Kind of behind....But still grateful!

Day 4- I am grateful for my cute husband! What would I do with out him..... probably die. :) He is the best and I am so luck.

Day 5- I am grateful for the opportunity to be a member of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints! :) So happy to be apart of the true church.

Day 6- I am grateful to have a job that I love! Having a fun job makes life so much better.

All caught up. See ya tomorrow. Happy election day everyone!


In other news

As few of you know .... Two weeks ago we decided that it was time to put our cute little house up for sale. After only two weeks we are under contract and the buyer wants to be closed by November 30th. yup less than a month. :) This brings a lot of stress but we are very happy and ready for this big change. ( not to mention the money we will be making on the house is a total plus. ) So ..... Bring on the house hunt. We are currently looking in a few different places. Some places are Herriman, Lehi, South Jordan......And pretty much everywhere. Wish us luck! I will keep the you all updated. Yes when I say all I am talking about the 5 people that read my blog. Thanks readers!

Day 2 -thankful for Fridays

Is there anything better than a Friday!!!!!! The freedom you feel as you walk away from work knowing you have a weekend ahead of you! My Friday has been amazing. Training table for date night, a fun little drive around daybreak and south Jordan now I am hanging out with my cute husband and my cute dog!!! :) I love Fridays! Happy weekend everyone!


     

November!!!!!! Day one!

Happy November everyone! This is my favorite time of year! This month I am going to post everyday about something I am thankful for. I hope this really helps me get into the spirit of the holiday season. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holiday because it is all about spending time with family and friends and it is a great reminder to be thankful for everything that we have! So here it goes......

Day 1-

Today I am grateful for running. That may sound funny but I really am grateful that my body is able to exercise and run. Running makes me feel great and I love the feeling of accomplishment. It is also something that me and Riley can do together so that makes it even better! YEAH for running!

Happy November everyone

Stay tuned for Halloween pictures and Colton's homecoming pictures!

Elder Balmforth

Elder Balmforth is coming home!!! It is hard to believe that tomorrow at this time our whole family will be in one room. We haven't had everyone together in 2 years!!! So much has happened in the past 2 years! I hope Colton is ready. Because ready or not.... HERE WE COME!!!

here is the email that I wrote Colton last week. I am putting this on here so I can always remember these  crazy times. These last 2 years have been the best and some times hardest times in my life. I am so grateful for the blesses I have received because my my bother and sister served missions. So here you go.

Hey how are you!!! I love you bro! I am sure these last couple of weeks are going to be bitter sweet. Just remember that you have another journey that is about to start. You are amazing! It still feels like yesterday when you opened that big white envelope. I Remember thinking how crazy everything was! I was scared and nervous for you. Now 2 years later I am once again scared and nervous for you. But I also can't wait to see you!!! What an amazing day that will be. these last two years have shown me that you are strong and that you can do anything. I am so grateful for your willingness to serve a mission. You have brought some much happiness to our family and we have been so blessed because of you! You will never know the impact that your mission has had on my life. I just want to say thank you! And I want you to know that I know this gospel is true. I know our Heavenly Father loves us and he has a plan for us. I know that he will never fail us. If we do what he has asked then we will return to him someday. I am grateful for our eternal family. I am so grateful for prayer! Our Heavenly Father hears us. I love you bro. Keep the faith. You amaze me brother!! I am so blessed to be your sister! See you soon!!!!

yahhh I love my missionaries! I am also grateful for all the other people in my life who have served missions. They are all so amazing!! Thanks for reading! 

Before.......

After.... To Be continued........:)

GO UTES!!

GO UTES!

We hope you all loved the game as much as we did. This is Riley's favorite time of year. On Saturday he even stated that " Today is better than christmas." He was just kidding. And even if he wasn't  I am going to pretend that he was. :)

Even Mr. Fez has a utah doggie shirt.

Good Game Utah!

One year of being married!!!!!

After our race we spent the night in St. George for our anniversary. After about 35 hours of no sleep all we wanted to do was eat some pizza and go to sleep. And that we did. Thank you Papa Johns for being so good to us. We were so starving!!! It was so nice to spend time with each other  and not have to worry about anything. The next morning we woke up and headed to Disneyland!

We did 2 days in Disneyland and California Adventures. And then we spend a day at the beach. We also go to eat at two of our favorite places! ESPN Zone and Ruby's and the pier at the beach. So yummy and so much fun. Disneyland was not busy at all and we walked on to pretty much all the rides.
Once again it was so nice to just spend time together and not have anyone else around. I wish we could do this more.  I even love the long car ride because we get to be together.

On the way home we made a stop back in St. george to have lunch with a senior couple that Riley served his mission with. That was so much fun. I love hearing stories of Riley's mission. When we get old I want to be just like this couple. They have been on a handful of missions and they are so cute and fun. They are so amazing for doing everything that they have done in the lives.

After lunch we made one more stop to pick up Mr. Fez. Thank you Abula for watching Fez for the week. You are way to kind. We know Fez can be crazy.

Well that was our week. One year down forever to go.



And to Riley Woods,

Happy one year of being married. I am such a lucky girl to have you as my husband. Thanks for taking such good care of me and Mr. Fez. You work so hard and I am so grateful for that. I can't imagine my life with out you. Life would be boring that is for sure. I have the best husband hands down. and last but not least....Thanks for  helping me run my night leg of the race. hahaha I know I am such a baby but you really saved my life. And I must say that that was my favorite leg to run.(once you saved my crying little self. )  What a great way to start our 2nd year of marriage right?? 9 mile run,  no big deal for my husband.  I love you Ri. :)

                                                               The new Cars Land
                                       
                                                                   Boogie boarding

                                                                   Minnie Mouse

                                           Toys story game. So not good for our marriage.... :)

                              After Riding the ride 5 times we finally got to be in the #1 seat!!! So fun!

                                                             Posing for the camera

                                                                   Lego land

                                                             Lunch in St. George






Once we got back from vacation we decided to have a taste of our wedding cake. It tasted really good.              You all need to go to granite bakery. You will never hate it. I promise.

Red Rock Relay 2012

Since July we have been running like crazy in preparation for the Red Rock Relay race.

 Red Rock Relay is an organization that puts on a few different relay races every year. The different races take place in Zion, Park City and Moab. We participated in the Zion race that started at Brian Head and ended in Zion. the milage for the race is 187 miles. Yeah talk about a race. This was one of the most amazing things I have ever done is my life. My first leg was 2.9 miles. My second was 5.2 miles and my third was 5 miles. Crazy I know. And to think that some of my other teammates had it much worse. Our team started at 6:00am on 9/7/2012 and ended at 4:27pm on 7/8/2012. (Yes that day also marked our one year wedding anniversary.) I would recommend this race to anyone. You will learn so much about yourself. I never ever thought in a million years that I was capable of something like this. But, I was and I want to do it again! I am grateful for the amazing team that I was on and for the 5 team members that I was in the van with. This is a memory I will never forget. And now for the best part......PICTURES!  

Side note- My pictures hate me and would not stay in order. Sorry. 

                                            Just finished my first leg of the race. 2.9 miles.

                                                           GO MER! She is a amazing!

                                                         Starting my last leg of 5 miles.

            Finished! yeah baby. Did  I mention that it was 104 degrees on saturday. No big deal right?

       Passing off to Riley so he can start his last leg of the race. 6.2. Yeah he is also amazing!

                                             katee finished up the race for us. Yeah Katee!

                         Every time you finished a leg you would add another tattoo. fake of course.

                                                                     Go Stacy!

                                                                Me and my Medal!

                                                               So proud of myself.

                                                    Happy one year of being married!!

Riley on his first leg. 

van support

Don't forget your Jazz hands while running! 

                                                                   Rockstar runner!

                                                                 All smiles baby


One last story that  I really want to remember........

So the 2nd run that I did was at 2:00 in the AM. Yeah in a Dark Canyon. The leg was even titled "The Spooky leg".  I was so nervous but I just kept telling myself that I could do it and it wouldn't be scary at all. So I got ready, the wristband was past to me and I started running. I got about half a mile and I started freaking myself out. look kelsee you are  the only one in this dark canyon? Oh what was that noise, Oh what if someone was behind that tree, Oh hey what was THAT noise???? Yeah I am a freak I know. I was setting myself up for the worse possible thing that really WAS not going to happen. But when the team van drove past I started freaking out and then the tears started rolling. I think I started saying, I CANT DO THIS!! And that is when I see my cute husband jump out of the car. I wanted to so badly run this on my own but I was willing to admit that I needed help. And lets face it I got a lot further than I thought I would. Half way though our run I realized that Riley's leg was right after mine. Oh hey What a nice wife I am.  Everyone kept saying that they would switch him out but refused to let anyone else run with me. He was probably just trying to save everyone else from having to run with my scared little self. So after our 4 miles or running together, he also did his run. Yeah ROCK STAR! p.s. We made it! No one attacked me!!!!!!!!