Friday, August 28, 2009

HOBBLE CREEK, UTAH HALF MARATHON

The Half Marathon Group -- August 2009. This is the group on Saturday night eating ice cream. We deserved it after running the half marathon...........next year we all plan on running. Right ?
Cheering section . Come on kaley....run with us next time. It's the "best" !!!


Mommers the Runner !!!! I've been trying to catch her for 34 years !!! Maybe some day.

FINISHED !!!!!! Notice my cheering section.

Denae looks like she is having fun.

Dave did well. Time......1 hour 47 minutes.

We had a great day as twelve of us ran....Mom, Dad, Julie, Denae, Dave, Kim, Emily, and Landon. In addition, Kim's sister Marissa and Julie's Dad, brother Luke, and sister-in-law Emily ran with us. 1,200 runners in all entered the race. The weather was great, the course was absolutely beautiful, and we were all happy to have it over with. However, we are already talking about doing another one and getting the men involed.......like Pete, Chad, Devin, Brett, and Dustin. Angie plans on running, also. We haven't convinced kaley yet as she thinks we are crazy. The pictures below are a start. We will find some more later on.
Brett and Dustin kept popping up during the race to make sure we were all still alive. They had fun, but wanted to run. Next time they will be running.

Here's the "oldest" member of the race team. There were 12 of us in total. Great day !!!

Mommer's is the runner.....time.....1 hour53 minutes......13.1 miles.



Getting tired..........final count 1 hour 59 minutes.........legs tired.



Jill looks so good and having so much fun i had to put the picture in twice.



We are proud of Landon for finishing without any training..........2 hours 29 minutes.
Denae and Emily did well. Emily ran it in 1 hour 58 minutes (beat me) and Denae did it in 2 hours 8 minutes. Don't they look cute and happy the race is over.


Julie is THE runner in our family. She has great form, knows what she is doing, and beat us all. She ran with the "men" in this race as she was in front. Her time was 1 hour 39 minutes.


Emily crossing the bridge as she sees Brett in the distance waiting.

Kimberly finishing strong. Her time 2 hours 7 minutes.
We had tons of fun.............the run was hard........but rewarding. And it was so much fun to have the family there to root us on. Angie even went and got balloons and had some treats at the end of the race. We trained for several months and did it !!!!! Great experience. I would recommend it to anyone.






















Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Dustin is back from His Mission


Waiting for Dustin !!!


He made it. I always knew he would.

Happiness !!!

Safe at Home after two years away !!!





Kaley's Graduation from Northgate High School

We love you Kaley !!!

We knew you could do it !!!




Party Time !!!






All the Kids Finally Together Again after Four Years

First time all the kids were together in four years.


All the girls in the Blodgett Clan. Which one is the Mom?

Mom and Dad after almost 34 years of marriage.



Friday, July 03, 2009

The Serious Bikers!

Mom and Dad are killing it on their bikes! They just sent us this video of them at the top of Mt. Diablo. I love this picture of mom and dad, mom looks like she loves dad, and dad is just being cool.

Aren't they awesome! Sound off!



Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Waking the Bennett Up

For those of you missing the bennett, I thought I would share this.

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Kaley's Senior Ball

Senior Ball 2009


Kaley looked really pretty in a coral gown and 5 inch heels with her hair and makeup by mom and Denae.
She went with 6'6" Eastan Bunch a really good friend.



Just wanted to get them closer in this picture!



Without the ladder!


Kaley and Kelly



The cute girls!


Kelsey Cropper, Kelly Peterson, Kaley, Abby Lloyd, Christine Assily, Emily Stiener.











Memorial Weekend 2009

On Memorial Day we met Dave and Denae and family at Round Valley State Park for a hike in the beautiful East Bay hills!


We hiked 3.5 miles to get to this picnic table...it was a little hotter and dryer than we expected!




This is the hot and dry part.










It must be a Blodgett thing, everywhere we go we find snakes! After the hike we cooled off with a refreshing dip in the pool. Even Denae and Mom got in.
And, of course, what is Memorial Day without burgers and hotdogs?

It was a fun day.



The End





Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Weekend in Monterrey

Thank you!
Thank you!
Thank you!
(Can this be your official thank you card?)
We had the greatest weekend. It was soooo much fun, relaxing, eating, movies, hiking, biking, hot tubbing, sauna-ing and shopping!
So thank you to all of my sweet children, Pete, Angie, Denae, Dave, Chad, Julie, Devin, Kim, Brett, Emily, Dustin, Kaley and Landon.

Our first stop was the Gilroy outlets where Dad picked out a new dress for me and made me get it for my upcoming birthday. It is really nice. We also got exercise clothes and shoes.

And a new golf shirt!


Next, the fabulous Embassy Suites rooms.


What's there to eat?




Biking the beautiful coast.









Monday, May 18, 2009

Weekend in Monterrey II

We ended our bike ride at this fun lighthouse built around 1850. Then headed back the way we came a total of 13 miles.

On the back to our hotel we stopped on Fishermans Wharf for a delicious bowl of clam chowder with bread!
Saturday morning we had a great breakfast at the Embassy Suites and then headed out to hike in Point Lobos National Park.

The views were breathtaking.
We saw lots of sea lions, deer, rabbits, and even a coyote but no whales.
It was such a fun hike with only a few people, I wish we could take you all there!













Weekend in Monterrey III

We rode our bikes on the famous seventeen mile drive. Starting in Pacific Grove and going a bit past the Pebble Beach golf course and then we turned around (avoiding the worst of the hills and seeing the best of the ocean views) and went back.


Denny's favorite part of the whole trip was visiting Pebble Beach again.




Here he is on the 17th hole. Yes, we walked all over the place!
It was really beautiful.







Sunday, May 10, 2009

Mother's Day 2009




Today was Mother's Day and we are very grateful for my Wife and Mother of our 8 children. All the kids decided to go in on a gift for Mom, instead of 8 little gifts. So they wanted me to take some video of when she opened their gift to her. The video below shows her excitement. We love you Mom !!!