Jakes Race

Jake had his Logan Peak Trail run that is 28 miles in the mountains of Logan Utah.  He trained hard and was ready to kill it!!  But the day before the race they sent out an email saying the trail was to dangerous to go the whole way so they were going to cut it short. Then on the race morning they announced that the race had to be cut down to just 11 miles.  There was so much snow up there that it was not accessible to the runners.

Many were disappointed and Jake wished it wasn't cut down but had a positive attitude about it and was going to just run as hard as he could!!  I went to the starting line and watched him start and then went back to my aunts house to pick up the kids, and then me and the kids came back to see him finish.  Jakes parents came to see him race too.  We were sitting at the finish line watching some of the runners coming in and they had blood and gashes all over their legs.  The last couple miles of the trail were snowy and alot of people were slipping!!  Finally Jake came in and he looked so good.  He is such an inspiration to me!!  I don't know how he can push himself so hard!!  He loves to mountain run!

Getting ready to run

Look at my hot man

Setting off

Almost finished

Done...(Hes behind the lady) time: 2:49:33

Update finally!!

Here is the cute little house we are renting!! It is all hard wood floors and I have to say that cleaning up messes is great on hard wood! We are 90% done with the unpacking. I just have a few things left. They are putting in a whole new bathroom upstairs for us. It has been quite the process but I can see progress now. It should be done this week.

We see deer in our yard about every other day. The kids love it. This buck and a doe have been hanging around our neighborhood. The kids really love all the wildlife they see in town.
This is Teton Reservoir by our house. It is a nice little lake that we will be visiting often!!

We took a short trip to Utah this past week for Jakes race. He is so amazing I don't know how he does what he does.

Me and the kids stayed a few extra days for my dads big 50th birthday, which turned out really great mom, and My sister in laws baby shower!! We had a lot of fun back down in Utah. It was a really busy weekend but it turned out fun.

We went to the new Highland Library water fountains to play. We went once with H.arvey and Grey and once with Kellen and KaraLynn. The kids loved it. Tagg did not like it at first but then he started warming up to it. I think this will be a big hit every Utah trip.
H.arvey and kate

Tagg Finally playing in the water.

Now that we are mostly unpacked we can enjoy a little time outside. My poor kids have been couped up while I tried to get my house in order. The past few days have been really warm so we have spent them outside playing in the sprinkler and on the spinning teeter totter Uncle Brandon and Aunt Jenine gave tagg for Christmas. They love it.


They play on this all the time they love it. It goes up and down and can spin at the same time.

Big Horn Mountain race

The awesome Runner

Jake ran his 31 mile race on Saturday. He did so good!! He ran it in 8 Hours 40 min. It was a beautiful day in Sheridan. It got up to 85, it was so nice to finally have hot weather. Jake got up at 4:3o to get ready and head out so he could catch the bus at 6:00 am. (We were sleeping). Then at 8:00 the race started, (We were still sleeping). He ran and ran and ran. While he was running we were trying to kill the time and we found out that there was a kids carnival at the park in town. They had a cake walk a huge bouncy house, water volleyball, shaved ice, face painting, hat making, tile painting and lots of other stuff. the best part was that is was free!!! Then we got some lunch and headed to the finish line to wait for Jake.

There was a 100 mile, 50 mile, 50K and a 30K race going on all at the same time. Jake was the 50K his numbers were in blue. I kept seeing the 30k numbers come by then a few 100 and 50 mile and then I started to see more and more blue. He came around the corner and he looked so good. He looked like he had just started running. He was about 1/4 mile away from the finish line. I got to run the last little mile with him and it was so awesome. He just did so good and I am so proud of him!!! When he was done we took off his shoes and he had huge blisters and purple toes nails. He said the only thing that hurt was his feet. It was a mostly down hill mountain run with a few up hill spots. He saw two bears and a moose. He is ready for his 65 mile race in Aug. Good job babe love you.

Tagg getting his face painted.

Kate Painting her tile.

Jake on his run with his awesome blue sweat band. (doesn't he make it look so good)

This is the trail he was running on. It almost makes me want to take up the ultra marathons just to see this..........almost.
Toward the end of the race.

Crossing the finish line!! Yeah!!!!

Taking with the people at the end of the race.....again the Sweet sweat band.

This is only part of his leg. He was really muddy when he finished.

His purple toe nails, and if you look really lose you can see his no toe foot.

Leetham Family Reunion/ Logan peak trail run

Kate at Lagoon

Derik, Kaden, and Katelynn

Part of the trail jake had to run.

Awesome Jake looking HOT while he runs.

I don't know who this is but it is a good picture of the view jake had while he ran.

Snow!! Jake had to put up with snow on some parts of the trail. He is amazing, it would be really hard to run on snow.

Jake before and after the race. I think he looks really good for having the flu all last week and then running 28 miles up a mountain.

We had a busy weekend. We left Thursday after work to go up to cherry hill for the Leetham family reunion! We set up camp and relaxed the rest of the night. Friday we went to Lagoon and played all day. Kate had fun trying out the rides with Kaden her second cousin. Unfortunately my camera ran out of batteries in the first few rides at lagoon so I only have a couple of pics of kate. Grandma was very nice to me and Jake and took both of the kids most of the day so that we could go on the rides. Then that night Jake, Tagg, and I went to Great Gma and Gpa Stephens house and stayed the night so that Jake could wake up really early and run a 28 mile race up to the top of Logan Peak. He had been really sick all week but still decided to run. He ran it in an amazing 7:57:06. He did really great!! I am very proud of him. I have some pics of Jake crossing the finish line but I have to get them from my dad. Then we came back to Cherry Hill and relaxed with my cousins.

To top off the great weekend when I got home on Sunday we all just wanted to relax so we watched Jurassic park II and I made this cute quilt. It only took me a few hours and I think it turned out cute.