Our messy boy!!

Coleton has always been a very careful little man, Hayden on the other hand not so much. Hayden is our unbalanced little dare devil and i worry often about him getting really hurt. He falls alot while running, likes to jump off beds, and seems to have bumps and bruises all the time but here is another side of Hayden... He loves to get dirty! He loves to play in the mud, if there is a puddle he has to sit in it and if were are at the park he has to play in the rubber chip puddle. For those who are unsure of what that is at the parks here they have the rubber tire chips instead of wood chips. Since there is always a puddle under the swings which both boys love, the water becomes black from the tire chips and stains everything and of course Hayden always gets messy.
We seem to loose alot of outfits when we got to the park but he still looks cute even covered in rubber water;)

Coletons First Day of School! (kind of?)

Our big boy is getting to be so... well i guess...big! Coleton now being 3.5 years old he is very social and love being with other kids his age but we just were not planning on putting him in preschool at this young of an age but when the opportunity came we took it. I have one of my beehives named Kenzie Beardall called and said that she was taking a child development class and was wondering if she could bring Coleton in to her class so she could recieve extra credit. Of course i agreed and on Friday we got him already for his first day of school. He was only going to be there for alittle over an hour but we treated it he was going to his first day of kindergarden! We got his favorite outfit on, got his hair looking nice, packed him a backpack, and of course took first day of school pictures, he was super excited....


We sent him in and he loved it! Kenzie was excited to have him there and he thought that Kenzie was the greatest thing ever and has had a hard time not talking about Kenzie she makes it in to dinner prayers, when he is pretending kenzies name comes up alot, and often looks out the window to see if kenzie is outside so he can go see here (she lives diagonal from our house and is one of our babysitters). We were glad that he got the chance to go and have that experience how for just a few more years til he really can go to school!

Brandons First 12k!!

With Brandon on his running kick right now, we finally signed him up for his first offical race!!! Here is Hurricane the have a large celebration called peach days and each year they hold a 12K race. This is a different kind of race because the winner is not determined by how gets finished first but who guesses there time correctly. There are no watches allowed and the race route is not announced until the runners are at the line up, they had to place their estimated time on there registration page (so they had to guess it almost two weeks before the race) so you never know who was going to win so Brandon had a good chance at guessing how long it would take him to finish. The race started early about 6am saturday morning so i had to get the boys out of bed and load them to the Hurricane Community Center at about 7am.

Brandon and his buddy Nate (in the red) were running the race together, so the boys and I made a post to hold up for them so after waiting for a few minutes both boys came into sight...There time was about 1hr 12minutes which was pretty close to what they were aiming for which was 1hour 9minutes 38seconds. Everyone got a peach days shirt for running it and then the top twenty people got prizes and Brandon places 15th and won a $10 gift card to classic sports (which he bought a pair of running socks with!) After the race, Brandon ran home to shower quickly while i stayed and got a spot of the peach days parade!! We at by they family i use to watch, the alkamas, and the boys had alot of run together collecting candy. When the parade was finished we walked around to look at all of the booths and activities that they were offering. They had a candy cannon, a booth that home depot was putting on where you could build your own little boat, rides, food, and lots of fun things to look at like an electric train set that was set up which coleton loved!

We also enjoyed the famous navajo tacos and snow cones. The day was really run and Brandon felt really good about how he did on his race and we were very proud of him!!