Christmas in Canon City

A Letter to Cedric -retyped exactly as written

Dear Cedric,
You are so cut. I Love you Cedric. You can laugh playing with us. the game is ticlke tiger. you can play with your toys and I can play with you. You and I have fun together. You and I are Best Buddies. You and I are happy together. You are the Best Brother in the world. You and I are very happy. You and I play together becuse I Like you. I Love you Becuse you are my Baby brother.
Love Spencer

(I thought this was the cutest brother letter. Spencer really does adore his baby brother, and the entire Lincoln Elementary School knows it)

Halloween 2008

The Pontious cousins.



Cedric totally pigging out, and Hyrum using his manners.



Fooz ball is always a conpetitive game. (The gir ls had more supporters when playing.)
Me (pink shirt) & Alihah (dress) against Johnathen (murderer) & Noah (who didn't dress up)



The faries and doll.



All of us kids!



Since it was Cedric's b-day, he was a cup cake!











The Two-sum @ their party.



On the Monday before Halloween, we celebrated the birthdays of Cedric, and Hyrum! (They are only 2 weeks apart.) We decorated oranges to look like jack-o-lanterns, ate cake, hung out, and played games. It was a lot of fun! We also had the Youth over for a Halloween party. It was a blast! When looking at the pictures, I'm sure you will notice a lot of wings going around! There were at least 5 faeries. It was fun to hang out with everyone though!

Another Race!

This weekend was an awesome family race. I entered the 10K, Hannah and Jay did the 5K. We all placed and won medals! I couldn't believe Jamison ran the 5K in 26 minutes, and placed first for his age division. Hannah got 3rd for her age division. I had a great race and placed 2nd for my age division. The woman in first place was the high school cross-country coach and she was fast, really fast. I wanted to have a good race to make up for the tough time I had running with an injury for the half-marathon. I wanted to do 8:30 minute miles, but I averaged 8:06 minute miles for 5 miles. To some it may be slow, but I was really happy. My running buddies all did well too. What I won't tell you is that I got the 2nd place ribbon because there were probably less than ten ladies in my age division. You've gotta love small towns sometimes. You've got a chance to feel like a winner once in a while!

Little Pumpkin

I think I'm going to have fun having a baby born on Halloween! We made these tie-dye shirts for FHE last week and everyone wore them to school the next day.

The Best Dinner in the World

Tonight Jamison asked the biggest question of the day: What are we having for dinner? Expecting moans and groans I enthusiastically responded, "The best dinner in the world!" His ears perked up and hopefully responded, "Oh, Hamburger Helper?" Exasperated I said, "No." "Oh, then Cow Tongue?" "NO!"

Okay, where have I gone wrong when a child, who has been exposed to might I say with the pride of a homemaker, some rather fine cuisine, thinks that Hamburger Helper and cow tongue are the best dinner menus in the world?

Half Marathon Race

Race day finally came. I don't think my nerves could have handled another day waiting. I spent the entire summer training from 1 1/2 to 3 hours almost every day to be able to run 13 miles on Labor Day. I was really stressed out because the last two weeks, and most important part of training, I started having foot problems which translated into knee and hip problems. I could hardly walk, let alone run, and I was upset that after all my hard work I may not be able to race. After lots of cross training, iceing and heating and heating and iceing, and prayers, I felt good enough to race. The four of us that raced together stayed in a hotel at the location for moral support and a lot of well needed laughs. I was so incredibly nervous. We all bounced out of bed at 4:45 am and headed to the America the Beautiful Park. The line to the bathroom was so long, and I had to go so bad after hydrating like crazy, out of desepration we took an outdoor leak behind a statue at the park! It was just in time for the race to start. It was a beautiful trail. It went up for 6 1/2 miles and back down the the last half. By mile 8 my feet were hurting quite a bit, by mile 10 the pain was terrible and just got worse. The good news is my feet hurt so much, I couldn't even feel me knees. I wish I could've had the stronger run I wanted, but I still finished in just over 2 hours and in the top 1/3. It never felt so good to be done running! Denise said she would rather go through another high risk pregnancy than run an actual full marathon. It was a goal I never thought I would accomplish, especially since my New Year's resolution was to just run a mere mile around our loop without stopping. I learned to love the meditation and stress relief of running and really hope I'll be able to resolve my "pain" so I can train for a faster race next time.