Utah Valley Marathon June 12, 2010

This is the start. Mark was kind enough to bring me to the race and wait at the finish. He is pretty awesome.

I love this poster. It was posted all around the valley advertising this race. I ran the 5k and had talked to several ladies and it got me motivated to run the Hobbler Half Marathon.

Alli took this and when I saw her she had just gotten her hair cut and I had to run over to see her and the baby and Mark and Dan. I should have just sprinted to the end. I missed getting 3rd by 8 seconds. I guess I should learn to stay focused!!

I loved seeing Cody in the sling. He looked so cute.

Mark didn't want to get too close for the photo. He said I was too sweaty. Oh, well!

Hobbler half

Alli and I decided to run in a half marathon. We did 5 weeks of training since we didn't have anymore time because we just decided to do it. I have ran in 4 5k already this summer so I had been running a lot but this was tough. Here I am coming to the end. Alli and Rachael were already here. 11 minutes before me. It was sure a pretty run down Hobble Creek Canyon.
Mile 12, killer mile. walked a bit around the corner to the school and then ran it it. 2 hours 29 minutes 8 seconds. Not too bad for my first. It was pretty awesome coming on to the grass and then seeing Alli cheering for me. I got all teary eyed, first since I was finishing and then I had a thought of how our life here on earth and all the work and trials and things we do to get us back to Heaven and our families was like this race. I worked hard, trained hard, and the reward was great, seeing my family there and knowing I had done it. Heaven is going to be great!!
Alli got a pretty sweet shot here, the gun time on the clock and me heading in. We were about 52 seconds behind the gun time. We were almost at the back of the pack at the start.

She just kept snapping photos. She was so cute. I really am glad we did this.

Official race photo crossing the finish line.

We did it! Rachael, Alli, and Me

Dan got Cody ready and came up to the finish and don't they look cute?!!!

I love his fishing hat and his cheeks are getting so fat. Love him, Love them all!!

Cody's first home movies

Cody day 2

Cody had a bit of respiratory distress so they gave him some air treatments and started an iv with antibiotics. He is all hooked up to monitors but he is doing fine. Has to stay on the iv for 48 hours to make sure there was no infection. As of today his blood work has been fine and he should get off the iv later tonight or tomorrow.
He has a monitor on his foot to measure the oxygen. It is kind of sad but he is doing fine.

Baby Cody

He came as a little surprise, 3 weeks early but we are glad he is here!
Cody Lee Duncan 6 lbs 8 oz 20 inches
Alli and Sherry
Dan, Chad, Cody, Alli, Sherry, Kevin

He came a bit early but all are doing great!!

Fourth of July Race

I decided that I wanted to run a 5K. I registered for the one on the 4th of July in Provo. Mark decided he would do it with me. I just wanted to run the entire race. I did it!!
This is before the race.
This is the start of the race.
This is the BIGGGG crowd. Several thousand people entered. Crazy!
We finished. My first 5k 34 minutes 54 seconds. I did beat Mark by 5 minutes. Got some bragging rights with that! I took 10th place in my division. There were 30 women and so I felt pretty good about my first race.

Happy New Year

Matt and Alli are partying it up!!!
Lexi on guitar. All the kids are so good at this.
Getting down with Rock Band, Kelsee and Alli.
Lexi singing, Kelsee and Sherry on drums, Star on guitar
Max loves Mark. Mark was singing and Max was in heaven.
Max loves Grandpa!!!

Kelsee loves the movie Up and has watched it so many times that she is memorizing parts. This is one that she loves to recite.



We had a great party at Jess's, Rock band, video games, great food and the best part we were all there but Chad, he was working and Kevin, well he is in Connecticut still!


Kelsee picked bon Jovi Living on a Prayer and she knows the song well, Jesse said she has the song on her ipod.