Riding the Bus!

Today was the first day Kade rode the bus to school.  Thankfully the bus stop is right in front of our house so I could watch him from inside the house. :)  There aren't many kindergarteners that get on at this stop, but his friend Rylan does so they stuck together and sat together on the bus.  Kade was very excited to ride on the bus - I'm sure he loved it!

Ty was watching Kade get on the bus from his bed.  

  

First Day of Kindergarten!!

Kade had his first day of kindergarten today. He was so excited last night after Rich gave him a blessing. On his way down the hall to bed he told me that he felt really good after getting the blessing. :) Kade was very independent and not nervous at all to go. Most of the kids in his class are from our ward. Rich picked Kade up from school and we all went to lunch together. It is hard to believe I have a kid old enough to be in kindergarten.

Top of Utah 1/2 Marathon

After 7 weeks of training it was finally the day for the 1/2 marathon. We ran in the race with Rich's sister Valerie and her husband Todd Johnson. We spent the night at my sister's house in Smithfield Friday night, she was going to watch our boys Saturday while we ran. We were bussed up Blacksmith Fork Canyon between 5:30 and 6:15am - it was still dark and cold outside. There were about 1200 people running in the race - which is a pretty impressive amount of people. The race started just after 7am, the temperature was great for running. It was a little chilly and overcast and we even had a breeze blowing from behind us on our way out of the canyon.

Not a glamour shot - this picture was taken just before crossing the finish line, as you can see I am very focused on the finish line! I wore a running belt that held my water bottle and jelly bellies with electrolytes. It may look silly but I was so glad I had it.

Rich and I after the race. Even though we didn't stay together while we ran - it was still fun to do the race together and train and work towards this goal together. Rich finished in 1 hour 55 minutes and I finished in 2 hours 5 minutes.

Since Rich and I were both running we didn't have our camera for a lot of pictures. Rich's brother and his wife were cheering us on at the finish line and took a couple pictures. My brother in law Todd got a bloody nipple from running in a cotton shirt and didn't reallze it until after the race. In this picture he has turned his shirt around to try to hide the bloody mess.

Zack Laughing

Here is a little clip of Zack laughing - he has such a funny laugh and it just makes you smile hearing him laugh!

Family Night

Last week for family home evening we went with one of our neighbors to the Idaho Falls Temple visitor center that has recently been redone. It was really nice - the boys didn't sit very well through the Together Forever video - they were more interesting in making shadow puppets on the wall than watching the movie. The visitor center looked very nice and had a lot of new displays, it was fun to go.

Although this picture may look like they are hugging - it was actually taken just before Kade picked Ty up and they wanted to start wrestling.

After the visitor center we went and got snow cones and walked along the river. It was a great night.

He's riding on 2 wheels!!

On Monday Ty was riding the exercise bike while I was running on the treadmill - he can pedal pretty fast on it.  The rest of the day he kept asking for a bigger bike to ride, his is so tiny and has training wheels that are worn down to almost nothing.  So Tuesday evening we went over to the church parking lot and took off the training wheels.  After about 30 minutes he was riding up and down the side walk in front of our house.  He is still a little shaky and when he gets nervous he puts his feet down but he does pretty good.  Today he was learning to start on his own with out me holding the bike, he did it a few times.  

Reed's Dairy Family Day

Saturday was Family Day at Reed's Dairy.  The kids love going to it.  There is a little petting zoo, horse rides, wagon rides out through the stinky cows, tours of the milk plant, clowns with balloons, fiddle players, a BBQ lunch and ice cream.  

Rich had just finished running 13 miles right before we went to Reed's Dairy.  He was exhausted and it looks like he is about to drop Zack in this picture - Zack doesn't seem to mind though!

Here we all are on the horse pulled wagon ride.

The ice cream is always the favorite part - Zack is trying to take Ty's ice cream from him :)  

Kade was strategically licking his strawberry ice cream - savoring every lick!