Softball

Since Kalli is slacking in her blogging duties, I thought I would post another random one. (just kidding - Kalli is really busy with picture taking, and she was sick all weekend, and it's not really her duty to post blogs :)

I look forward to playing softball every fall with my brother, Justin, and some other friends. We play in a Lehi league. Our last game, Kalli had her camera and offered to take a few pictures. I'm impressed that she was able to take any since it was like 30 degrees that night. Here are some of the best ones. Thanks Kalli, you're the best!

Justin's power swing. Everyone is always amazed how far he hits the ball for a little guy! (not little to me)

My power swing! It does look like I'm blasting the ball out of the park, but I have to admit I photo-shopped this one. It was actually a pop up - I moved the ball.

Cutest fan award. My nephew, Van visiting from Washington DC.

An all-Smith outfield. We were able to sneak my brother, Jon (Van's dad) onto the team for one night (he and his wife, Melissa were visiting for the week).

5k - what was I thinking

Last Thursday night, my brother-in-law, Brian, asked me if I wanted to run a 5k on Saturday. I said "sure" and so we did. It was at Wheeler Farm in Murray. It was pretty cool to do it just for the accomplishment. I don't really like running, but like my Uncle Gery told me recently, when you get old and can't play sports anymore you have to do something to keep in shape. I think I am starting to fall into that category in my 28th year!

We ran at a pretty mild pace and finished in 26 minutes. It was much easier than when I ran it a few years ago with my little brother, Jeremy, in Bluffdale when we practically sprinted the whole thing (it seemed like it anyway). We didn't train for that one either. From what I remember, our time was around 22 minutes. That was torture!

You might notice dogs in every picture. We were wondering why there were hundreds of dogs. Then we realized the run was for some animal charity. We were dodging dogs on leashes the whole run. Kind of weird!

Looking pretty confident before the race

A sweet shot of the gun smoke. Good one Kalli!

We're in there somewhere

Left: a final sprint to the finish - I had to beat that old man! Right: happy to be done.

Not even phased by the whopping 3 miles!

Halloween

We did some fun Halloween things this year. We went to my work's trunk or treat on thursday with Lindsay, Brian, and Brayden, and then to our friend's Halloween party on Saturday night. After some convincing the week before I talked Joel into growing out his beard so we could be the "fun size" Wolverine and Rogue from X-Men. Much to our delight everyone thought Joel was a very convincing wolverine. And what holiday is complete in the J.K. Smith household without a little photo shoot?

(we need to come up with some new poses)

Yeah thats my husband, he's hot.