A Child's Prayer

Brayden, "Heavenly Father, I'm thankful for this day. I'm not thankful I left my bat and ball at Collin's house. Bless the food. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen."

Mom, drop it

After 10 minutes of ignoring Caleb's pleas, I finally went upstairs to see what the heck was going on. He kept telling me he had dropped it. So I started picking up everything that was on the floor that he had dumped out of his bed--blankets, sippy cup, pillow. But he just started crying harder and saying "potty." So I reach up and instead of a diaper, I find something else. Whoops! So I turn on the light and Caleb's diaper and shorts have been thrown half way across the room and he desperately wants to go "potty toilet." Well, nice try, but the diaper and shorts are going back on and if I have to I'll restort to the too-small onesies to keep that diaper on. But hey, I'm glad he's so interested in being potty trained. I really find the whole thing funny, and I wish I could have taken a picture of what I saw when I turned on the light, but I'm told half-naked little boys on the Internet isn't really a good idea.

Firecracker Race

My brother, Jeff, and my sister, Michelle ran a race with me in downtown Seattle on July 3rd. It started at 11:55 pm and we ran into the 4th. I was pretty scared once we got there because the only contenders were cross country runners and I really didn't want to come in last. But by the time the race started there were lots of people of all age groups and I finished 200th out of over a thousand. I was pretty happy with my time: 24:10 with the average mile time as 7:50. Nothing compared to the old days, but I was happy with it. And I felt great the whole time. In the race there was hardly any flat ground, you were either going up or going down, so I thought I'd die on the hills but I felt great. Lots of fun. I would love to do it again next year. Jeff and Michelle did awesome. Jeff finished 15th overall and Michelle was the 7th girl to finish and 75th overall. Yeah for running!