The Weekend Review

Darrell’s brother, Casey, and his wife Rachel had a beautiful baby girl, Briella Ann, on Wednesday.  My sister was awesome and watched the kids on Thursday during her lunch break so I could go meet the little munchkin.  All 9 lbs, 15 oz of her.  And it’s all adorable cuteness, don’t you worry. :)

We went to visit my grandparents after, and Lillie thought she was hilarious pretending to talk on the phone

 

 

Saturday was our annual neighborhood party – Hawkslandapalooza!!  This really is a great event for our community, and it was a blast.  In the morning, they had a kids run and a 5K.  Steven was SO excited that he got to come do the kids run.  Here we are just before his race

 

And here he is lined up at the starting line

And finishing the race.  I love that you can see the sheer joy on his face!

 

Here are Steven and Lillie waiting for Mommy to finish her 5K

 

Finishing!  This was seriously the toughest 5K I have ever done, but it was a blast! My good friend, Nicole, ran most of of it with me, and it was nice to have someone to talk to to distract me from the dyingness that happens when running up killer hills.  As I crossed the finish line, I was SHOCKED, yet extremely happy to hear my time: 27:25.  That is exactly 5 minutes and 5 seconds faster than my 5K a month ago.  Funny what staying on a consistent training schedule will do to you!

I was trying so hard not to look near death in this picture

 

Me and Nicole after surviving the race!

 

In the afternoon the neighborhood had a free barbecue, free fun for the kids (i.e. rock and face painting, bounce house, live entertainment) and we also had a neighborhood market.  I was able to sell some of my homemade bows and flowers, which was a lot of fun. Although due to my lack of sunscreen I now resemble a lobster :)

Thomas the Train!

To start off our Memorial Day Weekend, we headed up to Heber City with some of my family to ride Thomas the Train!  My sister was the awesome one who came up with this plan, and I know those of us who were able to come had a great time!  We were lucky to have earlier tickets, so that it wasn’t super cold, and we beat the rain/snow. :) I’ll basically let the pictures tell the story of the day.  It was a great day for all!!

   

 

And I have to include these last three pictures, of just how awesome my boys are. :)  They will learn their lesson to play with my camera when I’m not around. 

I knew it would come...

The day I knew would come at last has come. At last. Lillie has now discovered that she can walk!! However, crawling is still her preferred method of travel. But this morning she was on fire! The funniest part is she will only walk after she's crawled over to her rocking chair. She rocks for a second, then scoots off and takes off wherever she wants to go. :) It should be fun to see when she's ready to branch out.

Yay for the dinosaur museum!

My piano lessons cancelled on Tuesday, and with all the rain we decided to go to the Dinosaur Museum.  Steven had more fun this time, and wasn’t terrified of the dinos, and had a lot of fun playing in the sand.  It was nice this time because Lillie could crawl around and have fun as well. :)

This little gem…

Go ahead, make fun of me for blogging about Nutella.  My mom brought this little gem home from me on a recent trip to Italy.  I’ve had Nutella here in the states, but wasn’t the biggest fan.  However, this Italian stuff is incredible.  I’m grateful no one else in my house likes it, because it makes it all mine.  It’s in a small jar, so I have been using it wisely to help it last.  And everything is in Italian, so I can’t feel guilty for eating it, because I have no idea how good or bad it is for me :)