Lake to Lake 50 mile relay_W/ Pregnant Jamie

Here is a shot of the group that went to St. George for the Lake to Lake 50 mile relay. 5 runners, our team name was 5 and a Half.
The ladies in the background seem to be checking out the pregnant girl that beat them, ha ha

Vader Attack.

Scored a Darth Vader helmet the other day, and decided to test it out on my nephews. They are crazy Star Wars fan boys. My brother told them to come look to see we if we had arrived at their house yet and they were caught a little off guard. It was hilarious.

I wasn't the prettiest baby!

                                               I really hope my baby doesn't look like me!

   (yes that is me as a baby and my parents tried flattening my hair, it didn't work)

Its a boy!

So for those who don't even know I'm pregnant yet, yes I'm pregnant! I'll be 20 weeks on Thursday. We just found out this morning that we are going to be having a boy! I've always wanted a boy first and I was very nervous to found out what we were having. As you can see in the second picture, there's no denying its a boy. Other than that, all is well. We are trying to get through the cold winter (now that we are in Utah) and we are looking forward to summer. I'm trying to get use to the fact that my stomach is growing and I have no control over it (other things are growing as well....not sure how I feel about that, why do your thighs have to get bigger?). Pregnancy overall has been good to me so I don't have many complaints. I can still run, so as long as I can still do that I'm happy. I'll have to post some "belly" shots soon as I'm starting to show. It'll be nice to get out of that "is she pregnant or just fat" stage. Anyways, that's all for now, so here are the pics!

(The pics wouldn't post below my writings so they are posted above)

Utah

Finally I'm back!

Its been way to long since I've posted.  Andrew and I moved to Utah in October and we are just starting to feel a lil bit settled in and relaxed.  Andrew took a job in South Jordan selling medical insurance so that's what took us out of California and to Highland, UT.  We are currently just renting a basement apartment in Highland and hope to not be here to long (in the basement apartment I mean, UT I wish, but it'll probably be home for at least a few years, if not longer). We are enjoying it here, but definitely miss all our friends and family back home, the nice weather and of course the beach.  I'm currently studying for the GRE and to get my fitness instructor license.  I'm also thinking about substitute teaching while I'm studying (we'll see how that goes).  We are loving living so close to family, even tho we left a lot of family in California.  We are really close to two of Andrew's brothers and plenty of other family so its been great! 

That's all I have for now.  Hopefully the mountains will continue to get snow, cause I'm dying to hit the slopes (its one thing I'm stoked about living where we do....great snowboarding).

Hopefully I can start blogging on a regular basis, I've never been good at it.  I'm not very good at journal writing either, oh well!     

I tried to post some pictures, but my internet is not letting me...I'll try again tomorrow.

Surfs Up.

Took some shots of us surfing. This is the best thing to do for date night.



Caught some more dinner. The big one Benjamin is holding is his FIRST fish ever at age 6. You can see Christian in the distance, not too thrilled about touching any fish.

Monsters

Fishing with John, caught some big fish, had a tasty dinner.

Viva Mexico

Went to Mexico in August, great times. Was hard to come home and not have bath warm water everywhere to swim in.

Yosemite & Rafting the American River

So the end of our central coast loop and family reunion ended in camping at Yosemite, (my first time there, Jamie went before when she was tiny) and then, Jared, my brother-in-law, took us rafting on the American River. One night we hiked Half Dome in the evening to see the sun set and missed it, but the hike back was fun in the full moon. People left leather gloves at the bottom of Half Dome to use when climbing the cables, that was great for our hands. The one shot below you can see my brother-in-law, Jamie and I in front of Half Dome at night with a 13 second shutter speed, there was plenty of moon light, it was just hard to stay still for 13 seconds. Some of the highlights: (most of them pictured below)
Climbing Half Dome
Swimming in the freezing rivers and waterfalls, the days were hot
Chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast
Seeing a small bear (might as well have been a big squirrel)
Amazing views
Hanging out with family


Can you tell who needs a hair cut above? It was windy on Sentinel Dome.





We then rafted the southern leg of the American River with another brother-in-law. We were so stoked that he took us, especially with my sister being pregnant and due in 5 days. (Sierra Jeppson was born on the 24th of July) Jamie had been wanting to go rafting for months, she was probably the most excited. The rafting photos are not of us, but they show two rapids we went through called Satan's Cesspool and Bouncing Rock. The boat behind us got flipped on one of the rapids, and the boat in front of us lost a passenger on the other rapid. Great times. Would love to do it again.