2.5 weeks to go...Boise

Well the title refers to the half marathon I am running in on October 25th. Hopefully it will go well. I will admit my training hasn't been the best these past 2 weeks but I still feel good when I do run so we'll see how the race turns out. I have been having some knee pain but I talked to the sports trainer at the high school I coach at and he says it is just from the constant pounding. But it isn't bad at all really, I can still run comfortably, it just hurts after.

Volleyball has been a little stressful and drama-filled but things have improved greatly. Our last home game is tonight and we only have one more match after today before the District Tournament. From then on we will see how far we get. We are 2-10 which doesn't sound good but that is better than last year. So we have improved and hopefully we can end with 2 more wins under our belts. We did play in a varsity tournament this last weekend and we ended 11th out of 36 teams which was really good.

Club Volleyball starts up on the 3rd of November with tryouts so I don't get much of a break but I am super excited for club this year as we will have a really good group of girls.

The boys are doing great. Andrew is on an Aladdin watching kick right now and wants to watch it like 4-5 times a day. I have had to regulate that. Actually I just had to get up to turn it off because he just came and told me it was over. He is saying more and more stuff everyday and it is weird to see how much he is comprehending and remembering. He definitely is soaking things up like a sponge. Beck is beginning to cruise along furniture, much to Andrew's dismay. He is chasing Andrew constantly trying to play with Andrew's books and toys that he has brought up to the couch. He has 2 teeth already and 2 more that will break thru any day now. It is crazy how much faster he is doing everything.

Peter had to head out of town this week for a project with work up in Moscow, ID. He is going to head to Spokane for the weekend after being in Moscow so that he can see our nephew be blessed and visit with his family. He is loving work and even though it is stressful and busy at times, he still enjoys it.

Well hopefully I will update more frequently but we will see.

-Anne

Andrew taking pictures with my phone

Faces Continued

The Many Faces of Beck

Boise Pics

Beck Growing Up

Beck recently has begun crawling, but to add on top of that he is pulling himself up onto things. I caught these pictures today. He was so proud of himself. So Beck the other night was tired and so I went and laid him down in the pack n play in our room. He hadn't really started pulling himself up consistently so we hadn't taken the bassinet part off. Sure enough I hear him crying as he normally does, so I went in to check on him only to find him on the floor. He had basically jumped out of the pack n play. Thank goodness he didn't get hurt! Needless to say we took the bassinet part of of both pack n plays and we are being very careful now.

Boise Pics

Boise

Now that I have overloaded the blog with pictures, I figured I needed to post also.

Our trip to Rexburg was very fun. I am so glad that I decided to go even though I didn't get much sleep, but then again, when do you get sleep when visiting family. It was good to see Mckenzie and Melia...and I guess Kim and Treven;). Andrew had a blast getting to know Melia more and it was fun to watch them play and fight and made me think of Isaac and Jane.

I will say it was a fun summer visiting family, but it is nice to be home and have the boys back on a good sleep schedule. We are in the middle of getting Beck to sleep thru the night and so far so good and I will tell you (as long as I go to bed at a reasonable time) I am feeling much more well rested and am loving not having to get up multiple times during the night.

Beck is now scooting around and rolling all over the place. He moves pretty well and it is exciting to see him finally being able to reach things he was getting frustrated over before. He is definitely trying to keep up with Andrew and loves to play with him. He is sooo close to officially crawling, just not yet. We just now have to regulate Andrew from taking toys from Beck now that he can get to them on his own.

Some funny things Andrew has done lately:

I was chasing Andrew around the house like we do all the time but when I started getting tired, I laid down on my back to rest, but to also act like I was dead. Andrew came over and said "uh oh!" and he tried to pull on me to get me to play again. When I didn't move, he bent down and gave me a kiss. It was so funny I had to wake up and play with him some more. I don't know where he got that since the only disney princess movie we have is Little Mermaid and I don't remember that happening in it.

Beck has now become a toy for Andrew now that he knows he can roll him around. So everyonce in a while we will look over and Andrew is rolling Beck across the room and back, but Beck completely enjoys every minute of it.

It is fun to see the two boys interacting as much as they are. It will be fun to see as they continue to grow how good of friends they will be.

High school volleyball starts up this Friday and is over by the end of October. It should be fun, especially with the fact that I get paid :). This is just the beginning of my busy time and it will be nice to be busy again especially with volleyball. Club ball starts shortly after the hs season ends and I am looking forward to that also.

I am still in the midst of training for my half marathon. I had to run a 5K the other day because it was that week in the training, however I couldn't find any official ones to run so I ran my own personal 5K. I did it in 29:13 minutes and was pretty happy with that. Peter made sure to remind me before I headed out that I had to do it at a race pace and in doing that I got my personal best mile time of 9:00 minutes (according to my nike plus system). I still have about 10-11 weeks left before the race but I am so excited to be running (wow did I just say that?!?) and can't wait to do the race.

We are still trying to sell the house. We are lowering the asking price a little bit to see if it changes the amount of people coming out to see it. We aren't in a huge rush to get out of the house as it is working the way it is but it is always nice to have some more room to stretch out it. We will just have to wait and see what happens.

We are open to any visitors, whether they be long or short. We love you guys and are so glad to have family like we do.

Andrew's Birthday and Superhero Party

Andrew's Birthday

Rexburg Visit

Rexburg Visit

His Head is Bleeding....

So I don't know if you all can see the scratch/knot on Andrew's forehead in this picture but I felt I needed to put the story behind it on the blog so that I can remember it.

We went to visit Kim and Treven as most of you know and on Sunday we went to church with them as we would any normal Sunday. So I drop Andrew off in nursery and he does fine for the most part being left. But I left him there with a feeling like he would be getting hurt in some way while he was in there. I thought it was a stupid thought and I joined everyone in Sunday School. Mom and I went to Relief Society and part way into the lesson, I get a tap on my shoulder from a women asking if I had a son named Andrew. I replied "Yes I do" and she said "ummm...they need you in nursery". So I get up and walk out and run into the guy who works in the nursery. He begins by saying "Yeah...his head is bleeding. We don't exactly know what happened but we heard him crying and looked over and he was on the floor bleeding." So I just tried to be calm, I wasn't too worried as Andrew has fallen and hurt himself many times, we have had many bloody lips, etc so I tried to reassure the guy that it wasn't a big deal. So he directed me toward the bathroom and said they were cleaning him up in there. So I walked in and they were trying to wipe off his forehead of the blood. The girl said "We think another kid threw a toy at him." Andrew saw me and began wimpering. I noticed he had blood on his hands and let the girls go while I continued to clean him completely up. It really ended up being no big deal but that funny feeling I had I guess actually happened. I told Kim later that we were never going to come to church with them again...jokingly. Andrew has yet to come out of our nursery hurt, but those brutes in Rexburg just don't know how to handle themselves ;)