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So apparently Sunday was Backwards Sunday. Ryan must have got the memo and forgot to share with me. I have to give him such a hard time for this one. Sunday evening I went to a Fireside. He had the kids, got Kiya into bed and Brekken ready for bed. Good job Ryan! He did however manage to put Brekken's pj's on BACKWARDS. I guess that the funniest part for me is the fact that you can't really mistake the front from the back (see pictures for evidence.) Brekken was so tired that I just left him in his backwards state and put him to bed, then I had to take pictures in the morning when he woke up. TEE HEE! Now every time that Ryan is putting clothes on he hears " Make sure that you put the tag and snaps in the front and the picture on the back."

First Day of "School"

Tuesday brought us a big day!! It was Kiya's first day of Mothers Day Out. We also refer to this as school. She gets to play and learn new things. She was so excited about going and she did great when I dropped her off. She was ready for this new adventure. She likens herself to daddy. "I get to go to school just like daddy to be a dentist." Soo Cute!

All ready for school.

She got a special princess shirt for her first day.

And of course her backpack had to be pink.

She had so much fun at school, and when she got home we put all of her papers in her special school folders. (Nonna don't be surprised if you get copies of these)

Weird and Wonderful

Kiya had her first day of Mothers Day Out Program on Tuesday. It was so weird not having her here. I was able to drop her off then come home and put Brekken down for a real nap. (that means in his crib for longer than an hour) He slept for two hours. He usually gets woken up by Kiya playing. While he was sleeping I was able to scour our master bathroom, which sadly to say is usually the place that gets left behind when we don't have time to clean it all. It was in much need of a clean. It was so nice to be able to get it clean without having to worry about the kids and the cleaning products and all of the wonderful interuptions that mommies usually have. I bet it would have taken me 4-5 hours if I had done it with the kiddos around. Anyway, when Brekken woke up we had some "lunch" and then hung out and played. Nice to have some one on one time. I took some pictures of Brekken playing on the floor and practicing his crawling. He is such a cute little guy, and he is getting so big.

Brekken on Four

Proof that there is hope for us to have Brekken crawl. Kiya skipped crawling and moved from sitting to pulling herself up on furniture and crusing. Brekken does like to pull himself up on furniture and can move around it a little bit but he may just crawl too.

Violated

Have you ever read about people feeling violated after a crime was commited against them. Yeah me too! I always thought "Woo how awful",and "What a terrible thing for them to now feel so vunerable." I guess I never really knew how terrible and awful that would be until last night. I had been up pretty late watching the Closing Ceremonies and working on some games for Kiya. Of course when I was then ready to go to bed Kiya woke up. I helped her get back to sleep and them Brekken woke up. He however didn't want to go back to sleep so nicely. I was up with him for a little over an hour. I finally went to bed about 1:30am only to be awaken by a police officer at our door an hour later. Ryan's car had been broken into, and his wallet gone thru. Thankfully as far as we can tell nothing is missing, but because of online purchasing we still have to worry about the thieves having written down the information needed. Arrg! I didn't get back to sleep until 4:30 this morning. (About an hour after Ryan! It is times like these that I really wish for the ablility to fall asleep easily.) I could not shut my brain off! Sleep finally overwhlemed me but then I woke up at 5:30 when Ryan woke to get ready for school. Thankfully Brekken stayed asleep for all this time and that I was able to get back to sleep shortly after Ryan got up. Sadly Brekken woke at 7:30 this morning. 4 hours of sleep and only 2 of them were consecutive. I immediatley thought about starting the long list of calls that I am now going to have to make to protect us. I was hoping to get some of the most important ones done before Kiya woke up. NO luck. No one was open yet.
It is hard to explain how betrayed and vunerable you feel. We are very thankful however because it could have been much worse. We are also hopeful that if someone tries to use our accounts or idenity that A) we will have taken the necessary steps and precautions to protect ourselves and B)that we will be aware of and be able to stop anything that needs to be.
I am so thankful for my knowledge of the gospel and the knowledge that I have that know matter what happens Our Savior will be with us to help comfort and guide us.
So some advice or a reminder for you all. Weither you park your car outside normally or not. Make sure it is locked. Make sure all your valuables are out of it. Make sure your garage door opener is not in you car. Make sure you lock your garage if you can and make sure to lock the door from your house to your garage. I always lock the doors to the outside but I have gotten out of the practice of locking the garage and the door from the house to the garage. Last night I did lock the door from the house to the garage but not the garage. Ryan had garage opener in his car. If they had wanted to they could have gotten into our Garage. As far as we could tell. They didn't but things like this make you think. Ryan normally parks in the garage so we are out of practice. Hopefully you can gain something from our experience. We have learned.

Riverside 5000

I finally did it. A couple of months ago Ryan and I decided to start running again. Ryan ran his first race about a month ago. I gave myself a little more time. We both ran a 5k this past saturday. Ryan had a goal to improve his time. He did! He ran it in 20:56. There were 454 total runners and he was 125th. He was 116th in the mens out of 282,7th in his age group and 3rd in his weight class. He did awesome. My first goal was to finish, my second was to run the whole time. I did both. Yeah!! I actually did better than I thought I would. I finished with a time of 33:33. I was 422 of 454 runners. 151 of 172 women. I was 9th in my age group. Ryan was able to take a few pictures of my finish. [Dad you would be so proud, I still had a great kick at the end. In fact Ryan was quite surprised. He knew I was a runner before we met, but he has never seen me run. He wants me to help him with his finishes.]

6 Months

Brekken had his 6 month appointment the other day. He was such a good sport. He is 27inches long, and his weight was 17 lbs 14 oz. He is growing so much. He also sits very well and rolls all over the place, but if he had his way he would be standing all the time. He likes to jump up and down when we hold him and in his Johnny Jumper. He will stand up against his taller toys and the couches. He will try to pull himself up whenever he can. He isn't great at it yet but I know that all to soon he will be. Kiya never crawled she went from sitting to crusing furniture to walking solo. I think that Brekken is following in her footsteps.