July 4th Weekend

We had a really fun 3 day weekend. This is kind of a long post but here are some highlights from our weekend. My mom bought Bryce this hat that says "Future Mr. President" while she was in Washington D.C. I thought Independence Day would be an appropriate day to wear it. If presidents were chosen on cuteness, Bryce would definitely have a shot.
Tyler helped me in the yard a lot on Saturday. I really like doing yard work and working in the garden. Tyler's learning a lot about "being nice" to the plants too. He's always very careful and says he's feeding the plants by giving each one a shovel full of dirt near the base. We planted tomatoes, squash, zuccini, green peppers, strawberries, and a pumpkin plant thats getting huge!
Saturday night we had a BBQ with Andy's siblings and the cousins. It was fun to have the kids run around in the sprinkler.
Shelly made rootbeer floats for dessert. Bryce got a hold of Ben's when we weren't looking and decided that not only did it taste good, it would make a good lotion for his legs. Its hard to tell in the photo but he'd smeared it all over his legs.
The kids loved it when the jets flew over the house really low in formation at the start of the Stadium of Fire show, another great July 4th tradition. Andy and I brought the boys out in the road after everyone left to watch the fireworks at the Stadium. Tyler had lots of questions about how fireworks work, and Bryce kept pointing and saying "ooo!"
On Monday morning, Shelly and I ran the Freedom Run 10K. I hadn't run it since Tyler was a baby. I've been really proud of myself for getting back in shape and wanted to run in some races this summer. Shelly just had a baby two months ago but ran it too and still finished ahead of me! I pushed myself more on the last 3 miles and tried to stay between a 8:30 and 9 min mile pace which is really good for me. I'm excited to run another one soon.

Monday night we had some friends over for dinner too and took the kids over to our favorite spot in Stonegate near the Provo river where they love to throw rocks in. Even Bryce can throw the little rocks too (when he's not trying to eat them). He puts both hands up above his head and with a look of real intensity yells "Da!" and throws his rock. Its really cute.