THE BIG RUN!!!!

I hope Mandi doesn't mind I borrowed this pictures from her facebook page because Ry and I forgot our camera!  Thanks Mandi!  These are the pictures from the Bone and Back Race!!  It was so much fun I love running in this race.  This is a picture of me and my gorgeous sister in law Mandi!!!  She is BEAUTIFUL!!!!  Our family did awesome this year we finished the 40 mile relay in 5 hours 9 minutes!  We got first place in the family division.  It was amazing.  All of us ran great and got the times that we wanted.

I think this is Ryan before his run.  I'm not sure though.  He ran great.  He is just an amazing runner, he ran leg 4 which is probably the second hardest leg in 32 min.  He also ran leg 8 and ran that one in 32 min as well.  I love watching him run because he is so good at it.  I love you sweetie!!!

This is how we support our runners we ride on the tail gate cheering them on.  I look forward to this race every year.  We all wear our orange t shirts and we are called the Orange Crush!!!

This is right after I ran leg 1.  Ryan and his Dad were just warming up running on this dirt road so I decided to follow them but I have no idea what I am doing in this picture!  They are walking casually and I am running I guess.

Here is Orange Crush after the race.  Don't we all look great!!!  I love my family!  And I love that we do this every year together.

The next day after the race we went to American Fork to see the blessing of our newest nephew William!  He is adorable and I love holding him.  He is starting to smile and I love seeing him smile so big.  Here are Ryan and Ethan after we had eaten lunch.  It was such a great day!

Then on Monday we went to Salt Lake and hikes Ensign Peak.  I loved doing it.  I had never done it before but once you get to the top the view is amazing.  You can tell that Ethan loved the sucker that Grandma had given him.  He screamed when I took it away from him.  He is so funny he cracks me up all of the time!

Here is the whole family on top of Ensign Peak. The reason we did this is because my in laws gave us a challenge to read the Book of Mormon by June and have daily prayer and scripture study and by the end of the challenge we would get a reward.  I am so glad that they gave us this challenge I know that it has really helped my little family do better we are definitely not perfect but I can tell when we are doing the right things that everything seems to run smoother even if you are going through trials. 

After we hiked we went to the Hoogle Zoo.  It was so much fun to take Ethan there.  The animal that I could tell the he was the most interested in was the elephant and her baby.  The baby was so cute.  I think that was my favorite animal too.  We also road the little train ride that they offer and Ethan loved that as well.  He didn't want to get off of it when it was over.  His eyes were so wide watching everything iy was so cute!

We have  been very busy this past month but it has all been worth it!  I have loved every minute of it!

Thanks family for such a great time!!!

FEELING BETTER!

So the stomach flu I think had finallly left the Jenks' household!  I am so happy!  Ethan hasn't had a problem all day long!  I think we are all over it.  It was a nasty flu and when it hit it hit really hard!  But my happy little boy is coming back YEAH!!!

I was so worried because this weekend we are doing the Bone and Back relay with all of the Jenks family and we are all hoping to do really well, an dI was nervous with this flu that it would still be there on Saturday, but I think we will be ok. 

I am so excited for this race.  This will be the third year that we have done it as a family.  For those of you who don't know about this race it is a 40 mile relay race where 8 people run it and they each run 5 miles.  Every year we have done it we have improved our times and I think we will improve this year too.  Everyone has been training really hard for it so I am anxious to see how we do.  The first year we did it we got third place in the coed division.  It was awesome. 

I am going to run the 1 leg which is the second easiest leg but I am too nervous to run any other leg.  I ran it last year as well and I am hoping to take at least 5 minutes off I hope I do.  I have been training hard and I hope that it pays off. 

I will try and remember my camera this year so I can get some good pictures and post them!  Wish us Luck!!! 

Ethan!!!

We went for a run one morning and this is what happened to Ethan while we were out there.  We didn't want to disturb him so we just put him in his room and left him in his stroller he slept like that for awhile!

Here he is being silly and trying to take a drink out of a big persons cup.  He can't quite figure it out yet and when he does try he dumps it all over himself.

I love this cheesy grin that he is giving the camera.  He is the biggest sweetheart!

Ryan decided one day that he wanted to build a fort for him and Ethan.  He used all of our chairs and blankets and couches to build it.

It was fun for me to watch him build and then enjoy it with Ethan.

Ethan finally is able to crawl inside the fort that Daddy made for him.  He loved it.

They stayed in there for awhile and the read books together and just played around in there.  Ethan didn't want to leave it.  I don't think that Ryan wanted to leave it either!:) 

I love my familly they are so much fun.  It is also fun for me to see the boy that Ethan is becoming.  He is growing so fast.  I can't believe how fast he grows.  He is such a momma's boy and I don't really mind that.  He likes for me to hold him whenever we are around a group of people or if we are just away from home.  He loves his home.
For the past week he has been sick which is sad for me and hard for me to watch.  I thought that he was finally getting over it but today while I was feeding him his oatmeal he threw up again!!  AAAHHHH!!  It is so frustrating especially since he has been doing that for a week straight. I know where he got it from and it is maddening to me because they came to my house and didn't tell me that her child was sick until they had been there for an hour and finally said yeah she has been throwing up!  I was so mad and I got even more mad when Tuesday night he started throwing up all night long!  I called her a few times to let her know I was mad. I don't think I was in in the wrong that was very irresponsible of her to bring her sick girl to our house!  Sorry I just had to vent!  What does everyone else think?  The other thing is that now my poor little nephews got it and they were all throwing up on Sunday night all through the night.
I am done with that now I just feel horrible for my little man!  I just want him to start acting his happy self again so that he doesn't feel miserable!