First Fun Run

Today was the first Fun Run.  Here are my boys after the run:

Quotable Quotes:

Kellen after the Fun Run: "Well, it was fun, but not as fun as I thought it was going to be."

The PE teacher said hi to Kellen and he ended up dropping about 1/4 of his Otter Pop.  Kellen looked down and said, "...That's ok, I still got most of it."  Love that kid.  He's such a sweetheart.  (The PE teacher got him another one for free.)

Bridger: "I did it!"  He ran the entire Fun Run.  Good job Buddy!

Happy Birthday Jared!

Happy Birthday to a wonderful husband and father!  I asked the kids what we should get Daddy for his birthday.  Here were their answers.

Bridger:  An orange table - to serve us food on.
Kincade:  A bus. A big (or pink) bus. [Couldn't decipher for sure if it was big or pink]
Kellen:  I don't know what we should get him...After all, I'm just a KID!

Clearly they won't be any help for a few more years....
Love you babe!

McKay Family Reunion

My mom and I took the boys on a road trip to Utah for the McKay Family Reunion.  It was exhausting but fun! I learned some more about my ancestors (Great-Grandparents James and Bessie McKay) and the kids had a great time!

(The highway into town is named after my great-uncle.  Bridger's middle name is Gunn after him, so I had to take a picture of him with this sign.  I don't know why he's flashing gang signs.  He refused to believe that his middle name was Gunn.  He thought it was a hilarious joke.)

What a REAL New York Apartment Looks Like

Has anybody else ever watched Law & Order?  Or any other show set in New York?  While I was in NY, I took pictures of my friend's apartment - which is probably pretty typical of normal people in NY.  Nothing like the movies, that's for sure.  They live on the Upper West Side of Central Park.  A few blocks walk to the park.

The door on the right.  Ring the bell, get buzzed in, then walk up 4 flights of stairs.

The front door is the white thing on the right side.  You walk in and this is their living room/bed.  And you are looking straight into their kitchen from the front door...

Miniature appliances (we also saw a mouse in there at night lol).  Right next to this kitchen, to the left is the downstairs bathroom...

This is looking from their living room into an open area - you can see the baby sleeping in the bassinet/stroller.  The closet on the right is the bead closet and the high door is the baby's room.

Bead closet

Up to baby's room

Baby's room

All of her headbands (she sold them here - it's on 5th Avenue, very swanky and expensive!) the bookshelf and the stairs up to the loft

Scary stairs

The loft.  They keep all of their clothes in that closet, as well as just about everything they own I think.

Upstairs bathroom

The terrace (off of the loft)  This is the envy of their friends.  They have all of their parties here because they can all hang out in "outside space."  There's also another space with a whole table in it.

And their view from the terrace

I thought it was fascinating when I saw how New Yorkers lived so I hope you enjoyed the tour.  Their apartment is really cute and it's such a fun city.  I don't blame them for giving up sprawling yards and square footage in the house to live in such a fun and exciting city.  

Memorial Day Weekend

For Memorial Day Weekend, we went to the Phelps cabin up in Alpine, AZ.  It was such a great weekend with windy kayaking (fun!), s'mores, marshmallows, a shooting range (created by my very own hubby), a snowball fight?!, some Frisbee golf, a good hike and picnic, movies on the projector, reading books and magazines, playing outside in the dirt (for the boys), Scrabble Slam and Monopoly Deal, homemade ice cream, peach cobbler in the Dutch oven, a trip to the Lollipop Shop, and much more!  We had such a great time, in fact, we decided to stay an extra day.

The trip up was long and painful - Kellen threw up, Bridger had to pee 4 times (on a 5 hour drive?!), and we left so late it was dark most of the way (we saw tons of elk and almost hit a couple).  But once we got up to Alpine, we had a great time and it wasn't even too cold at night.  We all got sunburnt the first day, so we had to ease off the sun, but other than that - a great time was had by all.