Category: Life
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Baking with our “girls”
It was one of the girls birthdays yesterday, so one of her sisters and I spent time Friday night baking. She wanted to make a cheesecake which turned into me making it. Not a big deal as I love to bake. Plus it was fun to do a something a little special for “our”…
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Our New Table
Okay, it’s not actually done yet but I’ve started working on it. I’m not even sure what the wood is, but it looks nice. I had enough of the wood to make the top and I should have enough left over for the trim. I haven’t figured out what I’m using for the legs just…
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Parents for a Week
Well today Brent and I start taking care of 4 teenage girls until next Wednesday. Please pray that we are able to do what we need to to get them going in the mornings and in the evenings. It will be a good adventure for us. We are excited to be doing this as it…
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Sprints
This past week I finally decided to start doing some sprints for my marathon training. It has been several months since I have done them and I forgot how much I really do not like them. I am not a very good short distance runner, actually, I am not good at all. I set out…
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Where did 1,050 miles take me in 2011?
At the beginning of 2011, I decided to start keeping a log of my running miles. I thought it would be fun to show where the 1,050 miles took me over the last year from running at 9,000 feet to running a marathon. It was quite a second year in running. My pace increased almost…
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Quick ND Trip
This past weekend, I had an extra day off work because of the holidays, so on Friday morning we woke up early and headed out to North Dakota. What is in North Dakota? My entire extended family. My sister tagged along and we set out for the 8 hour journey. We made it safe and…
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Crescent Lake
As Jess had already blogged about, we headed up to Hyalite once again on New Year Eve’s Day to showshoe. Krista tagged along with us and as we approached the reservoir parking lot, we noticed that the wasn’t a chance for parking. Fortunately, many of the Hyalite trails are connected by skiing trails during the…
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Last Day of the Year
What to do on the last day of the year? We decided to go up to the beautiful freshly snow covered mountains that we are lucky to live so close to. We invited my sister along for another wonderful snowshoe outing. We enjoyed a beautiful hike up along side the reservoir that led us back towards a…
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During the Holidays
There is nothing better during the holidays than seeing family! As it is always a joy throughout the year, around the holidays it is extra special. It is the time of year that you realize just how important and wonderful family is in your life. As the holidays rolled in for Brent and I, we were…
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Our first snowshoe outing of the season…
As Brent wrote earlier in his blog post about History Rock, we were able to enjoy our first outing of the season with our snowshoes. The snow has been fairly light around here for this winter season. A great thing when it comes to my running, but not so good for the snow activities that we would…
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Up to History Rock
Jess and I had the opportunity to go up to History Rock, which is located in the Hyalite canyon, just south of Bozeman. We have been looking forward to utilize our snow shoes and we were hoping that the snow levels were good in the canyon. Hyalite canyon, and reservoir, provides the residents of the…
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Making People Fat for the Holidays
Over the past several years, my mom, sister and I have gotten together to make Christmas cookies. It has been a blast. Usually, we just make my grandma’s awesome White Cookies and then maybe one or two other cookies that we are familiar with making. Last year, we spent hours decorating the white cookies with…