Happy Birthday Miss Taylor!!
We Did It! Yesterday Ben and I, and Ben's brother Chris participated in a 5K race in West Valley! Ben had heard about it, and really wanted to do it. He kept bugging me that I should do it with him, and that it would be cool if we could do it together. I reallly had no desire to do it, and I really didn't think I could do it. To me...3.2 miles is forever long! Considering I've never been able to run longer than about 8 minutes at a time! But what do ya know...I was actually able to do it! All this exercising is actually paying off! I can now say I've been there, and done that...don't know if I'll be doing it again anytime soon. It was a great accomplishment, and I'm so glad I did it, but it really wasn't fun! We all did great...Chris finished in about 26 mintues, Ben in about 28 minutes, and I finished at 36 minutes. Ben and I both reached our goals. Ben's was to run it in under 30 minutes, and my goal was to run the entire time, and to finish in less than 38 minutes! This being our first race...we didn't know that you stayed until everyone finished and that they did awards and gave out ribbons and stuff. Come to find out I actually placed 3rd in my age group. I was pretty excited about that! YAY for us, and thanks Ben for talking me into it! 
The course went right past my sister's house, so they sat out on the porch and cheered for us as we ran past!
There is Ben waving at Zoey!
Well, after a week of celebrating it has come to an end! On Sunday we celebrated the last of the birthday parties for Ben! Taylor's Birthday is this week, so we celebrated hers too! Taylor and Ben are the best of buddies, so it was fun to have them celebrate it together! Martha made a great dinner, and Joann brought the best icecream cake! Martha decided that it would be fun to start a new tradition, and on birthday's we have to say what we love about that person. I of course got choked up when I had to say what I love about Ben...I always do! What can I say, he is my best friend and I love him more than life itself! It was nice to hear the rest of the family talk about him, and that even made me all teary eyed! His brothers said some really nice things about him, and it was just nice to hear how much they love and respect him! Ben is an example to all of how to be an awesome Dad, a wonerful husband, an amazing Son, a caring Brother, and a loyal friend to anyone lucky enough to know him!
Until next year....Love ya Ben!
I think SO! 
March 10, 2009
We started out the night going out to eat at the Cheesecake Factory! It was SO good! That is definately one of my favorite restaurants. Ben was suprised, and had no idea we were going there! 
I had told Zoey we were going to a nice restaurant, and so she was on her best behavior!
Ok, so she got a little bored waiting for the food...but was still being really good! They don't have any kids meals to color or anything, so she resorted to the camera to keep herself entertained. She took this picture of herself! Ha! Wonder where she learned how to do that?!
Ben
This is 1 of the 5 pictures she took of the messy table!
More of Ben!
Our cute waitress was so kind to pose for her! Zoey thought that was great!
Ben told them he didn't want them to sing, so our waitress just decorated his plate, and put a candle in his cheesecake for him...it was perfect!
Can't wait until we get to go there again!
We had to wait a little while for a lane, so Zo was entertaining herself once again!
She thought it was so funny to imitate the pictures on the wall!
The Birthday Boy won both games!
Zoey loved bowling! She didn't want it to end. She got 2 spares, and was SO cute when she got them. She would just scream and cheer...she had the people around us just laughing at her. It was so cute. She would even cheer for Ben and I when we got a strike or a spare!
We had a great night, and were so glad we were able to spend the night with our Ben! We love him, and are so lucky to have the best Daddy in the world!
