My baby is TWO!

Happy Birthday Sadie!  

This is what she wanted to wear to her party--pretty typical--she is in a house with boys all day.

I managed to get her to take off the mask and put on the birthday crown but she was not having anything to do with a shirt. Okay, she's 2 and it's her Birthday so whatever right?

Dad did the honors of making her Birthday Cake.  Pineapple Upside Down cake-Yum!

Her gifts included lots of girlie things like Strawberry Shortcake purse, My little ponies, new swimsuit and clothes and a lovely grocery shopping cart that she had been eyeing on our last Toys R'Us visit.  

Having Sadie in our home has been nothing but a joy.  She is my snuggler and such a big helper.  I definitely have a little shadow following me around  doing what mommy does.  Does it get any better?  I love you Sadie Ann

Poor Jasper

While we were in Utah for vacation for three weeks we were not able to bring Jasper so we scouted out some boarding places and boarded him. I called every few days and was always told he was doing just fine but of course, how can you ever really know? Well about 4 days before we were suppose to be going back to Arizona we get a call from the Boarding place that they found blood in Jasper's stool and that he was looking really lethargic. Keep in mind he is in Arizona where it is 115 degrees out. The place was an indoor/outdoor kennel but we were worried. We told them to take him to the vet and long story short, after running lots of blood tests, x-rays, etc. everything came back normal but the vet said he was very dehydrated and wasn't acting like a puppy. She gave him an IV and he immediately started getting better. I know the kennel had water available at all times for the animals so I don't know why he would be dehydrated but he was. We were happy to get back to Arizona and get Jasper back in our care. Travis took this picture of me allowing Jasper to ride home from the kennel on my lap (he is 75 lbs). And I've forgiven him of the carpet eating incident. Total cost for boarding and vet for our 3 week vacation- $1300. This dog is more spoiled than my kids. What can you do.

Here he is when we first got him. Eight weeks old.

My protector on my night runs. Glad you are feeling better buddy.

"No kids under Eight allowed on the Dam tour!"

On our way back to Arizona from Utah we decided to go the Vegas route. We stopped at the Hoover Dam and showed the kids. (Actually what happened is I was telling Travis not to stop because I am terrified of heights and it was freaking me out. He stopped anyway and said "Fine you sit here" and took the kids to show them. I was terrified but forced myself to follow after him because otherwise it was certain that one of my kids would plunge to certain death from the wall without me there) It is hard to see how freaky it is in the pictures so just take my word for it. The bridge in the background is HUMONGOUS! They built a new highway to acommodate traffic and my guess is to reduce security issues of people driving across the Dam.

Well since we were there I said we might as well do the tour. We rode the escalator down to the tour start and guess what? There was a sign that said "No Kids under Eight on the Dam Tour"--I wish I would have taken a picture of that because it was funny. So guess what we all repeated over and over because we find humor in saying the word Dam a lot. Landon and Dayton came up with varying saying such as "Well, I don't want to go on the Dam tour anyway" and "Dam tours are for losers". Here is a picture of us leaving the Dam tour area via the Dam escalator. Okay I'm done :)

(P.S.--The Dam tour is $30 per person!? Rip off)
We settled for some nachos and the boys showed how tough they were by placing a jalepeno on each one. Then we headed back to the car. The End.

Dayton's Special Day

July 3rd was a very special day for our family. Dayton was baptized in Utah with family and friends there to celebrate. It was nice to have most of my siblings there with their families to support us and Travis's Aunts came as well. My good friend Molly Cherrington also came to support Dayton. Something wonderful about seeing your husband and child all in white. Landon was able to give the opening prayer, all of Dayton's cousins sang a special musical number and Grandpa Honeycutt gave a talk on the Holy Ghost. We love you Dayton and are pleased with your decision to be baptized.

Handsome guys

Our little family. Proud moment for mom and dad.

Dayton with Grandma and Grandpa Honeycutt

Mom and Dad gave Dayton his first set of scriptures for his baptism. Study and learn from them son. Grandma and Grandpa Honeycutt gave Dayton a baptism journal to help him remember this day.

Aunt Kathy, Aunt Dawn, Aunt Heidi and daughter Brooklyn (not pictured Aunt Mignon "Boo") all came to support Dayton and their oldest nephew Travis. I am closer to these women than my own Aunts and appreciate their support of our little family. I know it isn't easy as they are all very busy with their own children and grandchildren. Thanks for coming.

Sunday after Dayton was baptized Aunt Tami and Uncle Chris blessed their 3rd son Shay and we took a impromptu Honeycutt family photo. All kids and grandkids are here. First time in how long? It's a miracle. It was great to be together. I love my family so much. Living away from family you learn to appreciate them so much. Having almost everyone at Dayton's baptism was so great. Uncle Kevin is a river guide and was in the Grand Canyon Saturday during Dayton's baptism but was able to make it back for the blessing.

All the grandkids of Ken and LeeAnn Honeycutt

**Side note: The Day before Dayton's baptism I went to my suitcase to get the paper that I had from my Bishop in Arizona to allow Dayton and Travis permission to get baptized in Utah. I had placed it in the front pocket for safe keeping. Well it wasn't there. Panicking I searched everything but it wasn't anywhere. After several phone calls between the presiding Bishop and my Bishop in Arizona everything "was approved" and it was fine. I mention this because when I got my suitcase off the luggage carousel after returning from Hawaii I noticed the front pocket was open and I had a thought to look for the paper and make sure it was there. I ignored the thought as I just wanted to get back to my parents and see my kids. I don't know what happened but I'm guessing I ignored a prompting from the HG and if I would have listened perhaps I would have avoided the missing form hassle. Live and learn. Thought I would document so I can remember to listen even if it seems like a small thing.

While you were out....

While I was lying in bed with shingles in Hawaii my kids were having a blast with Grandma and Grandpa Honeycutt, Aunt JeriLynn, Aunt Tami, Uncle Kyle and Uncle Travis and all their cousins. Activities included a birthday party, lots of swimming, movies, Thanksgiving Point, Cousin sleepover party at Aunt Jerilynn's complete with a tent, Liberty land rollercoaster and speed track and laser tag. Did I miss anything? I have to admit I was a little jealous....sheesh. Here are a few pictures of the adventures. They had SO SO SO much fun.

Carter, Sadie and Reece

Landon, Brady and Dayton

Brady, Dayton in the background

Kenaydee and Sadie

Amberly and Reece

A bunch of them :)

Grandma and Carter

Sadie Ann

Pirate Landon

Aunt Tami and Sadie

The "big" kids Amberly, Landon and Dayton

Maui--for better or worse

Travis and I had an opportunity to go to Maui without the kids and were so excited to have some time together. Unfortunately the trip didn't turn out quite as we had imagined thanks to a little thing I came down with--or should I say broke out with--SHINGLES. One word--OUCH. After our Ragnar race I thought I had a spider bite but it kept getting worse and hurting so we decided to go over to the urgent care and get something for it before we headed to Hawaii. The doctor took one look at it and said, "Uh, that's not a spider bite, you have shingles". WTH. So the doctor gave me lots of medication and assured me as long as I stay covered and dry it was not a problem for me to go to Maui. Great. Sounds fun.

Here I am, very covered and dry on our balcony.

Travis although I'm sure was somewhat bored was great to take care of me and a good sport. I mostly stayed in bed the whole time other than a few brief exits for food and one snorkeling trip where I drugged up and suffered the consequences later.
Here are some pictures of the before mentioned snorkeling trip. It was fun and the turtles were awesome.



Well, I can't say it was the romantic getaway we had planned but we did enjoy being together and a HUGE Thank You to my mom and dad for taking care of the kids while we were gone.

On the Rag-Wasatch Back style!

It all started out one sunny Thursday afternoon in Midway Utah. Twelve members of the M.O.M (Mind over Mileage) running team gathered to head up north for the Wasatch Back Relay.

Team Captain Adrienne bestowed upon each member a shiny new turquoise water bottle with running girl decal and names to match.

Next they headed to Olive Garden to carb load (?) for the race.

Upon leaving the restaurant BFF Stephanie decided to embarass Adrienne or was it herself (?) in a rendition of "O Captain my captain"

Note to self: Be careful what you wish for on fb it may come true :-)

Then it was on to the Van decorating. Below are some pics of the coolest van :-)

(warning: judgements may be biased because this is my blog and I said so)

and it's members

Not to be confused with the Too Cool Van :-)

(kidding.....hee hee)

and it's members.

It was determined that all members of both vans had enough coolness to be on the M.O.M. team

On to the Awards:

Best Diva Picture Award goes to Jarrie

Or is it Natalie?

Best we love each other picture award goes to:

Is it Amber and Jen with the look how cute we are hug?

Or the "We are sisters" of course we should win side hug...

But Amy comes in with the it is super early in the morning and we have been up all night running and I'm still here to meet Carrie hug....

or if you don't like that one how about this one with Tara and the look how cute we are with our white sunglasses hug??

Jen tries a second time for the award pointing out that this isn't a hugging award and I can have the best we love each other picture just by showing concern for my sister. True true.

But alas Adrienne swoops in at the end and steals the show and takes the prize with the "We obviously love each other the mostest" picture with hot husband Travis.
Hey, if you don't like the results of the award please feel free to comment and I'll put them in my round file to address later :)

Okay, now that that's settled let's move on.

Coolest running picture award:

Amy knows she has this one in the bag with her "my feet aren't even on the ground" photo

but Adrienne objects with her but I'm smiling while eating dust on my dirt run
Natalie smiles and notes that she is the only M.O.M member cool enough to run "barefoot" Good point Nat!

Jarrie chimes in with "I should win because I had to run up Avon pass on my 3rd leg in the middle of the bloody hot sun and it was a non support leg! So pick me, pick me!"

Travis jumps on that bandwagon with a "Hey I had to run up Avon pass too which was my last leg and it even slowed me down to a 6:28 pace causing me to only pass 27 people instead of my usual number" and then he added "plus I have a cool sweatband on--Eat your heart out Richard Simmons"

Jen laughs under her breath and says "It's not called the Avon Pass Series you guys it's called Ragnar and that's the hill I'm on :) Remember? And I'm smiling and waving"

The New Yorker says: "I'm from Sea Level and they give me the highest elevation straight up hardest leg, I should definitely win this award for sure!"

But then Amber looks at us and says--"YOU GUYS WERE IN A VAN and I was still too fast for you guys to get a picture of me running so I WIN! End of discussion"

Okay Amber you Win!

Peace out award goes to:

Adrienne submits this: Ummm, too posed=Fail
Susan tries this: Too smiley=Fail
and the winner is........our East Coaster Sara

Biggest Poser Award goes to:

Stephanie throws her 80's gun pose into the mix
Amy tries to strong arm her way to the win

Adrienne tries a too cool pose. Verdict: Fail

Tara gives it a valiant effort and pulls out all the stops with the flag girl

Followed with her own patented strong arm woot woot girls rule pose

but alas, none of the above mentioned were any competition for our very own

very ultimate poser Susan

who out did the entire M.O.M team and perhaps all Wasatch Back runners
put together with her sheer number of poser portraits! We concede the title to you! We are not worthy.
In true sportsmanship Susan comes back with a "Neiner, neiner neiner"

You should receive your awards in the mail shortly but if you don't then it is probably because it was lost in the mail so just know it was the thought that counts.

And thus ends the Adventures of the Mind over Mileage team in their opening debut of the Ragnar Relay Series with the Wasatch Back.

Put your arms down ladies you just ran 188 miles and haven't showered in two days!

This is your captain, over and out.

***Race was followed by lots of food eating and spa relaxing which photos are available to interested parties for a small fee*****