Truck Show

Today we went to the truck show at Thanksgiving point. We went with my mom and my cousin and her little boy. We figured Reid and my cousin's little boy would love all of the trucks. And the boys did. My cousin's little boy is named Jack and Reid called him Jackie. He isn't even two yet, but Reid treated him like his little buddy. It was fun to see Reid as an older brother figure. He is so sweet to kids younger than him.
Here they are riding the the cow train.
And of course there were some fancy cars there, so Reid was pretty excited.
Here's Reid pretending to drive the Pride truck.

I have been telling Reid that I was going to cut his hair before school started and so he said "Can I tell you how I want it cut?" and I said "Maybe, how do you want it cut?"

and he said, "I don't know yet, there are just so many haircuts I have to choose from." So today I finally got around to cutting it and He decided he wanted it a little shorter than the last time I cut it and he loved it. He kept saying "Cut it like this everytime Mommy." and "You are the only one who does it just right." and "Never forget to put gel in it when I go to school Mommy so it is spikey." and then when he went upstairs to show his dad, David said "Your hair looks good Reid" and Reid said "I picked this haircut out of a magazine."

He wanted to be like a client maybe. He says the funniest things.

Provo River Half Marathon

Today I ran a half marathon down provo canyon. It was so much fun. My dad ran it too. Two of my friends ran as well. One of them ran with me the whole time and our time was 1 hour and 56 minutes. That is a better time than the last 3 years. We were pretty excited. My dad is training to run the Saint George Marathon in Oct. so this was nothing for him. It is so much fun to be able to run races with my dad. I hope someday I will be running marathons when I am 60. I am so proud of my dad.

Alvin is four months

Alvin is now 4 months. He is starting to try to grab stuff and as you can see he has discovered his hands. We just love him so much. He is getting so much fun. He is such a cute little guy.

Family Day at the Air Force Base

This last weekend we went to a family day at Chauncy's air force base in Layton, UT. They put us up in a hotel the night before and then Saturday morning we went to the activities. It was so much fun and the kids loved it. They had carnival games, the kids made rockets that they shot up into the air, there was 2 bounce houses there, and other fun boothes to look at.
After the activities we went the the museum on base. Reid was in heaven looking at all the jets, airplanes, and helicopters, a as well as my Dad. My dad was in the national guard and so he jumped out of air planes and helicopters. So as you can imagine he had to show us all the ones he jumped out of and the stories behind them. Reid's favorite one was the blackbird. He even got a small version so take home. He says nothing is as fast as it.
There were some pretend airplanes that the kids could play in and all kinds of helmets and outfits to try on.
Of course my dad had the most fun with the helmets.

We saw this Ferrari parked at the Gold's Gym by our house so we had to stop for Reid to get a picture by it.
Remember a couple of posts ago how fun I thought our hot tub was. Well... this week Reid slipped while playing in it and split his chin open. He had to get 2 stitches. He was very brave he didn't even cry. He only cried when I told him we had to go to the doctor, but once we were there he didn't cry once. This is a big accomplishment for Reid, because he usually has a very hard time when he gets hurt.
New Shoes.... Reid and Clara got new shoes last week for school, but I told them they can't wear them outside until school starts. So now they never want to leave the house, and when we do leave the house they can hardly wait to get home. We let our kids have one toy in their bed when they go to sleep and lately they both want their new shoes. Sometimes we catch Clara sleeping in hers. Reid is extra excited as well because he has learned to tie his shoes by himself so he is constantly tieing and un tieing his.
We went swimming this week with my friend Amy and her kids. Like I said before her kids are all my kids ages and the same sexes. This is her little boy Max who is 5 weeks younger than Alvin. Look how big Alvin looks.
This is Amy's kids Ella and Sam and my kids Reid and Clara.
On the 24th of July we went to a carnival in spanish fork. My car said it was 113 degrees that day so it was a little too hot to enjoy the carnival. It was so hot that when Clara got off this ride she touched her hamstring area on some metal and had a huge burn on her leg. It looked really painful.

Thanks for the Memories

I saw this on my friend's blog and it seems fun.
Here are the directions:

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together, or one of the first memories you have of me. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!
2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you.

I think it'll be interesting and fun to see what memories you write!

Doing hair at my mom's

This is "my Lady", Amy. We call eachother Lady(I don't remember why). We have known eachother since middle school and we became best friends in Highschool. She finally moved back to Utah. She was just living in Arizona and we finally get to live in the same state again. We were inseparable until I went on my mission and she got married. So we are pretty excited to hang out more again. We do everything the same. Whenever we get together we are either wearing twin outfits, our kids are wearing the same outfits, or we are giving the same gift at a shower. We are always finding more and more things we do the same even though we live far away from eachother. We think we were separated at birth. We both have 3 kids and all of them are born within months of eachother and they all are the same sexes. We will have some pretty fun play dates. Anyway I did her hair the other day at my mom's house and my mom has this hood dryer at her house for when I do hair there(what a nice mom). Amy and I were dying because the hood dryer is called "Lady Dazey" Perfect for "My Lady" to sit under.
Another funny photo of me washing Amy's hair in the sink. Amy is 5 foot 10 and so her legs hung way over the counter. I usually do my client Nahir's hair at my mom's and she is 5 foot 2, so she fits perfectly, not Amy.
We keep our hot tub cool in the summer time and my kids love to swim in it. It gives me something to do with them that is easy with Alvin. I just sit outside the hot tub with Alvin.