My Birthday!

January 29 2011:

January is always a busy month for my family. Both sides of it. There are many birthdays and a lot of celebrating going on. This birthdays in January are My mother in law Kathie, my sister in law Chelsea, my brother Tyler, and then I share my birthday with Geoff's twin sisters Karen and Kathie. Every year for our birthdays we have a party up at Momma Kathie's house. There is always dinner and cake with icecream. You can never go wrong with that!

This is Rachel. She also happens to have a birthday the day after mine so she is lucky enough to get to spend it with us also. We sure do love her!

A top view of the cake. I think they were trying to put as many candles in is as years old we are but when you have a person turning 28 and tow people turning 20 that is a lot of candles. I can only imagine how birthday in the future are going to be for the Demke side of the family. There are so many already and when everyone starts having kids there is going to be a birthday every month is seems like. Right now as it is between Geoff's family and mine we have at least one birthday in every month of the year except February. And that is just with siblings and parents and nieces. I would say nephews but at this point in time we do not have any of those. Who would have thought that we would have 4 nieces soon to be 5 and still not have a nephew. I am holding out for Randy and Nikki to have a boy. They are expecting a baby in June but are not finding out the sex of it. I will be happy no matter what it is but really I would love to have a nephew! Wow that was a long tangent, now back to birthday party!

The picture on the left is of us girls being sang happy birthday to. In the Demke family they have a very unique way of doing this. The first time that they sang happy birthday I was like what in the heck is going on. Now it is just a fun thing that we as a family do. Does your families have different ways of singing happy birthday? The second picture is of all four of us actually looking at the camera after we have blown the candles out. I am so happy that I am apart of this family!

  

And what is a post with out the only niece and grandchild on this side of the family. I love that she actually smiled for the camera! She is such a sweet girl!

St. George Half Marathon and 5k

January 21, 2012

This year I have decided to run the marathon. I know that I said I was going to try and do it last year and then never did, but now I am sad that I did not at least try and do it. Michelle and I have decided that we are going to do it together. So in January in the rain we ran in our first 5k of the year. This was Michelle's first 5k ever and she did amazing. I love that she wants to do these with me and it has been such a blast sharing my experience with her. 

So while we were trying to get to the race Geoff and I almost missed it. They had closed off part of the road for the race and the traffic was so bad that we didn't think that we would make it in time for the race to start. To make matters worse we had picked up out bags together and I didn't know which number was whose. This is a big deal because they post your times and everything by your number. I was running a different race so it would have really messed things up.We did get things figured out and I managed to make to to my race right as it was starting. I had to hop over a fence to get into the crowd of people as they were moving to the starting line. I didn't get to meet up with Michelle before the race because we were late. I was sad about that but because the course was kinda a loop I got to see her while she was on the road and I was on the path. Then I went back to find her and finished the race with her. I really had a good time doing this with her. It is really fun to see people faces when they finish a race for the first time!

Here we are waiting in the rain for Geoff to finish the half marathon. This man is amazing. He will push himself to do something that he has set his mind to. He ran this race with out even training for it. I thought he was crazy and after the race he knew he was crazy but he did finish it. I am so proud that he will do what he sets his mind to. He is such an amazing man!

Geoff and I after he finished the race. He got a finishers metal! I am really so proud of him. I can not say it enough times. He really is an inspiration to me. The last picture is of all 3 of us. This really was a great experience and I am so glad that Michelle is running with me. We all finished and we all survived the day. All in all I would say that it made for a fun rainy January morning!

California Trip for Ellie's Blessing

We made the trip down to California for Ellie's baby blessing. But we decided to have a little bit of fun while we were there. We hit up the go carts and the speed racing At Speed Zone. It also has an arcade that is like Fiesta Fun on steroids. But our favorite part is the speed track. They have 4 cars that are all in a line. You strap into your car and then it is like you are racing the drag strip. You have to hold the brake while the lights change from red, than yellow, and then green. When the green light turns on you have to hit the gas, then while you are flying down the strip there is a cone and when you get to that cone you have to hit the boost. It slams you back into your seat. You go so fast. It is so intense. You get 3 runs down the track. Because we got there so early and they were just getting things started and having a few problems we got to go more times than is normal. This excited all of us. The speed track is expensive. This is the guys all time favorite place to go. It is a lot of fun. But I must admit that I have a hard time letting them spend so much money. I would much rather go to Disneyland and wander around. But don't tell them that. I am afraid that they would not agree with me.

Here the boys are standing in line. The way that this works is that you pay for a card and it gives you a certain amount of time before it runs out. You can go on as many rides as you want before the money on the card runs out. The problem is that you spend a lot of the time just standing in line waiting for the ride. J and Jordan are not much for getting their pictures taken. So I could never really get them to smile or half the time be in the picture at all. So this is what I got. Not great but could have been worse.

Geoff in the go cart ready to go. I am pretty sure that we were all talking smack on everyone else.



I am pretty sure that I won all the rounds. No matter what the boys say!



I was so excited to get Geoff to take a picture with me. As I was looking back at them I was impressed with how good of a picture we were able to get. Then someone pointed out that we had a photo bomber. Freaking Uncle J stuck his head right into the back. I was so mad because Geoff thought it was so funny and would not take another picture with me. Little stinker.

Geoff, Jordan, and J all dressed to the max.

Preston, Ellie, and Breanne.

The boys figured since we were all dressed up after church that we needed to do the trophy awards ceremony. Geoff had won the fantasy football season and that meant that the trophy was coming home with us. It was bitter sweet for J to let it go. Geoff was so happy that he won. He couldn't wait to get the trophy home and find a place for it.



J being sad to let it go.



Geoff showing off his name. He is so happy it is finally on there.



In the end J was happy to give it up. Or at least he posed like he was. I was happy to get at least one picture of the both of them smiling. They sure have so much fun together. Thanks so much for the fun weekend Heritage family. We sure do love coming out to visit you.