It's a Race

Saturday August 22nd Tom ran a sprint triathlon. He did great! He had a goal of finishing it in 2 hrs. and 10 min. and beat that by 9 min. & 56 sec.

Awesome job Honey!

Cole & Benjamin having some fun while we waited

Some of our other friends who did the triathlon as well
(Lincoln, Rod, Tom & Mike)
They all did a great job!




Avery and her Hero

Poor Mana being made fun of for skipping out on the race at the last minute
I should mention though, his wife had a baby just two nights before!

Congratulations Mana & Annette!

Congratulations to those of you who swam, rode and ran!

Kids in Box

As we are preparing to move yet again the kids had a little fun in between packing.

Can't you see the excitement on their faces!
They really were having fun, I promise!

Come and Gone

Over the summer we had a couple, couple interns move into the ward, Michael & Kristin and Adam & Elizabeth. Both great couples but we became great friends with the Calls, Michael & Kristin!

We had some good times while they were here and we all got along really well! Only problem is the summer is over and they have gone back to Provo, Utah where Michael has been going to BYU and is in his last year of school! :( We are going to miss you, actually, we do miss you!

I am so glad we had the opportunity to become wonderful friends!

Hungry?

Oh...you said READ the book NOT EAT the book! Silly me!

This morning Cole got up early, 6:45, but Tom and I were not done sleeping so as the "good" parents that we are we turned on cartoons for him to watch while we got a little more sleep.

When we woke up I went in to check on Cole and found chunks of his book missing! He ate 9 corners out of the book! Apparently we don't feed our children either!

Video Time

Here are a few small clips of Avery (sorry it sounds like we have aliens landing in the background)

Army crawl



Pulling herself up with a little dancing and growling



Being cute

Our Little Miss....

...is 9 months old!

I can not believe our baby girl is 9 months already! It seams like just yesterday I was in the hospital pushing for an hour and a half trying to get that big head out!

Now look at her

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We had her 9 month check-up on the 29th. She is 29 & 3/4 in. tall (96 percentile) and weighs 20 lbs. 15.5 oz. (80 percentile)! Her head circumference is 18 in. (89 percentile) Big Head, but I already knew that!

I have a baby on each end of the spectrum, Cole is small and Avery is huge! Who'd a thunk it!

She is doing so much!

*She army crawls to get from point "A" to point "B" and is very fast doing it.
*She pulls herself up to furniture.
*She say's mama and dada.
*She has so many cheesy expressions it cracks us up!
*She is eating soft table foods and loves it! (no teeth yet)
*Her hair is finally growing in!
*She has started taking baby steps.

She has been such a joy to have in our family! We love you Miss!

video to come of her army crawling and pulling herself up!