Jordie turns the big 3-0!!!

Happy birthday to my best friend in the whole world.  Jordan is such an incredible wife, mother, and friend.  Garrett, Otis, and I don't know what we would do without her.  Jordan...

 Looks fantastic when she's pregnant...

  Is the best travel partner in the whole world...

 Is one of the best Ghostbusters I know...

 Looks great with a mustache...

Is a FANTASTIC mom...

Is a great sport...she got SCUBA certified with me even though she doesn't really like it and was convinced that I was going to turn off her oxygen while diving at the Great Barrier Reef...

 Is an incredible athlete (soccer, skiing, softball, baby wrangling, etc.)...

 Can lounge on the beach like nobody's business...

 Isn't afraid of scary Mexican bus stops...

Is the best race supporter/photographer ever (she hasn't missed a single one of my races).  She stayed up all night the night before to make these t-shirts for Team Iron Turkey and was still at the starting line at 6:00 the next morning...

Is my everything.

We love you Jordie and hope you have a great 30th birthday.



Garrett's Birthday Festivities

We had a great two day celebration for Garrett's second birthday.  We had family over for a bbq, cake, and presents.  Thanks to all of our family for making the trek all the way out to Herriman.  We are so lucky to have so much fanily so close to help raise our little man.

Garrett really likes "Cars" right now as evidenced by his choice of cake

Garrett made quite the haul...I guess that happens when you are the only grandchild in the state

Blowing out the candles

Quite the smile from our suddenly photogenic little friend

Some of our friends joined us at the Classic Fun Zone for round two of the festivites.  We had a great time on the blow up toys, "playing" arcade games, and eating greasy pizza and donuts.  There was also some REALLY good people watching.  Thanks to our friends for coming along and a special thanks to Craig for driving all the way down from Midway for the fun.

Garrett and Ty actually got the skee-balls to come out so they could throw them around

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GARRETT!!!

Happy birthday to our favorite little guy!  Garrett turns two years old today and has definitely added a lot of fun and excitement to our family.  He has such a great personality and always makes us laugh.  He LOVES to "shoot it in the basket" and has actually become good friends with Otis...at least when he is not chasing him with a golf club.  He will be a great big brother in a few months.  We love you buddy!

Happy Birthday Maga!!!

Happy birthday Mom (or Maga as Garrett calls her)!!!  We hope you have a great day and we're excited to celebrate with you all weekend long at Disneyworld.  We love you! 

Merry Christmas (and then some)...

Merry Christmas everybody!!!  We've had a very busy month or so since our last post.  Here is a quick photo recap and a short video of Christmas morning with Garrett...

We fried turkey for Thanksgiving and stuffed ourselves silly.  Heather provided the turkey hat.

We went and cheered Troy on in his last home football game of his college career.  We are proud of him for graduating and for letting us be a part of his football life.  We have loved watching him play and will miss it.

We visited Santa Claus and Garrett was having none of it.

 I really liked this picture of Heather and my Dad on Christmas morning

 Heather rocking out on Garrett's Elmo guitar

 Uncle Troy came through with the sporting goods for Garrett giving him a baseball glove/baseball and a football

Mom looking comfy

How 'bout a little brotherly love.  I'm pretty sure Troy farted on my leg.

Santa brought Garrett a (manly) playhouse for Christmas complete with a gas pump and a basketball hoop.  He loves it and will undoubtedly spend hours in it with and without Otis. 

AND....................

for those who might not know yet, Jordie is knocked up again.  She is due about the middle of June.



Halloween Recap (i.e. a cross-dressing extravaganza)

Halloween 2010 was filled with fun...and a lot of scariness. Heather and Chad ran the Halloween 1/2 Marathon in Provo and Heather thought it would be funny if they went as the Princess and the Frog; Chad as the princess and Heather as the frog. There were some confused kids along the course that had never seen a pretty blonde princess with a beard. One little girl started to cry. Princess and the Frog crossing the finish line

Chad as the princess, Heather as the frog, and Jordie as the hottest girl in the world

The evening brought even more blonde wigs and scariness. There seems to have been some sort of fascination with the movie Labyrinth and David Bowie in our household over the last few months. As a result, Chad dressed up as Jareth the Goblin King and Garrett played the part of Toby, the little boy he kidnaps in the movie. We couldn't convince Jordan to dress up and play the part of Ludo. Props to Jordan and Val for assembling such a great (freightening) costume.

"Dance magic dance"

Garrett, a.k.a. Toby, was fascinated by my crystal orb

Ladies, don't act like you're not impressed

St. George Marathon & Dirty Dash

We have been involved in a couple different races over the past few weeks. Jordie and I both did the inaugural Dirty Dash and had a great time. It was Jordan's first race and she did awesome especially considering she had to run most of the 6.2 miles carrying 25 lbs of mud on each foot. I also ran the St. George marathon last Saturday and despite the heat, posted a marathon PR of 3:48. A big shout out to both of my sisters who ran with me and also both posted PR's. We all had a lot of fun and then spent the rest of the day at Troy's SUU football game.

Me, Missy, and Heather at the start of the marathon

It was a HOT day but a fun race. I was pleased with my overall time

Garrett always has a great time at the football games and even more fun on the field afterwards

Troy is either excited about a play he just made or he really wants the water girls attention

Missy didn't have as much fun (she is wearing Troy's helmet on the bottom of the "pile")

The mud pit at the end of the Dirty Dash

Super long slip n' slide...I went down backwards

Jordie hopping over one of the first wall obstacles

Our team was the Dashin 'Staches...pretty dirty (and I'm not talking about the mud)