Let's Go Fly a Kite....

After the museum, we walked outside to find perfect kite flying weather. After eating our picnic in the car, Scott's dad got out all the kites and string. We think Molly enjoyed it inspite of not feeling very well. This was Foster's first time flying kites. We didn't get any great shots of it, but Scott's dad tied the string to Fos's shoe and when the kite flew up, so did his foot. Good thing the wind wasn't too strong, otherwise he might have gone up too!

Scott and Molly flying "Canada"

Fos was a real pro

Just look at those skills!

And....what's a trip without a "Sasha" pose?

Sunday

Sunday, Scott's brother Brian gave a talk in church, and yay for us, we got to be there. He did a great job. We came home and had a wonderful Sunday dinner of ham, potatoes, veggies, and salad. It was a nice relaxing day!

Four generations. Great Grandpa Walton, Grandpa Walton, Dad, and son.

3:25:08

O.K., so after my first marathon, I swore I'd never run again. Well, I think it took about a day to realize I wanted to do another to learn how to run better. Good friend Cassidy, said she wanted to do the Seattle marathon. When she mentioned it was on a Saturday, I was in. We figured it'd be a good way to make a trip to Vancouver as well. The training was tough. I battled a bad back and achilles tendon problems a few different times throughout. But, with much prayer and dedication, I made it through all those trials and ran my second marathon. I bettered my time by 7 mins and felt really good about the whole experience. The course was beautiful and hilly. No steep inclines, but long slow gradual uphills and when the last hill was set at mile 24.2 lasting to the flat top at around 25.4, it was like climbing Mt. Everest. Cassidy and my sister Becky ran it too. I am so proud of both of them for their accomplishments. It was so nice being at the finish area together. Congrats to both of them! I qualified for Boston, so that is my next goal......hopefully! It was hard deciding which pictures to post, so here are a few

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Saturday

Just a few single shots of the marathon. We had great weather for the day.

My #1 fan. Scott was more than supportive of me doing this marathon. He did everything he could to help my back, watched the kids on my long runs, and was just what every marathon with two kids needs. You're the best Scott!

It was fun running a race with people you know. There were a few turn arounds so I could see Becky and Cassidy two different times. It was fun to wave and give high fives.

Here is my #2 fan. My friend Staci, and I would swap kids for exercising. Molly was always encouraging me to go back out and run some more. She knew the routine of getting my shoes on and heading out the door. Some mornings (if I went before Scott left for work) she'd be sitting by our glass weather door waiting for my return. Hopefully she'll be a runner like her mamma!

Seattle Trip -- Friday

So here are a few posts from our trip last week. They won't be in order because I started blogging with our first day. This was Friday. We went downtown to the marathon Expo at Qwest Center. After getting our numbers, we headed to Pikes Market Place. It was a beautiful day.

Fos man learning to stand

He's our gangsta'

Beautiful park

Friday still

Pictures are a little washed out, but wanted to post where we were at.

Met up with Cassidy at the Expo then got to hang out part of the day.

Amazing flowers in the market place. They were so pretty and CHEAP!

Gross "thing" they would pull back every once in a while and scare people. Molly was not about to go near this "Thing"

Thursday

Got into Seattle with enough time to eat a yummy pasta dinner prepared so kindly by Scott's aunt and then head to the beach. It was a little chilly, but still nice to be out.

Father's Day!

Here is my tribute to this wonderful guy Molly and Foster call Daddy. They are truly blessed to have him as their dad. He's a great example to me as well as them (they just aren't aware yet)! Scott, we love you and hope you HAD a great Father's Day!

This was our yummy Father's Day dessert. Love any reason to have dessert and try something new. This cake is my new favorite. Maybe I should call it bread. It's a Lemon Yogurt Cake with a drizzle of lemon flavored powdered sugar and water and berries galore!

Kendal's Birthday

Molly was invited to a "Tea Part" Birthday party. It was so cute. The girls had cut out sandwiches, cut out cheese, and watermelon and berries on a kid size skewer (toothpick). After lunch they got their toe and fingernails painted with the color of their choice.

Brianne, Molly and Kendal

You get the idea!

Molly just ate the candy flowers off the top.

Happy Fathers Day Grandpa!

Happy Birthday Mom

Happy Birthday Mom/Grandma/Mary...hope you have a great day!

Just Like Mamma

So, we made a Texas Sheet Cake to take to Scott at work the other day. In celebration of Father Day week. She must have seen her mom taste testing and knew exactly what to do.

And he's out

I had scouts here the other morning at our house. We did part of requirement 8 with making a meal and cleaning up. We made pancakes and sausage. It was a lot of fun. Fos was put in his high chair with some bananas. It was so funny to watch him get delirious and then eventually close his eyes and rest his head.

Baptism

My sister-in-law got Baptized last Saturday. We drove out to Beautiful Lander, WY to support her in this. It was a wonderful baptism (as they all are). We are so excited for her and my brother to start on this journey together. Christina, congratulations. We love you and are so happy for you!

Lagoon

Last Thursday, Lagoon had Family Night and our Stake was a part of it. So, we got in the park for free and had we bought passes for all of us, would have gotten $14 off a ticket. However, we just took advantage of getting into the park for free then bought $10 worth of tickets for Molly to ride some kiddie rides. We wanted to see if going to Disney World would be worth it. Yep, it was. She absolutely LOVED Lagoon. I think if she would have been tall enough, she would have tried some scarier rides. She had to hold on to something at all times......even if it was just a seat belt strap. It's so fun as parents to see kids excitement. Disney World, here we come!

Lagoon Continued

You can't go to an amusement park and not ride the carousel, especially when it's free.

Bright eyed baby boy

Enjoying the train ride

Happy Birthday Hudson

Hudson, just wanted to wish you a very special birthday. We miss you sooooooo much. Hope it was a good one. We were so sad we couldn't make it to your birthday party, but hopefully this makes up for missing it a little.

Three Good Buddies

Tis the season for boys. Our family started out with one nephew and 9 nieces. Then there were four boys to add to another five girls. Then three boys were born within 9 months of eachother. I have a feeling we're gonna be on our toes with these three. Their mischievous faces tell all!

Foster Scott -- 9 months

Tipton John -- 3 months

Cal Lewis -- 1.5wks

Grandma Turns 85

My cutest grandma turned 85 on May 30th. So, naturally, we celebrated. She sat up front for people to greet her in the beginning. But then she decided to get up with her walker and greet others as she cruised around the tables and chairs. It was pretty stinkin' cute!

Cute Grandma Jacobs

Little did I know my 85 yr old grandma and I would have the same shirt on. Must say she's got some good taste!

Grandma J and Scottino. This was a great picture of these two.

Just a Huggin'

Molly and her cousin Bella are just 5 wks apart and they are the best of buds......as long as we don't outstay are welcome. They will just hug and hug and remain hugging for me to get the camera and get it all set up. They are too cute!!!!

Cousin, Trais, was pretty cute to stand right in front of the girls while posing. He wanted to be apart of the photo opp. but didn't want the hugging part.

No music, but that didn't stop them from dancing.

It's a Boy

After 4 girls, my sister and her husband finally had a boy. Cal Lewis was born May 18th. We were fortunate enough to go to her baby shower.

Sister Hilda modeling the "hooter hider" I made for her.

Cresta (good friend of my sister, Rachel's) filling in for sister Becky (who couldn't make it), mom, sister-in-law Christina , sister Rachel and baby Cal, me, sister Sarah, sister Jessica with 3 mo old baby Tipton

Proud mamma of her baby boy! Congrats Johnsons. We love him already!

9 Months

Time really does fly when you are having fun. Foster is 9 Months old.

Wt: 15lb 15.5 oz: 1%

Ht: 27 in: 12%

Teething: No, just drooling lots preparing for the real drool

Crawling: yes, even does the bear crawl, pulls himself up to standing

Words: da da da, na na, ba ba (no ma ma yet)

Remains a happy little boy. I never tire of his adorable smile

Coming after me with drool and all

Rarrrrrrrr!!!!!!!

Random

Just sharing a few random posts.

Messy kitchen. Just had gone grocery shopping and was trying to organize our pantry. What a task.....moving these cans forward and those behind...yada yada! Of course, I had great help from Molly!

Morning hair....her pillow does wanders. All of her old toys that I bring out for Foster, Molly thinks are hers again. Little big for this one!

Yes, our little man is crawling. He's been crawling a while now, and boy does he cruise. He doesn't like the hard on his knees so here he is up on all four.

Crazy Girl

I had a whole bunch of new pictures to post......went to download the photos (there were about750 on our camera, so it was going to take a few minutes), thought I had downloaded them all, deleted them all off the camera, then went to view the pictures and all but 100 had imported........needless to say, they were all LOST! Arghhhh! I was totally bummed.

Then I was looking at our blog and realized it had been quite some time since our last post, so here are just a few random shots of tonight. I love the age Molly is in (most days) She has been cracking us up ALOT. She says the most random things.

The other day I asked her a few questions just to see how she would answer.....

Molly, how old is your mom? .......5

How old is your dad?.........5

What does your dad do at work?..........fixes cars!

Molly, what is your name?.........Molly and Walton (her middle name is Ann)

Molly had gotten ready to take a bath (no clothes on), I was getting ready to go outside and water the garden and asked her if she wanted to come. I said, if she wanted to, she needed to get some clothes on. I went outside and started watering when she comes out the back door looking like this. Look close and you can see, shorts on backwards, bracelets, and no chonies (spell check). I started laughing pretty hard, that's when she knew she was too stinkin cute and decided to start posing. Camera quick!

Our lovely garden. We still have yet to get our soaker hoses in place. Just me watering for now. We are excited for next year to do a better job. It's a live and learn year for us this time. We hope it produces enough salsa ingredients though. It's our salsa garden with a few others.

How many funny things can a 2 year old do in one night? I was coming down the stairs just in time for her coming up the stairs and saw this. Scott and I tried to show "mad faces" but how can you not laugh at this? Didn't Picasa draw on himself? Love our little Molly!!!! We do we do!