Just for kicks

Can you tell I'm having fun with her?

This little girl LOVES her Grandpa

This girl cracks herself up sometimes. :)

And she has no problem crawling around where its dirty.

Boys favorite thing to do in Seattle

The boys LOVE LOVE LOVE this place when we do make it to Seattle, so we had to visit while we were there for the triathlon this summer.

Even Baylee had to get in on the action

The boys would beg me to take them to the high school track so they could practice their running this summer. How could I deny them? Especially when it would run out some of their energy. :)

They were practicing for this:

The local park races. These two love to run, particularly Tayson.

Summer Days-Swimming lessons and running

Her summer included hanging out at the pool smiling like this while her brothers did this:

Tayson

Camden and his buddy Tyson waiting for Tayson and Tyson's sister to get done.

Camden

Our boys turned into fish this summer. It was fun to see them grow in their swimming abilities.

Before the start of Tayson's first triathlon
(both very excited)

Tayson getting ready to head into the water (see his excitement). Tayson's was after Brady finished his.

Tayson coming out of the water- he did AWESOME, I was so surprised at how well he handled the swim.

Coming out of transition with his bike (his favorite part).

Coming to the end of the bike part.

Finish line!

He was SO EXCITED and proud of himself and we were SO PROUD of him too. He had a blast! He's been begging the past year to do one and finally got to do it the same day dad did his first one too.

Brady before the triathlon began (his was earlier than Tayson's, but the pics were put in backwards)

End of the swimming (heading to transition)

Nearing the end of the biking

The Finish Line! We were VERY PROUD of him!!

Daddy and the kids after his triathlon, before Tayson's.

Our little bit of Hawaii here at home. :)

She loved wearing the boys swim goggles this summer after swimming each day

"give them back"

We spent some time at the coast with this sweet girl and her family. Its been SO LONG since we've seen them, especially considering we used to see them all the time (We were all at BYU together for a couple years and then on to UofU PT school together for another 3 years). This is the first time we've been able to get together with them since graduation over 2 years ago and boy have our families changed and grown. We definitely miss these awesome people and hope to make our visits a bit more frequent. The kids had a blast and became friends again instantly!

Checking out the tide pools, one of the boys' favorite things to do.

And this little cutie just gets more and more fun each day. In case you didn't hear, this little miss finally decided to walk at 16 months. She still walks with such a wide stance I'm not sure when she'll ever run, but it is so cute! She's got a very large vocabulary already (VERY different from Camden at this age, but just goes to show each child is so different- Tayson had a pretty good vocab by this age too). She has REALLY opened up to other people, its AMAZING to see the transformation and it has been a Very welcomed one. She no longer screams when anyone else comes near her or holds her that isn't mom or dad. In fact yesterday when I took her to the gym she clapped when it was time to go in and she CRIED when I came to pick her up and tried to get Ruth (the lady/friend of ours that was watching her there) to shut the kid gate so she didn't have to go home. HAHA! She used to cry everytime she saw we were going there because she didn't want to go in. Its hard to believe in a week and a half she'll be heading to nursery. I definitely have mixed feelings about it all (especially being this time of the year with sickness, ughh). But I know she'll love it there.

Newport Marathon 2010

Brady's mom got this pic of Brady heading to the finish line, and since our original plan had been that he would likely be half and hour or so ahead of me, she went looking for him to find out what I was wearing so she could watch for me. However, since he unfortunately tore his calf muscle again at about mile 22, she didn't realize I came in only about a minute and a half behind him, so there is no picture of me finishing, but I promise I did and I have witnesses. :)
At the finish line. Words can't even begin to describe all the feelings I felt through all of this and especially at the end. BY FAR harder than I EVER could have imagined it would be, but so worth it too. I needed this!

Hanging out at the end, basically it just hurt to much to move. :)

Camden obviously had fun playing at the beach after the marathon. :)

Four SORE girls, but happy to be there and be DONE!

Baylee turned 1 in May

Hard to believe but true, this angel turned one in May. Now at 14 1/2 months, she is still showing no signs of being interested in walking, though she did learn to stand alone while in Hawaii. She was pretty proud of herself. I think we've still got some time before she starts walking though. At her 12 month check up. She was 19.5 lbs (20%), can't remember her height, but it was 25th percentile and her head..........OFF the charts of course, (meaning about 3/4 of an inch ABOVE the top line). :) What can I say? She's related to her daddy and brothers!

When it came time to make her birthday cake, I thought it would be hard to come up with something because she is too young to know what she "Really" likes. Then it dawned on me that we know of one thing that this girl LOVES LOVES LOVES!! Can you guess?

STRAWBERRIES!!! So it only seemed fitting to make this cake. :)

She dug into it more than either of the boys EVER did at this age. Maybe because it was one big giant strawberry all to herself?! :)

She got two babies from Tayson and Camden. She loves them. Tayson gave her this little one, Camden gave her a bigger one.

I think Camden is more excited!

Look at that excitement. Thanks Grandma Suzie and Grandpa Judd!