Tiger Lilly

Meet the new addition to our family... This is Tiger Lilly.. we call her Lilly for short but she is a doll!! She's about 8 inches long and she has already started biting everything!! She looks so much like Layla and is actually Layla's niece.. She is so cuddly and her back legs are bowed which makes her even more cute!! We love her so much already.. We still miss Freckles but she helps alittle!!

MY BEST FRIEND!

I LOVE Freckles McDuggan..

Tonight my best friend died.. His name was Freckles and I've known him for 16 years! He was my dog. my companion. my friend. He will always be in my heart and I will forever remember how he use to smile at me when I came home from school., and the freckles that were on his nose-the reason we named him Freckles! This dog was not an ordinary dog, no he was extrordinary. He loved chasing cats, stilling neighbors leather gloves from there garages, playing ball, jumping off the deck at full speed chasing magpies, begging for food, and always making you smile when you had a bad day. You may not think thats so great but you just had to know him.. He had a great spirit. He had been sick for a while and we knew this day would come but that doesn't make it any easier. He died peacefully in my arms, we buried him with some of his favorite things.. a ball, leather glove, and a treat! When I get to heaven I will say, "Come here big boy." and hold him in my arms and give him a kiss on his wet nose.. He will be sorely missed!! I love you Freckles McDuggan Unck.. Good bye for now.. till we meet again! :) -You'll always be in my heart!

Woot Woot!! 13.1 Baby..

This last weekend me, Ashley, and my mom went down to St. George for the weekend.. Me and my mom went down to run the St. George half marathon and we decided to make it a girls weekend. We stayed at a spa and got massages after the race and it was a very relaxing weekend.. (besides running 13 miles!) I hadn't been training very good for the race and i had some anxiety about it but i wanted to finish, i didn't necessarily care about my time! The race was beautiful.. We ran through snow canyon and the red rock was amazing! hands down best view of any race i've ran before! The next day i woke up after the race and couldn't move a muscle without pain.. ha! Even now i'm home it takes me 5 minutes to get up the stairs.. i guess it will teach me never to run without training!! ha.. but i'm so proud of my mom she finished and did great!! We had a good time and our next race will be in Moab in December.. i'm really excited to start back in on my training and hopeful feel healthier. iloverunning!

Me and Ashley got some sweet tatts!! hard core eh?

This is how we felt after...

VICTORY!
We did it!

I Carry Your Heart With Me

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)
i am never without it(anywhere i go you go, my dear; and

whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling) i fear

no fate(for you are my fate, my sweet) i want no world

(for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it's you are

whatever a moon hasalways meant and whatever a sun will

always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows

(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky

of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul

can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping

the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

-E. E. Cummings

Racers...

On labor day weekend me, mom and Mike drove to Pocatello.. Me and my mom went to run a race! We did the Pocatello 10k! It was great.. I hadn't been sticking to my taining the week before and during the race i could feel it.. ha but we finished, we had fun and we even got awesome medals at the end!! I want to do a half marathon next but I've been so busy I don't know if I'll be able to do it while I'm in school!! Life is so crazy right now.. I'm just praying that i can get done and not have to retake any classes! Till next time! :)

YELLOWSTONE :)

Old faithful.. all the pictures of it didn't turn out so well..

Hot Spots..

Their was so many of these guys around!

this last one is my favorite.. he's like the grandpa!! ha

I went to the tetons and yellowstone the other week with my parents.. we had fun! We saw old faithful.. some hot spots.. waterfalls.. and we even saw some animal life.. bison, antelope, and even a bear!! it was great! We took the dogs and Layla loved it, it was her first camping trip!! :) enjoy the pictures!!

Bryce Canyon 5K & Family Fun!!

This weekend we went down to Bryce Canyon to run a 5K race.. This was our second 5K that me and my mom have run!! It was pretty fun.. their is nothing better than running through hoodoos in Bryce Canyon.. the view was great.. it was the best! Next year i'm goin to run the 1/2 marathon there!! Anyways.. Ashley and Stefan came down with us and we had a good time riding 4 wheelers and watching the Bar G Wranglers (old western counrty band ha..).. As we were riding it started to rain and the rain drops were pelting us.. it was pretty hillarious!! Then we went and walked down into Bryce Canyon National Park and hiked down.. i couldn't help myself, i took so many pictures.. It's beautiful!! i want to go back and hike the rest of the way now!! :)

Those little castle like things are called Hoodoos..

Medals for finishing... yay!

I think we look pretty legitimate!! :)

Oh.. To Be Young Again!! :)

I thought it would be fun to put up some pictures when i was little.. The other day i was wishing that i was 4 again with not a care in the world, toys to play with, and being outside all the time! I miss it!! This last picture make me laugh.. with our stretchy pants sitting on grandmas tree we played on all the time.. oh to be young again!! Life was easy! :)

--QUOTE--

"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway." — Mother Teresa

Okay so i stole this from my sisters blog but i really liked it.. it kind gives ya a different way to look at things..

I LOVE SPRING!!!!

Spring is great...
Tulips are my favorite, I love them!! These are a few at my grandmas!! They are so pretty especially against the white picket fence in the front of the house.. Tulips have always reminded me of my grandma.. They are the best!! Enjoy the beautiful flowers!! :)