Moab Half Marathon

I need to preface this blog by letting you know that I didn't have my camera for this trip. Sad, I know. I accidentally left it at our friend's house and they weren't home when I went to pick it up. My cute sister-in-law, Charley, should be blogging about this same trip soon......so you can go to her page to see some fun pics. Brandon ran in the Moab half marathon, so Scott and I tagged along with the other Grables for the fun and adventurous weekend in Moab. Scott and I had decided that since we would be so close to Monticello, that we would take advantage of the opportunity and do a session at the temple. We left Friday around noon and made it to the Monticello Temple for the 5:00 session. Scott and I couldn't believe how small this temple is. However, it is just as breathtaking as all the others. The session was wonderful and the celestial room was amazing. It was the perfect way to start out our weekend getaway.After the session was over, Scott and I headed back to Moab to meet up with Brandon, Charley and the cute little boys. I have to say that Gage and Carter kept us all on our toes the entire weekend. They have more energy than Scott, Brandon, Charley and me put together. Gage is now at the stage where he will say whatever you say. Scott and I like to refer to him as our own little "sponge." We had to make sure that we watched everything we said and also did. Gage absolutely loves his uncle Scott and loves to do whatever Scott does. After the marathon was over, Scott and I were entertaining Gage while Brandon and Charley socialized with his running club. Scott thought it would be a lot of fun to through these gummy candies as high as he could and catch them in his mouth. After we got back to the hotel room....Gage started throwing his gummy candies as high as he could, but he forgot about catching them in his mouth. So, lets just say that the hotel room got a little messy. haha

One of the best parts of the weekend was being able to watch Brandon finish the marathon. Scott, Charley and the boys and I walked a little down the street so we could see Brandon before he finished and cheer him on. When Brandon heard us cheering for him, he stopped and asked for one of the boys. Scott got Gage out of the stroller the fastest and handed him over the railing to Brandon. It was such a precious moment to see Brandon and Gage finish the marathon together. Brandon said that while he was running with Gage, Gage continued to say "I running, I running." What an amazing moment! The best part, Scott got pictures of it....so head over to Charley's blog to check them out.

After the race, we headed up to Dead Horse Point. Scott and I had a blast up there looking out over the Colorado River. It was breathtaking. Oh and I ended up with my first Mormon tan! Aren't we all so excited? I officially have a farmers tan on my arms. haha

That night Brandon and Charley headed to dinner with his running club and Scott and I babysat for a couple hours. We thought it would be hilarious to buy fake tattoos to put on the boys while the parents were gone. For about 30 to 45 mins we were just putting fake tattoos on these boys! Gage was loving it, calling them "stickers" and Carter was so tired by this time that he didn't care. We tried to get the boys to sleep before Brandon and Charley got back, but no such luck. As soon as they walked into the hotel room, both boys popped up and yelled Dadda and Momma. They walked over to each of them to kiss them and noticed stuff on their arms and legs. Then they discovered the ones on the chest and back and after a while discovered the cute one on their bums. haha It gave us quite a laugh for a little while. Scott and I then left about 9:00 and met up with some friends for some good ol' hot tubbing. It was so relaxing and the best way to end our weekend vacation.Sunday, we woke up and headed home about 8:00 a.m. and have been here relaxing ever since. Well, pretty much been sleeping and catching up on some sleep that we missed over the weekend.

A side note: We also went on this Moab trip with Brandon and Charley last year. It happened about 2 weeks earlier last year. I actually thought that Scott was going to propose to me while we were down there and he didn't. I was quite bummed after the trip was over because the next week Scott left for an entire week to Florida. Well to my surprise he proposed the day he got home which was on March 19, 2008 (a year ago last Thursday). Love you babe!