New FDA guideline?

Nathan told me something very interesting he learned at preschool today.

"Mom, teacher told us that we are supposed to drink 8 gallons of milk a day."

Race for the Cure

I am so not a runner, but a year ago my dear friend Heidi was diagnosed with breast cancer. She was 6 weeks or so pregnant with her fourth child at the time. She went through several months of low dose chemotherapy, delivered a healthy baby boy, and is back to chemo treatments through the rest of this year. She has been such an inspiration to me. I wish I could exemplify her strength and faith during such a challenge. I decided in the fall that I would "attempt" to train for the Race for the Cure 5K in her honor. I told my good friend Ann about my goal and she (being a runner) told me she would help me. So on Saturday, at 8:30 am I ran (the whole way!) my first (and possible last) 5K in approx. 33 minutes. It felt so good crossing the finish line!

My Inspiration


My Coach


My Fans

Jazz Fans!

Friday night we had some friends over for homemade pizza and the Jazz game. I made one of my favorite Kristie Crockett (friend and amazing cook that I met in Ohio) recipes. It is definitely worth sharing.

Fresh Salsa

1 11-ounce can shoe peg corn, drain
1 15-ounce can black eyed peas, drain
3 avocados, diced
5 Roma tomatoes, diced
3 green onions
1 packet dry Italian salad dressing mix
3 tablespoons water
2 tablespoons oils

Combine dry Italian dressing packet with water and oil. Mix together with remaining ingredients and serve with your favorite chips.

*My husband is not a huge fan of canned corn, so I usually cook up a cup and a half of the yummy sweet corn from Costco or Walmart. I let it cool and then toss it in.

Thursday dinner

Our good friends Jared and Camille came to Utah for a little shopping getaway. We met Jared and Camille while we were in medical schoool. We lived next to each other in the Wedge"hood" Park Apartments. (This is where we had our car stolen from our parking space outside our front door.) Luckily, we all made it out of there alive. I've always appreaciated Camille's superior "homemaker" abilites and her sense of humor. We are lucky to have so many great friends!

I think I'm getting a complex

Okay, so I think I have reached that stage where my kids are starting to think I'm a lot older than I feel. Case in point...

We downloaded the old Super Mario Bros. to our Wii. Of course, I actually know how to play this game, unlike most of the other Wii games we own. I was playing it with Lauren and she couldn't believe how good I was doing (like I said, a rarity when I play the Wii) and asked me how I knew how to play this game. I told her I used to play this all the time when I was younger. She said, "they had this invented back then?"

Today I was taking Nathan and his cousin Andrew to one of our favorite parks in Kaysville. We passed Lagoon on the way and Nate asked his cousin (a definite dare devil) if he had been on the ride Wicked at Lagoon. He said that he hadn't because he wasn't old enough. Nate asked him how old do you have to be to ride it. Andrew replied, you know old...like your Mom.

I'm suddenly not so excited about my upcoming birthday.

My toothless beauty...

Isn't she cute? Lauren got all dolled up by her personal beautician (aka Aunt Dawn). And she had just lost her second top tooth, so I got to capture both occasions at once.

Baby Ruth and Mother Jill

My dearest friend on the planet came to Utah for a short visit a week ago for her Grandmother's funeral. We have not seen each other in 10 years and we picked up just like we did when we were kids. Linda and I have known each other since we were 2 years old (I know people say that for emphasis but for us its really true!). She is an amazing stay at home mom to four cute kids and we realized during our time together how much we have in common as adults. I had the BEST time with Linda. I didn't want her to go home.

When Linda and I were younger we loved playing Barbie dolls. On one particular play date I made Linda be the Ken doll. I didn't have another girl, so naturally I wasn't going to give up Barbie myself. Linda took her anger out on poor Ken and broke his head off. I sent her home telling her not to come back until she replaced my Ken doll! Okay, so we made up eventually but Linda made sure to bring me a new Ken doll on her visit! We had a great laugh over that one. A couple then and now pictures...




We got Linda to play Guitar Hero! Of course she picked it up on her first try. I'm still trying to not get booed off the stage before the song is over!