Congratulations Anson and Sea World Trip!

Anson has finished his 1st year of law school!!!  We are so proud of him!  He has worked soo hard and has done soo well!  The 1st year went so fast...I am thinking he will be done in no time!  He really loves what he is learning and is really good at it!  This summer he has accepted an externship opportunity to work with a Judge in Pocatello, ID...so today we leave to move back west for the summer!  We are excited for him to be able to have this opportunity!

To celebrate being done with finals - we took a few days to go down to Orlando to spend some time with our good friends the Larsens and go to Sea World!  It is so nice having season passes so we can take it easy and not run around the park trying to see everything in one day!

I am very impressed with Sea World's viewing tanks.  There are a few of them that make you feel like you are in the water with the animals and you can really see them!  They also pretty much swim right up to you too!  Shaef's favorite underwater tanks are the dolphins and the sharks!  You can just see how he is soaking it all in and getting soo excited about the dolphins!

We were able to relax a little and have a fun BBQ with our friends.  We even went to their 4 year old's soccer game!  It was very entertaining! :)

Now off to our road trip - if we survive driving across the country with a two year old...I will be back to tell you about it!

The Human Race

I have learned that running is an addiction.  You either keep as far away from it as you possibly can or it takes over your life.  I ran cross country when I was in Jr. High and did fairly well but decided that it wasn't helping very much on my quest to popularity and took the cheerleader route instead.  Since then I have only run a handful of times.  My roommate Sam and I would run together and I decided I liked running ok.....but had I not had to answer to her I would have slept in.  Then there was this boy that I liked...and he liked to run.  I found that I can run a very long distance without getting tired when I am trying to impress a boy ...but I paid for it for many days later...and ended up back on the couch! As you can see...I was the type that kept as far away from running as I could. 

Well I have a confession....

My name is Tennille and I am a runner!

Who would have thought I would have ever said that.  Here is how my addiction happened.  I moved to Florida and here you can run outside year round....I still wasn't sold.  All of my friends were running the 9 mile "Gate River Run" where you pay money to run over these beautiful bridges...pay to run NO WAY!  Then my Dad gave our family a challenge.  He saw Arthur on "The Biggest Loser" finish a 5k and challenged our family to run a 5k.  Arthur was 400 lbs. and he did a 5k...I can do a 5k.  Then my competitive side kicked in (which rarely happens) but I wanted to complete a 5k and have the fastest time of the girls in my family.  So I started training.  My first run...I couldn't even make a mile without walking...but after a few months of running I completed my first 5k race "The Human Race" this morning with my fastest time to date - 31:23.  

These are my friends who ran with us - Machell, Me, Rick, Lizzy, and Leesa!

 There are 4 of us who train together and we have a special "uniform" Grey Tops and Black Bottoms!

 Above I said 4 of us train together but 1 of us didn't show up for the race.....

As soon as the race was over...I wanted to sign up for another one (addicted).  

Baby Model!

Here is a sneak peak of Shaef's 2 year old photo shoot.....

My friend Kali took the pictures and they all turned out amazing!  This was her first time taking pictures for someone else so she was really reluctant but I think they turned out fabulous!  Turns out 2 year olds are pretty hard to photograph but she managed to get at least 20 good ones which is MAJOR SUCCESS in my book!  Thanks Kali!

The 2 Social Events of the Year!

I posted on my other blog about all the things I created for Shaef's party!  In the words of my father on our monthly family newsletter..."Tennille just hosted the second largest

social event of the year next to the Royal Wedding. It was Shaefer’s birthday party."

So if ya really wanna know about all the crazy things I did for his party.....click here!

I wasn't one of those people who woke up early to watch the Royal Wedding....but I sure did enjoy the "Today Show" recap of the event and spent the day watching videos of the ceremony and looking at pictures of the day!  I am so fascinated by the Monarchy and the traditions they have! So here are a few of my favorite things about my experience with the Royal Wedding - 

This wedding photo - they are just radiating royalty!

 This Church - It is amazingly beautiful!

This couple - so in love!

This floor - not something I picture in an old church....more like a 50's style kitchen!

 This bride and this dress!

 This kiss that they analyzed on the Today Show....apparently just pecking in front of millions of people means that you may not last that long....I think you have a lot more evidence of a good marriage that outweigh the analysis of this kiss!

I also loved how Harry turned (since his brother couldn't) to see Kate walk down the aisle and the accents.

My favorite comment of the day was from Anson who said: "I love how we fought a huge war so we wouldn't have a king and now Americans are completely fascinated by the Monarchy."

Yes I am!