First Cookie

I let Bailee have her first cookie on May 31st.  She was a mess but thought it was SOOO good.

4 Little Monkeys

When I went to download pictures from Blair's camera from the wedding, I found some older ones that she forgot to send to me.  So, these are outdated but here they are.

These 4 monkeys have so much fun when we get together.  Bentlee and Brooke remind me so much of Annie and I as kids... scary thought :)  They are crazy kids!

Ragnar Relay

I ran last weekend in the Wastch Back Ragnar Relay with a team from Matt's work.  For those who don't know, it is a relay running race that goes from Logan to Park City, along the back of the Wasatch Mountain Range.  192 miles, 12 people on a team, and 2 vans. 

I was very nervous because I didn't know a single person on my team, but we had a blast!  I loved getting to put names to faces and get to know the people Matt interacts with on a daily basis.  No wonder he loves his job.  Matt couldn't run with his broken leg so he drove our van. 

I ran leg 9 and was pretty pleased with all my runs.  First one was 3.5 miles and short and sweet.  I think I ran that one in 22 minutes.  The second one was 10 miles in the middle of the night (literally, I finished at 3 am!)  The run itself was awesome, it was mostly on a dirt trail with NO lights except the one on my head so I was scared I was gonna fall and break my ankle, but I survived and actually enjoyed my first run of over 6 miles since I hurt my foot last month.  The last one was the first half of the Ragnar hill and they aren't kidding when people tell you there is no way to comprehend the slope of difficulty of it.  It totally kicked my butt!  I came home EXTREMELY tired (duh! who wouldn't be with no sleep!) but feeling great overall. 

We finished in 29 hours 11 minutes for a team average of 9:09/mile.  My average was about a minute under that.  Not bad for a bunch of rookies!  Next up Vegas... then, an ULTRA TEAM next year!  Any one want to sponsor us?  Hahaha!

Team Enchilda Style at the finish line.  Yes my husband works for Cafe Rio... hence the sombreros and fake moustaches.

Van 2 - Matt, Bobbie, Mike, Cyrus, Tyler, and missing Misty and Mikell

Matt, Tyler, Mike and his crazy eye (don't ask :)) and Mikell

Girl's Night

My cousin Annie and I are having girl's night at my house this month.  Next Tuesday - the 7th @ 7:00.  We will be doing free pedicures and facials and glitter toes for $3.  Lots of treats and friends.  All Mary Kay products will be 10% off.  Let me know if you are interested in coming!

Mother's Day

Brooke had a Mother's Day progam at preschool this week.  Very cute.  Maybe we should have put her in dance instead of soccer :)

She says... "I love my mom because she lets me get in the tub."  Which is funny because I rarely let her get in the tub.  I hate cleaning it everytime so I usually make them shower.

More video coming soon...

Getting Big

My baby is starting to sit up all by herself and is going to be crawling before I know it.  So sad!  I'm not ready for a mobile baby.  Why can't they stay tiny forever?


Cute little plumber butt :)

Still really tipsy, but definetly starting to sit on her own.

Video coming soon...

Big Brother

Occassionally Cole will decide he wants to hold Bailee and she generally loves it.  Most of the time he just torments her.

Bangs

Apparently Cole was not the only one needing attention last week.  Friday morning as I was on the treadmill (maybe I should just stop running?  My kids always seem to cause mayhem during this time)  Brooke came down to show me what she did.  I still don't know where she found scissors. 

At first I thought it was just a little piece and I told her not to cut anymore but then she started trying to hide it so I knew it was worse than I thought.  There was a whole chunk off the front/side of her long, pretty hair! 

I was more sad than mad and I don't think she'll do it again, but I guess all kids do it sometime.  I remember when Blair was about 2 or 3 and she cut her hair and my mom put her in her room and then went to her own room and cried.  It wasn't quite that dramatic :)

When I took her to Candice to fix it, she didn't say two words and when we left she said "mom, I don't want a boy haircut."  I really think she thought we butchered it all.  Once she saw it she was fine, but my daughter now has bangs... by her own choice.

Before...

After...

Cafe Rio

This wonderful place is now the newest place my husband can call home.  Actually, he's home a whole lot more now, he doesn't have to call work home anymore. 

We decided at the beginning of March that it was time to make some changes if I really wanted to stay home with our kids.  KPMG is a great company to work for to jump-start your career and I'm proud of all the hard time and hours Matt put in to get a job there and in the 6 months that he worked there.  As time as gone on, we were realizing more and more that even though it is a great place to work; if you can put in your time you can get a job anywhere you want; our family needed to come first and that is just not possible when they require you to work 12-18 hour days and pay you pennies.

We put our house up for sale and Matt started looking for jobs in Logan.  Jobs in Logan are hard to come by, but he applied for a few and we were hoping something would work out.  About a week after he started looking, someone from KPMG emailed him about a job opening at Cafe Rio, not even knowing he was looking for a job.  He applied and things just fell into place.  A week later he had an interview and week later he had a job offer.

He is still going to be able to get his CPA, he works 9-5, and it is better pay.  Not to mention free Cafe Rio!  (I might be willing to share when I get sick of it :))  Their accounting department is pretty small right now, but the company is expanding big time and there is going to be a lot of opportunity for growth.  Matt comes home happier at night and I am happier that I don't have to stress about working and can just focus on being a mom.

I am still working, part time, if you can call it that... cleaning house for a lady twice a week and looking for a couple of kids I can watch during the week.  Right now, we are going to leave our house for sale for awhile and if by chance it sells (which we don't think it will because the market is so bad) we will move closer to Matt's job.

It is truly amazing how things work out if we just trust in the Lord and do the best we can! 

Stinker

For those of you who aren't friends with me on facebook, this is what my day was like on Tuesday...

I watch my neighbor boys, ages 2 and 5 once a week.  This week, I was downstairs on the treadmill with Brooke and the 5 year old when water starts pouring through my ceiling.  I ran upstairs, thinking Cole and Jonas had overflowed the tub.  Oh no, they stuffed the toilet full of a whole roll of toilet paper and were in there with my tiny kitchen dish towels, both soaking wet, and trying furiously to clean it up.  Lucikly, our basement is still unfinished so a bunch of towels and laundry and it was all cleaned up.

Later, after the neighbors went home, I was on the computer making invitations for Amber's shower and I told Cole to go get some clothes on so we could meet his dad for dinner.  (He was only wearing skibbies because I am trying to potty train him).  I heard him go in and get clothes out of his room and assumed he was putting them on in the kitchen.  I hurried and finished up and went in the kitchen to leave and was faced with this...

He stripped naked and had dumped a whole can of formula all over my kitchen!  I was trying hard at this point not to lose my temper and sent both kids to their rooms while I cleaned up.  Brooke opted to go in Cole's room with him and a couple minutes later she started screaming... he had peed all over her and his room. 

I asked him yesterday why he was doing all these things and he told me because I hurt his feelings.  Thats all I could get out of him.  I'm guessing maybe it is because Brooke was sitting by me and helping me with the invitations, but I really don't know.  All I know is I have to pay close attention to that boy!