A busy week

This week I was able to stay home during the day (because I was on call with work at night) which left us a lot of time to celebrate Mother's Day, our 8th anniversary and my 31st birthday. We began the week going up to the cemetary in Salt Lake where my niece is buried. Mother's day would have been her 1st birthday. Isaac and Brooklyn sang Happy Birthday at the grave site and placed flowers on the head stone. Monday (our anniversary) we took the kids bowling. You may be wondering why we would spend our anniversary bowling with the kids, but our options were limited with me being on call in the evening. This bowling alley we went to was very kid friendly with automated bumper lanes and ramps to help direct their balls. In fact, the kids almost broke 100. For my birthday, we took a picnic lunch up Provo Canyon and hiked to Bridal Veil Falls. Isaac loves riding in his back pack carrier and Brooklyn of course loves riding piggy back. It was a perfect day for hiking. And now that the week is over, it's time to head back to work unfortunately. It's always fun to spend time home with the kids.

Isaac's Gymnastics

Over the past 7 months, Isaac has been going to a gymnastics class, which he seems to really enjoy. It's a great place for him to release all of his energy. He loves to do flips on the bars, walk on the balance beam, jump on the tumble track and go through the obstacle course that his coach has set up for him. His favorite word for the balance beam is "tricky". He's quite the little athlete. The pictures are a little fuzzy, but that's because they're all action shots.

Ogden Marathon 2006

Finally, after months and months of training, Tami can finally cross "marathon" off her list of things to accomplish in life (Remember that a marathon is 26.2 miles). She has been training pretty heavily over the last several months running with some friends and this morning was the big morning. The weather could not have been better. The course was amazing and the fact that she ran with her brother Brian and her Dad Patrick was icing on the cake. Very much a family affair (though none of them finished together). We don't know her official time yet, but we estimate it was about 4 hrs 10 minutes (about 9 1/2 minute miles maintained for 26 miles . . . definitely better than I could do!) Although she hasn't convinced me to run a full marathon, there is what's called a marathon relay, which splits up the 26.2 miles between 5 people. Definitely more manageable distances. We'll see how it goes. This was Patrick's 9th marathon and Brian's 7th marathon. However I don't think Tami will follow in their shoes (at least in the immediate future). We'll see if she catches the marathon bug again someday once her body forgets about it all. We're all very proud of her!!!