July

Baby Birthday Cake turned 1!!!!
Time sure flies and our petite little guy (17%) has officially been around for a whole year! Watching Spencer and Kade I sometimes think "what took so long to get Kade here?!" They are BEST buddies and I sometimes feel guilty they're so far apart in age, but I try to reassure myself that it's exactly as it was meant to be.

We had a cactus birthday party and invited the Rices and my parents over for tacos and cupcakes. And I made my dad bring his camera and drive over to Wilson Pond to try to get a decent family picture. I thought they turned out great for amateur and free :) Even though Kade was not real happy about pictures on his birthday!

For the 4th of July we headed to Melba to tag-a-long with the Jones'. It was a cool parade even with TONS of people. There was SO much candy given out, popsicles, water ice, it was a fun time even if we had to hoof it a mile both ways with thousands of people!

Later that day we went swimming with cousins at my parents and celebrated Katie's birthday and had Opa do some fireworks with the boys.

My parents worked a lot of JDRF events over the summer to raise money for T1D and the 100 mile bike ride Heaton and my dad were doing in October. A few times while Nate was marathon training, the boys and I went to the events. This is car they were raffling off.

Some friends invited us up to Black Canyon for a day of boating and playing in the lake. We spent a good chunk of the day up there and had a ton of fun!

We made it to Meridian Speedway for a night of car races!

Jourdan and I were pretty consistent runners even though our strollers were getting heavy! We tried to make the big kids ride bikes one day and this is how it turned out after half a mile...

I turned the big 3-0 this year and had my first of many "I'm old!" moments...starting with my first ever migraine!

My friend Brei talked me into volunteering for our ward at the "Dirty Dash" so that we could then "run" it for free. We spent all morning pouring water for the racers and at 2pm it was our turn. It was HARD! I don't think I ran very much of it and I know I slowed Brei down, but it was hilarious and a great memory!