Tuesday, February 16, 2010

January Happenings

We went to the Lion King with my parents on January 16th. It was Mom's birthday and we had a great time celebrating it with her!



The show was wonderful and we recommend it to everyone. The effects were amazing and the music and scenery -loved it!


Spencer and Dave had fun building a Go Kart for one of Spencer's merit badges.





Fun stuff!


Sam loves green food -sprouts, avocados, broccoli, green peppers, green grapes.

Sam didn't get to come with us to the Lion King so we took a trip to Mandalay Bay's Shark Reef with buddy Aiden.

They saw some cool animals and enjoyed hanging out, as they always do. Lucky me, I got to hang out with Cami too.
The next morning was the St. George Half Marathon, January 23rd at 9am.
I woke up at about 5am listening to it pooring rain. I started praying so hard that it would stop. I love the rain, it's one of my most favorite things, but I didn't want to run 13 miles in it. Luckily my prayers were heard -and probably many others since there were about 2000 runners participating in the event. It was cold, I think about 40 degrees which actually to me was quite pleasant.

This was one of my supporters. Sam and Dave came to see me off.

This was the starting line.

And I was off!


I really enjoyed this course. I felt so good until about mile 10 when my right knee started to hurt.
I wasn't sure what time it was. I told Dave I hoped to be done in about 2 hours and 10 minutes. Any ways I crossed the finish line and was so happy to look up and see 2:00 -2 hours, but where were my adoring fans? They went to find me on the route and got there a few minutes later -Spencer, Ali, Sammy and Dave -and my parents and Katie (she ran the 5k) showed up at about the same time.
I was so glad I did it, but I was frustrated that my knee was hurting. The next time I ran was the Tuesday after and my knee was feeling better, but by the time I was done, it was hurting again. So I went in and ordered me a new pair of shoes on line and I haven't had any more problems. Lucky for all those runners that I didn't have these shoes for the race -they make me so fast ;o)

Happy Birthday Ali!

Ali turned 11 on January 3rd.



Ali decided she was ready to get her ears peirced. She was so brave. She asked them if they could shoot both ears at the same time -they did, and look how beautiful.

Ali is turning into such a wonderful young woman. We love her creative, funky spirit. The way she puts words together on paper and for us to hear -she has quite a fun sense of humor. She's a talented artist. She loves animals, especially dogs, and she's a super sister to her brothers.
We love you so much Alexi Marie Salter!

Catch Up Time -Christmas and New Years

So we have Sammy the Lamanite for our Christmas Eve program.
The others decided they were too old to dress up.

Christmas!












We headed to Beaver for New Years Eve with the Gublers and the Griffins.
The food was delicious!

Thanks to Chef Jim and Chef Shawn.

Sausage stuffed mushrooms

Garlic Shrimp and Barbequed Bacon Wrapped Shrimp

The snow was great and Spencer spent most of his time out in it building jumps for the snow board and tubes. We also had a great time tubing up in the canyon.









We had a great time hanging out with wonderful people. Thanks Gublers for always being such great hosts!

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Happy Valentines Day!

Ali was busy getting ready for her Valentines party Thursday and Sam decided that he needed a Valentines party as well. Alessia and her cute little baby brother Micah were coming over Friday morning and so was Aiden. We made cookies, because that's what you need for a Valentines party according to Sam.



They had a great time decorating cookies and eating them, then we had fun playing "Hug, Hug, Kiss" (Duck, Duck, Goose).


Saturday we went for a fun Valentines hike.
Ali is quite the hiker.

So were Spencer and Masen.

Actually they were all great hikers.

Ellie, Ali, and Sam



Our fun group

Ready for a drink -it was a nice warm, 65 degree, day.



The rest of Vegas had the same idea, Red Rock was packed.

Today we played "Hug, Hug, Kiss" only Spencer's version -the person who was "IT" gave out hugs to everyone and then kissed the one to be the chaser. We had fun. Then we played "Love, Love, Who's got the Love?" which is our Valentines version of "Button, Button, Who's got the Button?"

We laughed hard and ended it with a pileup on Dad.

Hope you had a happy Valentines Day!
Lots of Love,
the Salters