weekly project

Here is my cute project that I did last week. Just had to show it off.Thanks Stacy for helping me make it look great.

7 years of Wedded Bliss

Even though this isn't the most monumental or most celebrated anniversary we have ever had. It is nice to mark another year together. We were having fun when we started, and I think we are still having fun now.

Here is what 7 years will do to ya... not too shabby.

Looking forward to many more.

Highland High Little Rams Preschool

This week Gavin started his first year of preschool away from the comfort of home (and the homes of close friends). He was super excited for his first day, though a little nervous about the undefined idea of "making new friends." He has done great. He loves his teachers and especially thinks that Miss Colleen is so so funny. It is great to see him adjusting well and ready to learn new things in new places. We are looking forward to a fun year.

One more pose outside the school.

Another great part about this year is that his friend Lexi is going to preschool with him. They are finally starting to realize that girls and boys like a lot of different things, so they have both been able to adjust to doing things with other kids in the class. Though it is always nice to have a friendly face and a great friend to share all of those learning moments with... even if you do have to decide that one of you wants to play with the doll house and the other the rocket ships.And look who gets to spend 3 mornings a week with his Mommy... I am lovin' that face.

Friendly Saturday

With our beloved friends, the Peterson's, in town we have been having plenty of fun. Yesterday, we decided to make a little trip to turn our Saturday morning into a CarFinPet Reunion, with the lovely Finlinson's. That meant meeting up at a half way point between Salt Lake City and Elko... the blossoming beautiful hole in the earth... Wendover, Nevada. This is the farthest west along I-80 that Caleb and I have ever been. So it was fun to see more of the salt flats and venture to places we've never been. While I have been to Vegas, that experience gave me no warning of what I would find in Wendover. Let's just say that is a place that I will most likely never find myself in again. The company was great, even with all that was lacking in the ambiance.

Caleb, Lauritz and Wade enjoying a casino buffet... using "enjoying" quite loosely.

Gavin did enjoy having bacon and corn on the cob, and learning a new word- Brunch.

Henry taking a swig of his apple juice from the awesome huge mug. He was in heaven.

The cute pregnant ladies- Misty and Michelle.

After a while at the restaurant Gavin told me that his "head feels like someone is smoking." (sad, I know) So we went and found a park that had this awesome swing!
Lauritz and Wade

Gavin and Me

After our super fun visit, we headed back across the Salt Flats. The boys in the other car stopped and took a few super salty and flat pictures.

Utah Natural History Museum

Friday, I took the boys to the Utah Museum of Natural History. Since it is about 3 minutes from our house, it is kind of sad that this was our first trip, but we had to make it there before the "Toadly Frogs" exhibit was gone. We didn't spend a lot of time reading up on every part of the museum, but the boys really enjoyed it and we had a great morning.

Lots of the frogs were really small, but they had some cool ones that even I had never seen before... including this giant frog prince.

This dinosaur had a strange resemblance to Gavin.

I guess these two would be easily squished by a huge dinosaur... especially the one reclining in the foot print.We also got to pretend to be paleontologist and try to piece together this T-rex skull.

Super fun morning. Everyone should try it out, especially if you have a free pass. :-)

Itty Bitty Soccer

The boys are taking a soccer class this month with our friends Lexi and Drew. It is a class for 2-4 year olds and something Gavin had taken when he was 2. It is just 30 minutes once a week, but that is probably about the max that we can handle with a group of 10 preschoolers.

Don't they look super cute?

All ready to run onto the field.

One of us really likes the class... and looked pretty good the whole time.

The other one of us did a lot of this...

And pretty much stayed in this view of his mom the whole time.

Even with a crying Henry hanging on to me most of the time, he managed to try out a few of the drills. Gavin's goal before we started was 'to be the best player on my team.' And since there aren't teams, and he does work really hard, I would say he is succeeding. I am looking forward to finding a team for him to join where he can get a little competitive. After class on Thursday he was sweaty and covered in grass and mud, and looked like a real soccer player. It was just down-right cute.

Top of Utah Half Marathon 2009

I am super slow at posting this, but the last Saturday of August, I went to Logan to have a slumber party with some of my greatest running pals and get up super early to go run a Half Marathon. Half of the race was in a canyon and really beautiful.

(we are all leaning kind of weird in this one... not sure why...)

Here is the cute little house that Jessi's Aunt let us use for the night and the post-race showers, which we definitely needed.

By the time this picture was taking they said that I was standing still, but I felt like I was swaying. Maybe someday I will be able to figure out how to keep from getting sick during/after a half marathon, but for now, I was at least able to survive. I also ran my fastest time 2 hours 7 minutes, and while I had hoped to break the 2 hour mark, I am still happy with my results.

Nathan and Jake (Stacy's brother) ran too. Jake smoked us all, and I think Nathan would have beat my this time if he hadn't been heaving at mile 11. Since he runs faster than me, I know he is just nice to let me finish first.