Running again.

Well as you can remember from my post in October after doing the San Fransisco Marathon I said I had a broken Pelvis. Well, its been since then since my last run and I have gotten the ok from my Dr to begin running again. I just started 2 weeks ago and have been running4miles/5days a week a total of 20miles a week. At first I thought I would take it easy and do 1-2miles at a time and I did for the first day then I couldn't stand it so I had to increase the mileage and I felt great. I have pain a dull pain but I dont hurt the next day so I figure why not run if I feel good enough to.?Also, I have been running in the extreme cold weather conditions its not as cold as you would think it would be but you do have to have the right running gear. I have EVERYTHING I love running clothes. This is what I wear all winter long to keep warm on my 6am 4mile runs.

Under Armour long sleeve half zip running shirt

Under Armour beanie

Nike Running Tights


Asics DS Trainer

Garmin 405 Running Watch

Christmas

After a fun stay at Daniels Summit the next morning was Christmas. On the way home from Daniels we dropped off Tycee at Dave's and Paige with Candy for the night and they come home Christmas afternoon. Tycee and Paige asked for everything under the sun but most of all wanted a WII. What did Tycee and Paige get from Santa this year..?

Hannah Montana Dolls

High School Musical dolls

Clothes of course

Tripp got a new drum set

The WII of course!!

Arian and Tycee playing the WII

Arian,Paige and Tycee making cupcakes with their new cupcake maker

The not so good cupcakes

My family on Christmas

Tycee telling me "Thanks" for everything

Tripp taking a break from all the excitment with Scary the kitty.

Daniels Summit Lodge

In my family every year we go to Daniels Summit for Christmas snowmobiling trip. The kids love it and so do we its such a good fun time and we all have fun hanging out together. This year we all headed up on Monday morning and stayed until Wednesday night. This year was very special because my sister Troye and Arian were here from Oklahoma and they were able to come this year with us for the very first time!!
When we got to Daniels Summit everyone was starving ready to eat a good dinner.

After dinner on Monday night Aage my step dad dressed up like Santa as he does every year for the grandkids.

Tripp was not happy with Santa.

Tycee,Paige and Payton with Santa(grandpa)

Payton,Tycee,Grandma,Arian and Paige

Me with some of my best friends!

On Tuesday we were all ready for a good day of snowmobiling.

Tripps first snowmobile trip.

Terry all tired now.

My sisters and Mom at the end of the night!

Temple Square

Every Tuesday Terry and I have family night and every week we do something different so last week we decided to take the kids to Temple Square. The kids had a fun time but it was very very cold so we only stayed about a hour or so.

Us before we left to Temple Square

Tycee and Paige

Arian and Tycee

Troye, Arian and Tycee

Me being cold

Us

My family

I pulled off a Thanksgiving Feast

Terry and I decided to have Thanksgiving this year at our house with just a small crowd the kids and my Mom,Step Dad and Sister. I did everything except for the Turkey and Stuffing. This is how it all went for me for the last 2 days. First things first I started my 13 layer rainbow jello on Wednesday morning while getting Tycee ready for Dave's,Tripp crying at my feet and the wash piling up to the ceiling in the laundry room. The jello took me yes pretty much up until about a few hours before eating, its a long process not hard just very time consuming. While the jello is setting in the fridge, I needed to make a NY Style Cheesecake for Terry since he doesnt really like pie all that much.
Me at the beginning of the of it all

So here it goes I found a recipe for the cheesecake and ran around town tracking down a Springform pan for the cake to set in, lucky for me my neighbor had one. The Cheesecake wasn't too difficult again just time consuming but I did it and I made it all from scratch. After making the Cheesecake I started all the crust for the pies. I also made the crust and pie from scratch as well. I was up until 3AM baking Pumpkin, Apple, and Banana Cream pies.

Terry's New York Style Cheesecake

Before baking the Apple Pie

Me waitng and waiting for the pies to come out of the oven

After baking the Apple -looks good huh!!

Finally when I was about to settle down and go to bed Terry jokelingly said,"what if the mice get to the pies" I panicked a bit but was so tired I didnt really care. By the way we dont really have mice Terry just likes to say stupid things like that to get me all worked up however, I did check on them a few times during the night just to make sure.

This is how my pies looked when I woke up to check on them during the middle of the night
BEAUTIFUL!!

On Thursday morning I made rolls, yams, green bean salad and a few other a little things and did the final touches to all my pies and yummy food. By 2o'clock everything was set and ready for us to eat finally!!
The Dinner table all set

I must say so myself I was pretty impressed with all the baking and cooking I have just done and you might be asking yourself now,"what the heck I didn't know Tiana can cook" well...Its true very true I can cook and I can actually cook pretty well too so I was excited to show off my cooking/baking skills. Everyone was impressed and I got lots of compliments about how yummy the food was.

My cute family

BYU/UTAH GAME DATE

Terry and I had tickets to go see the BIG GAME Saturday night. We had amazing tickets and we had so much fun on our little date with no kids it was such fun!! After going to the game of course we had to hit the EL CHIHUAHUA Resturant for some fabulous Mexican food!
Thanks T for taking me out on the town for a fun date with you!!

Emotional and Inspiring

This is how it all started and ever since then I haven't been able to get this family out of my thoughts. I think about this family quite often. A few weeks ago T's alarm clock went off and Terry doesnt have his alarm set on the annoying beep, beep thing he has it set to some news station that is almost just as annoying to me but this time when it went off at 5AM I couldn't help but listen to the news that morning. All that I can remember is that were talking about some Nie Nie Blog and some plan crash that had happened in August, I couldn't figure out what the blog had to do with the plane crashing. I got right up and went to the computer and here's the news article and then I read her sister Courtney's blog. I read this blog and the watched the news clip and it was very emotional for me but very inspiring on the sisterly bond and what a amazing family. I want my sisters to know that if anything ever happened to them that I would not only take care of them, but, if they had a family I would take care of the family too and that everything will be ok. I hope you all take the time and read this amazing story but be ready get the box of tissue's out because this is a tear jerker.

Home made bread

I made home made bread for the very first time it was AMAZING!!Thanks Emily for sharing your yummy recipe and maybe next time I can teach you to make something. Or... maybe we can have a round bush learning session!!


Check out my rolls and bread loaf

Tycee having a bite of of the finished goods