Flashback Friday - 1st grade

That's me on the far right in the awesome red shorty short dress with black shoes leaning into the cute boy.

Luke

I'm pretty sure those are size 2T jammies. They aren't supposed to be 3/4 length sleeves. Oh well...he LOVES spiderman and at least he matches for once.

***I need to add some information to this post. When I got home Luke and Tayson were playing at the neighbors then I left to go shopping around 3:00 pm and I saw him outside...IN HIS JAMMIES STILL! Oh my gosh. I made him go home and get dressed. Todd didn't seem to think twice about the fact that he let Luke go over to a friends house dressed like this. LOL.

Last Day of School

I can't believe it. Tayson is done with 1st grade. All in all the year was fine. He doesn't love school and isn't the top of his class, but he learned a lot. He can read so much better - now I just have to see if I can get him to enjoy reading. He's a good speller and seems to do well it math (when he applies himself). Tayson is pretty social and made lots of friends. I can't believe that in a few months he and Luke will be heading off to school together.

This morning Tayson got himself dressed - in a too small shirt with some of his older cousin's old baseball pants. I asked him a few times if I could get him different clothes but he really wanted to play baseball during recess so he needed to wear the baseball pants. Rather than fight with him on his last day of school I took a picture :)

A funny note about his outfit...my boys don't understand complimentary colors yet. They think that if it's the same color it matches. So they show up all the time in 2 reds or 2 blues that don't match at all. The other day Luke had on a red shirt with his orange basketball shorts. He looked hilarious and we asked him why he was wearing that shirt with those shorts and he told us...because my red shorts are dirty and orange is almost red. They crack me up.

Sophie on the slide

Today to start our day off right the kids and I cleaned the play room. The entire time we were cleaning Sophie was crawling up the slide and going down the slide. She got so good by the end she could get all the way to the top and turn around to sit on her bum to go down. She LOVES it! Of course I won't let her do it unless I'm close by - which meant it took a little longer to clean than normal since there were frequent stops to watch her and video her of course. She is such a funny kid. She is so much more active than my other kids at this age - she is walking a lot more now and is getting close to having it completely down. Her biggest problem is how excited she gets.

Memorial Day 10K

For my May run I decided to shake it up and do a 10K instead of a 5K. (In case you only speak miles...that's 6.2 miles). The race was Saturday morning in Orem. We run 6 miles all the time, but for some reason I started to get a little nervous about how I would race this distance. I know how hard I can push myself for a 5K but I had never raced a 10K before. I looked online to set some goal times of what I wanted to do and I was thinking it would be great to be somewhere between 50 and 55 minutes. Friday night I found out that the 75 mile bike ride previously scheduled for Monday wasn't going to be easy for everyone and a few of them needed to go Saturday instead...so I decided to go with the girls Saturday afternoon after my race. This of course changed my game plan a little because I didn't want to kill myself then bonk on my bike ride. That is until the gun went off.

Here we are before the race

Jen, Jill and I

Jen signed up for the 5K and Jill signed up for the 10K with me. When we got to the starting line Jen told Jill to get under an hour and my goal was to come in at 55 so we decided to start it off together and see how we felt. We both just listened to our iPods but we paced and ran together. It felt great and I loved the speed we were going. We finished together at 53:27 (an 8:38 min/mile pace) and got 3rd in our age group. It was a great run and we did better than we planned - you gotta love that. Jen took 2nd in her age group in the 5K too. I love having friends who push me to do more.

Here we are with our medals

And the good news is....I finished my 75 mile bike ride and didn't die. I actually felt pretty good on the ride. Of course I came home and took an ice bath and was beat down tired but it felt good to be done and to have such a great day.

Flashback Friday - Family

I'm 4th of 10 kids. When George was on his mission Mark was born then Steve left for his mission before George got home. Then Sherry left for BYU when Mark was 3 months old. One summer right before I left for BYU the whole family was together living in the same house. We've never all gone on vacation together and we rarely get the chance to all be together - someone is almost always missing. Mark comes home from his mission in one month...seriously it's in 32 days! Can you tell I'm excited? (Steve keeps making fun of me for being so excited about it...but seriously I can't wait!!!!)

So for this week's flashback I found a few old pictures of us as a family.

This was Christmas in our front yard in Missouri.
All of us together with no-one on a mission right after Sherry got married.

This was the same Christmas. We got dressed up for pictures and then who knows why but we picked up Brandon. Too bad Steve, Timmy, Mark and my mom are missing

We always have so much fun together as a family. I can't wait until next month when we are all together hanging out...and we're getting pictures taken.

Claire's First Haircut

Today I took Claire to get her hair cut - her first real haircut. I cut her bangs a few times when she was little but really she's never had a haircut.

before

during

playing the iPhone so she would hold still

after

I promised her ice cream if she was good.
So we headed to McDonalds for a vanilla cone - her favorite.

Tonight after her bath her hair curled up so cute. I absolutely LOVE her hair cut - you can't really tell a difference since it still has most of it's length. But all the dead ends are gone and there are a few layers and it is adorable.