Happy Memorial Day!

We went to the Woods Cross City Memorial Day Celebration this year. To start out, we got up early and did the 5K with the Jones family. Craigger and Janet are runners and went really fast so I ran with Noah and BJ was a good sport and walked with Rockwell and Kenli.

Pre race

Right before the race started.


During the race. Noah did so great. He didn't stop once. We did the race in 35:18. Not bad for a little guy with short legs! We have a goal of 30 minutes flat for next year. Wish us luck. :)

The race looped around so we got to pass BJ and the kids. (I just realized that Noah is in most of these pictures. When he grows up, he's going to be the kid that jumps in all of the yearbook pics)
After the race.

Here the kids are looking for my dad's name on the Veteran wall. They were really excited to find Josh's name during their search.

During breakfast. In case you can't see what is in their mouths, it's pancakes, eggs and ham.

The one thing better than having fun on a holiday and staying home from work is having fun on a holiday and staying home from work and still getting paid for it. Bring on the 4th!

Our new pet!

I was out working in the garden the other day when I heard some terrible squacking. I found Sadie chasing a baby bird. This bird couldn't fly so it was a foot race between it and my bird dogs. Despite all of my yelling, the dogs wouldn't stop chasing it. Luckily, he was able to hide under a raspberry bush. I was able to drag the dogs into the house so that I could make a new friend. I put some garden gloves on and caught this bird. BJ named him Petrie.


Petrie was very afraid of us. We made him a nice home in a tin tub and I gave him some water and a strawberry. The dogs were very intrigued by the new smell in the house. We put him outside during the night so that if he felt like leaving the tub during the night, we wouldn't have to look for him in the house.

BJ left for work around 6 am and he was still there. But around 8 am when I looked for him, he was gone. Goodbye Petrie! Hope you are able to fly instead of the weak flutter-run I witnessed earlier. I think he just needed a little TLC. :)

3 months, 12 days later...

I've been told a few times that we need to update our blog. Guess we've been slacking. Nothing much new is going on, just working and playing. BJ is going to school too. He's taking his first test right now. Good luck BJ!

I had just cleaned a chicken carcass and ended up looking like my dad...

BJ bought 2 new suits and we went down to our niece's baptism in American Fork



We both celebrated a birthday - here's a pic of me and Katie with my birthday treat. We didn't get any pics of BJ on his big day. :(

Janalyn's kids stayed with us for a weekend while Jan and Craigger ran a marathon. We had fun eating popcorn, watching the Jazz play and playing Uno.

The kids learned a new game with the rolling kitchen chairs...

S'mores anyone?