The Nakaishi's

31st Birthday in Home Town

2009-08-16T07:03:00.001-07:00

Keeley made this Cake for me when I got home from Wallace. Looks GREAT!

Red Velvet is my Favorite and my mom and grandma made this cake for me! It was SO good!

I have never seen this many people in my home town! It was great to see the streets filled.

Grandma making my Cake

My niece and nephews out front playing, They never get to old to play at grandma's house.

My Bothers and my parents!

My sisters and my dad

My sisters, mom and grandma!

The Sperry Girls! We don't look alike at all!

Brian and his to girls! His wife Lori and daughter Sydney.

My mom and grandma!

The whole Sperry Family without Justin he was here in Utah running Savon.

The Sperry's

The Kids

Bedroom Remodel

2009-07-15T04:59:00.000-07:00

I just decided one day that I was going to remodel my spare room. I took out the carpet and found hardwood floors in good condition. I went to talk to my good friend Angie to see how she refinished her hardwood floors. She gave me great tips and ideas!(Thanks Angie) I think the best thing about this room is that I got most of my things in it from a yard sale.

So now I am going to be refinishing hardwood floors all throughout my house. Next room my bedroom then office then living room and dinning room. Wish me luck!

Nationals in Miami Flordia 2009

2009-06-22T05:45:00.000-07:00

We had a great time in Florida besides the eye infections and the Jellyfish sting. But over all it was a great trip!

Keeley's Graduation

2009-05-29T15:31:00.000-07:00

Keeley's Last Day at LCA She is now a 1st Grader!

Keeley & Mrs. Filer

Keeley getting her Diploma

Keeley's Program

"What do you want to be when you grow up"

She was a cheerleader.

Raging Waters with Keeley

2009-05-27T18:11:00.000-07:00

My school went to Raging Waters for a field trip. It is a huge water park and I go every year, but this year I got to take Keeley. I was really looking forward to it, but I was a little bummed that I could not swim cause my stitches could not get wet. Keeley and I played in the wave pool and road the waves and the she played in the dinosaur park. Great day until I took my phone swimming with me.

Golfing with Keeley

2009-05-25T17:45:00.000-07:00

On Memorial Day we decided as a family that we would go golfing, I was sad I could not golf. Cause on Sunday we were working at the new building and I was taking out a wall and I piece of pipe slipped and went into my thumb. Not a large hole just a deep one. I headed to the doctor and got stitches. So I was Keeley's Caddy for the day she did most of the driving we had a great time. We would get her about a 150 yards from the hole and she would use her wedge and putter! It was way fun! Then we went to Farr's Ice Cream( I have never been there before) afterwards! Great day with the Nakaishi's

Trying the big driver!

DEER IN MY BACKYARD

2009-05-20T17:34:00.000-07:00

Last week I came home from work and my dog Cooper started going crazy! I went to go see what he was barking about and sure enough there was a deer in my back yard!

This does not happen in Clearfield very often.

Nakaishi Easter 2009

2009-04-19T17:38:00.000-07:00

The Nakaishi's had a Easter party, and the Easter bunny came to the house with a big Easter egg savager hunt, That bunny hid eggs every where, it the bedrooms, the bathroom, the garage, family room, TV room, and the toy room. It was funny to watch Keeley get so excited to find her eggs and read the clues. In every room there was a little surprise, like a coloring book, DVDs, webkins.
Keeley had to go into each room and find a football egg first, then read what room to go to next and how many eggs where in each room. The very last room she had to use her Bug Finding kit because her eggs had bugs on them. I am not sure who I liked to watch more Keeley or Justin helping Keeley.

Cooper is going to help Keeley find bug eggs!

Easter Egg Hunt

2009-04-18T18:44:00.000-07:00

Jenica's Birthday Dinner

2009-04-17T07:01:00.000-07:00

Keeley decided that she would give her momma a scavenger Easter egg hunt and she would have Justin and Jason help her... Well you know what that means Justin is going to hide her eggs so hard and Jason is going to give her hard clues, Those boys put those eggs in the most the ridiculous places. For example in the fridge, in the lights fixtures and under the china cabinet, It took a while for her to find 10 eggs. In Jenica's eggs she had candy and all kinds of things like ear plugs and batteries, three prong plug in. It was way funny watching Keeley and the boys plan her birthday surprise. Jenica did not think it was too funny but she went along with it for Keeley's.

Keeley giving her mom thumbs up!

Jenica found her gifts!

All Done! HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Denver Cross Road Tournament

2009-03-28T09:08:00.000-07:00

Last weekend I had an opportunity to take my Xtreme volleyball club team to Denver to compete in the National qualifier. Denver is a fun tournament, it has always been one of my favorite tournament to coach in and even play in. To me it is like a family reunion. I got to see two of my teammates from Washington State University. I got to see some of my old coaches, and some of my former players( I am starting to feel old), and my friends that are associated with volleyball.

I just remember when I was played in this tournament...forever ago, and we finished in the top two. We had to play against team Mizuno ( which was Kerry Walsh's team). It was a blast. The volleyball was fun, my teammates were a blast to hang out with. My coaches new that some of us have never been out much so they would take us to neat places to eat, and shop, even Art and Mary Jo took me swimming in the ocean for the first time. No matter where we went we always had an adventure that was never forgotten. When I got to college the fun just continued, my coach at Washington State (Cindy Fredrick) always took us to cool places like Disney world, and we always got to eat at the best restaurants. That is what made it so fun for me.

So now that the shoe is on the other foot and I am now the coach. I want to do the same thing for my players. In Denver I took them down town to the Hard Rock Cafe to eat and to do a little shopping. It was fun watching them look around, and to watching them freak out when all the weirdo's in down town Denver approached us like the Robot man (he was a trip)

Just want to Thank first God for giving me the talent to play and coach. second ALL my coaches for giving me a opportunity to play for them and for all the great adventures!

Thanks girls for a great time!

Las Vegas with the McCarthy's

2009-03-06T18:02:00.000-08:00

This weekend my sister and her family were headed to Vegas for and 7 on 7 football tournament at UNLV. Cody (my nephew) got a special invite to go to this camp to be looked at by many college recruiters. He is only a sophomore.
They came down Thursday night to stay the night and were going to leave Friday morning. They asked if I would like to go with them. I was please to get away to a little warmer weather. I was excited to go to Vegas since I have not been there in 13 years. It was fun to see all the lights and all the hotels, the food is always great.

Sailing,Snorkeling, in Cozumel Mexico

2009-02-16T12:35:00.001-08:00

On Friday Justin and I had and opportunity to go with Jason and his work party on an outing to Cancun then to Cozumel. Justin and I had no idea what we were doing for the day we just knew that we were going to go snorkeling. When we arrived in Cancun we arrived at Dolphin Discovery in Cancun not the same one Keeley and I went to in Playa DE Carmen. We found out that we were going to sail to Cozumel on a private sail boat, and swim with dolphins, swim with sharks and sting rays, we were going to do a zip line over the ocean and then go snorkeling.
How EXCITING! This was by far one of the best day we had in Mexico. I think it was great cause Justin and I got to spend time together, Jason was there too but Justin I had a great day together!
The water is so pretty here. I was thinking as I was sailing and looking at the ocean God was amazing when he created the earth it is so breath taking. I got to see beautiful sun sets, fish and all kinds of different sea life. I was so lucky to be in such a wonderful place!

This is the Barracuda it is hard to see. Kinda scary when they are right in your face.

Swimming with the Dolphins

2009-02-16T12:07:00.000-08:00

One of the funniest things to do on the trip was swimming with the Dolphins. I had an opportunity to swim with them twice. Once with Keeley and once with Justin and Jason. The Dolphins are so smart and gentle. We got to Kiss, hug, dance, ride, play and be pushed on a boogie board by the dolphins. Keeley, Jenica and I got to swim with ALEXIA (the dolphin) she just had a baby that was two months old. It was really cool to be able to swim with the baby as well. Keeley was a trouper she swam all the way out to the middle of the arena to give the dolphin a hug. I was so proud of her I didn't think she would do it all by herself.

Justin and I also got to swim with sharks and sting rays. The sharks were real hard to see they were way down at the bottom.

DEEP SEA FISHING

2009-02-16T08:29:00.000-08:00

The Fishing day was long we fished for 8 hours. It was real rough water, but is was beautiful out on the sea. We caught Barracuda's, Mackerel and a Bontio. We had a good time. Jason and Jenica got real sick at first, but then they got better as the day went on.

HORSE BACK RIDING ON THE BEACH

2009-02-16T07:26:00.000-08:00

On Tuesday Jenica, Chad, Keeley, Justin and myself went horseback riding it was so pretty riding on the beach. I felt bad for the horses having to walk in the deep sand with us on their backs, but they did not seem to mind, they liked the water. Keeley was a trouper she rode her horse all by herself.

Mexico Pictures

2009-02-16T06:06:00.000-08:00

Here are some pictures of my trip
These are pictues on the beach, in the pool, couple of the pictures is 5th ave mexico where we went shopping.

Nakaishi Family Mexio Trip

2009-02-16T06:05:00.000-08:00

The Nakaishi Family went to Mexico,
We had a great time! The first thing we did when we got there was go to the beach it was late at night but it was still beautiful. The water is so many shades of blue.
We did all sorts of things like: Swim with dolphins, deep sea fishing, horseback riding, sailing, snorkeling,swimming,shopping. I will try to have all my pictures posted shortly.

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JOY & JUSTIN CANCUN VACATION

2009-01-18T19:05:00.000-08:00

KEELEY'S CHRISTMAS

2009-01-18T11:22:00.001-08:00

KEELEY' CHRISTMAS 2009

2009-01-18T11:03:00.000-08:00

Every year since Keeley was two she would go to the dollar store and buy Christmas gifts for all the buddies (all the people in our family). You never know what you're going to get... Last year Justin got a BIG red Christmas bow, I got a sewing kit.
This year I had an opportunity to take Keeley to the dollar store. I had a blast! It was so fun watching her push her own chart and pick out all the things for the buddies. I did not help her, when it came to my gift she just said that I had to close my eyes, and I told her I would not peek.
This is what everyone got:

Jenica: Suckers, craft glue, and window things that you paint. Keeley said that "momma likes crafts"
Chad: He got FLARP it is that putty stuff that sounds like farts. Keeley giggle all thought the store she taught that gift was so funny for Chad.
Jason(JJ): Flash Light cause he works a lot.
Bucky(Justin): Magnifying cause he can't see when he is embroidering things at work.
Joy: Got hand cream
Jeff (grandpa): Markers cause Keeley uses all of his high lighters to draw on his work plans.
Joan (grandma): She got a Job list so she could right down all the chores that grandpa and Jason have to do for the week.
Cooper (my dog): got dog treats
Pepper( my cat): got kitty treats
Keeley: she got had cream (of course she had to get herself something)
Keeley's dad Daryl: Dolphin soap, back scratch

BATHROOM FINISHED

2009-01-18T10:10:00.000-08:00

The Finished Product

Here is a video of my bathroom.

BATHROOM REMODEL

2008-12-20T11:52:00.000-08:00

Well Justin and I got ambitious and started to remodel the bathroom. I have been working on it for 3 weeks. It has taken me a long time to finish because I have to teaching school during the day and on Tuesday's and Thursday's I have volleyball practice. Can't wait I am almost done, then what will I do with my time...

We put in a NEW: drywall,tub, sink & counter top, shower, and floor. I painted all the walls and painted the cabinets.
I am almost done I just have to finish the floor.

I have to thank Nancy's family and Jeff and Jason for all the help!
Thanks you guys you are awesome!

I suggest not to remodel during the holiday season too stress full

I will show you all the finished project when I am done this is just a seek peek!

JENICA & CHAD'S WEDDING

2008-12-06T15:00:00.000-08:00

Jenica and Chad Mikesell Married

December 6th 2008

At Glen Eagle Golf Course

KEELEY'S SLEEP OVER

2008-12-05T11:38:00.000-08:00

After Jenica's wedding Keeley got to sleep over at my house! It was great fun we ate popcorn, watched Willy Wonka (the old one), and we colored.

We also made Keeley's Christmas Wish List

Bible
Bible case
Nintendo DS Games (pets)

Littlest Pet Shop

Webkins

BRIAN'S HOUSE

2008-11-27T05:40:00.000-08:00

THANKSGIVING WITH THE SPERRY FAMILY

2008-11-26T04:58:00.000-08:00

Wow! I have not been good about posting on my blog! I will have to say things this holiday season has been very busy!
This Thanksgiving Justin and I had opportunity to go to my brother Brian's house in Boise. My mom and dad came as well, along with my sister Shellie and her family, I felt bad for my brother and my sister they were bother suffering through a sinus infection, but other than that they were great hosts.
The food was awesome! My family sure did get blessed with the ability to cook! I don't think I will EVER eat a turkey that comes out of an oven ever again! Brian fried his turkey's and he injects them with all kinds of stuff! They are so good! I don't think there were any left overs. I also think that we had enough food to feed a small country!
The day after thanksgiving of course was the biggest shopping day of the year BLACK FRIDAY. Usually Jenica is my partner in going out with all the crazies, but I took my mom she has never been out, she was kinda excited and a little nervous, but she was awesome she held her own. Shellie and Sydney came too. I had a great time with Sydney, I got her some GOOD deals!
While the girls were out shopping Justin got to go to Boise State football game and stand on the side lines with my brother-in-law Joe and my nephew Cody (who is getting recruited by BSU, that is why they got side line tickets)

The only bad thing that happened was when we got home Justin's car had been attempted to be broken into and who ever did it broke all the seals on the doors, broke the mirror, cracked is back window , they did about $700.00 worth of damage. kinda scary that happened at our house.

There is nothing like spending time with your family!

Here are some pictures of my brother's house it is awesome! This is for you Nancy!

PUMPKIN CARVING

2008-10-19T17:36:00.000-07:00

This is our pumpkin carving contest!
These are all the pumpkins:
Keeley did Princess Jasmine
Chad did Dracula & The Grim Ripper
Joy did JESUS: I WAS THE WINNER!
Jenica did the Stars

This is my pumpkin I am very pleased with the way it turned out. I am not much in to Halloween, I hate spooky and scary stuff, So I decided to put my saviors face on a pumpkin for everyone to see his light. This should scare any demon away.

These two pumpkins are decorated by Justin and Keeley. She grew this pumpkin in her garden this year she liked it because it was green.

Keeley and her Pumpkin!

TOO FUNNY!

This is her gift that she got from Coach C it is Littlest Pet shop minis she was so excited!

Thanks Coach C you are the best! Thanks so much for making Keeley's day so special!

This is my mother in law doing the dirty work for me. She was getting all the pumpkin seeds for me so I could bake them.

Keeley's 6th Birhday Party

2008-10-19T13:45:00.000-07:00

Today we celebrated Keeley's 6th Birthday.

I can't beleive how big she is getting. We decided that we would all go to the Black Island Farm, where there is all kinds of things to do.
We played in the court yard which has a lot of slides and corn mazes. We had a blast!

While we were at the Black Island Farm one of Keeley's faviote things to do is to watch the pig races. They are so fun and the pigs are so cute.
I didn't know you could get a pig to race, but I found out that they don't feed them very often, so when they put them in the shoots they will sprint around the track for an oreo cookie. All the pigs have a color painted on there backs.

This is one of my friends that I work with her name is Amber or known as Coach C she is Keeley's PE teacher and she ask Amber is she would come to her birthday party. Keeley was so excited that Coach C and her husband Gary would come to her birthday party. They were buddies.
Keeley would leave her little friend just to hang with her Coach C.

This Is a video of the PIG RACES

At the end of the day we got to go on a hayride out to the great pumpkin patch. Were we got to personally select our pumpkins. We are going to take them back to Keeley's house and eat cake, open presents and have a pumpkin carving contest.

Coach C Picked a Beauty!

Keeley's 6th Birthday Black Island Farm

2008-10-19T12:55:00.000-07:00

Nakaishi Family Pictures

2008-09-23T12:19:00.000-07:00

Here are some of our professional Family Pictures.

Justin & Joy Nakaishi

The Nakaishi's

Jason & Keeley

Keeley

Nakaishi Family Pictures at Layton Park

2008-09-21T08:59:00.000-07:00

We had our family pictures taken this weekend and Keeley requested that our dog Cooper be in the family pictures this year. She loves him, she also wanted our cat Pepper and her turtle. But we had to tell her that they could not come so we had to settle for Cooper. We had a good time lot of laughs. Jenica and Chad were also getting their engagement pictures. Yep I said it ENGAGEMENT they are going to be married in DEC.

After our pictures we went to RED LOBSTER to eat all you can eat shrimp. I thought those boys would never stop eating, they ended up eating about 500 shrimp ( which is 40 plates). They kept our waitress on her toes, but we asked if that was a lot the lady told us that ONE guy ate 48 plates by his self, It was fun a time. Check out the video at the bottom.

JENICA AND CHAD

THIS IS OUR DOG COOPER!

TOBY KETH CONCERT

2008-09-21T08:00:00.000-07:00

Justin and I had an opportunity to go to the Montgomery Gentry & Toby Keith Concert! I was great fun it was in Salt Lake at Usana Amphitheatre. It was a little windy and rainy but over all it was a great concert and there were a ton of people

Brittany's Wedding

2008-09-06T11:35:00.000-07:00

JUSTIN's 30th BIRTHDAY

2008-08-10T20:39:00.000-07:00

Well he turned 30! Happy Birthday to my wonderful husband! We had our Sunday dinner over at the Nakaishi house with Jason and Jenny and Jessica and Myia.

Justin was very Sad that his KEE BUG was not there to help him blow out his candles or to sing to him. He has a great time bugging his sister about not having keeley there for his birthday day.

It was Jessica's birthday on the 14th so I decided to make her a cake as well.

THE SUMMER KITCHEN REMODEL

2008-08-04T18:51:00.000-07:00

This summer I decided to remodel my kitchen by myself. I was just going to crackle paint my cabinets, my friend Nancy inspired me and said that I could do much more like...tile my floor, get new counter tops, paint the cabinets... She said that she would help me so Nancy and her husband Shannon (my pastor) came and helped me remodel my kitchen. The best this was for me was when Shannon was getting ready to cut the sink out for me. He told Nancy to go get the template for the sink... well next thing you know they had bought me a NEW stainless steel sink and faucet! She can in saying Happy Birthday! It was a great gift getting a new kitchen sink.

I am so THANK FULL FOR SHANNON AND NANCY they have blessed me is so many ways!

I want to Thank them for all there time! They are most giving people I know!

Thanks Shannon and Nancy and the Schreyer Family for all your help and support!

I love you all very much!

JOY'S 30th BIRTHDAY

2008-07-25T17:41:00.000-07:00

Well I am 30 holy cow I can not believe it! I am starting to feel it! After running that marathon I have not been the same. I had a great birthday all my family called me and my oldest bother gave me the most crap about turning 30. The phone call I always miss the most was from my Grandpa Sprute I remember when I was little he would be the first to call and boy was he so excited for my birthday he always made you feel like you were the most important person on the planet.

We went to one of my favorite places to eat Tepanyaki Erin and her sister Karrie and her date David along with Justin and Jenica, Keeley and Chad. It was great fun.

On Sunday we had our family birthday party. We had my favorite dinner that my mother-in-law (Joan) make for me, Chicken onion on a stick,Chinese chicken salad and ham fried rice, it is so good, and then I made my own German chocolate cake it was HUGE! It was a great birthday

Happy 4th of July

2008-07-04T19:26:00.000-07:00

FISHING ON SWAN LAKE

2008-06-25T20:37:00.000-07:00

SWAN LAKE IN THE BEAUTIFUL NORTH IDAHO

THIS IS A NORTHERN PIKE. THEY ARE SO FUN TO CATCH THEY PUT UP A FIGHT!

I had a HUGE PIKE on it was about 8 to 10 pounds and it put up a good fight. My dad was trying to help me land it... The first time he missed and the second time he hit the lour just right and I lost my fish it was a BUMMER!

THESE ARE MY PARENTS WARREN AND JOANNE SPERRY
MOM THANKS FOR BEING OUR BAIT CHICK!

MY DAD LOVES TO FISH HE USUALLY GIVES THE FISH A KISS AND THROWS THEM BACK INTO THE LAKE AND TELLS THEM TO GO GET BIGGER SO HE CAN CATCH THEM AGAIN.

HERE THEY ARE SHOWING OFF THEIR TEETH TO EACH OTHER!

HE HAS GOT SOME CONNECTION WITH FISH!

THESE ARE ALL THE FISH I CAUGHT THESE ARE CRAPPIE.

THEY ARE SO GOOD TO EAT!

THIS IS A 2 YEAR OLD MOOSE WE SAW TAKING A NAP ON THE SHORE OF THE LAKE.

THANKS DAD & MOM FOR TAKING ME FISHING IT WAS A BLAST!

SHERIDAN /TWINBRIDGES VOLLEYBALL CAMP

2008-06-16T18:33:00.000-07:00

DO YOU THINK THEY WANT TO SHOOT ME FOR WORKING THEM TOO HARD?

THE BEST CAMP INSTRUCTOR THE LAMBERT'S COULD FIND! HA HA KAYLA

Kayla and I had a great time at this camp! We had one of our campers take us horse back riding on state land right behind her house.
It was Great Fun!

THANKS TO ERIKA & HER FAMILY FOR LETTING US RIDE THERE HORSES!

I gave Kayla my camera to take some pictures or a video of me riding Tolby.. Well all of sudden my horse takes off and so does Kayla's horse (Cash) take off and she is filming the whole time! It is so funny watching and listening to her yell at her horse to stop! Check it out!

Here is a video of me feeding the horses after we where done riding them one bit me, he wanted more oats I guess. I was feeding everyone the oats even the dog even Kayla had some. ha ha

KAYLA & CASH

GO KAYLA GO RIDE THAT PONY!

SUN SET WAS TO PRETTY!

Thanks Kayla for such a good times!
I will never for get that trip as long as I shall live.

The Fun CRAZY campers, The Awesome Food, The Wierd Cat, and The GREAT TIME BREAKING DOWN IN BUTTE MONTANA!

Thanks to the DAVIS for letting us stay in there NICE house!

Thanks again Erika for taking us riding!

CASCADE

2008-06-09T18:18:00.000-07:00

I had a great opportunity to go Cascade Montana. This is the third year that I have done this camp. I love doing this camp because I get to visit my Club coaches Art and Mary Jo Lambert, I get to stay is a BEAUTIFUL cabin on the Missouri River and look and at all the wild life, and last I get to coach the game I love (volleyball).
I want to Thank Yucca Bend Management for letting us stay in the cabins for no cost.
I would also like to Thanks the people in Cascade who made me feel so welcome!
Thanks Again and GOD BLESS!

CASCADE MONTANA VOLLEYBALL CAMP

2008-06-09T17:04:00.000-07:00

Joy's Family

2008-06-04T16:14:00.000-07:00

Family Time

2008-06-03T19:10:00.001-07:00

THE SPERRY FAMILY:
This week I had a great time with my family. I had a chance to fly home for my uncle Pat's funeral. This was the first time that my family had all been home at the same time in 8 years. We had many of laughs and cries together. We spent every night around the fire pit that my dad and I built a few years ago. We shared lot of stories of camping trips and hunting trips we even got into my mom best pies ( she is the worlds best pie maker/baker).

I also got to go visit Rose lake where the fishing was great!

The best is when we decided to have a rhubarb eating contest my brother Brian is the still the Champ. My cousin Jake decided that he wanted to race me but he lost, but it was a good time for a laugh! Thanks for trying Jake maybe next time. I will have video coming soon!

Patrick Ray Sprute March 17, 1950-May 24, 2008
It was hard facing the death of my Uncle Pat Sprute. He was a very love man, very kind hearted and very well respected in the Silver Valley. During this time I was reflecting on my own life and family, I came to realize that I so truly blessed to have such a GREAT family. I am miss you Pat and I love you very much.

Mom and Dad Thank you for instilling in us Godly values and teaching us to work hard at everything we do. Teaching us to love one another, and to put others before your self.

To Sallie, Kyle and Jake & Kate, I will continue to pray for your family! I love you all very much!

MY GRANDMA

2008-05-20T20:20:00.000-07:00

GRANDMA SPRUTE.....THE GREATEST

This is my grandma and my mother these two women are the; toughest, hard working, most caring, loving and the best cooks I know.

I hope one day I can be just like them!

My grandma and I have a very close relationship we talk about 3 times a week. I always make her laugh. It is always nice to have someone to talk too. She is Truely my Inspiration, my Wisdom and my BEST FRIEND!

Thanks Grandma for always being there for me!

I LOVE YOU GRANDMA!

This was at my cousin Jakes Wedding in Spokane. Pretty Good Looking Bunch! Grandma is a Hotty!

2008 Marathon's

2008-05-17T18:29:00.000-07:00

MY RUNNING PARTNERS! ANGIE & APRIL

This year I wanted to do something exciting and memorable. After winning our volleyball league the girls decided to go out and celebrate. While we where there we started talking about doing an event together, for example do a triathlon in St. George or running in a marathon. I was thinking these girls are crazy! I HATE RUNNING! April started talking about running half and full marathons, and Angie was saying how she has always wanted to do one.

A few months had passed and I decided that I was going to train for a marathon did I mention I hate running, but I was willing to change my attitude and try something new, besides the only thing I have ever really trained for was volleyball . I called Angie up and talked her into running with me and April. I had no clue what I was doing April was our coach and mentor.

Our Training began every weekend we would have a new place to run so we were never bord We ran to Antelope Island 18 miles, Ran 20 miles around Pine View reservoir.

This year Angie, April and I ran the Salt Lake City Half Marathon and the Ogden full Marathon.

RUN JOY RUN!

I want to Thank Angie for being my running partner! You got me through 26.2 miles I could not have done it without. I am so glad I got to share this experience with you we have built an awesome friendship. Your the best and I love you dearly.

I would Also like to Thank April for be a inspiration to me and tell me I can do this. You are my role model! Thanks so much for running with us! You are Awesome and I love you dearly!

I FINISHED THE SALT LAKE HALF MARATHON

ODGEN FULL MARATHONG 26.2 MILES MAY 17, 2008

KEELEY BUG

2008-05-04T21:13:00.000-07:00