any sort. HE WON!!!! It was so funny. I even played it and I won too.

2nd Grade!!!

Well, were back to our 6:30am wake up time. Kade was so excited for school to start today. He has lots of kids in his class from last year that he knows and excited to meet his new teacher. He learned the "FIRE POWER" move while spending time with my cross country team at high altitude camp. He was so funny this morning I was just taking pictures and he says "Mom, Firepower..... woot woot." So funny he didnt understand why I started laughing. He is such a good kid, I told him to respect his teacher and he said, "oh mom I always am, I only back talk you." Oh Thanks KADE!!!!

Running Camp at Joes Valley

Kade and Dal went on the run with us Friday afternoon to the CCC trail. These are the pictures from on the trail overlooking Joes Valley.
After the kids finished the run we cliff jumped off this rock and Dal was determined to do it. He is a good swimmer, he looks small in the picture but that is him. The team had a blast jumping as well.
Kade enjoyed hanging out with Grandpa and Dal fishing and burning stuff in the fire. My athletes taught him tons of "new" tricks to do in the fire. Lets just say Kade was just playing monkey see monkey do.

Swimming at Helper Pool.....

Kade, Jack, Aiden and Cindi swimming at Helper Pool. It was a little chilly but they still had fun. Aiden had fun on the steps, wanted nothing to do with the yellow tube to float around in. That night Kade and I went to the movie in the park with the Brackens and watched Kung fu panda.

Were back with lots to update about...........

We weren't far just out of touch.... (no computer) I was actually getting used to it and didnt mind it until I needed word perfect to type something or well pretty much I missed it but learned to live without it. Kade and I will be catching you all up and I have opened my blog up so I can get in touch with everyone again and obtain emails that I have lost in the computer fiasco....

Weekend in Moab.........

Seven Years!

On Sunday we celebrated Kades birthday with cousins! Finally a warm day to run around and play outside. I cant believe I have a 7 year old.......... WOW!

Tied up..........

Track meets, track meets, track meets............ Atleast once a week I have a track meet sometimes twice a week. This past weekend we hosted our home Invitational. Fourteen schools attended the meet. Our girls team brought home a 2nd place trophy both Jimmy and myself were very pleased with all the girls performances. We ran tough relays as well as some top performances in individual events. We are looking forward to a very successful season. Here are a few pictures of my sunburned face at the meet.

Spring is in the air.....

This has got to be my favorite thing! I love my close line! Especially for my sheets. It is such a nice day today that I have torn the beds apart and am washing everything! I love it! Tonight is going to be a joyous night in clean sheets. Kade and I are going to put the tramp up as well, hopefully we have seen the last of the snow. I will probably jinx myself but I cant wait and neither can Kade.