New York Weekend

I went to New York this past weekend with two of my sister-in-laws and our friend Erin. We had a blast, but of course I'm going to be the lazy one here and just refer you to Kara's blog (under family) because she did such a great job blogging/decribing our 4 days in NY. Thank you Kara for an amazing trip and for making it all possible! You're the greatest sister-in-law!

5 years and lovin' it!

It was our five year anniversary on june 28th. So we spent a couple nights at the new palms place hotel and spa. The room was awesome, especially the bathroom and the spa was beautiful (the Hammam was awesome). We had great food, worked-out together, went swimming and chilled in our cabana, went to the movies, and just had tons of fun together alone (longer than we have been since we had kids). We just enjoyed hanging out together and actually by the end of it all we remembered how much it is just about being together and not where or how. 

Training for a marathon

So it has been almost a month since I've last blogged and I think everyone who checks in is pretty sick of Jane running. Anyways, this entry will not be any fun, but I just want the world to know that I am training for my first marathon, the St. George marathon, that way I won't give up with my training. Today I ran 11.5 miles. I really need to figure out places to run around here in Vegas. I'm also having a hard time adjusting to this heat and elevation, but I figured it will help me in the long run. I really miss running by the beach in Hawaii with my buddy Megan, and I miss running by the Bay with my friend Rachel. It seems like the air is just easier to breath next to the water and time goes by fast when you're running with someone. Well, I will try and everyone updated with my running, not that it's really exciting, but it feels cool to run long distances.

See Jane Run!

Yay, I did it!  I was able to run my first official 1/2 marathon today.  Thank you to my Hubby for bringing the girls and cheering me on at the end of the race, to Nani and Boyd for coming and supporting me and for the amazing pasta dinner they took us to at Fino (Yummo), and Rachel Yeates for being my running partner and training with me.  I never thought I'd ever be a runner, but my best buddy, Megan Naihe, showed me another world of long distant running, so thank you to Megan for introducing me into this sport that I love now.  

Today was an exciting race.  Me and five girls from my ward all signed up to run this race.  The day started at 6am when I woke up and got ready, then I went to Rachel's and Devon (Rachel's Husband) drove us to Maryanne's, then we picked up Mindy, and then Rebecca and Jenn and Scott and off to the race.  We all pretty much split up from there except Rachel and I headed straight for the and port-a-potties (ewww, I know, but you gotta go when you gotta go) and then I got my chip to tie to my shoe and then to the starting line, but Rachel and I started off towards the end of the crowd of about 2000 racers.  I'm pretty sure we didn't cross the official starting line until 2 mins. into the race, but after that we were able to pick up our pace and run a good race.  When I crossed the finish line the clock said, "2:00:23".  I feel like it was not bad for my first official 1/2 marathon.  

I have to edit this and report my official time 1:59:17.3, so actually did beat my 2 hour goal.  Yay!

Blue Building

Miya is so silly with her silky....This photo almost looks like Miya's holding her head on a stick in front of her face.... hmmmm......



There is this cool blue building behind our apartment, that I thought would make a great background for some photos.   I didn't take these with my nicer camera, so the depth of field and quality isn't the greatest, but I think this blue building will be a potential spot for future photo shoots.

Little fun at Totland

Every Tuesdays we have park group where we go to different parks around Berkeley and Albany.  It has been really fun taking the girls to these new parks.  So, yesterday we went to Totland, a cute little playground in the middle of a neighborhood.  

Colbert is the man

Another reminder of why I find Stephen Colbert so politically rufus. "Rain" the korean pop star took his place on Time's 100 most influential people so Stephen challenged him to a dance-off, Stephen thought he wouldn't show, then the rest was history.