Fun Fall Happenings

This month has been pretty fun so far. The first weekend in October we always go down to St. George for the marathon since my mom has run it EVERY year since I can remember. This was her 22nd time running it! She did great and qualified for the Boston maratho, just like always. She is such an inspiration to me because growing up she always ran, every morning except Sunday, but she would go ridiculously early so she was back before any of us kids had to be up. I seem to have trouble doing this any day of the week, but need to be better :) She is in great shape and I am so thankful for her example of dedication to something she loves, even though it has been difficult at times. Every year she trains and trains, doing longer and longer runs to make sure she is ready for the marathon. And I have to say the first year I ran the marathon she beat me by at least ten minutes, if not 15. And the second year we were able to run it together, which was really cool, especially since it was sooo cold and sooo rainy and windy and we'd both been up with a sick Alli since Ryan was out of town. We had a lot of fun going down and watching her, PLAYING in the POOL, and just hanging out relaxing watching CONFERENCE!

We made a fort in the hotel Saturday morning before we went to find her running.

Us attempting to run her in, we didn't turn around quickly enough so we ran behind for about 20 feet-it was a nice thought :) Phil actually ran her in the last few miles. She's quick, even at mile 22 or 23!

Alli enjoying the free ice cream at the park!

Hanging out at the pool


Here's Alli about to jump in to Ryan, she really started enjoying jumping in, so much that she didn't really care if someone was there to catch her :) made me a LITTLE nervous!

Just chillin with dad at the pool

just chillin watching conference, she really did wear clothes the majority of the trip.

of course when we went hiking Ryan and Phil took off to climb the highest part they could see.

Allu wanted to go with them :)
And just a few more hiking pics, it was super windy when we all got to this high plateau area. notice the windblown hair, it was pretty crazy, but we had a lot of fun!