Frist Day of School 2011

These beautiful kids are getting WAY to big!  Sieauna starts 6th grade, Alex is in 4th. Oh boy. Here goes another year!

Eight is SO Great!

This is so totally blog worthy to me!! I needed some new jeans (wore a whole in the old ones) and guess what? The 10's were TOO BIG! I held my breath as I tried on the size 8's, and when I button them up I let go of my breath and THEY FIT! Comfortably might I add, not tight at all! I made it into a size 8 pants!!!! I haven't been in single digit pants since I was 17 years old. I am on cloud nine. Obviously the CrossFit and Paleo are paying off - remind me of this when I start to veer off track. ;)

Photo Shoot

While we were at the cabin, my sweet daughter decided to indulge me and do some posing. I sure adore my big girl. She's growing up so fast!

A Day At The Cabin

I took the kids up to the cabin for the day to get away from "home" and spend some time with Grams and Gramps. Gramps had fun teaching Alex to shoot the BB gun, bait the fishing pole, cast the rod, and the virtue of patience (yeah, he didn't learn that lesson that so well). We went 4-wheeling, fixed the pond, sat in the hot tub and had yummy BBQ and spent the night. I made the kids, Gramps and I a big breakfast in the morning. Good times!

Boise or Bust

We were lucky enough to be able to head out to Boise, Idaho for a quick romantic get away! Justin has been working soooooo much lately and has been out of town so I was especially excited to get to spend three whole days with him!

We drove down to Boise on Friday and met up with our wine tasting group at THE MOST AMAZING restaurant EVER! The Barbacoa. I can't even tell you what a feast for the eyes this place was. Best way to explain it: vintage Vegas burlesque meets rustic cabon steak house. It was so cool and the food was just as pleasing.After dinner, the group headed to one of our favorite martini bars, The Red Feather Lounge where the host gave us the entire basement wine cellar area to mingle. It was cool to have the group together to wine (or martini rather) and dine in such an awesome location. The stairs to get to the basement were lined with wine bottles behind blue lighted glass. Really cool.
Saturday morning the guys headed out golfing and my mom and mother-in-law and I drove into town for the Farmer's Market. It is such a fun place. Much more lively and diverse than the one here in Utah. In addition to local meats, cheeses, veggies and such, the Farmer's Market hosts many of the local wineries! Guess what that means? Free wine tastings while you cruise the market! Us ladies loaded up on breads, cheeses, tapinade, seriously divine lavender almond white chocolate, WINE, and fruits. Then we headed back to the hotel and the three of us set up a picnic and enjoyed each others company until it was time to get ready for the wine taste that evening. Stan and Inge Young hosted their farewell wine tasting. They featured local Idaho wines and a huge dinner spread. They will be sorely missed and we all agreed we will miss them, and the Idaho experience, and begged to allow us to continue to come visit them ;).
On Sunday Justin and I had some quality alone time. We had brunch on the patio at a wonderful city spot, The BarDeNay. Then we started the drive home and stopped at the Carmella Winery for some tasting and shopping.I had a relaxing wonderful time with my hunny. Hope to do it again soon!

Camping at Pineview 2011

This year Justin couldn't join us at our annual Pineview camping trip. We missed him. Especially me :(. We always have such a wonderful time every year on this trip. This year was no exception.

RAGNAR Wasatch Back

The one, the only, the original. The race that started it all. Think of it as a 192-mile party with 12 best friends. Teams of 12 will rock out to live bands, enjoy the wacky participant costumes, and make life-long friends with teammates and competitors. Teams will party (aka run their butts off) along the backside of the beautiful Wasatch Mountains from Logan (85 miles north of Salt Lake City) to Park City, Utah (15 miles east of Salt Lake City). For some reason I was a bit nervous to do this race. First off, I had the longest runs of the team: 21 miles - the longest I've ever ran before. I had been training a ton at CrossFit, but hadn't been really "running". Justin had the 2ND longest runs with 19 miles. We both had long downhill runs and they killed our knees! I felt espeically bad for Justin because he had a really steep uphill run and you could tell it was brutal, but he's amazing and pulled it off - such a rockstar!

My first run was easy. I was so excited, adrenaline pumped, and ready to go at 5:00 AM. Yes, you heard me right. Let me give a little background. We arrived at the hotel in Logan around midnight and had to wake at 3:30 to be to the start line by 4:00 for our 5:00 start. I was so exhausted but as soon as I turned on my music got into my zone and got to the start line, the excitement took over and I made really good time on my first 7 mile run. My 2ND run was a little more challenging, but fun. I ran 8.3 miles down the canyon. I really liked the downhill running, but it was horrible on my knees and unfortunately, I didn't recover in time for my 3rd run, I really was looking forward to my last one. An easy breezy flat 5 miles. I was hoping to kill that one, but I ended up walking most of it because I was in a lot of pain from my 2ND run. I feel like I let the team down on that one, but I did my best and know what I need to train on for the next race. Got to stretch out that IT band! Overall, we had a great time. There were a few difficulties I noticed in this race that I didn't experience in my first two. One: I was doing Paleo. In the past races I'd carb load and during this race, I did not have any carbs and relied on protein. This may explain why I felt more depleted and exhausted after my runs. 2ND: I had a little tummy bug :(. But that is nothing and I am not complaining. My amazing friend, and teammate ran this race 6 months pregnant! I was happy to once again run with some seriously cool people. We sure do get a long well. You really build a relationship being with a person in a car for 24 hours together. They support you and you support them. It was a lot of fun and we were so happy to cross the finish line with an amazing team. Our team, the "Plundering Pavement Pounders", were noticed right away by the media and the local newspaper did an article on us and put our pictures in the paper! HOW COOL IS THAT!? We felt like celebrities. You can read all about our awesomeness here. Justin and I love doing these races and our medal collection is piling up! Next up? Napa! Can't wait to run over the Golden Gate Bridge!

Getting Dirrrrrty

The whole Vigh clan joined up with a fun team named "Down With The Brown" and participated in the "Dirty Dash" 5K obstacle course. Oh my goodness how fun and DIRTY! Talk about being caked in mud EVERYWHERE! The kids had a ball going through the bog and down the water slide, er, um I mean mudslide in the "Piglet Plunge". Mom and dad had fun jumping hay barrels, clearing 5 foot walls, trekking through tires, crawling through water pipes, etc. It was held at beautiful Soldier Hollow and the weather was perfect. The ice cold "showers", not so perfect, but still a great time! Can't wait to do it next year!!

Ciao Cello

Sieauna finished up her 2ND year of cello. She thinks she is done playing it. She still wants to be in orchestra, but wants to downsize to maybe a viola or a violin. She has done so great throughout these last two years and I am so impressed with her dedication and devotion to it, even in some rough times. She's a talented kid and she makes her family proud! Way to go Sieauna!

Skater Dude

Alex has really taken to skateboarding. I just love how stinkin' cute he looks!