My Little Beans

Fall Leaves

Halloween, Finally posted

SO CUTE!!!!

Singing time at Nanna Debbie's, here is lullaby time where we all  lay down on pillows, and listen to my mom play the guitar.  Doesn't last long but when it does it it is an amazing thing!

More singing time fun! Isaiah acting his part, of SUPERMAN, gearing up to fight the bad guys.

Maybe's pumpkin patch, we let all of the kids after singing go pick a pumpkin.  So cute. They have a huge field full of pumpkins, and in the fall  a corn patch.  Their field reminds me of growing up all of the big fields that hadn't been developed yet.  There farm is one of the last and I hope they hold  out and don't sell it.

Halloween was so cute. Skye we dressed up as a puffy little kitty cat, and Isaiah of course was superman. We went to a dinner at Rebecca Davidson's house beforehand. She went all out making little witches out of bread rolls, sun-dried tomatoes for noses, olives for eyes, and little cut out pumpernickle bread hats. She also rolled 150 tootsie rolls by hand to make little spiders.

Afterwards we went trick or treating at a few houses. Isaiah was so cute. He kept stopping after every house and eating the piece of candy. I had to laugh, needless to say we only made it to a few houses. We then went and got hot chocolate and homemade donuts at our neighbors house. So good, too good, I ate three.
After that we went to my Grandparents to show off thier cute costumes, they loved seeing them.
Fun filled night, and a lot of sugar.

Skye Had Her First Birthday!!!!

this little hat was a gift from grandma, here she is with her grandma nancy
Her first diaper change, way to go scotty
a sweet baby pic, I love girls you can dress them up with bows!
the nurse totally cut her head out of the picture, our only pic leaving the hospital, bummer
Right after she was born.
Our sweet Skye!
(I will post more pics later, I don't have them on this computer and don't why the one of her is so little)

Baby Skye arrived!!! I think if she would have waited any longer I would have imploded from the inside, haha. My moms prayers were answered because she came the day after my brother got home from his mission, so I could be in the airport and see him.

Constantly I had people telling me I was going to pop or that I should get a back brace. I carry all out front and she was almost a pound bigger than Isaiah so my belly was quite impressive. Anyway, she is the calmest sweetest baby she has a very peaceful presence which is something we are not used to coming from a rowdy two year old. I love the new born stage. I thought I wasn't a big new born person, because I love the busyness when they get older and are talking and so excited to be learning things. But I have noticed with my second that I cherish those moments of holding them when they are so cuddly and small, because I know those moments are fleeting.

Her birth story is much like her personality. Isaiah came out like spit fire in three hours start to finish. She was a little slower, not much, she was more like ten five hours. My labor started after I went swimming in the morning, which I highly recommended to all pregnant people, it feels so good to swim pregnant and have the weight off!! Anyway, I started having what I thought was fake contractions, and went into the midwives for my check up. I saw my friend who delivered me. She checked me and said I was a three and 80% efaced. I didn't believe her because they had checked me two week previous, and said I was dilated to a two, only to find out the next week I wasn't dilated at all---go figure?? So I went home and got Isaiah to go over to our house we are remodeling. We played in the backyard in the garden box digging up dirt with dump trucks, you got to love boys. The contractions came on a little stronger, but I still thought it wasn't real. I had this fear I would go to the hospital and they would send me home. Also the contractions didn't feel strong enough because with Isaiah they were so strong. After they didn't stop I started thinking this might be real. I told Scotty that we should go to the hospital. He was I think surprised because it was a pretty mild labor and so we both didn't know if it was really happening. I got to the hospital and they checked me I was dilated to a five. I asked the nurse if they were sending me home, she just laughed at me. Luckily they don't send you home if you are a five. They immediatley hooked me up to antibiotics, because I tested positive for strep and then called my midwive, which was my roomate from college. Fun huh. She showed up and we reminisced about Peru and our study abroad there. We were laughing about hiking the Inca trail and all puking our guts out, and one of our friends puking all over my shoes which I had to hike in the next two days, and about me hallucinating and in the tent....good times. During talking I got to get in the tub, which I was thrilled about because Isaiah came so fast there wasn't time. I got out and she checked me I was worried I hadn't dilated at all. I got out of the tub and put on my hypno babies in my cd player, because I couldn't find my ipod. To anyone wanting to go natural I highly recommended the hypno babies program. I listened to the CD that was all about visualizing her coming. I can honestly say I didn't feel pain, pressure yes, but not pain. With Isaiah it was definitley painful, because it was so intense and never let up. She checked me again and I was an 8 1/2 and completley efaced. I asked her if I was transitioning. She laughed and asked me if I had to ask her that. It felt so calm and peaceful and honestly such a spiritual experience I could feel her with me. A little while later I was fully dilated and she was kept in there by my water that had not broke, so they broke my water. All of the peaceful feelings that I was feeling went out the window. WOW, talk about fast and furious. She came in five minutes of me screaming and Scotty and the nurse holding my legs trying to get me to bend them, which I was not having. the reason it was so painful because she was posterior and flipped her shoulders coming out---owww. I remember looking up seeing this poor little nurse in the back of the room that was prego,her eyes were as big as saucers. I thought I am ruining her to ever wanting to give birth.

All worth it though, because they handed me the sweetest bundle, and a rush of love and I can't believe i really get a baby out of this hit me. Wow being a mother is so amazing!! I love giving birth. She was 7 pounds 14 ounces and 19 inches long!!!

Isn't He Adorable

Where does time go?? I haven't posted in awhile, and I have birthday pics for Isaiah that I still need to post. Look at this little picture, he is growing up so fast. I already feel that twinge of don't grow up, stay little so I can let you sit on my lap and read truck books.

I am excited for number two to join the picture. I haven't officially announced it on the blog but I am PREGO!! This is probably old news to most of you, but I felt a little announcement was in order for those of you who don't know. I am 16 weeks along right now. The crazy thing is I forget most days that I am pregnant, except for when I am running in the morning and it takes a little more work. Life has been so crazy as of late that sometimes I look down at my little bump and remember I am pregnant-sorry little one- I promise to remember you. I am greatful that I feel better that the nauseousness has stopped, and I have started getting a little energy back so that I feel normal enough.

I can't wait to add another smiling face to my life. I swear I laugh everyday as a mom. Isaiah has been learning a lot of words lately, one of them being burp. He thinks it is hilarious to say burp when he burps, the funny thing anything that comes out of his mouth he thinks is a burp. The other day my Grandma was over, she is the sweetest most proper woman I know. While she was over Isaiah burped and thought it was so great, that he wanted my Grandma to burp. He kept saying to her, I want burp, I want burp. It was a riot to watch my Grandma's reaction. She gently told him, Honey Grandma is not very good at that. It made me smile.

Some other exciting news, is we might be buying a house. We have been looking for a house to accommodate our growing family, and found a cute little fixer upper with three bedrooms upstairs. The only thing holding me back, (scotty is sold on it), is the kitchen, but with some tender loving care I think it will be a perfect fit.

More great news is that I am starting a website to teach steps to creating a whole foods kitchen. It is in the works, and has kept me running the last little while, but I am really excited about it. I will post more when it is up and running. I think three more weeks and we should be done!!! Yeah!! And then my sweet little bump I can slow down.

Dinner in 20 minutes, Heirloom Tomatoes and Fresh Mozerrella Pizza

Summer seems like it just keeps rolling along even if I am not ready for it to be compeletly done. The days are starting to get shorter, and my morning runs seem like they are going back to running in the dark. Lately I just have wanted to eat a lot of fresh produce and cook very little. This is one of those meals, a margherita pizza, with fresh garden tomatoes, and fresh mozzerella. It is quick and easy, and always a crowd pleaser. The secret to making this dinner so fast and easy is I get the dough for the crust at California Pizza Kitchen. They sell the thier dough already rolled out for you for ONE DOLLAR. They are smaller pizzas so I normally buy two. In fact I actually just bought six last time and froze the extras for when I need to take a meal to someone, or for a quick weeknight dinner. They sell white, or whole wheat multi grain dough. I always go for the whole wheat multi grain dough because the dough is still light and is a little better for you.

It is hard to tell from these pictures what is on this pizza. What you are looking at is yellow and red hierloom tomatoes from Jacobs Cove Farm, which is an amazing place where they grow so many different varieties of organic tomatoes.

Here is what the crust comes like, already rolled out for you, and ready to go.

Fresh Tomato and Mozzerella Pizza

Caifornia Pizza Kitchen Multigrain dough

Red Sauce

Fresh Mozzerella

Garden Tomatoes

Fresh Basil

Parmesan

Spread the sauce on, then top with thinly sliced cheese, and next the tomatoes. Sprinkle on chopped basil, salt and pepper, and a little parmesan on top. I baked mine in a 400 degree oven on a pizza stone for about 15 minutes.

Tip: to make this gluten free, I have topped a portobella mushroom before with sauce, the tomatoes, and cheese, wrapped it in tinfoil and baked it at the same temperature until the mushroom is soft. Then take off the tinfoil and broil it to melt the cheese.

Windy Rivers

We just took a backpacking trip to the Wind Rivers, or should I say the "windy rivers". The wind blows so fast there it makes the clouds run by. It was a lot of fun, our original plan was to back pack in Isaiah. Luckily Scottie's sweet sister took him last minute. I am so glad that we changed our plans and decided not to take him. Don't worry Isaiah we are going to take you down south to camp. Scotty and I were both itching to take him camping because he would love it. What we didn't think of was the cold temps at night and the hike in. One night it got down to 17 degrees. I slept really warm which was a blessing, but the morning was COLD. The hike in was amazing, the scenery in the Cirque is breathtaking, massive peaks on all sides for a 360 view. But the hike was not conducive to little ones, we hiked 9-10 miles in and the last three were boulder hopping. Without Isaiah and all of his stuff our pack were already heavy, we brought food for an army.
It turned out to be a really amazing trip, I read a ton and finished a really good book, Scotty went on a multi pitch climb up the face of a steep cliff, and I hiked to the top of a peak. It had been way to long since both of us had been backpacking and I almost felt like a novice all over again, wondering what to pack, what food to bring. It made me want to go again soon. The joy of being outside all day long and having nothing to do was glorious.
My perch rock that I laid in my sleeping bag on a rock and read, it cut out all of the wind.

An amazing lake of glacier water that we all jumped into.

More reading, wow I think this is the most I have read in years.

Hiking, this was the base of our camp ground.

Scotty on his multi pitch climb. When his mom saw his pictures, she started crying and said "maybe you married the wrong girl, I can't believe she would let you do this". The climb was not very technical but really exposed and high. As a side note Nancy was joking we are really close, and I believe she Nancy is the best mother in law you could ever ask for.

Running in the buff

Today I was looking at my little boy and I had an overwhelming feeling of gratefulness to be a mom come over me. He is so small and sweet. I was looking at his little sticky hand prints on the window and a quote I have hanging up came to me, it says, "enjoy the little things in life for one day you will look back and realize they are the big things." I feel so lucky to be his mom, watching him grow, and learn He is my little bud, making me laugh constantly.

The other day was no exception. We were coming home from the pool so I stripped Isaiah down, and put a clean diaper on him for the way home. While I was loading everything in the house, I let Isaiah run around in the backyard. When I came back out to grab him he was totally buck naked, digging in the sandbox. I found out later that while he was running around naked as a jay bird he tapped on my renters window to say hi, she looked up to see a little boy in the buff squatting in front of her window. We had a good laugh.

Summer has felt like a familiar friend returning home. I love the warm nights, and carefree days. It is so fun to play outside, go to the pool, eat watermelon on the back porch, bike up the canyon, and go for long runs without snow on the ground! Being a mom in the summer is way cooler than being a mom in the winter. Isaiah is learning to say a few words and by far truck is his favorite. He loves to spot them, you would be shocked how many trucks there are in this world. Today we were reading a book and it had a picture of a truck in it. The story stopped there, we had to look at the truck picture for a good five minutes. After the book, I tried to put him down for a nap after and put the book away, but he wasn't having it. He kept yelling for the truck, so I propped the book up next to his crib with the picture of the truck open. He was content to go to sleep after that. Being a mom is the best job. I hope I can remember these precious little moments that make my heart smile. Time goes by so fast, and I think I am ready to add another little bundle of joy to the mix. My running friend told me she is pregnant today. She inspired me to stay running when I get pregnant. She is still running so fast! We did speed work outs today and she was leading us with a 5:40 pace for the minute pickups. It made me realize that I can still run and maybe even race pregnant. Obviously not fast, but I can still not totally loose all of my endurance and lungs. I think I am going to train for the Xterra race in September, it is a mountain bike, trail run, lake swim triathlon. Unless a little bambino changes the plans, which I would change happily.

Scott's Project

Scotty had a brilliant idea to damn up the irrigation water rushing past our house to water our lawn. We recruited the help of our neighbors metal boards, our weights, and whatever random boards we had laying around. Needless to say we ended up creating more of a swimming pool, but we did manage to water half our lawn. Isaiah was loving it, he kept trying to drink the water, so gross, so I gave him a sippy cup with clean water. He took the sippy cup happily and dipped it in the dirty water, and then drank from it. At this point I just had to laugh. Scottie's brilliant idea turned sour when we got home later that night and had a written out complaint from the city left on our door step. Turns out people don't appreciate a swimming pool in the street.

If You Want a Good Laugh Watch This

Kids do the funniest things. I decided I need to start writing more of the day to day things, because there are so many funny things that happen that I want to remember, this is one of them. Isaiah wanted to play in the Vics Vapor rub so he kept handing us the jar to open it. To which Scotty would pretend he couldn't get it open, because we didn't want him playing in it. Sweet little Isaiah took his turn at opening the "tough" lid.

Utah Valley Marathon

This is the finish line of the Utah Valley marathon, I made it! What a journey. After months of training for the Salt Lake Marathon only to pass out at mile 24, I had to tackle this beast one more time. So I decided to do the Utah Valley marathon, six weeks more of early mornings, a lot of long runs, and tired legs paid off. Quite honestly I am really going to miss training, I enjoyed getting up early, the chatting sessions with Amanda, and Melody, and the sitting in the river after long runs. It is so nice to have time as a mom to yourself, and time to talk, even if it comes at 5 in the morning.

The marathon turned out even better than I had hoped for. My goal was to pace myself with the 3:10 pacer for as long as I could, and hopefully keep him in site. (The winner of the marathon last year volunteered to pace the men who wanted to qualify for Boston, men have to have a 3:10 to qualify.) I was worried about going out to fast with him in the beginning because my fastest marathon, before this was a 3:35. The Salt Lake marathon was faster, but we all know what happened there. I started running with the pacer, and to be honest it felt like a training run in the beginning, we were all talking and having a good time. I ran with him for 16 miles, 7:15 minute miles. After mile 16 I still felt really good, so I picked up the pace a little bit and started running with another guy. We kept right on talking until mile 20. At that point I saw a couple of my friends that had run the half marathon and had come to cheer, they told me my other friend Amanda was right up ahead of me. I picked up the pace and ran a 6:45, and kept running 6:50 for the next six. It felt so good. I didn't look at my watch I had no idea how fast I was going, I just felt really good. My family and friends were there cheering, I think that made me pick up the pace. The last two miles my friend Marie ran with me. It was funny because I was so zoned out, that I didn't recognize her, she was jumping up and down waving her arms, and it didn't click in my brain that it was her. It was nice to have her there. At the end I could see the time clock and I couldn't believe it, 3:06!!!! My goal was 3:15!! It was such a fun race, for the first 20 miles I was just talking and having a good time, the last six were just getting it done.

Honestly the time didn't matter as much, the most empowering thing to me was to set a goal and finally realize it. I am so glad that I didn't give up after Salt Lake, because I knew I had it in me. It taught me that really you can accomplish anything you set your mind to, with goals, hard work, patience, and the belief that you can do it. That might sound so cliche, but it taught me such a powerful lesson. In fact I wrote Jesse on his mission about it, because it reminded me of my mission, and life in general. Training and running a marathon taught me that you have to have an end in mind, a point that you are moving towards, and with that focus and direction everything falls into place. Because you will naturally start doing things that will bring you to that end goal. Most importantly if you have the whole purpose of this life in mind, to return home worthy, then naturally you will start making the choices necessary to align your life with that end realization. It isn't always the easiest choice, or the most convenient, but the Lord knew we were capable of hard things, and that accomplishing hard things refines us and makes us more empowered to accomplish the things that await us in the future.

My sister in law Jen, this was her first marathon and she finished strong!

I finished third place in my age group, and tenth overall.

Hard Work Pays Off

I look like I just ran a marathon in the rain!

My friends that I have been training with. Lot of EARLY mornings with these fine ladies. When I say early, I mean middle of the night early. A lot of long runs at 4:45 in the morning so that we could be back in time for husbands to go to work.

Wow!! Don't know these people but they are definitley blog worthy.

Running with my friends that I picked up along the way. The one in the black was trying to qualify for Boston, and the other one I ran with for a good five or six miles. They were so nice, and since my Ipod did not work, thats right 26.2 miles sans music, it was nice to have company. We talked about kids, missions, and how he got into running because his mom would drop them off a couple of miles from home and make them run home, apparently he had a lot of energy. Good idea mom, I think I will try that in the future.

Green Smoothies with Dad

This is a typical day in our house. Isaiah LOVES to be outside and the minute he wakes up he is handing me his shoes. That makes for pretty early 7 am, backyard hangouts. Lately since it has been warm we have been hanging out on the back porch eating. This is breakfast, green smoothies. I finally found a cup that works really well for kids drinking green smoothies. I have bought a couple, and the smoothie is too thick to go through the straw. I finally found this one at Shop ko, of all places. It has a wide straw and a top that doesn't come off easily. Up until this point I would just give Isaiah sips of mine, resulting a huge adorable green mustache, and not so adorable a green mess all over my shirt.

Anyway, enough about my new find. I wanted to make an early fathers day post. A little tribute to such an amazing dad. As you can see Isaiah loves hanging out with his dad, mom is not near as cool as dad in most cases, unless I am cooking and he is hungry. It is so fun to watch Scotty as a dad. You never know what sides are going to come out in you as a parent. Scottie's tender side has really come out, it is so cute to watch him rock Isaiah to sleep, and try to console him when the world is coming to an end because you took his favorite lawn mower away from him. Yes you heard me, Isaiah's favorite toy in the world is a plastic lawn mower that we have to take everywhere with us. Another side of Scotty that has come out is the little kid in him. He loves to wrestle around and play with Isaiah. Whenever I see Scottie's coming home from work, I will tell Isaiah papas coming, to which he immediately responds by crawling up on the top of the couch and to look out the window that faces the street. When he sees Scotty walking up he will usually yell papa, and jump down from the couch and run to the back door where Scotty comes in. It is always a blessing when Scotty comes home, for mommy and Isaiah.

And the last side that has come out in Scotty is his manly side. Well that has always been there but it is so fun to watch the two of them work on projects together. Isaiah insists on "helping" him screw in the bolts, or whatever manly thing they are working on. I think he is going to be a handy man like his dad, because he watches and mimics everything he does. If Scotty screws in something, he will take the screw driver and try right after him, it is so funny.

Wow that was a long post, I am used to waking up and running in the morning, and wake up automatically at six, so I have a lot of time on my hands right now,it is kind of nice to catch up.