I hope you don't mind this...

Last weekend, Mark and some friends ran the Wasatch Back Ragnar Relay Race and they did FABULOUS! This is the start of the race and this is when they announced their team the Random Runners. They all had matching shirts, so the guy in green is who started. Mark was the 6th leg and had 3 different legs he did (as did all the team mates). He made all his projected times plus was quicker on a couple of them. (They projected them from 10k times that they did earlier). His first leg was 6.1 miles down hill, the second 8.1 uphill, and 3.1 pretty even keel. They started at 1:00pm and finished at around 6pm the next day. (the whole race is approx 188miles). Overall they came in around the top 12% of over 600 teams. Pretty good I think for a bunch of amature runners.

Here he is on his first leg of the race receiving the baton.

Here he is with great running form.

This is their time (I think it was a little bit off, but they are team 430).

Here he is with his team mates (minus one who was chasing his child) when the race was finished.

They were excited and a couple of them have come up to me and said how amazing of a runner Mark was. They all did really well. I guess it was an amazing experience.

One year ago Sunday....

This was the little ball of happiness that joined our family a year ago. I can't believe that it has already been a year since Taylor was born. He is such a happy and very determined child. Taylor was in our room when the other kids woke up. All 3 of them came in and and one said "ITS THE TODDLER." (side note, when I refer to him as my baby I'm quickly reminded that he is a toddler). Then all 3 of them sang him Happy Birthday. That day they all called him the birthday boy all day long and then would say stuff like they loved playing with the birthday boy. They ran into church and told everyone it was his birthday.

Singing happy birthday, Taylor grabbed the cake.

Here he is enjoying the ice cream. He didn't get much messier than this. In fact he started to cry when he saw his hand was a mess. We just had to wipe him down without a bath.

Enjoying part of his toy (its a car that came with a boat, he absolutely loved). It was fun.

Well I haven't written in an extremely long time because we have been BUSY. Alex finished school and had a fun program. Brigs and Alex started T-ball, which they are enjoying. Mark has been training for a big team race (187.9 miles in total, I believe). Planting the garden, weeding, etc. Then we had visitors and visited for 2.5 weeks, with Mark's fam and then mine. Finishing wedding dresses, skirts, necklaces, doing reading programs, and getting a new garage door, because the other was destroyed. Well we are back and now we're trying to get the house back in order and semblance of normalcy. Our dryer broke the Monday after we got back and we had to get a new one. It was great fun, but I think we're back to okay.

This is Betsy and Tanner with the nieces and nephews when they got out of the temple. Congrats guys.

My mom and dad did a lot to make this special for everyone and we had a blast. I'll be trying to post pics before they get too dated. IT may take a while.

One last pic I thought was cute, Al helping Brig tie his shoe on Sunday. Well hope all is well with everyone. :)