jot it down

my sister in law dani, is selling note pads and they are so dang cute. she also does christmas cards, announcements and anything else you may want. she has a store on etsy.com which i have never heard of, but found very fun to look at. her sit is http://www.jotitdown.etsy.com/ check it out.

carlson dance party

annie cracks us up. whenever she hears a beat she automatically dances.

family pictures

so we had family pictures last week. i spent all week running from store to store trying to find the perfect outfits, with the perfect colors trying to coordinate everyone making sure we had bows, tights, pants, shoes and so forth. anyway friday came and everyone looked great. the girls behaved well and we hopefully got some good pictures. but after the pictures we came home and i looked in the mirror to find my dress on backwards. i mean seriously. after all that. the good thing is that the back and the front do look identical except for a seam down the middle. but really, after all that stress. which leads me to, why are family pictures such a stressful thing. is it just me??

gardners village

a few days ago we hit gardners village. the girls loved looking at the witches, but more that that they loved and couldnt wait to go to sweet aftons candy shop. i think they could spend all day just looking at candy.

woohoo tyler!

last week tyler ran the st. george marathon! he was solid the entire time and cut his time down 40 mins for his last marathon. way to go tyler. now we are both training for the snow canyon half marathon next month. i hope i survive.



we stayed with greg and lindsey in st george the girls had the best time with them. thanks guys!

san francisco

this past weekend my sister and i went to san francisco to visit my brother brian and his wife becca. it just so happened that it was the same weekend that my parents had a convention there so, we were all able to play in the city for the weekend. we had so much fun shopping, eating, talking, eating, jogging and more eating. it was so nice to have a little break from being a mom.

shopping in unions square. we had some good finds.

if you are ever in san fran you have to go to mamas. it is the BEST

breakfast you will ever have. make sure you get there close to open or you may

have to wait a couple hours.

low-fat apple yogurt cinnamon french toast topped with fresh berries MMM!

i took a picture so it would last longer.

dinner at scala's another good meal.

farmers market saturday morning. it was overflowing with yumming fruits and vegetable.

farmers market

the girls at crissy field. we missed you lindsey. i am sure greg wouldn't have cared if you had come with us 4 days after your wedding(yeah right). we'll get you next time.

while i was there, there was the bridge to bridge 12K that brian and i ran.

it was so pretty. it started at the ferry building and ran along the bay passing embarcadero, fishermans wharf, fort mason, marina green, into crissy field up to fort point (golden gate bridge) then back and up to presidio. what a jog!

one of the highlights was that we were able to listen to lance armstrong speak. he was really intresting to listen to. he talked about going through cancer and then riding in the tour again.

thanks brian and becca for the fun few days.

i came home and i am ready to leave again.