My Recent Reads

I've read 3 VERY different books this last month! Here they are...

This book Chains was for my book group. And I really didn't get into it. It's a good story about an African girl that was sold into Slavery during the Revolutionary War. I usually LOVE historical fiction and claim it's my favorite genre. And this book was good. I just never became completely addicted to it. (maybe that's a good thing;) )

The Dead Tossed Waves is a great book! I've had it on hold at the library forever and it finally came in! You have to read the first one though The Forest of Hands and Teeth. Both great books if you like Sci-Fi. It's about our world hundreds of years from now and everything has been taken over by a virus, similar to the idea of Will Smiths I am Legend. But this is the story of the survivors. I really liked it, very fast past and continual action.

Left Neglected. Oh where to begin... I also had this book on hold FOREVER at the library, and was way excited when it finally came in! This book was amazing. It's a fictional story of a strong working mother that suffers from severe brain damage and it's her story of recovery. This book makes you stop and think about what's important in your life, and I really fell in love with the main character. I definitely recommend this one if your looking for a summer read.

Ogden Marathon

I had so much fun at the Ogden Marathon last weekend! I love running in races! I was on a relay team with my sister, sis-in-laws, and mother-in-law! It was so much fun! I ran the first 7 miles and then handed off to Ari who ran the next 6 miles. I did it in just barely over an hour and I'm pretty proud of my 9:36 pace:)

My finish line, which is not even half way for the "real" marathoners. My respect to those hard core people!

Hand off to Ari:) Go Ari Go!



Sole Sisters!

Good job girls it was so much fun! Thanks for making me do it even though I didn't want to;)

Running

I used to say I hated running. Not that long ago really, I thought runners were crazy fools with nothing better to do. But I think it's starting to grow on me a little, there really is nothing that beats that runners high! For Christmas my mother in law entered us into the Ogden Marathon as a relay team. And I kept saying it was the worst fat joke ever;) haha! But seriously I wasn't excited about running some where between 6-8 miles ! However today we all ran in a 5k just as a prep for the "real" race in [3 WEEKS!] and it was SO much fun! I loved it! So now I think I'll keep it up and enter more races, it's fun to work towards something and push yourself to the limit! So I guess I gotta say thanks Tammy and Erin too you guys have inspired me:) !

Sexy Sax Man anyone?

If you have yet to see this video or if you have not heard of the Sexy Sax man please click here . Trust me it will rock your world and I do believe you will be forever changed.

MDC Alumni

I got to be a part of Murray Dance Company Alumni this year and it was so much fun! I miss dancing, I do not miss high school, but I do miss dancing and the feeling of performing and just working hard at something as a team. You know all the good stuff! It was great to take a little "ME" time and dance, I can't think of anything else I'd rather do on my limited "time off" :) But here's some pics from the performance night!

If you care to see this amazing performance;) the video is on my Facebook wall. I've been saying this for 5 years now but I really need to start taking a dance class again! I miss it so much!

Easter Weekend!

We had a lovely easter weekend full of WAY too much sugary goodness and lots of Easter Egg hunts. And all day today all we've been doing is hiding eggs and finding them, Isaac loves it! Well hopefully everyone out there had a wonderful Easter weekend! Here's how ours was...

Easter bunny baskets:)

Easter Egg hunt and Grammy Tammy's


Scrumptious Easter Chick cupcakes! They weren't really a hit at our easter party not even one got eaten haha! I didnt care though I'm just going to take them to my ladies I visit teach! You people were missing out they were delicious!!

Egg hunt at our church.

Also at our church, he was having a hard time opening this one:)

A Must Read

I am always wondering what I should blog about... of course I love to blog about my adorable children, that's a given. But what else? There's food of course which is great, but lots of people blog about food so i only want to blog about seriously amazing food. See post below. But one thing I do a lot is READ seriously I read atleast a book a week. We don't have T.V at my house. Yes this is a choice I made, I'm really not a fan of t.v and anything we really want to see we still can because of the interent. ANYWAY when I think of relaxing, both boys are down for naps, house is semi in order, I've showered within the last 48 hours (always a good thing to keep up on;) ) then what do I do? I read ! and I love it! So I read about a book a week, and I think I'll start sharing some of my must reads on here. So for any of you out there looking for a good book to lay by the pool with or whatever maybe I'll have something on here. I also want to keep track because seriously I can't remember all the books I've read this year alone, and I keep telling myself I should keep a list so I can recommend books when people ask me and yet I still have yet to do this!

Well the Book of the week for me is THE HELP and it is seriously AMAZING! in my top 5 for sure and let me tell you it's not easy for a book to make it into my top 5! So if you haven't read it yet it's a must! And if you have read it, it's amazing right??

PS The movie is coming out in August and it looks SO good! So you better read it before then because if you are anything like me I can't watch a movie if I haven't read the book!