Mr. Funny Face Goes on Vacation

This past week our family and Kent's parents went on a trip to California, and we had a great time! As I was looking through the photos of the trip I noticed how many featured Kent making a face. So here's a pictorial log of our trip, count how many faces Kent made and post in the comments.

Cruising in the van with Grandma and Grandpa McLean

Playing "Old Maid".


At the fabulous Jelly Belly factory



Ye olde Golden Gate bridge.

This one's for you, Kaylynn.

Yeah, Disneyland!

M&M world in Las Vegas.

Bellagio Fountain.

It was a really great week, I'm glad we got to go. So how many crazy Kent faces did you count?

Set Phasers To Stun: Beth Finished the Marathon & Matt Turned 3

Yep, Kent and I finally got to see the new Star Trek movie this past week. It was awesome! Really a fun movie, it had action, comedy, and nerdiness galore!
Saturday was the day I have been training for since the end of December, the big one-the marathon. It was a really fun and beautiful race down Ogden canyon. I did really awesome until about mile 15 when I realized I was very, very tired! I did manage to run/walk the last 11 miles and finish in 5 hrs and 15 min-not too bad for my first time.

Me at mile 23, only 3.2 more to go!

While waiting for me to get to the finish line Matt stuck his head through the barrier to get a better view! It meant everything to me to know that Kent, the kids, and my parents would be waiting for me at the end-you guys are awesome!


Finally crossing the finish line!

Smiling.


Not smiling anymore. About 15 min after I finished I started feeling very nausous,and dizzy. Kent took me to the medical tent where some very nice nurses and doctors gave me an IV of electolytes. I felt much better after that-elecrtolytes are the best!

Today was Matthew's 3rd birthday! I can't belive it-the time has gone by so fast! He is such a cute, helpful, and all around awesome kid.


Matt requested a Darth Vader birthday cake, I think it turned out delicious!

"Everybody remember where we parked."-Capitan Kirk

Still Haven't Seen Star Trek

Kent and I still haven't seen the new Star Trek movie, but here's some other stuff we have been doing in the mean time...

Lately the kids think the most fun thing to do is to take everything they own and shove it into their play tent. This would not be a problem, except they never wanted to help clean up. So I finally got fed up with this routine and repo'd all their toys and the tent. Aaaahhh... the play room was nice and clean for about a day and then they discovered that it was just as much fun to pile up all their bedding and pull all their clothes out of their dressers and pile those up too! Who needs toys! (insert huge sigh here).

Speaking of hairy situations, I got a new haircut! I haven't had bangs since 1991-we're talking waaay back to the first war in Iraq, the super NES was tops, and Arnold was still the Terminator. Anna took this picture of me-not too shabby!

We went kite flying yesterday to test out the rhomboid box kite my parents made, the kids flew some little kites too.

We went up to the top of this hill that is popular with hang gliders-definitely some good wind there!

Anna and my sister Sarah

Matt and Grandpa Davis

View from the top of the hill.

My Dad winding the string to his kite. I didn't get a picture of the kite, but it is pretty cool!

Until next time remember, "I signed aboard this ship to practice medicine, not to have my atoms scattered back and forth across space by this gadget." -- McCoy