Fun With The Bairs

We love it when the Bairs come to visit. We have so much fun playing. We mostly hung out at my house but we did take a bike trip to Jensen Park and then the next day we had to introduce them to our fun free water park in South Ogden.

Tanner is showing Adyson his view of the tractors from our front window.

Landen is pretty fast on his hot wheels trike. Time for a bike though.

It can be slow going with Tanner on his trike. He can't pedal. He just uses his feet to push himself along.

Adyson loved to be pushed in this car.

Once Tanner saw this tractor on the trail, he had to get off his bike and check it out.

Hope no one gets sick.

Tanner thinks he is sooo big! He makes me nervous on the playground.

Gage and Landen always lay on the hot cement to get warm after swimming. Tanner is picking up on this trick as well.

Yummy! Soggy cookie.

Tanner and Adyson were determined to step on the water.

My Hall grandparents joined us at the park.

My mom brought these shirts back from their trip to Mexico. They all have been wearing them for days. My mom loves to get a picture of all the grandkids whenever the Bairs are in town. She has conceded to the fact that she is lucky if all of them are in the picture. They will never all be looking at the camera.

We always have so much fun when the Bairs visit. We can't wait until they move back to Utah. Only one more year to go!

Gage Starts 1st Grade

I didn't have much time to enjoy Gage being home this summer. He ended school on July 3rd and started 1st grade today only a few weeks later on July 2o, 2009. I am not sure what I think about year round school.

Gage was so excited for 1st grade. His teacher, Mrs. Ogilvie, sent him a letter before school started to welcome him and also gave him a project to work on. She sent a cutout shaped like a boy that Gage had to decorate to look like himself. I on the other hand have not been too excited. My Gage would be gone all day! School starts at 8:40 am and ends at 3:30 pm. That's a long time! I also worried about him eating lunch. We discussed multiple times what the lunch menu said and which items he was going to pick out. What if he got hungry because he was in too much of a rush to go to recess? Another thing I worried about was I knew no one in Gage's class. I had asked around the neighborhood and no one got the same teacher as Gage. What if he didn't have any friends?

Gage was freshly back from his Dinosnorzzz adventure so he had to wear the shirt Zach's Grandma bought him on the first day of school. I was a crazy mom and took lots of pictures in front of everything.

Gage in front of our house.

Gage in front of the school holding his boy look a like.

Gage and Landen in front of a wall in the school.

Gage in front of his classroom door.

Gage easily found his seat and was ready to go. I looked around the room and thankfully saw a lot of familiar faces of kids that were in his kindergarten class. They just don't live in our neighborhood.




This moment made me just about start crying in the room. Landen was giving Gage a hug goodbye. They have been the best of friends and I am sad they won't see each other for most of the day now. Landen will be forced to play with Tanner I guess.

Landen had to get a picture of himself in front of the flowers.

It seemed like forever before I was able to go and pick up Gage from school. I kept looking at the clock all day long and Landen kept asking me when we could go and get him. Gage didn't give me many details but said he liked school. I am so proud of Gage and I know he will do great in 1st grade!

Poo Poo Kucka

Tanner is obessed with poop. Especially Beau's poop. He calls it "poo poo kucka" because that is what I call it. I was trying to get him to understand that poop was gross and not to touch it. Tanner apparently doesn't grasp this concept because he loves to find it and occasionally touch it. Every morning Tanner goes outside and finds Beau's dog poop. At first, Tanner would come inside and tell me where it was so I could clean it up. Lately, he has been trying to shovel it on his own which doesn't really work out that well. Tanner just ends up smashing it into the grass. Today, I took the shovel away from him and shoveled it myself. As you can see, he wasn't very happy.

Farmington 1/2 Marathon

Today Mike ran the Farmington 1/2 Marathon in 1:43 which was better than his Syracuse 1/2 time. Mike said this course was a lot more difficult with hills whereas Syracuse's course was all flat. I don't have any pics of Mike because there was no way I was getting the kids up on a Saturday morning to be in Farmington at the finish line by 8am. In fact, Mike was probably finished with his race before I even rolled out of bed. Ha, ha.


Mike is trying to train for the Top of Utah Marathon that is held in September. His foot has been bothering him quite a bit so he is a little nervous about achieving his goal. Plus, he has a wife that complains a lot about how time consuming training for a marathon is. However, I am trying to be supportive and really hope he is able to do this. Good luck babe!

Transformers, Roll Out!

Last year, Landen reenacted scenes from the Fast and Furious movies. This year, he has moved onto watching Transformers and acting out scenes from that movie. He only has a few Transformers so he has to improvise a little. I love how closely he plays out the movie with crash scenes and races.

Landen wanted to pose with his version of Bumblebee.

Happy 4th of July!

We had a really fun 4th of July. I love being with family and just hanging out. We up to my parent's house to celebrate. Mike and my Dad went golfing while my Mom and I took the kids to this really neat park with water by her house. We forgot to bring swimsuits, but it was fun anyway.

Gage just got dumped on.

Landen is trying to spray everyone with water.

I was so excited to do fireworks. I wanted to see how Tanner would react and if Landen was going to be scared like he was last year. I knew Gage was going to have a blast.

The anticipation is mounting. I can just tell.

I think Tanner had the most fun trying to play in the water meant for the hot fireworks to go in.

Landen was doing some sort of prefirework dance.

And here's Landen after the fireworks started. At least he stayed outside for some of it this year.

Tanner just hung out. I don't think he really cared about the fireworks.

Tanner started to enjoy them or maybe it was Grandma Pedri's face he was enjoying! Landen went into the house before we were even halfway done and Tanner followed close behind.

Every year Mike thinks he's so cool because he gets to use his Plumber's torch to light the fireworks.

Gage loves sparklers. Pretty much a repeat of last year. One out three isn't bad I guess.

Mike's New Habit?

Last summer my parents were nice enough to loan Mike and I some money to finish our backyard. We paid them back in March with money we got from our tax return. I asked my Dad to charge us a fee or some interest. He said no, but wanted Mike to make a special purchase for him. Check out the pics below to see what it was.

My Dad said it would be worth loaning us the money if he knew church going Mike was buying beer. I of course had to get pictures. I tried to get Mike to make the purchase at the Walmart by our house, but he wouldn't. We went up to the Walmart Neighborhood Market in South Ogden so no one would see him. I swear Mike was in the store forever. I thought maybe he had ran into someone he knew and had to explain himself. I asked him what took him so long and he said he thought the beer would be by the soft drinks when they were apparently on the other side of the store.