Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Girls Night






My Friend Alli and her daughter Bailey came over and we had a girls night. We had a lot of fun and it was Megan's first sleep over. The girls had a good time and ,were so tired when we put them to bed @ 11pm. Alli and I stayed up later and watched chick flicks while we painted wood blocks and frames! It was so much fun!

Friday, May 15, 2009

Sweet Girl

What a cutie!
I think she is eating a fuzz ball off the floor LOL.

I love those Big Cheeks !

Lanie is almost one! Where has the time gone. It feels like she was just born and I blinked my eyes and now she is turning one in a few weeks. She has started to army crawl everywhere. She is so sweet and loves her big brother and sister! If you ask her where her teeth are she opens her mouth SO big, it is so cute!We love You !

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Firsts -

This last weekend was a couple of Firsts for this adventure we are on in California.

-Ben's Sister and her family (Melissa, Chad, and Chase) made their 1st visit from Elko, Nevada. It is always nice to have visitors. Jaden, Megan, and Lanie haven't seen cousins that often so they loved playing with Chase. We all ate our fair share of food (as seen by the candy wrappers), and as always didn't play enough card games.

-Ben ran his 1st ever half marathon on Saturday. Where did that come from you ask? Melissa and Ben had this idea in December to start training for a half marathon. After really starting to train the first part of February it just so happened this weekend worked out perfectly with a 1/2 marathon along the American River Parkway in Sacramento. If you want to see pictures of the course and where Melissa and Ben placed check out www.parkwayhalf.com (yes it is the 1/2 marathon not the 1/2 walk and we ran all 13 miles)! Melissa ran the St. George Marathon (26 miles) several years ago so she is experienced and helped get Ben motivated, in decent shape, and across the finish line. Yes, his little sister even finished ahead of him and believe it or not neither of them are extremely sore.

-Natalie had her 1st California scrapbook retreat and we are all shocked it took nearly 10 months to occur. Even though timing wasn't all that good with both events falling on the same weekend she still managed to complete over 20 plus pages, stay up until after 4 am both nights (she's asleep on the couch as we speak), and come home anxious to see the rest of us despite missing out on the events in California's Capital.

-I believe this is a first. Chad, since he wasn't crazy enough to scrapbook or run 13 miles with his wife and Brother-in-law, he was gracious enough to watch 4 kids (reminder 3 of which aren't his) for several hours. He is the one that should get a shirt and medal! In order to pay him back we stopped by Bass Pro Shop on the way home. It may not be as good as Cabella's but for this trip it will have to do. We would have taken more pictures of these events but the camera's were left in Nevada and Modesto. LOL!

Next up - a 10k in Utah in July!!


Isn't Chase cute!!


Chad and Melissa playing cards!


The proof - Nice shirts and medals!


The Happy Marrott Family!


The Scrapbooker in Preparation Mode!