Marathon Weekend 2009

Chad and Andi on the Carousel. She is actually smiling for the camera, that is how much she loved it.
On the boat ride. It took her a few minutes to like this ride

Dad, Andi, and Kemper looking at the fish while we rode on the train

Kemp went on all the little(baby) rides, as he likes to call them, with Andi. He is such a good big brother

This was cracking me up. She looks so terrified, but I promise after the first loop around she was loving it.

What could be more exciting for my boys?!

Jim, Kip, Tom, Emily M, Cara, Emily G, and me. At our Hotel at 4:50 am (crazy early right?!) This year was such a blast, there were so many of us at the hotel. We all walked to the buses together after we took this picture. Thanks Jess and Amy for waking up and taking pictures for us! Taking one for the team for sure :)

Me and my sis in law Emily. It was so great to have her with me this year running it for her first time. She rocked it too.

Amy took this picture at mile 25. Chad met me and ran the last mile with me, so sweet of him. I kept telling him........talk, tell me something interesting to keep my mind of the pain! He is in the orange shirt. I had to laugh when I turned the corner and saw him waiting there to run with me, and he was wearing his regular clothes!

Me with my kids after the race.

Me and Kip. I owe this crazy marathon running to him! :)

Cara, Emily, me, and Kip, showing of our metals

Most of the group, we couldn't find Jim and Emily for this final picture! I must think I look pretty cool in those sun glasses since I never took them off!

We had a great weekend with family and friends in Logan for the Top Of Utah Marathon. It was definatly my best marathon yet. 10 miutes faster than my marathon last year. I felt really great for this one too, and I know I could have cut another 10 minutes of my time, and I will be looking forward to trying that next time. And I won't forget to wear my GPS next marathon! Not knowing my time made me too ignorant on the pace I should have been keeping.

Everyone did so great. We had 3 virgin marathoners this year!! They all reached their goals, and did so amazing! My sis in law Emily had just had a baby like 7 months ago for crying out loud! And Tom, a friend of ours ran almost the whole thing with a torn calf muscle. Cara did great too, and she never even ran longer than 17 miles before the marathon. It just makes me so proud of my little virgins!! HA HA :)

Chad and I took our kids to Lagoon too. The kids had a blast. Kemper was able to ride almost all of the rides this year, and Andi got a little braver as the day went on. We also went to IKEA before we headed home. We bought Kemper a bunk bed. Although, I could have gotten soooo much more. That store is freaking amazing, and a part of me wishes I would have never gone in there. Cause now I know how much stuff they have that I want!