Raquel's Cute Belt

This is the belt that Paul made for Raquel. So Cute and perfect.

Family Reunion

Needless to say right after the 10 miler Niki drove us to Richfield for the Roberts Family Reunion. That is Jared's Mom's family. I would not recommend it after such a long run. I am still stiff. However it was fun. The kids had a blast and was excited to see their Great Grandpa Roberts. They love his farm. There was a frog race set up there too. All the kids were excited. The race works by touching the frogs bottom with a fly swatter to encourage it to hop to the finish line. Tyler got off track and just took the frog on a detour. One of his cousins is a bit younger then Tyler. He could not get his frog to go so he started to swat it. It was so funny. The Frog just puffed up and was out for the rest of the race. Poor frog.

This picture was taken at the wrong moment. Raquel is actually very fond of her Great Grandpa Roberts. When she realized that he was there she ran straight to him to hug him.

Provo 10 Miler

Note to self: Charge IPod before running, Don't forget warm running shirt and don't eat pancakes right after running. Wait at least 10 minutes.

I really did not think I would do as good as I did. I was not consistent with my training and got sick before the race and then when I tried to train it was always raining. However I did beat my time by 8 minutes. And I only had to wear my trash bag until mile 6. When it started raining it brought back horrible memories of the Marathon. Thank goodness it did not rain for long.

Oquirre Mountain Temple

Raquel enjoying her cookie and napkin.

We took the kids to the Oquirre Mountain Temple the Other day. Tyler was sure he was going to see Jesus. He kept asking were is Jesus. I was about to explain and Jared said to leave it at that, He might just see him. Tyler never did tell us if he did but he sure was fascinated with the temple. He was so quite and would ask questions every now and a again. I tried to explain all the pictures to him too. Raquel on the other hand wanted to touch everything and walk every where. She just kept saying Jesus, Jesus. I think she was looking for him. After we started walking to the car I asked Tyler what he thought. He said he wanted to go back again. So I'm getting ticket to take him again before it is dedicated. When we took the last picture the kids were all most blown away it was so windy.

Hills Air Force Show

I don't know if she was more afraid of the Pilot then just sitting on the plane
Here are three different planes from three different generations. The smallest is from
World War II and later in the show they did a fight between the Japanese plane and a U.S. plane. It was pretty neat to watch.

This plane was to loud for the kids to enjoy. However I sure did. It got up to over 600 mph and when the plane turned it literally would bluer. It was really neat looking. It is really amazing that we can build this kind of stuff.

It was Air Force week last week and it was quite fun. They had a tanker flying around the Salt Lake Valley with 4 jets refueling. They must of done it like 15 time and some of those times they got really close to the ground. It got me all proud to be an American. So I just had to see the Air show. I loved it. the kids on the other hands thought some of it was to loud. However they did like the trick planes. Some of them would fall from the sky like they were paper airplanes and then pull out of it the last second. I honestly can't wait till the next show. Jared was laughing at how much more I was into it then the kids. Maybe the kids can hang with Grandma and Grandpa next time, then I can make it a all day event. I would of had more pictures but all I had was my internal memory and forgot the SD card.

Final Game

This is a rare sight. Tyler and Malachi are usually throwing grass on each other or playing tag.

Every now and again Tyler would just jump in and start playing for a few minute and then be done.

And of course the participation trophy

Little Raquel was disappointed that she did not get a trophy so I gave her one of mine. No worries it is in good hands. she love admiring it more then playing with it. Tyler already broke his. LOL I hope glue works this time.

Happy 2nd Birthday Raquel

We got her a bike for her Birthday but she still wants Tyler's bike all the time.

Tyler's gift to her.

Yeah, she is 2 and still sweet. Her birthday was friday the 15th and she knew it was her day. She just kept telling Tyler "No, Mine". She sure has grown. Well kind of. Lets say more mentally then physically. I say that because she is so tiny. Its a good thing her uncle paul made her a belt because nothing would fit her waist. Her 12 month clothes finely fit her but she is still in a size 3 diaper.

She was so excited to open her gifts. We did the gifts in bags, so she would take each tissue paper out one at a time and lay it nice and neat on the floor. That went on for a bit until Tyler could not wait any more and started helping.