Warrior Dash

The beginning of this month I ran a 3.3 Warrior Dash with my sister, and someone in my ward.  IT WAS A BLAST!!!  I haven't done a mud run before, and this was perfect!  Besides getting lost on the way there... we weren't really lost, the phone just switched and took us to the wrong address... so LanaMarie and I ended up running the quarter mile to the check-in tents for our warm up.  Our friend from church had some V1ktor Athletic shirts for us to wear to help advertise for a family member ***Most comfortable THINGS ever!!!***  The race was fairly easy with not too many hills, running through the corn stalk stubs was a little annoying, and the obsticals were a BLAST!!!  I just wish they had more mud ones :)  We really didn't get muddy till the last one.  Will took care of the two boys (give them an apple and they are as happy as can be), and cheered me on.  Will took great pictures from the last few obsticals he could see.  I am defiantly looking forward to doing it next year!  Reminder for next year... keep doing the early wave so you don't have to wait for a TON of people.  No waiting was AMAZING!  Ready for the muddy picture overload?

Quick picture before the race because we didn't know if Will would catch up with be boys before we ran.

Taking a little detour to visit my cheering boys

My two little warriors.  

V1ktor Athletics group

The water was FREEZING!!!  Slide was a blast!

Finished!

Still to this day... 3 weeks later, Brady loves to put on his helmet, and when I wear the Warrior Dash T-shirt Brady talks about Mommy jump fire.  Every other day he asks me to put on my metal (because its a magnet and hangs on the fridge).  He is very proud of his mom... and only a little jealous about me playing in the mud.

Family Trip!--Photo Overload

As you can see we got new family pictures taken!  Thank you so much Aunt Peggy for doing this on the side of everything else that has been going on!  They looked GREAT!!!

We took a family road trip!!!  22hr drive to Arizona!  YAY!!!  And we lived to tell the tale!  Surprisingly, I don't have very many pictures of us in the car...  We left Tuesday afternoon around 4ish, and stopped an hour for dinner.  The boys did great!  It took them forever to go to sleep because the sun sets so late,  but they both actually slept!  Will and I took turns driving.  The boys would wake up every hour or so fussing (they are stomach sleepers), but we could get them calmed down quick they never woke up fully.  We got to Salt Lake at 5:30, and didn't want to wake up his brother, so we slept in the car for an hour or so.  The boys were SO SO SO happy to be on their stomachs!

In Utah, we took naps, and spent time with Wills brother Brian and his family.  Brady LOVED playing with cousins, and Tanner had fun too.  We went to the Tulip Festival, and out to this AWESOME place for ice cream at Thanksgiving Point... sorry don;t remember the name.  

Early the next morning we were off to Arizona!  We stopped by an Uncles on the way, and got in Thursday night.  We loved staying with Wills dad, and visiting with family and friends.  We had a surprise birthday party for my mom, who was down there because my sister had a baby, which was awesome because I got to see even more family then usual.

Brady LOVED all the attention and was the entertainment of everything.  Tanner after the first couple days started having really bad Mommy withdrawls from everyone holding him, and started having multiple meltdowns...we are still trying to get over those.

We were there for 5 days, then drove back home.  We decided to go straight through the night because Brady woke up with the Stomach bug which lead to multiple stops... Driving through the night was totally worth it to NOT have to entertain kids a second day in the car.  Over all the boys did great!  And we were able to catch up on sleep after a few days.

Tanner started crawling 2 weeks ago, and started walking with one hand this week.  Brady wants to do everything by himself without help... so He is teaching me more patience... I thought I already had enough.  Apparently not.  We are loving the outdoors and going on bike rides with the new bike trailer I got.

More Busy bags!

So... back to the busy bags.  Brady loves playing with them!  Along with the play date I've been working on at ton that I liked too.  Then at the bottom are some AMAZING $1 store finds that have worked well with quite time too.

Shadow puppets with Flashlight from Harbor Freight and card stock...
I did put them on Popsicle sticks, after I took the picture

Legos!  Works with colors, patterns, and building.  Brady doesn't get the
 patterns yet, but he likes to match the colors.

Popsicle stick puzzles.  I used 6 fat ones, and did a shape on each side.
Brady LOVES carrying them around and working with shapes.

Snake Button with felt squares

Found this on a blog... 6 different animals with 3 body pieces.  It's fun to make "silly" animals,
and the magnets help keep them in place better.

Button color sorting

I bought a HUGE bag of pom poms from Amazon and I didn't really care for it cuz it didn't have a lot of colors... more tie die.  I decided to put magnets on Popsicle sticks so you can match them or make patterns.

Caterpillar counting... I'm a big fan of putting magnets on them so it's not
frustrating with them rolling everywhere

I took a mini Gerber Baby Food container... Brady LOVES it!  

Just yarn, beads and cardboard... this lasted 15min of an hour car ride.
The other side has 1, 2, 3...10 beads for counting.  

Another print off Pinterest... A-Z cards with color pompom matching and Alphabet.  The picture is B for Balloons.  I put magnets on them so it's easier.  

Popsicle color matching.  Brady loves to eat the popsicles!

Thread the buttons

Paint chip matching and clothes pins

Then some great finds at the dollar store!

I lied... this was $3 target

Stacking, color, numbers... so much fun!  DICE are the BEST THINGS EVER!!! (at least Brady thinks so)

Erasers with magnets attached.  I was going to have him match them , but it also works out to
 just play and make pictures with them.. not sure how he will like it.

Mini Dominos!  another BEST $1 find!  We have done counting, colors, and matching

This is a matching game, shapes, and puzzle on the other side.  for $1!  I love it cuz it's thick cardboard and has handled all of Tanners chewing with no problem!!!

Well, I hope those were some fun ideas!  I am all busy bagged out... lol.  I am excited to see how they work on our long road trip!  I'll let you know!