Tanner's getting so cute at 6 months old

Tanner turned 6 months at the end of May. He is such a fun little guy. I tried gettting him to cooperate to get his pictures taken. This is the best I could get. He is so ticklish under his chin. He loves to be held (hates not to be held). He likes to give us little hugs. His big brothers love him to peices.

Braeden's Pre-School Graduation

Braeden finished his first year of pre-school in May. They did a little graduation program. He had a speaking part which he did great at. He got up to the microphone and said "This year our theme is frogs, so let's hop into our program." He said it so cute and sweet. The rest of the program, he got a little stage fright/stubborn and refused to stand up and sing the songs. He had sooo much fun in pre-school. He thoroughly enjoyed it and can't wait for summer break to be over so he can get back to school in the fall. I am so glad I put him in pre-school at the age of 3. I kind of debated, but he learned so much and got so good at following directions. I am so glad I did it. His teacher was great too. Teacher Natalie was so patient and good with the kids. She is also a friend of mine. So, I appreciate her a lot.

Go Celts!

I'm not much of an NBA fan anymore. But, when I was a kid, my family were huge Celtics fans. We lived about 45 minutes away from Boston. It was during the Larry Bird, Kevin McKale, Danny Ainge era. By default, any Celtics fan hates the Lakers. I still hate the Lakers even though I haven't followed the Celtics for a long time. Now that the Playoffs are between the Celtics and Lakers, I'm intrigued. Celtics are ahead by two games. I hope they pull it off. I still have my Celtics sweatshirt from the 6th grade.

Mitt for V.P.--Pretty Please?!?

Some of you may know that I get a little nerdy about politics. Yes, I do listen to talk radio. Before McCain was selected as the Republican nominee, JP and I were constantly watching the news and news commentary shows. It was fascinating to watch the process with Mitt Romney. After getting a little obsessive about it, JP had to ban himself from watching the news. Anyways, I keep hearing more and more buzz about McCain's selection for V.P. We hope it's Mitt! I'm not the biggest McCain fan in the world, so his choice for V.P. is so important to me.

22 years ago

While I was searching through my pictures trying to find a picture of Heidi. I came across my baptism picture. It's not the best picture as it is scanned from a Polaroid picture (that dates me). But, in looking at this picture I thought that Braeden really does look a lot like me. We have a lot of people say how much our boys look like each other. Most think that Braeden looks more like me, Carter looks more like Jeff, and everyone agrees that Tan Tan looks like Carter. Anyways, just thought it sounded fun to humiliate myself a bit with this picture. I remember how much I liked the way my hair was french braided. My grandma did it for me. It was a special treat because my mom didn't know how to french braid. I learned how to french braid my own hair when I was in the fourth grade. I was pretty proud that I could do it myself. Thanks to a lot of practice on my Cabbage Patch dolls (ages me again--I know).

Happy Birthday Heidi

Today is my sister, Heidi's birthday. She would have been 34 today. I woke up and realized that it was the 23rd. I thought to myself that I don't want to have a sad day today thinking about it. Then, I realized that it really doesn't have to be sad. She loved birthdays and always looked forward to hers. So, I am trying to focus on that. My sister was the best example to me of pure, Christ-like love. I'm thankful for her influence everyday.

Thirteen Point One

I did it! I accomplished my goal of running a half marathon. I ran it yesterday and had so much fun. The race went really well. I was kind of nervous and anxious before the race. But, once I started running I felt fine. It had a lot of down hill which felt great while I was running (I'm feeling it now though). My friend Mandy ran it too. I completed the race in 2 hours 9 minutes which I felt great about. JP and the boys came to send me off at the starting line. He was totally a super dad and husband to do this. He had to get the boys out of bed at 5:30 a.m. and just put them in the car still in their p.j.s. He changed them into the clothes later and took them to McDonalds for breakfast. This race was well organized and had awesome scenery, but did not have a lot of places for spectators. He was able to cheer me on and get some pictures at mile marker 12. Then I found them at the finish line.

Mother's Day

I had a nice Mother's Day. We have 9:00 church which means I usually wake up around 6:30 in order to get myself and everyone else ready on time. Jeff always has meetings before church, so I'm usually on my own getting myself and the boys ready. We have to be at church a good 15 minutes early in order to secure a bench seat in the chapel. It's a disaster if we sit in the back on the metal chairs. It was a nice treat that our bishop cancelled Jeff's meetings on Mother's Day. So, I got to "sleep in" until 7:00 and he was able to help get everyone ready.

After church we went for a nice Sunday drive. We wanted to go check out the course for the Half Marathon I am doing this Saturday. Very close to the end of the race is the train station. There were some cool old trains on display that the boys had a blast looking at.

I love being a mom and having such sweet little guys in my life.

Happy Birthday Braeden

We just celebrated Braeden's birthday. He just turned four. His birthday is on the 11th (Mother's Day), but we celebrated his birthday on Saturday. He got to have his first "friends" party. We ended up with 9 other kids coming. It was a little crazy. Braeden had a great day though. On Friday night he and Jeff went to the Father and Sons campout. Braeden was so excited about everything going on. He's such a fun, cute kid. I can't believe he's a four year old now.