Memorial Day Weekend

On Saturday we got up and went with my brother to the driving range and hit a few golf balls around. (Caleb and Cameron's went far and ahead, mine were the ones going all around :)

Then we went to the temple and out to dinner while Corbin went and hung out with Jan, Ken, Erika and Daisy (their rabbit that he apparently chased all over the yard).

On Sunday my family was out of town so just Cameron came down to our house and we played Mario Party and Mario Kart on the Wii. Those are probably my two favorite video games, along with Eye Toy and Dance Dance Revolution, so it was fun.

Then on Monday we got up and went to our ward's breakfast. It was suppose to be a big party at the park with tons of games and food, but the darn rain forced everyone inside instead so we didn't get to play much, but there was lots of yummy food.

After breakfast we came home and cleaned up and got ready for our family barbecue. Jake and Ashley and the whole Lloyd clan came over and we grilled, played games and then went to see Indiana Jones while my parents babysat The Bean. Towards the end of the afternoon the rain let up a little and we took Corbin and Rachel out the playground behind our house to play. The problem came when they both wanted to swing at the same time, but there was only one toddler swing, so we solved that problem...

(He looks like he hates it, but he was actually having a good time, I swear.)


Here Corbin is trying to give Rachel a hug and saying "Oh..." since he heard us say that because he was being cute, but in the picture it just looks like he is biting her. Oh well...

Puzzle Mania

This weekend Caleb and I put together a puzzle. Ever since we had a kid we have had to come up with new at-home date nights, and doing a puzzle while we watch a movie has become a popular one. It was so stinking hard though, you can't tell from the picture, but none of the pieces were normal shapes, and there was no flat border. The top half, with all of the trees, took us forever and a day, but it was still fun.

13.1 Miles

Last weekend I ran a half marathon. It was awesome! (Actually it sucked, but finishing was awesome!

My goal was to do it under 2 hours, which is 9 minute miles. Good runners start slower, and pick up speed throughout the race, but I hadn't trained doing that so I figured I would just run my steady pace throughout

Now people had warned me that the last three miles are hard, because they are the last three miles, but also because there aren't any downhill parts and told me to pace myself. So I ran the first three miles good, almost 9 minute miles exactly, but then I was feeling pretty good and decided to ignore them and push it harder so I ran the next 7 miles in 8:30 minute miles

And then came those last 3 miles that I had been warned about and I wanted to die. The 11th mile, I ignored it and keep my 9 minute pace, the 12th mile I slowed down, the beginning of the 13th mile, I slowed down a lot.

I lost track of my time and somehow looked at my watch wrong and thought I had already passed 2 hours, so I was sad and lost motivation. Then I saw the big clock and realized I had read my time wrong and there were still a couple minutes left, so I ran as hard as I could the last quarter mile and finished in 1:59.03!

So I accomplished my goal, but I was sad that I slowed down at the end there. Next time I run I will have to learn how to pace myself better.

I brought my MP3 player to keep me entertained and distracted, but didn't think to check the batteries, so it died halfway through the first song and I had to spend the next 2 hours running on my own. Needless to say I did a lot of thinking and meditation.

Overall it really was awesome though, everyone should run one at some point in their lives.

3 Down, Eternity to go...

Yesterday Caleb and I celebrated our 3rd anniversary. It has been a fun three years. At the beginning of our marriage we decided to try and give each other the traditional marriage gifts each year. Paper, cotton, and this year was leather. Caleb got me a really nice new wallet-coin holder thing (I think that anyone who has seen the old one that I have had since early high school is probably celebrating that fact). And I got him a banana gaming chair. I think that he likes it, but he really hasn't gotten a chance to sit in it much since Corbin has been playing on it non-stop ever since it came out of the box. He thinks it is his own little seat since it is so low to the ground.


Also, the past few weeks Corbin has started to get really attached to DVD and CD cases. We keep them on the bottom shelf, and he has always pulled them off and made a mess pretty much every day since we moved in. But lately he picks out one or two of the cases and totes them around with him all day long. Yesterday at his Grandma's house he apparently started crying when she wouldn't let him take it into the bathtub with him, and today he slept with one clutched in his hand. I even tried to sneak in and take it out so that he wouldn't roll over onto it in his sleep and get uncomfortable, but he had a death grip on the thing. I don't know, that kid...

Our Busy Week

Caleb's 26th birthday was this past week. On Wednesday we went to see Iron Man, which was a really cool movie, we strongly recommend, especially to Tyler. Then we stopped by the Lloyd's to pick up Corbin and enjoyed some no bake cheesecake (thanks to Ashley's great recipe suggestion). People were really generous and gave Caleb some nice stuff. He got a good dress shirt, a new video game, some ear buds (up until now we have only owned one pair and we always end up fighting over it :), a really good electric shaver (he still uses the one from his mission which requires a Korean to American electricity adaptor, which is really annoying), some new sandals, a Winger's gift card and some money. He used the money to go buy a new mattress this weekend, since he has always hated the one I picked out when we first moved up here. We met this elderly woman who spent $1,000 on a brand new custom mattress less than two months ago and then fell trying to get into bed, (it really is a high mattress), so now she is afraid of it and wanted it out of her house, so we got it for dirty cheap, and it is way nice even though it is slightly used.

Then on Friday we were able to attend Adam's law school graduation and afterwards got to go out to lunch with Caleb's family and Aunt Mel and Aunt Mimi and two of her boys. We had such a good time visiting with everyone. Then of course the boys had to hang out Friday night and watch the Jazz game.

Today we drove up the Lloyd's after church to celebrate Mother's Day. We all made homemade personal pizzas and played games. We also got to go and see Tyler's new garden space. We are little jealous, growing a garden two years ago was so much fun, we are thinking about doing some potted tomatoes, but I don't know how well those would work out, so we'll see.