Post Falls 5k Fun Run

The Post Falls Police Department recently hosted their first "Leashes and Laces" 5k Fun Run. it was a fund raiser to help pay for the training and upkeep of their new K9. I did a few trial runs around the neighborhood with Kya then decided to give it a shot. This was my first 5k since I started running just over a year ago. Pay no attention to my sleek running apparel. It was snowing pretty heavy about an hour before the race started.


Kya can be a great dog when she's home alone with us and no other distractions are around. Throw her out in public around 100 other dogs and she gets a little amped up. We had to stand about 100 feet apart from everyone else just to keep her calm and she was the only dog to bark/whine during the singing of the National Anthem, we were very proud. Standing so far back, I got a pretty bad start and had to wind my was through all of the slower runners/walkers. Running 3.1 miles with an energetic dog is rough, and only made worse when you mix in all of the other dogs. Kya tugged and pulled at the leash with every dog we passed in an effort to get a good sniff of that region dogs love to sniff.


I finished the first half in 13:00 and as you can see I fell off my pace on the return trip. For those who can't see, the clock says 27:11. It was nice to get out, do something active, and be a part of the whole community thing, but next year's race will be run without the dog.

Late Night Wendy's and The Lost Tooth

Sometimes in life you just have to eat Wendy's late at night after a long day of conference and a double baptism. Weston was eating his cheesburger, which by the way is very healthy because it has meat, cheese, pickles, and ketchup, and he surprisingly said that his tooth just fell out. He was chewing his cheeseburger and felt something hard. So, he spit it out and there it was his tooth. After letting his tooth hang on by a small piece of gum for about two months and just like that it fell out. Lets hope the next one goes quicker. He did get a shiny or at least a crispy new dollar bill from the tooth fairy. Well, all's well, that ends well.

Matt and Lacey post something and we will have a Grand Slam

Colorado Springs

To wrap up our Sring Break , we decided to repeat our adventures from last year and take a trip down to Colorado Springs. We left Friday after work and headed to the Air Force Acadamy. We ate a picnic dinner by the static displays and got to watch the gliders taking off and landing. We then headed to the Garden of the Gods and strolled along the giant rock outcroppings just as it was getting dark. By then it was time to hit the hotel and the POOL! I was in heaven as the water was actually warm. Seven people in one room could have been ugly, but by some small miracle everyone went to sleep quickly.

Saturday, we woke up, had the traditional hotel waffles, and then headed off to the zoo. As you'll notice from our family shot, we actually looked like we belonged together. The girls in pink and the boys in blue with some stripes thrown in for good measure. I'd like to say we planned it, but who are we kidding.

My favorite part about the Cheyenne Mtn Zoo is how close you get to the animals. The kids had fun feeding crackers to the girafees.

Sometimes you get REALLY CLOSE! Thank goodness for plexiglass. The bears were very active and we had fun watching them wrestle each other for about 20 minutes. They then headed over and relaxed in their pool. The zoo lets you see into the pool and watch as the fish all swam away when the bears climbed into the water.

Of course we can't go to the zoo and not finish the day without a trip to the Will Rodger's Shrine to the Sun tower. Here is this year's version of Aimee's famous pose, "Looking off into the distance."

Brant

Denver Weather

Record 83 degrees yesterday and now this.

Raya is 5!

As an early birthday present for both girls, we decided it would be fun to take them to Disney Princess on Ice. So just the three of us gals went, a little girl party. This time we got it right and had them dress up as a princess. I bought some glo sticks at the dollar store and we were off. The show was fun, and they had 7 princesses. Who could ask for anything more?

Raya definitely had a good morning opening gifts. Thanks grammy and grandpa, sorry we missed your call earlier.

This year, the birthday girls didn't want a cake. She doesn't really care for it. She wanted waffle cookies. Well, I couldn't just put a plate of cookies in front of her, so I had Kevin make a waffle cookie tower. She loved it.

I was out at Grandpa Jacobs' house yesterday and he gave me a book. He said when he got it home and opened it up he couldn't read it for some reason.

Can anyone guess the English title?

Early Sunday Morning

How about a wedding announcement picture to brighten your day?

I'm sitting here entering the high priest home teaching data in the computer. The stake gives us 3 days to get our report to them. I have developed an e-mail list that works really well. I send it out the evening of the last day of the month and get about 50% response by the next day. Then I send out another one to about 1/3 of the quorum and I get a few more responses. Finally on the last day I have to call about 6-8 companionships. But, the report is in by the third. This month quite a few sent in their report before I had a chance to send out my first request. I think we are making progress.

We went to a baptism after the priesthood session of conference last night. It was for Tyler Skinner and Michael Richards (they are here on their way to Denver). It was nice, lots of people. Brandon leaves this week to return to Las Vegas to complete some project and study for his big test (whatever it is called).

It is a beautiful Sunday morning. The wind howled and it rained most of last week. Naturally, it is beautiful on Sunday when we are supposed to be in church. It is so wet the farmers cannot get into their fields. There are even little patches of snow still on the downwind side of the ridges.

It is crunch time for Mom. This week she has to get everything ready to serve about 350-400 sisters lunch at stake women's conference. They keep moving the goal posts on her but I think she has it nailed down.

Hope you all have a good week.