Lehi Round-up 5 & 10 K

Last June I was able to run a 5K, SM ran the 10K and my Dad ran the 5K.  No, the baby did not run but he was there to cheer us into the finish line.  I struggled with a side ache for the whole run but I still did okay for just having had a baby five months earlier.

My mom was the babysitter while we ran and the baby loved being around so many people.

SM took first place for his age group.  Yippee for an awesome hubby!

SM took first for his age group, my dad took second for his age group and my cousin also took second for her age group.  

And here I am with four of my girl cousins that also ran the race.  These four girls grew up next door to me so that even though I had three younger brothers, I had these girls next door to me and they were like my own sisters.

Family Photos by Chelsi

This summer while we were in St. George, SM's sister took our family pictures.  I posted this one because the baby was so fascinated with my hair during the photos and just wanted to play with it.  Look at his face in this photo!

My baby is eating food.

So, it's been a couple months since I've posted anything.  It's been a very busy summer.  I don't know if I can catch up on everything but I can show you all what we are currently doing in our home.  The baby is eating food, not just goat milk.  He has tried carrots, beans, sweet potatoes, butternut squash, brown rice cereal, millet cereal, bananas, avocados, peaches, applesauce and a few raw foods like cantaloupe, fresh peaches, and strawberries.

The baby is such a big boy!

Green beans are not his favorite but he will eat them.

Some fresh peaches in his mesh eating thingy!

Blueberry picking!

We were excited to go blueberry picking for the first time ever.  SM has a friend that owns a blueberry farm and this year the berries were slow to produce because of all the rain we've had.  And then when they did ripen, the rains caused a lot of the berries to split.  But that meant that we picked five quart bags of blueberries for free.  It was wonderful! (We laid all the berries out on towels to dry them off since we picked the berries in the rain and they needed to be dried off before we frozen them in bags).

These berries weren't small either...they were round as the end of my thumb.  So delicious.  After this picking we got five days of rain without a break and all the berries split and fell off of the bushes.  We were so lucky to get all these berries.

Our House, Our Home

So, here's some photos of our new house.  The pictures aren't in the order that I'd like but since I'm terrible at moving them around, I think I'll just leave them and let you all look at our crazy photos of our awesome house!

Here's the guest room.  The blinds are closed and hide the trees in the back yard. The cubbies under the window are awesome!

Here's the front room and the front door.  We call it our library.  We have a piano that we got from someone at church.  Now it just needs to be tuned and I'll start practicing again...or at least that is the hope.

Back yard...ours to the fence! We have a small forest!

Same back yard, just to the right.  We have a small shed for the lawn mower and all the yard stuff!

Here's the fireplace in the library!

Front door of the house and on the left is the swing!  My baby loves that swing...and so do I!

Here's the house.  The front door is on the left of the house.

A view of the front yard from the front door!

Another view of the library!

The blue room is our storage/craft/games room.  We will do a lot more to this room but meanwhile it is serving a great purpose. It is a place to put anything until I find it a proper place.

Here's the kitchen!  The fridge is a new purchase.  We decided to go with a  big fridge.  As you can see, SM had to take out the cabinets above the fridge so that it would fit.  We love it!  The counters are granite and so I have to be careful not to brake anything glass.  Only bad thing...no backsplash behind the sink.  I tend to get water on the floor.

And my favorite room...the family room!  At one time this was the garage but they made it into a big family room and built on another garage.

Those double doors behind the couch are storage space...and I use it as my food storage space.  I absolutely love it!

And here it the garage with plenty of space to walk between the cars!  Another love of this house!

Here's the shop that is built onto the garage.  SM is excited to have his own space and I'm excited to have a place to put tools.

Here's a photo of the baby's room.  I haven't ever decorated a house before so I've got a lot of learning to do.  But for now we have the essentials. And as I learn how to balance a baby and be the wife and cook and laundress, I'll be able to do more around the house.

And I'll end with one more photo of our house, our home.

Back in March, Macon celebrated it's Cherry Blossom Festival.  We all took a trip downtown to see what the festival was all about.  Well, the cherry blossoms hadn't bloomed yet but the pink port-a-potties were out!

I guess you could say that the pink cherry blossoms were found on the streets.  It was so cute!

We did see a lot of "fru-fru" all over Macon.

Have any of you read a children's book by Dr. Seuss called I Saw It All on Mulberry Street?  That  book is one of SM's favorite books.  Macon has a Mulberry Street!

Here is SM in his law professor office!

And here we are in front of the law school where SM works!

Grandpa really enjoyed getting the baby to smile at him.

We loved playing games with SM's parents and my mother-in-law loved holding the baby!  What a great trip.. Thank you for coming to see us!