Happy 3rd Birthday Rocket Monkey

Happy Birthday to my youngest child who is now 3! Time please slow down...This morning she woke up and has her perfect personality pajamas on, spazzy monkey's wearing tutu's. This is our little girl, a little spazzy, a lot spunky keep up and get dirty and yet very girly who loves dress-up and dolls. She brings so many smiles into our home and we all love her.

A Love/Hate Relationship

Okay, so I like to watch the tv show Lost, and it is driving me crazy! All these theories, which I know nothing about, except that you watch it and then are on a cliff hanger until the next week! Yes, it is true I have watched it from the beginning, so for a few years now! Now in the middle of the season finale, the boat blows up and they (who are on the helicpoter are headed back to the island, except we know they make it home form flash forwards!!! Every time I say that is it I am not watching any more, I am always here Thursday nights watching to find out what the heck a the so called 'theories is/are! Therefore my love/hate relationship off the show! Got to go it is back on!!!!!!!

Zoo Day

We have had a busy week with the end of school funs! Andrew had kindergarten
Zoo Day and Jared and I went with the kids
(sorry again to Alex who was in school!!) We did buy an annual pass so anyone who wants to go...I can get in 1 guest and 3 extra kids....! It started off a little on the chilly side, but keeping up with kids keeps one warm! Our good friend Jennifer Hilbig (my marathon partner!) and her kids hung out with us for most of the day which made it fun for me! A lot of the animals were up and moving around, it was fun to see
them up close. The funniest part was going in the giraffe building, where the odor isn't the most pleasant to the human noise, and all the kids plugging their nose
and poor Andrew had to leave or "I am going to puke!" the poor thing had to go back in to use the bathroom...to pee!
Everyone enjoyed the bird show.
I have seen this a few times now, but still enjoy seeing these great birds up close and swooping over our heads. I just hope I don't get whacked with a wing like the guy in front of us did! Well, I guess it could be worse, it could poop! We had a fun time seeing all the animals, but the highlight of the day was the Harry
Potter snake, the park
and the kettle corn-go figure!

How time flies

Another school year is about to close-how does time go by so fast? Aubrey just had her preschool graduation,
I can hardly believe it! It was so cute. She went to the Alta High School preschool program where she had Becky
as her teacher. What a cute girl Becky is. Thanks for all the help and things you taught her little mind to help her with her future adventures. The high school kids (can I call them that?!) do such an amazing job with their one on one preschool student. At the end of the program they gave each of the kids their own digital scrapbook personalized to them, with tons of pictures of the different activities they did throughout the year.

So Cute! Tradition is we take the kids out for lunch/dinner, wherever they choose after they graduate their grade (it will be nice when they all get out on the same day!;))so Aubrey, following suit of her brothers, chose Godfather's Pizza.
They had a great time and unfortunely we had to go for lunch while Alex was still in school, but we assured him there will be plenty of lunches/dinners in his future! I brought him home a refill of fruit punch to soften the blow-does that count for any thing?!! Not my favorite place to go, but maybe one day I will graduate another grade and then I will get to pick!
I can't believe in the fall I will have three kids in elementary school and possibly Anika in preschool. (haven't quite decided yet!) It will be nice to have the little bit of time, but it does make me sad as well. My kids are growing up and going into the scary, yet great world of the unknown. Where does the time go? And, how time flies.
Enjoy your little ones.

Marathon Running!

I have decided to write out of chronological order and not worry about!!! I have wanted to blog my marathon, but just have never gotten around to it! Actually, I did start and saved it, but it just got away from me! I ran my first marathon in May of 2007 in Ogden. It was one of the greatest things I have done and I felt so good after, and just knew I would be running another one sometime! Well, that sometime was this past April, Salt Lake City Marathon. This year instead of training by myself I recruited two other ladies, Jennifer Hilbig and Kelly Engstrom. It was a lot of hard work and cold early mornings, but we made it to our date. Well, this was Not my best run in fact, I think it was the worst run I had ever run in the past 3 years if not ever! I don't know what happened, around mile 20 I realized I had forgotten to take my IBU which is what really gets one through the last 5 miles or so! I forgot my gum, which I need to keep my mouth from getting dry and it was hot, so it was dry and I forgot to change my batteries, so I had no music! Around this same time, I wondered if I would make it, I told the other two to go ahead because I would if I were them! The race is an individual thing, train together, but get your own best time race day. It was bad, and since I did finish that mean I ultimately did not hit the wall, and I felt bad, so I would never want to know what the actually wall feels like! They say once you feel it you never want to feel it again and this is so true! I finished in a longer time then last year, 4 hours: and I think it was 43 minutes.
See, I don't even remember it was such a bad experience, some coach I was! I remember the good experience one, 4:33:00! So, I am not a rocket, I am hitting the half way point as the Kenyans are finishing the race, but that is okay, I am just glad I have been able to run them. Good job to my friends who finished Jen 4:33 and Kelly I believe was 4:30. Well, until next year...who is in with me? Do you want Ogden or SLC? Let me know and we will get a schedule together!!! I perfer to train through the winter and not summer, that is why I am not suggesting St. George, but I could maybe be convinced...!

Aubrey

Aubrey is our blond haired, big brown-eyed little girl-although she is not so little any more *sigh* I can't believe how fast they grow. She has been a very kind and pleasant girl who loves pretty much anyone. She is quiet and talks when she decides she wants to and when she decides to, she can be pretty silly! She is tender hearted and therfore can get her feelings hurt when others are not so nice to her. This can be a good quality and yet, it is something she will have to learn to toughen up a bit. As her mom and a woman who has and is trying to over come the same thing of taking things to personally, it is something I hope she can overcome much sooner than me! She loves to hug and has been a really big help to me lately. She loves to help with most things unless there are friends to play with! This year she started ballet lessons and I can't blieve it is over for the year already. She is for the most part quite greaceful. She enjoyed going until the weather got warmer and then we had a few tears as she wanted to stay and play, but she always came out happy and glad that she went. Miss Jana was her cute teacher who worked so hard with the girls. Oh shoot, I just remembered we never got a picture with Miss Jana.....
The dance, ironically enough was to Brown-Eyed Girl-they were very cute. Aubrey's cute preschool teacher, Becky even came to watch her dance! and of course Grandma Allen
and Chan
came too!
Poor Jared was out of town, but enjoyed it from the camera view!

Rocket Monkey con't

Yesterday while we drove past the sheep farm Anika asked, "Where the big bad woof? Oh, he is Mean! He got a Biiig tail! He going to get Me! He blow My house down!"
"Kids come here! 1-2-3, come here right now, I count to 3, 1-2-3-7-8-11!"
"You go bed!"
"You in Big trouble!"
"in my pretty garden the flowers are naughty"
"come on poopies, get out, it stuck, come on, get out Right now!"
"oh look mommy, there a frog in the toilet!"
Oh No, there a snake in the toilet, flush it!"
"I DO IT!"
"head squeeze, hug, kiss"
"I hide, hehehehe!" And she does, not always easy to find either ie. the clothes racks at the stores!
"I walk!" No riding in baskets for this girl!
"What stinks?!" as she plugs or holds her arm up to her nose with the most grotesque look on her face
"You run mom?, you win?"
"I a Princess"

"I have princess hair?"
"Daddy, you got fuzzy hair!, It tickles"
"I run, I got to hurry" usually outside trying to keep up with the "kids"
"Where the kids?" as she puts her 2 fingers to her mouth and makes a high pitch whistle noise
mimicks pretty much any noise she hears, even in church the baby that has a loud hideous cry!
"kids dinner, come eat!"
"kids, you come in!"
Loves to burp as loud as she can, if it is not natural she makes the sound as loud as she can after each meal/drink-hey, it's a complement in some parts of the world
"ahhhh, look mommy a witch, she a witch!" about the East Indian lady in her dark East Indian outfit, we were behind her in line at the store last week!
Depending on the day, very adamently, "I Anika" another day, "No, I Not Anika, I Rocket Monkey!"
Are you starting to understand her nickname yet?!!


Don't worry, I am not favoring, I will post about my other kids as well!!! I Love Them All :)