SURPRISE!!!!

We are pregnant again! There I just came right out and said it:) Our due date for baby #3 is May 8, so we are almost finished with our first trimester. We are SO SO SO thankful that this baby just wanted to get here! After all the struggles we had getting Mitt here, we couldn't be more thrilled than to get this baby hhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifere without any effort. Mitt and baby 3 (who I am convinced at this point is a boy) will be 18 months apart, and that seems pretty perfect to me:) So as I sit here pregnant on this day, as I was last year on this same day, I anxiously await the arrival of our 3rd little person we feel so blessed to have coming to join our family! Click here to learn how to build my home.

Turning 30

So clearly I am quite the blogging slacker. Maybe someday I will actually take pictures to post and tell you all about our amazing summer and what we have been doing since our last post in June:) Well, my sister Katie and I LOVED (and finished) our 30 mile 30th birthday run. We made a memory we will both cherish forever. Starting at my mom's house in Sandy and running 3 loops, each ending back at my mom's house so we could have a bathroom and choke-down--a-banana break, was Katie's brilliant idea. So I made the route after she suggested we run "down memory lane". Starting at 4 am the morning of July 2, we did our first loop. It was 16.5 miles where we ran up by our elementary school, into our old Little Cottonwood Canyon Ward neighborhood, down by the "park" and up by "the shack" we lived in for a good portion of our childhood, and up by La Caille on our way down Dimple Dell Road and back home to Mom's. Loop 2 was 8.5 miles running the back way to Brighton High and down Highland, cutting back by Reams and stopping to run and play in some sprinklers, which was the highlight of our run for sure wasn't it Kakes:) By this point we were back to my mom's meeting Ben, Mariah and Mitt for our last 5 miles on an out-and-back run by Alta Canyon where we did swim team stuff on our way to the Life Center where we both lifeguarded all through high school. (Though thankfully we didn't have to run all the way to the Life Center, or we would have succeeded our 30 miles). I was so grateful Ben came with (and actually pushed in the jogger!) my 2 favorite little people. So fun to have them there to bring home the last five. We passed the 26.2 mile point, Katie and I high-fived that we just ran a marathon, and continued on our last 4 miles. We did it!!!! It was maybe the best 4 hours and 45 minutes of running thus far (minus the intense stomach and girl pains- maybe should have waited til my baby was older than 8 1/2 months:) ) Thanks Katie for making this memory with me. I knew you wouldn't bail even though you were crippled from mile 0!