10K

Somehow, someway, very unintentionally....I have become a runner. So...being a runner I decided that I needed to run a 10K. My sweet husband decided that he would run it with me. Saturday May 15th we ran the Idaho Potato 10K.

Here we are on the shuttle bus. Notice the smiles even though we got up at 7AM on a Saturday to run 6.2 miles FOR FUN. What is wrong with us?



Thane warming up...




Thane snapping a picture of me along the way...



We finished!! 58:47 which we were pretty proud of because I really wanted to do it in less than an hour.





Next up for me is the Top of Utah 1/2 marathon!!!

Big Jud's

After watching the Man vs. Food (Ethan's all-time FAVORITE show) about Big Jud's in Boise, we decided it was time to go try a Big Jud burger. Lucky for them, Nicole and Dan were in Boise to join us!! I'm not going to call them wimpy....but Thane, Nicole and Dan decided to share one!!

Yup....they finished it!!!

When we made breakfast the next morning Alexis decided she wanted a Big Jud's worthy pancake!! And -of course- we had to take a pic!!

So we have decided that we are going to consider this Nicole's initiation into the Boise Beckstead fam cuz not a week after they went back home they got engaged! YIPEE - new sister-in-law!!!

Daddy's gonna kill Ralphie!!!

Armstrong Park

We took a little break and went for a drive to Cascade. After cruising the town and having a little lunch we found Armstrong park. SMELLIEST park ever but had some fun equipment. The kids had a blast and we actually had a camera on hand to capture the fun..

LOVE MY GIRLS!

AND MY BOY!

I just love spending time with my fam!

What happens in Vegas....gets blogged!!

My baby sister (sorry Kristy, you are always gonna be the baby!!) and I got to have a short girls getaway to SUNNY Las Vegas!! I will put emphasis on SUNNY because when I left Boise it was 40 degrees and FREEZING!! After surviving the plane ride (we all know how much I love planes) we checked in it at the Monte Carlo...

then headed straight for the pool.. (91 degrees = MUCH BETTER!)

Later that night we hit Cirque du Solei (Mystere) - not my favorite one this time around but entertaining none the less! Fooling around in the gift shop a bit..

There was a LOT of eating on this trip. Vegas breakfast buffets are where I make back my $$$!! Yup...this really was the size of the buffet plate and you know I filled it up more than once!

Looking over the strip...

Fun stops in and out of different casinos...

Got a massage, did shopping, gambling, eating and sleeping. Thanks for the fun time Kristy!!!

Where the Wild Things Are..

Alexis had a gymnastics recital/show this past weekend and her class did it to the theme: Where the Wild Things Are! She did a fabulous job with her dance as well as bars, beam, vault and floor...she is turning into quite the gymnast!!

In costume and ready for the show..

Few snapshots during the program. Caught her mid-flip on the bars if the ladies head hadn't got in the way! Grrrrr...

SO PROUD OF HER!!!

Nickelback

So our fabulous friends the McKnight's got us GREAT seats to the Nickelback concert!! I will admit that Thane and I are probably a bit old for a rock concert, but they are my all-time favorite band!!

Fun to have a date with my man!! Alexis took some pics of us before the big night..

Thane, me, Becky and Dan at the concert...

The band played a lot of my favorites (bad picture of me but you get an idea of how close we are to the stage!)

Too much fun we had!

Highlight of the night: the drunken crazy men in front of us decided they were going to squish about 10 people into 4 seats. Our friend Dan decided to graciously point out to them that not all of them had tickets to be seated there. A brawl followed (yes, you read correctly BRAWL) and Thane had to step in as the peacemaker! Makes for a great story and we laughed all the way home :)

Both Thane and mine's ears rang for two days after the concert - WOWZA!! Fun to do something different and outside our "norm"!!!

Harley

Brylee and Daddy

on his ride. This is the

closest she will

EVER get to riding it!! :)

Favorite Mother's Day Gift!

My favorite Mother's Day gift this year? Ethan made a card at school where they filled in the blanks about their mom such as:
Favorite Food? Pizza
She's as pretty as? Flower
In the good old days when she was little, she used to? Play

But the ALL time favorite answer

She weighs? 120 lbs

LOVE YOU ETHAN!!

I should probably mention that he also said I was 18 feet tall :)

I love my 3 kiddos so much and had a great Mother's Day (well until Thane got called away to work around 4pm...GRRRR!) But I had a yummy pancake, bacon and egg breakfast, lots of hugs and cute gifts from the kiddos and Thane, and then headed off to church with my fam. Played at the park and just relaxed away the afternoon. LOVE YOU ALEXIS, ETHAN AND BRYLEE!!!

Requests for the week...

I have a few requests for the upcoming week. In no particular order they are:

1 - Change NO poopy diaps on Mother's day! :)

2- Have Nickelback decide they would like me to tour with them when we go to their concert Monday night

3- Have Alexis realize that I really am the "best mom ever" during our mom/daughter date on Tues

4- Run my 10K in under an hour

5 - Have it be AT LEAST 50 degrees for previously mentioned 10K

6- Have St. Luke's decide they will pay me to just stay home

7 - Have my bathrooms clean themselves before company arrives on Friday

7 small requests to make my life a little easier/better this week! :)

Amusing...

See, this is the kind of thing that amuses my man and I. We laughed and had to take a pic...