June at the Price Household

Here's a recap of June

I ran Ragnar: Wasatch Back with my cousin Aubrey and her mom, my Aunt Clare and their group. We were LOTOPA (like the bike race LOTOJA, but we were Logan to Park City, not Jackson, thank goodness). I was leg 5 and I loved it because I got my hardest run over in the beginning. I didn't plan to be pregnant when I signed up but sure enough, I was 6 or so weeks pregnant when the day rolled around. Luckily, I wasn't super nauseous yet, but I had terrible kidney pain. Bummer. I'd do it again though!!

I got a kick out of all the funny team names. But some were not appropriate and though I admit, I laughed and took a picture, I will NOT be posting them.

I LOVED the views from the top of Avon Pass. I was VERY scared to run Avon pass because of the notes on Ragnar's website that say VERY HARD and show a net elevation of 1156 ft. on gravel roads but I thought it was great. I had dirt in my snot for the next few days but big whoop. I also didn't have my kidney pain yet. I got some good road kill on this one (for those of you who don't know, like I didn't know, road kills are people you pass during your run. Lots of teams keep a tally on the back window to show how tough they really are. We did, we rocked it.).

 Getting my road kill 

 Had to take a quick peek at the garage sale, JUST IN CASE ;)

Randomly ran into Sara Knox at one of the exchanges - so fun to see you!

We went back to Ashley's cabin to shower at the end of it all. Three legs, Two days, no shower, little sleep (on a gym floor), 12 people total, 192 miles from Logan to Park City. We did it!! This is our van of ladies. We're all holding up what number leg we were. Meanwhile, our other van was running. From left to right: Clare, Jess, Ashley, Shar, Ann Marie & Aubrey.

Finish line - Tal and the kids met us at the finish line in Park City

Kelsey and Aiden are cute, I don't know how else to segway

My friend Courtney makes these cute headbands and she needed a picture of this one for her website. Check her out at Pearl and Pauper.

Aiden has so many scrapes and bruises right now! He's such a boy.

On this last one, I erased all the bruises and scratches...he's a little cherub. I love his big brown eyes. 

He gets away with *almost* anything.

Our YARD is DONE!!

We had a retaining wall around our side yard built and a fence installed
We love having more room to RUN around outside (and still be fenced in)!

They dug super deep trenches to secure the wall

Aiden wasn't so sure about being down in the trenches

Mom, please don't leave me down here!

Kelsey got to climb in and play

She accidentally honked the horn and got really scared

Aiden was SO happy watching the excavator in action!

It's so fun to splash in the mud...until you fall in!

Ready for the before and after?
BEFORE:

 AFTER:

BEFORE:

AFTER: 

We also got a new basement grate since the one they had on it when we moved in never fit

 OLD: 

Notice the gap?

NEW:

Sturdy and safe!

This month, we've spent a lot of time gardening and I'm really starting to enjoy it. 

Here are some of my favorite flowers blooming in my yard right now!

Bye-bye Spring, bring on Summer! 

May was full of FUN

Occasionally, we wind up with two little munchkins in our bed. I'll bring Aiden in bed with me if he wakes up too early and Kelsey just wakes up because she has to pee, but if she's tired enough, she wont tell us that and she'll just climb in bed with us. She's like a camel. When I woke up, Aiden was awake just snuggling Kelsey. I thought it was so cute, and I especially love the look on his face in this photo. Like he's so happy to be cuddling HER. 

We carpooled to and from pre-pre-school with some friends in the neighborhood. Mason & Austin are such cute boys, I'd take them any day. Kelsey LOVES them. 

My cousin's wife Holly & I have been trying to get our families together for a date night for-ev-er. Finally, we both just decided to go without our husbands. We went to Fat Cats on their Groupon. The kids had a blast! Who knew they would love bowling so much? I thought they were way too young. 

Aiden was SO happy rolling the ball down the ramp. He was even carrying the ball over by himself towards the end - he thought he was pretty cool!

"Molly" - urgh...Holly (they misspelled her name on the screen) and the girls

They didn't have small enough bowling shoes for Aiden so he got to wear his boots. 

We also got to have Emri & Katie over for a play date. They all dressed up, even Aiden, who is wearing MY heels

Cute girls!

We hiked Grandeur Peak with our friends from our ward.  It was a BLAST!! I want to do it more often!!

As we got to the top, the snow got deeper and deeper and slippery-er. Jamie was a champ, carrying Scarlet on his back! Good thing it wasn't one of the rest of us, we were slipping all over the place! 

We made it to the top!! Beautiful views of Salt Lake

The last hill to the top was pretty steep and the snow was even more slippery since the sun was out. Lucy or Jennie decided it was just easier to slide down. Here's Tiffany sliding down behind me. It was SO fun, we were all cracking up. 

Hey! You guys are packing down the snow making it even MORE slippery!

The guys

The girls...proud of our SOAKING WET BUTTS!!

One of the BEST things we did this spring was buy a season pass to the Aquarium. The kids LOVE to go and we love that some of our friends have passes too. Like Lincoln & Tricia. Look at these cute little penguins! 

Wheeler Farm is another fun place to meet up and have a play date. 

Here's Kelsey imitating the duck

Coloring/writing with Mollie

Mollie, Lincoln & Kelsey "riding" the "horse"

We are LOVING being out in the SUNSHINE!! Can you tell?