THANKSGIVING WEEKEND...

Our Thanksgiving was a pretty good one some of our high lights were my 10 mile run, having family in town, Mason and his school feast and seeing the Temple lights! Fun times, good food and family! What can I say...We do love it all!


Arianne Pearce and I running 10 miles... Turkey Run!!

Hugs at the Temple lights...

HAPPY TURKEY DAY to all and hope that your hearts were as grateful as ours!!

10K (6.2 MILES)

Over the past few month I have decided to take up running. It had been a long time sense I had ran any thing over a few miles but I started while in CA this past summer. I enjoyed it so much that I decided to train for a 1/2 marathon in the near future. So with that in mind I have signed up to do a few trial runs. Last sat I ran a 10K run and it was fun. I did it...I was a little nervous but this being my first race and all but koddos to my best friend Ariann she has pushed me and motivated me when so many times I have wanted to quit! I would think of every excuse in the book to not go running, like Dust had to work early sat morning, I just need to sleep in and you name it i probably ran it past her. She doesn't buy it!!! I owe her big time! I really do love it when I get out and run but with back to working full time and so MANY long days on my feet, the last thing I want to do is come home go running!

We ran it in 55:15! Now we are upping it to run a 10 mile run Thanksgiving morning!

Then to some more training and planing on doing a 1/2 marathon in February. Yikes...Yikes
Here are a few pic's of our fan club!

30 TUBS??

He didn't....did he??

This is what i found when my ever so thoughtful hubby came home this last weekend with 30 tubs of ice cream! Yeah I SAID 30!! Only a Ashton would do this...right? I guess if you all knew them as well as you think you do..well they eat ice cream like it's going out of style!

$48.00 dollars later and a truck full of ice cream...needless to say my kids were so happy too! How am I going to keep myself out of the ever so tempting Breyers Ice cream...??

Notice that the kids were in the P.J.'s well it was about 7AM when he went to the store to buy it...not a midnight run, just thinking of us for breakfast.?? He stresses me OUT!! I told the kids that they had to help him put it away and they were so excited!

Yes we have had ice cream every night for the last few days and MANY MORE to COME!!

All Dustin could say was I was thinking of you too...I got you like 4 cheesecake kind. It really was a "GOOD DEAL" only a $1.50 when you bought 10! Then he told me he wants 30 more...I put my food down on that one! Even though it might only last us for a month and 1/2 any way!!

I'll keep you all posted...

*To make things better he even brought me a new victoria's secret bra and panty home today!!!

In the DOG HOUSE!!!

Friday was a topical day with it being my day off, i got to the gym, ran Chloe to pre-school, ran picked up dry cleaning, stopped here and there, got groceries and all my running around done while I only had two kids.
I was home doing dishes catching up on laundry, and cleaning bathrooms, bedrooms and everything else that I can cram into my day off to catch up when I got this funny... oh I say funny phone call that suddenly turned my day upside down!! This is how it went...
April: Hello...
Richard: Hi this is rich with White Feather gun Smithing Co. and I'm who Dustin placed an order through last week???
April: I said wait..who are you?
Rich: I sold Dustin a gun last week and I have lost his cell number...
April: well...I can give him a message and let him know you called...
Rich: Did you not know about this????
April: NO!! Not at all, but I'm so glad that you called!
Rich: Oh I hate to be the one to break the news to the wives...oh I'm so sorry!
April: I'll let him know that you called...

Being the good wife that I am I decided to text him and ask him about this one?? He soon knew he was in TROUBLE and he couldn't get this one past me!! Let's just say that he kept talking about how he was so excited to be going to go see our family in Utah over the holidays and now it all makes sense to WHY he really excited! He'll have his new gun and get to do some hunting while in the Utah mountains. It has been a few year sense he has gotten out there and really go to hunt but still I'M NOT JUSTIFYING IT! We have our differences on this one for sure!
If this happend to you would you have been mad or what!???!!!

Time out for couples...

Not sure if any of you have ever heard of this but it's put on by Desert Book. I have gone to Women's Time Out before and thought we would try this one. Well it ended up being a lot of fun! Some of the speakers were Mark Mabry who was the photographer for the exhibit called "Reflections of Christ." Here is a link... http://mabrystudios.typepad.com/reflections_of_christ/ kind of long but so good!!
What a average Guy and how he came down to out level make it so real to feel what he had gone through in the making of the special exhibit! It did bring me to tears. I loved how he shared in detail what it took to capture all the right moments and how he had is trails and fears with weather and all. But in the end he shared a great weather story and how he prayed for great weather. He gave him one day to shoot in Mexico and he really thought that it was going to be a wast of a trip but the clouds cleared and he got the photo! What a story of faith!!

Then we also got to hear from Peter Breinholt...Oh so good! I do love how he can share stories and just reach out and touch anyone! During the break I saw a few more good favorites! Jenny Froggly and Hillary Weeks!! Just had to get a photo with them! They were performing on Saturday and I was so sad that I didn't get to go.

What a fun filled night! I would so do it again!!