Lacey's Visit

The day after Molly and Craig left, Lacey came to visit! She was my very best friend growing up, and we hadn't seen each other for over eight years. Ridiculous! With so much catching up to do, we didn't know where to even start! We talked non stop for almost three days! It was really good to see her, and I am glad she is doing so well! While she was here we ate out a lot, shopped and shopped and shopped, went to a movie, and we were also able to catch up with Nicole(one of my other most very favorite friends from Klamath)!!! It was SO fun to see her too!!! We also got to meet her husband, Bron.

I hope Lacey and Nicole had as much fun as I did, and we promised to never go eight years without getting together again!!!

The Phairs' Visit

Molly, Craig and family came to visit during the middle of April. They came for Molly to run the Salt Lake Half Marathon with my dad (almost one year to the day from my dad's open heart surgery). Craig and Kole ran the 5k. We did a lot of stuff while they were here that I don't even remember. I know we went to see "Hop", we played at the Granite Quarry, went to the park, went out for ice cream and went shopping. We also colored Easter eggs!! It was the one thing I wanted to make sure we did while they were here. My kids don't have cousins around very often, and I knew they would have a lot more fun coloring eggs with them than boring ol' Mom and Dad. As you can see, Jordan and Max also came to spend time with the Phairs and color eggs with us. I love our family!!!

Old and Very Random Pictures

I found a random stack of pictures in our storage unit the other day. Most of them were pictures from college, but there was also a lot of family pictures, too. Some are pretty old, so I decided to scan them before they get anymore trashed. Unfortunately, most of them are of me, otherwise I probably wouldn't have them. Sorry! I wanted to post them because I think my family might get a kick out of some of them.

Age 6...that's my best guess since we still lived in Walla Walla.

Mama Jamie

Probably around age 6 also.

Rowdy and fat baby Tory.

I think this must be Chase. What do you think, Molly?

Seriously...I was so huge!

Mommy!

Mom and Dad at the Capitol Theater.

This is the day Tyler proposed. Unfortunately, neither of us remember what day that was...

Mom when she was pregnant with me. Seriously, she looked GOOD! Were you guys coloring Easter egg? Anyone know?

Baby Thaiya! Look at that smile!

Me in nursery.

Jamie and I having a food fight in the back yard. I happen to remember that was cake, and I was wearing my cheerleading skirt.

Pretty average night on the town for the Briccos. Yes, that is lettuce.

I LOVE these kids! They are so attractive.

Baby Max...so precious!

This is one of my very favorite memories of coloring Easter eggs. We had EVERYONE there and we had so much fun together as a family.

Jordan has always been so pretty. It is incredible.

I even had a picture of Tyler when he was little stashed away in there.

Trip to Klamath

Last Friday we took the long drive to Klamath to visit Molly and Craig.

Here we are bright eyed and bushy tailed within the first hour of our drive.

Saturday morning we headed out to KUHS for their annual Run for the Music.

Molly and Craig have been planning to race each other for quite a while now, so we decided to show our support and run with them.

Is it just me, or does Craig look scared?

You know... Tyler and I just getting our stretch on like a couple of pros. Seriously though... that is some good stretching. Like so good that we probably intimidated some people.

Chase came in first for his age group for the kids' one mile race.

Kole was flat bookin' and took first overall in the kids' race. He ran it in like 6:20. It was SOOO fun to watch him! Look at that face. I am so impressed that he can push himself like that.

This race was a victory for Team Molly. Molly worked Craig. Honestly, though, Craig ran a great race. Super fast for someone who didn't train.

Also, I have to give a shout out to my AWESOME husband. This was his first 5k ever. He ran it with practically no training, and he never had to walk once. I was SOOO impressed with him! He plans to keep running with me. I don't know if he will ever be interested in running long distances, but he plans to run another 5k next month.

After our race on Saturday, Molly and I left Tyler and Craig with the kids to have a girls night out. We went to dinner at Applebees and then went to a Ladies Night Out at the Sports Complex. Molly had a Stampin' Up booth there, and we also tried a little Zumba. After that we went to Walmart for some food for Sunday, and while there we may or may not have tried on some child sized Justin Bieber shirts (you will have to watch Molly's blog for pictures of that). After Walmart we hit up.....The Epi Center!!!! We don't know what our bowling scores were, but we do know that we looked awesome doing it!

Sunday we went to church. It was fun to see so many people I knew! Sunday night Walt came over for dinner. It was so good to see him. It has been years, and he had never met Brock before.

Monday we just basically hung out. I went to see Walt, Jack and Raury at the new real estate office. We took the kids to play at McDonalds. That night Walt took us out to dinner at Pizza Hut. It felt good that he wanted to spend the extra time with us! Monday while Molly and I were out goofing off with the kids, Tyler and Craig spent some time out fishing/hunting/shooting. I think they had a great time just being outside with guns.

We had a lot of fun being in Klamath with Molly and Craig. Our kids played really well together, and the trip went by really fast. Luckily, we will be seeing them shortly!! Bring on the Salt Lake Half Marathon, am I right?

Jungle Jims

Our kids really love carnival type rides, so we thought it would be fun to take them to Jungle Jims. We had never been there before, and I just thought it would be something different for the kids. I figured it would be kinda ghetto, and OH MY GOSH...I had no idea. As soon as we pulled into the parking lot I wanted to turn around, but by then the kids were way too excited, and there was no way out of it. Let me just say this...it smelled a lot like urine in there. Anyways, you get used to the urine smell after a while, and we ended up having a lot of fun. I haven't seen the kids laugh and smile like that in a long time!

Look! Tyler fits perfectly!

On the carousel the kids kept yelling, "Giddy-up, Bullseye!"

Turns out Bradlee can drive a bumper car all by herself. I had no idea.

Seriously, Bradlee had me crackin' up on this ride. So fun!

Yes, we had a lot of fun. Will we return? That is still up in the air! For now we are just happy we all made it out of there without anyone catching pink eye.

Twinkle Twinkle

Bradlee's a Rock Star

So, Bradlee has a definite opinion about the type of music she likes to listen to. For example, in the car just this last week, she told Tyler and I to turn up "Love Like Woe" by The Ready Set, but as soon as Tyler switched it over to some country station, she immediately told him it was too loud and he needed to turn it off! (I swear I am not purposely trying to influence her taste in music!)

Anyways, yesterday in the car on the way to preschool I turned on the radio. Immediately, Bradlee says, "Oooh, Mommy, what's this song?" Just so happens it was "Single Ladies" by Beyonce. She then says, "Oh, this is my new rock star song. I am going to sing it in my microphone with my rainbow hair."

I am still not really sure what it is about that song that she loves. Also, not sure how she learned that as a rock star you need to have colored hair.