Miscellaneous

I finally downloaded the pictures off my phone, so these are just random.

In April (I believe) Josh's work hosted an event at the Fun Park. I had to work, but came for just an hour at the end. From the sound of it, Meili had a blast. She played in the Soft Play, went roller skating for her first time, and went bowling for the first time.

 In May, (I believe) a benefit was held for our bishop's granddaughter. Again, Meili was in heaven: a bounce house, play ground, face paint, and cupcakes! What more could you ask for? I just wanted to point out that I actually won a raffle and silent auction item, and I never win anything! Woo hoo!

 The first 2 weeks of June, Meili and I did Mom and Tot swimming lessons. Meili loves swimming, but she got pretty sick of me telling her what to do repeatedly. Oh well! She loved playing in the pool, and jumping in the water over and over, and I have to say that she actually improved quite a bit for two weeks of chaos.

 These pictures are from Summerfest. Meili wasn't so excited about this whole thing until she found out face painting was involved....

 ...and a butterfly balloon!

This last weekend, Josh's priests talked him into competing in a local "Heritage Man" competition. I figured the whole thing would actually be pretty embarrassing (like a beauty pageant for guys), but I was actually pretty impressed with my hubby. There were nine events that about 30 guys competed in (ages 18 and up), and Josh won three of them: a tractor tire roll thing, the 40 yard dash, and a sprint-ladder type exercise that I don't know how to describe.

The only bad news was that he pushed himself so hard on the first few events that by the end, he was SPENT! He critiqued himself all night about what he could have done better. Leave it to Josh to make even a friendly neighborhood game into something competitive. 

I, for one, was super impressed with what he was able to do!

 It got hard keeping Meili occupied the whole time.

 But she took this picture all by herself! (That's better than the millions she usually takes of our feet.)

Josh won the award for "Mr. Trash Talk." He said he didn't really understand why. Right.... Anyone who knows Josh knows exactly why.

Also, this weekend I ran the Wasatch Back Ragnar Relay. A team from my ward was having a hard time finding someone a couple months ago, and I am not one to turn down the chance at another Relay.

 Here's our Van 1 at the start line (at 5:45 in the morning!)

And I didn't take my camera out once, so here we are at the finish line!

 This time I opted for a fairly easy leg, as Ragnar goes. So my first leg was 7.7 miles, but it actually wasn't too bad because it was very close to my neighborhood (so I could train for it), and in the morning. 

My second leg was only 3.3 miles, but it was at about 5:00 in the afternoon (which actually was one of the hottest times of the day), so that one was rougher for me than I expected.

My third leg was at about 4 or 5 in the morning, and was also only about 3 miles. It wasn't bad, but I was ready to be done. 

 I always love relays even though I figured that over 60 hours, I probably only slept about 6. Yes, by Saturday night at 10:00, I was pretty much sleeping sitting up.

That's it for us for now!

May

A couple years ago one of my friends from work said that she wanted to start a Bunco group. After (a lot) of teasing, because I said that Bunco was for old ladies, I still agreed to come. 

Thank goodness for that friend, because 3+ years later, our Bunco group is still going strong, and I don't know if I could survive all the dishes, and laundry, and naptimes if I didn't know that once a month, I would have an evening vacation. (Yes, Lacey, that was a nice comment, it was directed at you, and it was on purpose :)

However, we decided that one night a month wasn't enough, so once a year, we have "Destination Bunco," which is a weekend of absolute indulgence in Bear Lake. And it is filled with just about everything girly-except Bunco. (Who has time for Bunco when there is so much relaxing to do.)

The weekend is filled with good food

 Sewing, bow making

Hair tutorials

and nail painting.

 Two days is never enough, but, alas, duty calls.

Jamie, our professional photographer, realized that she was not in a single picture. So, of course, it had to be documented that she and her little man were there.

 There were those of us who went running...

 And those who stayed behind to play games and eat treats. It's tough to tell who had more fun right?

 We all promised that these pictures would never end up posted anywhere, but with so much fun, how could I not document it right? 

Counting down girls... Only 364 days to next year's Destination Bunco!

 Also this month, rather than telling Meili for the hundredth time that we couldn't use the face paint as finger paints, I decided to just paint her face... for no good reason.... and she loved it!

After a long-drawn out process which I will not go into, Meili finally got her big girl bed. Besides one falling out incident, and nap times becoming even more of a challenge in our house, so far so good. 

She loves it, so I guess it's worth it in the end!

I let her pick out her own sheets. 

 What else but princesses of course!

 I finally figured out how to get her to look at the camera and smile-sometimes. So I guess now we are entering the phase of fake smiles that took me the better part of my childhood to outgrow.

And, although the weather hasn't exactly been cooperating, I'm trying my best to get summer here. My friend Lacey and I and one of her friends got out the pool for the kiddos when it was barely 60 degrees outside. But they didn't even notice, they loved it all the same!!

Bring on summer!