On the way

Well since most people know already, we are expecting a new addition to the family that we are all very excited about! We just hope everything works out well so we can meet our new family member. I am due March 1st 2010! Which is also Jenikas birthday so it will be interesting to see when the baby will actually be born, however it would be fun to have them on the same day! The kids are very excited for a new brother or sister! We dont really have prefference on what we want, because you get what you get! And you get what you need! And YES we will find out what it is so we will let everyone know when we know!

Our little golfers

It seams like Jenika has done just about everything this year!! She finished soccer, played t-ball, danced, ran a couple kid races and ......GOLFED!! When I went to pick up Kendall and I's race packets for the Ogden Marathon I went to this one booth and they said something about young kids golf. They usually start lessons at 6 or 7 years old but I was excited when I heard about their 4-6 year olds class, so I signed Jenika up because I LOVE golf! I'm not very good but, who is when you only play a couple times a year anyway!! She did so good, she has a pretty good swing. They would get some tips from the coach and he would teach them at the begining of every class then they broke off and tried different ways to use what they learned. I had to take Marshall with us on the last lesson, at least Kendall made it to that one, but Marshall grabbed a club and wanted to play also, so everytime Jenika would hit a ball he would say "Marshalls turn" and he would go hit a ball, it was so cute, and he did pretty well also!

Our trip to Canada!!

We uausally try to go up to Canada at least every 2 years to visit everyone. This year marisa got married so we figured it to be the perfect excuse to go up there! We love to go up there and see whats going on at the different farms and such! Kendall just loves farms, he totally should have been a farmer! He wishes we could move up there and have a farm of our own! That would be fun I wouldn't mind having a farm either! Kendall was mad that we had to leave before they went out and did all the haying, he wishes he could have helped!
The kids and Kendall had fun playing Jenga and building stuff with the blocks while we waited for the pizza, Marshall had lots of fun knocking down the things Kendall and Jenika built!

Milking time! While we were at Grandmas it was time for Merlins cows to be milked so we watched as the cows were brought in, it's amazing how fast they actually come in!

Kendall and the kids trying to feed the horse, it didn't want anything to do with them!

Jenika had tons of fun dancing at Marisa's wedding!! Malarie and Miranda did a good job of making sure she knew how to do the dances and had lots of fun!

Yellow Stone!

On our way home from Canada we dicided we were going to drive through Yellow Stone, I thought it would only take about 2 hours or so, boy was I wrong, 4 hours it took!! Little did we know that the "extra" time it would take to detour to Yellow Stone would add 7 hours to our journey home! While we were on the way in it was almost lunch time so I told Kendall we would get some food when we saw Old Faithful. It took way longer to drive through to Old Faithful than I thought, by the time we got there I was starving! Kendall was mad because some people were stopped on the side of the road looking at some kind of wildlife, he wanted to stop but I was so hungry I told him no, we need to just get there so we can eat, all he wanted was to see a bear so he kept complaining, "I swear that was a bear!" He would say, I didn't care I was hungry! So we finally got to old faithful, I got in line for food and sent Kendall over to find out what time old faithful ws due to go off, 15 minutes!!! So we didn't have time to get food before, I was dying so I grabbed the crackers out of the trunk and we walked over and waited for old faithful to go off. Half way through it's show we turned around and headed back for food before everyone else did. That hamburger tasted so good because I was just happy to finally eat!
The kids and I with the sign in the enterance of the park! One of the things we stopped and walked up to see. (I think this pic looks fake!)

The kids in the car driving through Yellow Stone

A big Elk we saw!

OLD FAITHFUL!

4th of July Fun!!!

I love the 4th of July, it is always fun and it is great to remember all the different things our country and the people in it have gone through so that we can enjoy the life we live now and have the freedoms that we do have! I am very greatful for them all!! Grandma, and Granpa, Kristies family, Our family anf Kyles family all went to the parade in Clearfield, the kids had lots of fun and got lots of candy!

I just loved this picture of Marhsall he is such a cute little cheeser! He told me to take his picture, so I did and it turned out so good! (I went and bought the same shirt Hayden had for Marshall because I liked it so much, thank you Suzanne!!)

The kids running for candy!

We had a BBQ with my parents, my Aunt Vivian, Bodie and Jen at our house. The kids and I with their friend Rachel watching little fireworks that Bodie and Jen brought over before we went to big fireworks. We met Kendalls family there and I felt bad because I had previously bought my kids glow necklaces at the store a couple months before and all the other kids wanted me to give them one but I didn't want to be unfair to anyone so I didn't give any to anyone else. But I think I made up for it by handing out Sparklers and Watermelon!!

Whole watta fun!!!

This year has been really hot so my kids have spent plenty of time enjoying the water to keep them cool!! Monday after we got back from Canada we were going to clean out our basement until Kendra called and asked us if we wanted to go swimming, we thought that was a better idea than cleaning out the basement so we went and had lots of fun! After swimming we went over to Kendra and Tony's and made smores. Marshall was helping Kendall roast all the marshmellows. Marshall didn't want to go into the pool at first he stayed right by us and wanted us to hold him, then he fell asleep so I had to float around on the tube and hold him while he slept. When he woke up he was ok with being in the water by himself, then he started really walking around onhis own, it was nice to have him like the water. When his feet would float up and he couldn't get them back down we taught him to say "help" it was so cute!

Jenika and Jayli had lots of fun together like they usually do!

Marshall and Jenika playing in the pool while Kendall and Gary installed the dissapearing river in front of Gary and Sandys (grandma, aand Grandpa) house! i cant believe it only took the 2 of them 3 days to build the whole thing, they did a really good job!

Running through the sprinkler in the yard!

When we went to the lake with Kendra and Tony and brought our little boat!! Marshall and Jenika liked to ride on the little boat with dad! Kendall did some wake boarding and was really good at it, Tony's nephew was on the tube and crashed way hard! It was fun!

Playing on the slip & slide Marshall got for his birthday from Aunt Kendra and Uncle Tony!

After the race

After the race I wanted to check out the booths they had set up, so Kendall, the kids, David, Tawni and I all went to check them out and we found a really fun milk booth! They had milk mustache photos!! We all did it except for Kendall, he was being lame!! They all turned out good!

I went first and got my pic done but it didn't turn out good. David did his, then Tawni was saying she wanted to do it so I said lets do it with the kids and we got a really cute picture!! After the race we went home and we all took a nap, Jenika was so tired!!

Salt Lake Marathon

April 18, 2009 was the Salt Lake Marathon. A couple days before the marathon I went to go pick up my packet for the race and Jenika kept saying we're going to win the race right mom?? I told her she wasn't going to run the race, she kept saying she wanted to and they actually had a little race for kids so asked her like 3 times if she was sure she wanted to do it and she kept saying yes she did. So I signed her up! Everyday until that Saturday she kept saying "I'm so excited for the race today" so I had to keep telling her it wasn't for a couple days still. The morning of the race we needed to leave the house by about 6:00 a.m. when I woke her up and asked if she was ready for the race she said "I'm so excited for the race, I am going to win!!" I told her everyone was a winner. We went to the race and I did the 5k I started about 7 minutes late because of the bus driver and I had to pee sooo bad!! But I finally started the race and I was doing really good till I needed to take off my sweater than I had to fumble with my sweater, ipod, gatorade, and bid #! It took me about a block to get situated. While I was doing that I saw I was walking up to where Brigette was so finished the rest of the race with her and her friend!! I finished in 44 minutes! Then it was off to Jenikas race! They did a little warm up with some stretches and jumping jacks then they were off and running, they allowed 1 parent to run with the kids with they wanted so I ran with Jenika and I told her if she was tired we would walk but she kept saying no i wanna run! So run we did!! She ran the whole .62 mile! I am so proud of her!!

The kids got to go through the big finish line like all the other racers! They got a medal and some snacks when they were done! Jenika just loved it!! G & G Sprau, Rose, Parker, Chris, Jen, David, Tawni, Dad, and Marshall were all there to support Jenika and I!!

Marshall

Marshall, what can I say that kid is such a BOY!!! He loves to do everything his dad is doing, no matter what it is! He looks up to his dad in many ways (and not just by tilting his head to see him ha, ha!!) For Christmas Santa brought him a noisey little lawn mower but now that it's warm outside he can take it outside and use it when his dad mows!! Marshall saw that dad and Grandpa were getting the garden area ready and just had to go help, so Dad was teaching him how to use the roto tiller!! Marshall loves his Dad very much and loves to help him!! What a better person to learn from than your dad??