PUMP IT UP! RACE

I did my first 10k (6.2 miles) race today! YEAH! In 1 hour and 12 minutes. As I was running I kept thinking, and I'm going to do a 1/2 marathon. It's always awesome when you can see the finish line and finish without stopping. It's always fun to have incentive/purpose for your running everday other than just trying to stay fit and healthy. Mike was going to run it as well but we had baseball conflicts and so he volunteered to take care of the kids while I did the race.

JUST BEING DALLIN

SCARED!

ANGRY!

HAPPY
SAD

Dallin worked on feelings in speech therapy a couple of weeks ago. Now he is always telling us how he feels and showing us the expression that goes with it. For example when he is throwing a temper tantrum, we tell him Dallin's sad and he will immediately say "no I not, Dallin happy" and try to put a smile on his face.

Dallin has always been a little delayed in the speech area but not in expressions or acting. He loves to act out movies he has seen. He's pretty good too.

I came around the corner to the front door the other day to these 3 cute pups. They were all begging to come in the house. Dallin keeps us laughing!

Biking along the American River

In a little over a month from now Michael and I will be running our 1/2 marathon. We decided to go checkout the running path so we took the boys on another biking adventure. This bike ride was along the American River. We started somewhere around Folsom and then just road until we or the kids got tired. We took our little adventure with our friends the Robison's. With all the kids and some hills hear and there the kids were definitely tired when we were done. Along our ride we stopped many times to either catch up with one another or to checkout the surroundings. One of our stops included Cameron and Garrett climbing a tree. Well you know what that means, Morgan had to climb it too. Well he was doing just fine until he held onto a branch that couldn't hold his weight, which broke and he fell. It was ONLY about a 6 foot drop! He amazingly walked away from the fall shook up and a some scratches. NO broken bones, which I thought for sure had happened. So the very last picture shows Morgan back at the car when we were done with our ride. He only applied I think about 10 maybe 15 band-aides. Poor kid! He just wants to do everything his older brothers do. Other than that injury we had another great day riding bikes.

We could see the top of the Sacramento Temple from the bike path

This is the tree Morgan fell from! OUCH!

Golden Gate Bridge

Took the boys to ride bikes across the Golden Gate Bridge today. It was a beautiful day. Couldn't ask for better weather. We had a great time! We arrived about 12:30 and unloaded the bikes. The marine layer was blowing through the parking lot and on the beginning of the bridge. As we road along the sun came out and it was shining brightly. We all actually got hot from riding. Lots of people walking, running and riding bikes over the bridge. Beautiful scenery and lots to see. The boys really enjoyed it. After we left San Francisco, we headed towards Oakland and checked out Michael's Grandmas place that's up for sale. Just around the corner from there is a really cool park called Joaquin Miller park. So we stopped ate some dinner and then took some really nice pictures.