Cuteness

Just some random cuteness happening around here:

Brothers in the bath. How precious is that?

 Kyle in the bath with Lady Gaga. Also precious.

 Makenzie's turn. Taking a bath with Kyle is a pretty hot ticket in our house right now. Best bath toy in years!

 

 First time he pulled up to standing.

 Just being a cute little baby.

 Again.

 And again.

 Makenzie being the world's sweetest big sister (and Kyle snarling again.. it's the teeth). A little early morning fort-making. She puts some sort of bait underneath to get him to go in.

Every little boy's dream. They are doing some major water pipe construction next to our house and this was one of the first arrivals- Jarom was ECSTATIC. They unloaded it off the trailer right next to our yard and you would have thought Jarom was at Disneyland. Literally laughing and screaming for joy. He was saying "HI!!!" to the construction workers and waving to them. I think they thought it was pretty cute, too.

 Moving down the street. Jarom keeps telling me he wants to be a construction worker when he grows up now. And yesterday Makenzie told me she wants to work at McDonald's because she's "a good cooker." All my dreams are coming true.

Okay, that's all! Just wanted to show off the munchkins!

Preschool Grad!

 Little Miss Makenzie graduated from preschool today!

She is an official Junior Husky grad.

Here they are all lined up, about to come in. Makenzie was first so I sneaked this picture from across the room (that's why it's kind of grainy). She was smiling and waving at me and it was so cute.

I did mostly videos during the program, so you'll have to check out the video at the end to see her do her thang, but here she is with me right after she finished:

And with her Grandma Carla and Grandpa Heli:

With her proud mom and dad:

With all the family:

Here are Makenzie's two teachers, Miss Aries and Miss Rylee.

Jarom wanted to be in the picture. He really liked Makenzie's teachers and got to see them everyday when they picked up and dropped off Makenzie at the van. This is his shy/uncomfortable face.

 

 We made him get a picture with Aries because sometimes after we dropped Makenzie off, Jarom would say, "I like dat pwetty gurl." hehe look how scared he is. So cute.

 

They had an "Under the Sea" theme complete with Little Mermaid music, lots of fishy decorations and this cake w/ octopus rings on top. Pretty cute. 

 

And here's the video! I'm sorry the quality looks so bad, it didn't look that bad when I made it, just when I uploaded it to blogger.

9 Month Old

He crawls.

He's fast.

He's getting his top 2 teeth.

He will chew on anything (watch your face if you're holding him).

He babbles like crazy and I swear he tried to say doggy yesterday.

He gets crazy excited when he sees animals.

He loves his family.

And he's 9 months old today.

Cute as ever.

Even when he snarls.

Justin's First Half Marathon

 Justin ran his first half marathon on Saturday down in Provo.

He was doing great with training until his trip to Samoa a few weeks ago (huge post on that coming soon). Even with that training setback, I knew he was going to be fine, but he was a little nervous. The highest he had gotten to in training was 10.5 miles, and that was about a month before the race.

He ran this race with a group of friends from work. He rode down with one of the assistant principals from his school, which saved me from having to wake the kids up at 5 something in the morning. But we still got up early and made it down to the start before 8 o'clock. Yep, 8 o'clock start time for a half marathon. It was the hottest day we've had so far this year, so it was pretty warm even when it started, poor guys!

Here are Justin & Christian (the assistant principal friend). This is the man I have to give credit to for Justin getting into running. He asked Justin to run the Ragnar relay with them last summer and Justin begrudgingly agreed to do it, mostly for the social experience. A year later and look at him now! He loves running!

Here's the whole group: Christian, Justin, Jackie and Kami (Jackie and Kami are teachers and super cool).

Getting ready to start. I love that exhilarating/nervous feeling!

 

After I took the kids to get our race day doughnuts, we found them around mile 3. They were looking great!

The next best place I could find was where they came out at the Provo River trail head, around mile 10. It was a nice place to wait with the kids, with the river, millions of dandelions and some horses to pet right next to the fence.  Kami came first, I missed her, but she was nice enough to turn around for the photo:

  

And here's Justin, looking strong! He was doing awesome! You can also see Jarom in the lower left corner threatening with his "sword." He was making evil villain faces at the runners and pointing his stick at them and giving lots of them a good laugh.

Next we drove over to the finish. Here comes Justin. Haha, this is not the world's best picture, he looks like he's in agony! But he looked fine in real life. He was hoping to finish in 2:20:00 but finished in 2:17:17, so he was really happy and I was impressed!

 

 Here they all are, feeling accomplished, as they should!

 This is Demetrio Cabanillas. He was Justin's Spanish teacher in middle school and then Justin taught Spanish with him at the high school he was at a couple of years ago. He is a funny guy. He is also a super-star runner. He won the Deseret News marathon NINE times back in the 70s/80s. He set the record in 1982 at 2:16:57, wow! (I looked it up- there's an article all about him here if you're interested, kinda cool)

And here is our other little superstar of the day! Jarom should be in the picture, but he was tired from a long race morning and wasn't feeling up to pictures. Makenzie and Jarom both ran the kids race, very spur of the moment, and Makenzie got 3rd place! She was very happy and felt proud when Justin said, "You got 3rd place in THOSE shoes?? Wow!" Way to go Kenz!

So there it is, Justin's first half marathon. Does he want to run a full marathon now? Yeah, I think so. I'm so amazed by Justin. It was not long ago that he was telling me that he, "HATES running and will never, ever be a runner." Whatever!