11 years...

11 years of wedded bliss!

Happy Anniversary N8, I love you!

When were your youngins:

On our wedding day:

Pantene Beautiful Lengths

Today Emma did a selfless act of service that brought tears to my eyes. She donated 8 inches of her hair to Pantene Beautiful Lenths.  Through Pantene women that have had hair loss due to cancer are able to receive wigs free of cost. It takes 6 pony tails to make a wig. At school today 23 people donated hair. It was a moving thing to watch and I am so proud of Emma and her choice to do this. She did it thinking about her Grandma knowing that she has been battling cancer for 2 years and dealing with hair loss and the need for a wig.

Here are my Mom (Emma's grandma), Emma and Mo working in my mom's garden last summer:

Emma this morning before the cut (we knew it was going to be close and she would be left with pretty short hair):

Getting it measured:

Let the cutting begin:

All done!!

Time to clean the cut up!

The After:

Here's the whole group that donated today:

 So proud!!

Crazy runners and a fun visit...

This last weekend N8 joined 11 other CRAZY runners for the team Kickin' Asphalt and ran the SoCal Ragnar Relay. I'm sure at some point he will be doing a detail post on his blog so my post will just have my favorite pictures that we have from the race! A SUPER fun thing about this race was that my cousin Carol came from NYC to run it with N8 and the team. I hadn't seen her since N8 and I graduated from BYU over 10 years ago. Here are some of the funnest pictures from the race:

Nate and Carol having breakfast in the hotel before the race started

Van 2 (check out the vinyl!)

The whole team except Brandon (he's running!)

Nate and Carol in their night gear

They FINISHED!!!

They got home about 1am Sunday morning!! N8 and Carol were exhausted, but N8 still had to get up and going for church meetings. 

On Monday afternoon we took Carol out geocaching. This way she could see what our little town was like:

Carol & Henry

After we went to dinner N8 and Carol went for a run so Carol could see what some of the trails around here were like. After that Carol helped N8 with some Yoga!

 
We had a great time having Carol here! Maybe someday we'll make it out to NYC to visit her!

Happy Birthday to my Sweetie!!

Today N8 turns the big 34! He is not a fan of celebrating birthdays (they mean you're getting older), but the kids enjoy birthdays so much that it has to happen! This is a big week for N8. On Friday & Saturday he and 11 others are running in the SoCal Ragnar. He has been training and getting ready for this race for months and we are all super excited for him and the other runners. What a great way to celebrate getting another year older!!

So here's to N8~a great husband, father, best friend and runner!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

 

 

The best of "phone pics"

I decided I needed to take a bunch of my phone pics off of my phone to free up some space. It's super convenient to have a camera on my phone. A lot of these pics have already made it here onto the blog or onto facebook. But I thought it was fun to see how many of my favorite pictures got taken with my phone!