Provo 10k

With one of Speen's shakes nicely digested in his tummy, he headed out to run his first 10k!

Don't think anyone will miss Speen with these shoes!  

Dropping Speen off at the starting location! 

 

Lance decided to run the last little bit with his dad!   For Speen's first 10k, he did great and ran it under an hour!  

Family pic time after the race! 

Dinner was so good, I had to post a picture! 

Thanks to my 'secret millionaire' for this delicious dinner!  You know who you are! ;)

Overkill?

There are a lot of things I LOVE about Spencer's job.  First off, I am grateful he has a job.  Secondly, I am grateful he has a job that he enjoys and that keeps him busy.  Plus, they offer a lot of cool perks, like great vacation time, a company gym and and an on site personal trainer and masseuse, etc.

However, I don't enjoy their reimbursement policy AT.ALL!  Let me explain.

Every time you go out of town you have to fill out an expense spreadsheet with all of your expenses.  They give you a daily limit for food, and all receipts need to be attached an itemized.  Well my darling Spence does not have a whole half a day to fill out these form, so I lovingly offered to fill them out for him.  Spence went on three business trip in February (1 for 8 days, 1 for 1 day, and 1 for 3 days).  Here are all 16 PAGES (yes, 16 pages) of his reimbursements.  It seriously took me at least 4 hours to fill out this paperwork (uninterrupted!).  One day I worked on them while my mom had Lance and Tallie was napping, and the other time was after the kids had gone to bed.

Oh, and that's not all - this came back with about 10 post it notes on it asking for follow up information! 

Please Spencer's work that I love so much, please please please consider your reimbursement policy.  It would save your employees, their spouses, and especially your finance department, oh so much valuable time!

Sincerely,

Katie

Playing in the snow!

Sadly, a couple days after we returned from Florida and the sun, we were greeted with this!  Ugh!  But, we made the best of it, and went out and played in all the fresh fallen snow. 

Tallie, can you even believe she was pretty sick with croup in this picture.  This kid is such a trooper, and smiles through anything! 

My cute little Goose!

Helping daddy build a snowman!

"Lurpie" - the final product.  If you remember in previous posts, Spence is quite good at making snowmen.  But this one could possibly be the tallest snowman he's built!  Nice job babe!

GaToR LaNd!

Our flight out of Florida didn't leave until 5:40pm, so we basically had a good part of thursday to hang out and have fun. Spence has a friend from business school who works in Orlando and who was able to get us some free tickets into GaToRlAnD!!! It was the perfect place to spend a few hours.

The first thing we did was take a little train ride around the park.  Poor Tallie was struggling, but at least we could be out in nice weather soaking up the sun!  

The were Gator's everywhere, Lance loved finding them! 

There was a little path that you could walk down and you would see Gators literally feet from you in the water and marsh land. 

I thought this was a nice, scenic picture! 

Lance and Speen were at a show, and I was trying to get Tallie to fall asleep, so here I am trying to take a picture of me and Gator!

Lance got to feed the Gator's some food.  And what do they eat?  HOT DOGS of course! ;) 

Gator up close!

They even had a little water park and playground, which was a blast! 

This is where I throw Lance when he is naughty... jk!

Goodbye Gator Land, and goodbye Florida!  We had an exceptional 11 days!!!!  It felt amazing to get out of the Utah cold and into the Florida sun!  Trust me, you will be missed! 

Animal Kingdom

We spent a day at Animal Kingdom, and it ended up being a lot of fun.  Animal Kingdom is divided up into about 5 different countries or areas.  The areas are decorated to look like the specific countries.  Here we are in Africa going on an open air jeep safari! 

After the safari, we were able to go on a walking tour, and see a ton more animals!  Plus, the day was PERFECT WEATHER.  You know that temperature when you can't even feel it - it's not too hot or too cold - just PERFECT!

As were leaving Africa, they had some drums set up that the kids could play on.  If you remember my past post about the interview with Lance, he really wants to learn the drums, so he LOVED this area.  Probably his favorite part of the day.

Tallie ended up coming down with really bad croup while we were in Florida, but she was a trooper laying in the stroller people watching and occasionally getting up and walking around for a minute.

She loved the petting zoo!

In Dinosaur Land, we rode on the ride, here I am livin' it up on the kiddie ride! 

And here is the famous "Tree of Life!" 

Some other fun things we did at Animal Kingdom were watching and dancing to the musical parade and attended "Nemo: The Musical" which was an incredible 40 minute singing and dancing performance to Finding Nemo.  Although Tallie was under the weather, we still managed to have a lovely day! 

Sea World.

We LOVED Sea World.  This was personally my favorite day.  The weather was perfect, there was hardly anyone there, and it was a ton of fun.

We started off the day by going to the Dolphin show which was INCREDIBLE!  The trainers could swim and ride the dolphins, they had platform divers, and birds that would fly into the audience.  It was a blast. 

Spence and Lance sat in the splash zone and got soaked!

Taking a picture with some of the performers after the show.

Lance petting the Sting Rays!

The Penguin Exhibit!

Lance got to feed the otters sardines and the sharks shrimps.  He loved that!

This was in the shark exhibit!

One of Lance's favorite parts of the day was going on the flamingo paddle boats!

It took a bit of work to get Tallie to sleep, but she was able to take a pretty good nap.  But before we knew it, she was up and off.  She LOVED running around everywhere! 

The Shamu show was not great.  Now that the trainers are not allowed to get in the water with the whales, it is pretty dull.  The whales do a few jumps, and then most of the show is fillers with inspirational videos and music.  Kind of a bummer. 

Family pic time - Lance's new favorite thing to "fake" being asleep!

Wonderful, wonderful day!