WooHoo another baby!

Melanie and Trevor had their baby! He came a little early, and he's a tiny little thing, but really cute! He weighed 5 pounds 12 ounces and they are naming him Mason Trevor Palmer. Nice of him to come early and spare Melanie that last month! All these babies and ... nope, not baby hungry =) I sure get excited to hold them though!

Happy Birthday Malia!

Today is Malia's birthday and she turned 12! She had a fun day... well all except for a visit to the dentist (the shots hurt....). I took her picture after the dentist because it was kind of funny that she couldn't smile... and she was a little swollen on one side:


(She asked for a hat for her birthday)

At least we went out for lunch before she had to go to the dentist (her favorite place to eat fast food is Subway... so that's where we went).

One of her friends has a birthday today as well, and she had her party after school today. She took all the friends to a beauty collage and they got awesome up-dos and nails done. Malia LOVED this! Here's some pictures of her hair:





Notice that now she can use he lips and smile! Nice! We had her favorite dinner tonight: homemade calzones and caesar salad. She just wanted ice cream tonight. We're having a birthday party for her next week (worked out better with most of her friends), so I'll make a cake for that. Malia got the Wii Fit for her birthday... and so far it's a huge hit! I think I might play around on it tomorrow... while everyone is at school, so I don't have an audience....

Tomorrow is the last day of school! I am soooooo excited (except that I'm spending more time at the dentist again... sigh... apparently it is my job to make sure that our dentist gets an awesome vacation this year....)

McKay and Anaya have been playing Star Wars a ton these days.... they play Lego Star Wars on the Wii, have Star Wars guys to play with, and have sword fights all the time (McKay says he has "the force"). This morning Anaya told me that her favorite guy is "RB2B-Do." Made me smile this morning (which was nice.... cause before that she had a huge fit because I took her shirt off the hanger and she wanted to do it... I wasn't smiling then....)

Malia wants her hair to stay all pretty through the night... so I'm going to spray til it doesn't move, put it in a hair net, and have her sleep on a silky pillow case... hopefully it stays, because I don't think I could fix it if I had to....

Awesome long weekend

Here's Anaya practicing "attachment parenting" (see Moana's blog for attachment parenting info.) Notice how the teddy bear is upside down... that's a foot poking out the top...not sure what to call that kind of knot/carrying position!)

This has been the nicest weekend! Friday night after McKay's preschool graduation we did a little shopping for Malia's birthday. Saturday morning Rik ran 20 miles (oh good grief, I would probably die!) It took him 3 hours and 14 minutes. He got up at 4:30 in the morning to get that run in (yuck!) While he was running I tracked down one last thing on Malia's birthday list, and then started mowing lawns with Kayden. We were mowing as fast as we could because it looked like we were going to get rained on. For some reason I'm the only one that can run our trimmer... I don't know if Rik has rigged it that way or what, but no one else can get it to work, so I have to go on all of Kayden's jobs and trim while he mows. It worked out good on Saturday though, because we were hurrying so fast to beat the weather. When we got home from mowing Kayden's two jobs, Rik had started mowing our lawn (he was hobbling along pretty good after his run). I jumped on the ride-on mower while Rik used the push mower. We only had to mow in the rain for about half of the yard.... I was glad we got it done though... because it rained, hailed, and thundered the rest of the day.

After mowing the lawn, apparently a regular shower was not going to be good enough to clean all the stink off of Rik (3 hours of running + mowing the lawn = ewww), so he took all the kids to the club to go swimming. Nothing like chlorine to disinfect you!

Saturday night Rik and I went out to eat and to see Indiana Jones. I sure do like him (Rik, not Indiana Jones...)!

Sunday went pretty good, for Malia and me anyway. I have an awesome presidency, and they make Sundays enjoyable! Rik was conducting though, and the high councilman didn't show up, so Rik had to fill in. He did a great job, but half way through his talk, Kayden leaned over and said, "This is the forth time I've heard this talk!" (We just talked about it for FHE a few weeks ago...) I told him he was more than welcome to get up and speak instead then. McKay gave the scripture and prayer for the first time in primary. He had been asked before, but worried himself right out of doing it. Anaya gave it a couple weeks ago, and that seemed to be enough to comfort McKay into standing up there. Nothing like a little competition for encouragement! As for Malia, the young women decided they were done waiting for Malia, and came and got her a week early. She was over the moon. Singing time wasn't the same without her though...

Monday morning we got the kids up and had a nice big breakfast, then rode our bikes to the park to play tennis.... only then the clouds came in and it poured on us. By the time we rode home we were soaked all the way through (the kids thought this was great....me, not so much.) After that we decided Wii tennis was a better option. McKay and Rik were playing Wii bowling against each other (McKay won both games scoring 195 on one game and 189 on the other). He had the funniest comments: "Dad, you play bowling like Anaya, and she's not very good...." We watched movies, and then had family home evening. Except for riding bikes in the rain, a really nice relaxing day.

I just have to make it through a few more busy school days, and then adjust to having everyone home. I sure did need this long weekend!

Preschool Graduation

Last night was McKay's preschool graduation. He was pretty excited (understatement). He kept telling me that his teacher said he was supposed to look handsome, so he wanted his hair cut, his nails trimmed, and he wanted to wear his favorite church outfit. For starting the year out kind of rocky (understatement), he ended up doing really good and loved going. He loved his class and loved his teacher. Kindergarten is next for him! I only have one more year of preschool to pay for then Anaya will be in kindergarten too!

Ana and Dave's baby girl

Ana and Dave had their baby this morning in Logan. They are naming her Shiloah Sacred Torgesen. She weighed in at 9 pounds 7 ounces.... I think mostly in hair! So cute! Glad she's here! They have more pictures of her here.

Ooops

Rik said the results for the 10k run were wrong, so he actually got 5th place (he got 9th if he was running the 5K, but he signed up for the 10K so when they moved him to the 10K, he got 5th):

10K Men's Results
5 Finlayson, Rik
Time: 49:03

Here's the link:
http://www.pb-performance.com/pb/CCFRresults.htm

Run Rik Run!

We had a nice weekend (thanks mostly to the awesome weather!) Kayden went camping at Green Canyon with the scouts, we got the basketball hoop completely done, got some yard work done, the girls and I went to Soda for Ana's baby shower, Rik, Kayden and Quinn went to Ironman (they said it was sooo good!) and we had a pretty successful Sunday (which means I got a nap). Saturday morning Rik ran in a 10k run. He got 9th out of 88 runners. I don't know if I can stress how much weight he is losing from all this running. He says when he started running nothing came off, but now everytime he turns around he is tightening his belt one more notch. His pants are just hanging on him, and his belt may keep his pants on, but makes his pants all pleated and tucked funny. In the picture, Rik is on the left-hand side, kind of in the back in the dark grey (he thinks he looks dorky in the picture...)

Just a "proud brag about my kid moment...." But on my Bebo page (link on the top right-hand side of my blog) I have a video of me playing a song on the piano. Malia has that song learned now (and plays it everytime she walks by the piano.) She says it is one of the funnest songs she has ever played. She's turning into an awesome piano player.

I've got peas up in the garden, and the potatoes are cracking through as well. A couple more weeks and I can get the tomatoes and cucumbers in...yum!