My first half!

Last october my friend Nicole ask if I wanted to run a half marathon with her and Rebecca in April. These are two of my best friends from Vermont. Todd said, "you don't have a runners body, you'll have a heartattack or something" I was motivated by his negativity and began training.
I've been running lots since then and was feeling pretty ready until I had an injury three weeks ago that prevented me from continuing to train. Luckily all my resting paid off and I was able to race. Rebecca and Nicole picked me up too late at night and the next day we headed to Charlottesville, VA. This is a beautiful spot, home of UVA. I finished the race in 2hrs and 3o min and feel pretty accomplished for doing that. I'm sooo grateful for my dear friends. We laughed together and cried together and just had a fun time.

TIE BACK HAIR BEFORE STARTING MIXER!

So yesterday was a boring Sunday 'til Brenna decided to bake a cake! I wasn't paying attention and neither was Todd but luckily we were nearby. She was mixing with the hand mixer when I heard her start to wimper(I thought Garret was bugging her or sticking his hand in the mix). Anyway, I turn around and the mixer is on her head with her hair and scalp on the blades. Todd and I quickly turned off the mixer(she was a little panicked to figure that out). After taking a quick assessment and seeing far too much scalp pulled up by the beaters we decided to take her to the er in case there were some stitches needed. Imagine this, we walk into the ER with a 9yr old girl and a mixer attached to her head. After detaching the beaters from the mixer Todd and the nurse managed to unwrap her hair from the beaters. Most of which had been ripped right our of her scalp. Everything was in tact. I guess our scalps are stretchier than one might think. She lost quite a bit of hair and has a pretty nice bald spot but has hair that can cover it.
After dosing her with ibprophen, benedryl, and oh look here's some tylenol with codeine from 2007, she slept fine last night. Little bit of a headache today and her dad told her she didn't have to go to school. She's gonna go half day. I was pretty scared but I'm glad I can laugh about it now. I will not post pictures as she is a little self concious about it. Just imagine a bald bald spot about 1.5 inches from the start of her hair. And then imagine her walking into the ER with a mixer on her head. AHAHAHAHA!

Spring Break

For our Spring Break we drove to Utah to visit my brother Phillip and his crew. Here are some pics.
The above picture shows one of Garret's cousins holding his feet so he can steal the coins out of temple square fountain.
The kids in front of the Christus statue!
Summit and Brenna are the same age and are true best cousins. I love this picture!
So we saw Mo-Tab live and visited Temple square, played with cousins and skiied. My kids have never been to Utah so I also took them to Deseret Industries. I know it sounds funny but I grew up with one and my kids don't even know what that is. They loved it!

Here he is!

As promised, we picked up our new puppy Toby on March 27th, the day before Garret's birthday. After an hour ride up to Colorado Springs he puked on Regan in the car. Kinda made me laugh! He then had diarrhea for the first day. You would too if you were being malled by the Nelson kids. Since that first few days things have gone great. He came to us crate trained and uses that to escape from the constant terrorizing of Regan. She continues to do wheelbarrow with him which I think he hates but puts up with! We hung a bell on the back door and showed how to ring it when he needs to go potty. He's used the bell a few times. Progress! The learning curve is a lot better than potty training kids. Anyway, we're doing great and the kids love him to death.