Vegas Rock N Roll

Kinda late, but here are the pics from my 4th half marathon. I went to Las Vegas with a bunch of girls I teach in Lehi. Pretty much every backed out except Abby who decided to run the full! I think I will be sticking with halfs though! It was a lot of fun since it was a rock n roll event however it was WAY too crowded. I believe I read somewhere that 44000 people were running it. We ran in legs and they let us go every 10 minutes. My biggest issue was that I spent the entire race weaving in between people and I ended up getting HUGE blisters on my feet. In fact, I thought of my toe nails was going to fall off! It hurt so bad I could barely walk. My friend that ran it found out later that the pacers were about 10-20 minutes slower simply from the crowds and it was my slowest race yet. She also calculated that she ran an extra half mile simply from the weaving! Believe me when I say it was OVER CROWDED! I did love the atmosphere and the fun of them closing the strip so we could run it at night. I am not sure if I would do that race again, but I do want to do another half as soon as my foot heals up! Here are the pics from the race. I decided to not post all million pics of the fun things we did and just posted the before and after race pictures. We did go to Mystere which is a show by Circue du Soleil and it was an interesting show. I am amazed at the human body and all the amazing things it can do! This first picture is me and Abby at the expo the day before picking up our packets and bib numbers! It is official!Here is me and Abby at the hotel before we left to go run.The other girls came and cheered me on at the end then came and met me in the Mandalay Bay where they started snapping pictures. Nice. Hot, sweaty and not ready for pictures. Then they were like "pose". So in my fuzzy late headed, 13 mile run head I threw up a peace sign. I am pretty gangsta like that!Me and my MEDAL! It glows in the dark even! How cool is that!After Abby finished we wrapped up in our tinfoil blankets and took another victory shot. I don't think anyone really truly grasps the severity of my foot pain. I honestly thought that my toenail was popping up. Every time I took a step it made a clicking feel and I had to limp. I immediately sat down, ripped off my shoes and started inspecting. I couldn't even put my shoe back on after so thankfully Abby had brought some sandals and I limped to the car in those. In case you are wondering, the toenail stayed! Finally, here is the picture of all the girls that came. It was a fun little girls weekend getaway! I had a blast!
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Jacobs family catchup

4 months! Wow, 4 months since my last post. I don't even know what happened. I tell myself I will keep up, but I am amazed at how hard it is with 2 kids to do much of anything! Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas was a blast! Owen every day says how thankful he is that Santa brought him his shark ship, car garage and legos. He prays for those legos every single night! haha. His 4th birthday is coming up and I can't even believe he is that old. It seems like just yesterday he was born! We are going to throw him a little Lego's party with a few of his friends so that should be fun. Calvin is just adorable and growing like crazy! He is definitely a Daddy's boy!! Oh man, he does not like me or any women for that matter but he still is adorable and does the most hilarious things every day. He is literally obsessed with Owen and does whatever Owen does. We will be at the store and Owen will walk by something and hit it and Calvin will turn around and hit it exactly where he hit it and continue to follow him step by step. We were at home and I asked Owen to turn off the TV and Owen did then Calvin ran up, turned it on, then turned it off so he could do it exactly like Owen. It is so cute. I just love my two little boys so much! They are the world to me!
We had some family pictures taken of us in the fall. The kids were kinda cranky but I still think they turned out cute! I know every parent thinks this, but I think my kids are the cutest!We also had thanksgiving at my parents and everyone came so we got a pic group picture of our entire family!
So part of the reason of lack of posts is that my camera broke at Halloween and I think it's not fun unless you have a picture or two. I found our old broken camera and took a few pics of our Christmas tree so that is about it for the last 4 months of our life! Time to suck it up and buy a new one I guess! Anyways, here is Christmas morning for us. Santa layed out Owens car garage and Calvins "choo-choo". These aren't the best pictures of the boys but it gives you an idea of how big they are getting. They were way to interested in playing and didn't want to smile for the camera.
As far as Lee and I, well Lee is enjoying his job at Big D working at camp williams literally 5 minutes away! So nice! And I love teaching my aerobics classes. I do think I tore either a muscle or tendon in my ankle and need to go to the Dr to get it looked at soon. It is getting unbearable and I have had to tone it down and cut way back so I don't kill myself. I ran my 4th half marathon in Vegas in December! The Rock N Roll half, it was fun but way too crowded. I also had my 28th birthday. That's right, I am only 28. I don't know why everyone thinks I am in my mid thirties!! Do I really look that old?! ugh! Anyways, we went to Airborne for my birthday and it was a blast! They have tons of trampolines and a trampoline dodgeball area and a place to jump into foam pits. It was a blast! I felt like I was 12 again! We all dressed like gym nerds and played and had fun! I just get so sick of my January birthday always being cold and at someones house and eating. I wanted to actually DO something and have fun! If you don't know me very well, I don't enjoy just sitting around and watching TV or movies, I like to be active and moving.
Owens birthday is coming up so we are planning for that and Lee and Calvins birthdays are coming up in May. Lee will be the big 30! and Calvin will be 2! That is about it for us right now, I am sure I will try to post soon again and at least get Owens birthday on here.

Disneyland/Sea World/Beach

My parents decided they wanted to take us all on a trip to California as a family! It was sooo fun! We did Disneyland, Sea World and the beach. They rented a house in San Clemente so we were able to all be together. I loved it! I want to go back already!!

We started our trip going to Disneyland. These pictures are the first day there. So much fun!!


Calvin was not going to wait in an hour long line just to have his picture with Mickey so we are missing him.

My sweet boys!The next day we just relaxed at our beach house and got geared up for Sea World for the next day. Here we are at Sea World. It was so nice, not crowded at all! We decided to not go to the Shamu show since our kids don't sit very well and ended up being the only ones playing with the dolphins. They were adorable and kept coming to us and letting us pet them and then they would turn around and splash us with water. I loved it!
The next day we went back to Disneyland. I just love it there. We did California Adventures and Owen even went on the Tower of Terror! I refuse to go on that ride!The last day we went to the Beach and played all day. Calvin sure did not like the water or waves. It scared him and he kept trying to escape. Lol. Owen absolutely LOVED it and had a blast.

Fall fun

This fall was a blast. Fall always is though. There are so many fun things to do and see! We spent a lot of time playing and going fun places. At Thanksgiving Point they have Cornbellys which is a lot of fun for the kids. We also went to Disneyland and Sea World but I will post about that in a different post. Here we are at Cornbelly's.
Here is Calvin playing around in the train!
Me and my Lee lee
Lol. I just put this on here because I think it is hilarious that I am just smiling like normal and Calvin was freaking out. I am sure he was having some sort of tantrum over something silly.
They have a big corn house that is full of corn kernals the kids can play in. Owen hates his picture being taken and was refusing all night to let me take one. I had to sneak this one in.
Unfortunately, I forgot my camera most times we went out so this is about it for our fall activities. I don't even have pictures from Halloween night :(