Summer Days, Driftin' Away...

This time of year, towards the end of August I get downright panicked that the summer is almost over. I often lament over the "woulda, coulda, shoulda's" of all the things I hoped to do before the summer began. Thus, here is documentation, primarily for my own sake, that we did do a few fun things... (outside of the obvious trip to California).

Went to a cool new park with a fun splash pad.

Alex enjoyed his swimming lessons, particularly on the last day when he got to go down the slide. (Steph was slightly jealous that Alex got to sit on the cute lifeguard's lap!)

We went to Herriman Beach 3 times, and even got Steve to go with us once. (no easy feat!)

 

Last weekend we went up Little Cottonwood Canyon and took a nice little hike. Nothing like the beauty and fresh air of the mountains. I was kicking myself that it took till August to finally get around to doing something I enjoy so much.

Of course, we've also done some of the small and simple things we enjoy in the summertime, going to the local pool a number of times, walking to the gas station to buy Icees, lots of barbecuing. I promise to soak in each moment of these next few weeks, and not allow myself to feel sad that I have to wait another 9 months for summer to roll back around. Ok, maybe not promise, but I will do my best!

My Cute Little Four Eyes

My baby had to get glasses. Just in time for Kindergarten. I'm a little nervous about how that's going to pan out. Hopefully he'll get used to wearing them over the next few weeks before school starts. He looks so handsome, but at the same time when I look at him I feel bad. I know a lot of children have much worse medical problems to deal with so I'm certainly not complaining. In fact, there's a chance he'll grow out of the need for glasses in a few years. In the meantime, I'll be asking for a lot of advice on how to get a 5 year old to keep his glasses on, to keep them from getting lost, and to keep them in one piece!

Deseret News 10k

I've never been much of a runner, but I have learned to enjoy it more and have become a little better at it over the past year. I've done some 5k's before and really enjoyed that. I've wanted to push myself a little more, but certainly am not ready for a half-marathon so I thought a 10k (6.2 miles) would be a good middle ground for me. I'd heard the Deseret News 10k was supposed to be a good course, particularly because much of it is on a decline. So... I signed up, got really nervous right before, but ended up having so much fun and was happy with my time.

Steve dropped me off at the starting line, then went and found a place to park at about mile 3 so that he could cheer me on and snap a few pictures. I spotted him from about a block or two away, but he was so busy cheering on all the runners that he didn't even see me. I was waving my arms in the air as I'm running, but he still didn't see me until finally I shouted out "STEVE!!!" when I was about 20 feet in front of him and he frantically tries to get a picture as I'm running by. (Hence the blury pic!)

These pictures were taken by the professional photogs near the finish line. This top one cracks me up, because I know at that very moment (as I'm starting to poop out), I spotted the clock at the finish line. It had just struck 59 minutes, and I thought, "Oh my gosh, if I hurry I can finish before the hour mark!" That gave me enough oomph to step it up, and my actual chip time ended up being 58:33.

Tim, a friend of ours that I ran into after the race. A lot of people commented on how cool it was that I had the bib # 2000.

I definitely caught the bug and hope I can keep getting better at running!