Doing the Ogden Marathon!

Ok, the Title of this blog is a little deceiving. Alan and I did participate in the Ogden Marathon, but we were on a relay team. We had just a portion of the 26.2 miles, but we sure had a lot of fun. We headed down on Thursday with Randy and Wendy Astin. We got in really late to Pocatello and stayed at Wendy's parents house. Friday we headed to Ogden to get our packets and try to rest before our big day. This picture was taken at Randy's mom's house in Mccammon, Id. It was beautiful! This is Wendy and Randy getting ready to head up to the top of the marathon at 4:00 in the morning. Whoever decided we had to start these things so early. Wendy was doing the full marathon. She is my hero! Randy is preparing for Ironman Cd'a that is next month and he was our first leg of the team marathon.

I can't believe I don't actually look like a zombie here. The team breakdown was Randy (7 miles), Marilyn Gerrard (6 miles), Brad Gerrard (5 miles), Me (5 miles), Alan (3.2 miles) I ended up running the three miles with Alan also. Randy ended up running all 26 miles. He just couldn't do 7. It was a fun event!

Finishers!

Brad, Marilyn, Wendy, Randy, Me and Alan. Here is our team and Wendy. Wendy did the whole 26.2 miles and so did Randy, although he was only suppose to do just 7 miles of the race. They are my hero's and I will not feel right until I actually accomplish the whole 26 miles myself. We had so much fun as a team though and it was a good first race for us. Kristi (26 miles), Wendy (26 miles), Me (8miles), Marilyn (9 miles)

Our cute husbands!

The Flying Kenyons!!!!

Post Marathon Fun!

After the race we were hungry, so we all went to a fun restaraunt that Carly told us about. We love our friends the Gerrard's and Astin's!!! Marilyn has the chocolate cake that Randy promised us we could have if we participated in the race.

On our way home on Sunday we decided to take the scenic way home with the Astin's through Salmon, ID. We stopped at this little store for a potty break and had to show off some of the antlers that the Astin's were bringing home for Brandon. It took us forever to get home because I think we stopped in every little town we went through to eat something or go to the bathroom.

We had such a great weekend! We have the best friends and every adventure is another memory we will cherish forever. Thanks for keeping us healthy and happy!

Elder Griffitts 6 month Anniversary!

Well, Elder Griffitts made it to the 6 month mark on his mission and we finally got some pictures! Here he is with his most current companion. He is now serving in East Las Vegas in a very less fortunate area. It is a humbling experience for him and we were so glad to talk to him on Mother's Day. He sounds great and is learning a lot about himself, others and preaching the Gospel. We are so thankful for this experience and we are proud of him!"Warning, if you unlawfully enter these premises you will be shot" is what the sign says. I wonder if they actually knocked on this door.

Elder Griffitts' first baptism. This man has pancreatic cancer and has only been given a few months to live. I am sure that he is thankful to have been baptized.


The Las Vegas Temple. They get to go to the Temple once every transfer.

This is right by his apartment in East Las Vegas. He says that he can see the Boulder Station Casino from his apartment. They are NOT allowed to go on the Las Vegas strip though. Good thing!

The Story of Athen Russell Piggott's Birth

So two weeks before Tawni's due date she was dialated to 2 and 100% efaced. The Dr. said that he would come any day. This put me on alert because I didn't want to miss the big arrival. I decided to fly down on Friday, April 9th because Tawni said she sort of felt like she was having pains and wanted me to come down. I have the best job in the world that told me to go and take all the time I needed to be a mom and Grandma. Tawni picked me up at the airport and the waiting began. We went shopping and went out to dinner with Ryan's parents and just enjoyed our time together. Every morning I would wake up and listen to see if their was any movement in the house. Saturday we all slept in and Sunday we went to church. Still no baby. Monday morning arrived and Tawni was off to work for the morning. I kept myself busy in the morning with making dinners, doing things around the house and waiting for Tawni. This went on for 5 days in a row. I have to say that I enjoyed this time with Tawni and Ryan so much! Once baby comes things get busy and change a lot. One night Ryan made sent us on a scavenger hunt and had presents for us at the end, and almost every day we walked around the neighborhood. That girl put in at least 1 1/2-3 miles a day! Still no baby.........

We had a lot of fun waiting and Tawni looked adorable as a little pregnant mommy................

Could this be it??????

Alan was able to drive down to Wellsville on Friday night and we went out to dinner. Tawni wasn't feeling well and was having contractions every 3 to 5 minutes on a regular basis, but they weren't very strong. We thought that maybe that night would be the night. So when we woke up in the morning and Tawni was still feeling ok, we decided to do things to get her moving. We walked around, ran some errands and shopped. Her contractions were still the same distance apart and a little stonger. Tawni looks so adorable and we took these pics before we went into town. The pains were a little stonger here.
We went to Jamba Juice and then went to the Temple because it was such a beautiful day. The contractions were strong enough that we talked Tawni into going to the hospital to get checked. To her total dismay, she was only dialated to a 2 1/2 and not making much progress, so they sent her home. She was not happy...........

........so we went home and had a barbeque with Ryan's parents and played games. You can't see it in this pic but Tawni is bouncing on one of those pilates balls to try to get things going.

She looks way too happy here to be in hard labor.

Athen is finally here!!!

Ok. After getting sent home on Saturday, Tawni was finally far enough along and in enough pain that they decided Athen was finally coming. She threatened that if they weren't going to let her stay this time that she was going to go home and have the baby there. Tawni was dialated to between a 4 and 5 and in a lot of pain. After 2 days of contractions 3-4 minutes apart she didn't even hesitate when they asked her if she wanted an epidural. Thank goodness for Epidurals! This picture was taken after they already had her all hooked up so she was feeling much better! She looks beautiful and Ryan looks terrified! This is what we told the men to do. They were very obedient. Alan and Russ were so relaxed right here that they even took their sandals off until the nurse scared them half to death by telling them that the floor was covered in all kinds of icky germs!

Here he is!!!! All covered in eye goop and not happy to be in the light. The little guy had a tough time getting out. He was posterier (face up) and Tawni had a hard time pushing him out. His heart rate kept dropping every time she pushed so the Dr. had to try and turn him so he was face down. Only made it half way and then had to put a vacuum device on his poor little head and pull him out while Tawni pushed, but he came out very quickly that way and they were able to avoid a C-section. Good job Tawni. Tawni was admitted to the hospital at 4:30 and Athen was born at 10:35 PM weighing 6 lbs. 7 oz. and measuring 19 inches long. He had gone potty in the womb so they had to suck his tummy out and make sure they got it out of him, so he wasn't very happy at first, but he calmed down quickly.

I kow this is a dark picture but I thought it was very sweet........the first chance Tawni had to hold him.