Salt Lake City

We Drove down to Utah, last Thursday. We stayed at Nicole and Frank's new house in Layton.

Friday morning we headed to the Zoo with some of the clans. It was pretty cool, I hadn't been to the Hoggle zoo since elementary. I didn't really remember any of it. They had lots of animals that he Boise zoo doesn't and vise versa. Which was pretty cool. It was hot and I kind of forgot to take pictures. The kids rode on the Merry-go-round. Lucy got to ride the "baby" giraffe, I had to ask a mom if she would mind letting her sit on it instead of her baby...She was nice.

After that we got rainbows at Pace's, and barbecued later that night, and played some train game.

The next morning we were up early and ready to race! There was some confusion with kids start time. So we raced around and left the house and hour-ish earlier than we had thought. Only to find our that the web site was wrong so we had plenty of time.

We did the kids race first. At first Lucy was very excited and wanted to run. I think that once she saw the start line and all the kids she started getting nervous and wanted me to hold her. We started to run! and then came to the first obstacle, under a cargo net. Lucy unhappily followed me while calling me. The second obstacle was crawling in mud under wire, very unhappy little girl, didn't want to get dirty, she very carefully followed me. We then ran to the walls which I helped her over and It seemed we were in the clear, until she slipped on the last wall, I caught her and she didn't want to finish, I told her we had to finish what we started so we ran some more while she told me she couldn't do it. We then came to the "rolling mud". She literally took on look and said "I'm not doing that" turned around and started running the opposite way. Daniel to the rescue, he asked her if she wanted to sit on his shoulders and go through it with him. And she complied. She also told him she was helping to hold him up while the crossed the mud. She ran the last few yards, walked the balance beam and collected her metal, clifbar, banana and water. And said "that was so much fun! I wanna do it again" Funny girl-

After her race Frank, Daniel and I went to start our own race. I was hot! And it totally kicked my butt! The race started with some adult size rolling mud and then had us climbing up the mountain, the kids and Nicole waited for us towards the end of the first round of obstacles. Lucy said good job and gave us high fives. They got to go enjoy some A/C and lunch while we went on with our course and then met up with us at the end, watched us finish our last four obstacles. 

After the race we hit In n' Out. Took Emma home and passed out at Nicole's house.

It was a fun weekend and I think we are both worn out! I'm anxious to see what next years race will bring.

June

Here comes summer!
What can I say that I haven't already!? Lucy is a happy little girl. She is well behaved and pretty mellow and even, for the most part. She loves My Little Ponies and anything Princess or pink, She loves her family. 
Seems like it has been non-stop for this little girl. Disneyland, cousins, wedding, grandparents, Jerome. Its nice to finally have a day where we don't have to be anywhere or do anything. 
I asked her what she would like to do, told her we could do anything she wants today. Her reply was "lets go to the bank and get me a sucker" What can I say she's easy to please.
She is always singing. The little Mermaid is the most recent addition to the princess movies. She has Part of your World almost memorized and can belt it out and get rather dramatic when singing the end of the song. Its crazy how quickly she picks up new songs.
I love how independent she can be. She gets herself dressed and feeds Frank in the morning.She buckles herself in her car seat and can get snacks and water out of the fridge, I love it when she tries to take care of me by bringing me snacks.
I always get a kick out of listening to her play, ponies, princesses or anything else.
Her most recent saying is, "It's dead" or "I'm dead". I was trying to figure out where she would have picked that up and then heard her trying to get Frank to be dead...oh... Thank goodness that explains a lot!
One of my favorite things is how happy she normally wakes up. She always comes to me with a big smile and says "Good morning!" and will sometimes ask me how I slept.
She learns so quickly and observes everything. Its hard to distract her or make her forget about things.
The other day we were going to church and she found a rollie pollie and held onto it in the car, (I thought it would be a fatality in the car). We got out of the car and she still had it, and wanted to take it into church, I tried to convince her she should leave it outside so it could go home and see its family. But she would not be moved. So I told her to give it to me and I would put it in my bag (threw it in the grass) and she could have it back after church, assuming she would get distracted and not think about it again. After sacrament, I was walking her and her friend to primary, when she whispers to him "My mom had a rollie pollie in her bag!" and he replied "Wow! Really?" Yup... I'm that weird mom with bugs in my bag. 
Took her to Pojo's for the first time. It was a success. She loves the merry go round, quarter rides and the games. I went to count our tickets and she put her hands on her hips and said "hey! I wanted those" I explained that we would put them in the machine and then it would print out a ticket we could exchange for treats, and she was pretty down with it.
She and Frank are best buddies. If she is playing he is right there, if she is sleeping he is right there, if she is eating... I put him outside. I am grateful to have such a good dog. He puts up with a lot but he never runs, hides or complains about it.