Stoked!

Brandon designed a graphic for Wakeology Wakeboards and we got the final product in the mail the other day! Doesn't it look sweet in print!?! He's working on some concepts for their 2011 series and was asked recently to help design a graphic for a board wakeworld.com is giving to the winner of a recent competition. Hopefully more gigs will come his way! Good job hun, I'm so proud of you! :)

Sienna Family

This one goes out to all those Mother-Fathers out there!

The Secret

I've figured out the secret to running! Run with a partner!!! Running on my own I can hardly make it 2 miles before wanting to shoot myself. I ran with a friend today for 5 miles and I hardly noticed... ok well I noticed but I didn't want to stop and walk, or cut the run short because my mind was off the running and more on the conversation. :) We found the coolest looking caterpillar along the trail about 3 or 4 in long maybe and an inch or 2 thick and it was cream colored. We decided it would make an awesome butterfly one day so we took it off the trail so it wouldn't get crushed by someone on a bike or something. Then after our run we met some people that train for marathons and half marathons and such, they invited us to join their running group. One guy works for the NTC (National Training Center) where I just applied for a job so he said he'd talk to his boss for me. I REALLY hope I get the job, so please pray for me! :) All in all I'd say it was a successful morning... now what to do...?

Running Harder

Well my run today was A LOT better than yesterday's let me tell ya!  I was running harder, kept it more steady and didn't walk once!  There was even a speed radar on the street that clocked me at 5, then 6, then 7... By the time I got to the radar it was clocking me at 25 mi/hr!  Man it felt good!  I'm just glad the car behind me didn't hit me because that would have sucked. 

A little bit of this and a little bit of that...

I'm on week two of my training. Well at least that's what the chart says... I only did two days of my first week. oops. So needless to say when I saw on the chart I had to run 3 miles today I thought I was going to die. only 3 miles! Doesn't sound like much, especially when I told myself it's only 1.5 mi there and 1.5 mi back, I was sure that sounded MUCH better! But nothing helped, my sides were killing me and I walked half the time. I realize it's just the beginning so I keep telling myself it will get better. I have another friend that is going to join us in the race and she lives closer so I will have a running buddy!

Over the weekend my friend Jennifer's son Braden had his 4th birthday party (although he thinks it was his 15th b-day party). He was allowed to invite 8 friends from church and Brother Judd and I were among the 8 lucky friends! Every time Braden saw Brother Judd at church he would say, "you're coming to my party right?" "Don't forget about my party. You're coming right!?" and poor Brother Judd didn't have the heart to tell him that he had a competition and had to work that day. But I "took one for the team" and represented the Judd's at the BEACH party. :) It was real hard let me tell ya! ;) in fact I felt kinda bad because I lived it up at the beach, then cake and ice cream later at the Hawkins' house and then off to Eclipse with the girls while my poor husband had a competition that he wasn't very stoked on and then worked in the sun the rest of the day until around 10:30 pm. Poor guy. I sure had fun though. ;D I also might add that since moving to FL some of my greatest friends have been teenagers... Everyone keeps thinking I'm one of the young women! Brandon and I are sharing a car and he has it a lot for work so I find myself feeling like I'm in high school again. While I was at the beach I was talking to Chamberlynn (16) and Citra (12) about going to see Eclipse and I found myself saying, "Alright so who's mom can take us!?" It was a moment to cherish. haha

Then today after my miserable 3 mi run, us ladies - plus Braden - had a lovely afternoon at "The Barn" which is a charming place where they had great food and fun antique shops to walk around and look at and get fun ideas for future girls camps right Jen? haha Here's some pictures to enjoy from these various events. Enjoy! :)

Braden walking down the pathway of life

Jennifer, her son Stockton and I being our dorky selves.

one of the many breast implants... I mean jellyfish that were washed up on shore

Me and the girls! Chamberlynn (Lt) Shea (Rt)

Chamberlynn is a washed up mermaid

"Think of all the fish out there!"

Bella, Braden's "Girrrl-friend" ;)

At the Barn they brought our food to us in a basket!

The girls (plus Braden) at the Barn

Jimmie and Me

Alright, I said I was going to do it and I finally have!  Check out my new photo blog! :)  I am hoping to get some gigs and start making something out of my photography and this blog, I'm hoping, is a good start.  Feel free to check it out and tell your friends.  Right now it's just an introduction, but I will be putting up samples of my past work soon!  And don't worry "The Judd's...Keepin' it real" isn't going anywhere.  This is our family blog for you to keep tabs on us, "Jimmie and Me" is hopefully going to help pay the bills... eventually... haha At any rate I hope you enjoy my creations! :)  And thanks for the support and encouragement through the years.

Girls Camp!

Again I have been neglecting my blog, but with good reason this time.  I was completely away from civilization all week long as I attended GIRLS CAMP!  I had a BLAST!  It was fun getting to be with the girls and getting to know them better and making new friends.  One of them being the camp director from another ward, Desiree Sant, who has now talked me into doing a half marathon with her this fall.  I don't know what I have just gotten myself into but it will be fun and give me something to work on.  (I hope!) Also another dear friend of mine who has been awesome and is so full of amazing ideas and who was the whole brains behind girls camp this year is Jennifer Hawkins.  She just continues to amaze me with all the awesome things she can do!  Check out her blog because she has some fun stuff for Primary and Young Women aids and whatnot.  

Before heading out to camp I had an idea to do pictures of the girls for name tags for their beds in the cabin. Well it didn't work out to do the pictures so the YW President took the pics and my husband and I decided to jazz them up a bit.  My awesome husband helped me all night on these, I really appreciate his hard work and his support through camp.  I love him so much!  You can check out his blog here where he's posted some of his designs and whatnot, it's still pretty new but he has some fun stuff on there.  So below are the name tags we created hope you enjoy! I'll get some camp pics up soon.