Our Exciting Week

So we've had quite the eventful week. Ryan had his first week back to school, and we all miss him at home, it was so fun having him all to ourselves for the summer.
Tyson got tubes in his ears on Friday, and he is doing really well, he was fussy for like an hour and then he was up running around the house like a maniac, so I don't think he was too affected by the whole thing.
Bailee had another bladder infection, so the Doctor said we have to watch her and we may possibly have to do some testing(that doesn't sound fun) to test her kidneys, but we'll see.
She has been so fun and so full of DRAMA. Last week she was upset with her friend Hika,(I'm not sure why) so she went and sat in her room for about 15 minutes, while Hika went and played by herself in the frount room, she then came out of her room and said "Hika I think we need to talk about this." Hika was like no I just want to play, and Bailee said "I want to talk about why I am mad at you." I'm not sure why she was mad but she finally just said can we be friends and they made up. I Just thought it was so funny that Bailee thought they needed to "talk". She's such a little teenager. I'm scared for those years.
She's been so excited about her birthday party. We're going to have an art theme, I have also been so excited, it's the perfect time to do an art theme, Walmart had a 24 pack of crayons on sale for 10 cents and there elmers glue was 9 cents. So I got 20 packs of each and it only cost me $4.00. Then there markers were only 25 cents. I was so excited. So were going to have a bunch of different stations and let the kids rotate. We'll have a playdough table, a painting table, a face making table, and a cupcake making table. I'm excited. (probably more than Bailee is.)
I think Tyson is just my sweet little boy, he loves giving hugs and telling everyone he loves them. He's so polite. He's always saying sorry to everyone, and saying thank you. It's so sweet. I bought him a little potty today, not that I am full on going to try and train him but he always tells me when he is going to go number 2, but he's afraid of the toilet, so I thought I'd let him practice sitting on the little one. I'm sure Bailee will have a few tries on it before Tyson will give it a try, she can't waite for him to use it.
Ryan and I are still running like mad. If any of you have talked to me in the past 3 days, I know I've blurted out that I ran my 20 miles for the marathon. I was so excited about it, it was a real milestone for me, I did it in 3 hours and 35 minutes, which I was happy about If I can keep that pace my marathon time will be about 4hours and 40 minutes, which is perfect, I just wanted to be under 5 hours. Ryan has already done like 3 20 milers, he should do well on the marathon, he has been training hard.
We are so excited to come to Utah and run, Ryan's visit will be short he'll come, run the race on the 7th and then fly home. I'll be there for about 2 weeks and then my parents will help me drive home (since I have no sense of direction and could never do it by myself) also I will be glad for them to see where we live.
Anyways that's our exciting lives. We love you all and hope all is well.
Love Ryan, Katie, Bailee, and Tyson

Kitchen Redo

Well here are the pictures of our redone kitchen. Nothing was actually redone, it was just painted to add a splash of color. You can see the before and after. Well not much has happened since out last post. We have been having fun swimming and being together since Ryan doesn't have to study yet and is only working at night. Bailee is turning into quite the fish. She and her friend Hika swim almost everyday and have so much fun. Hika is a real good swimmer and has made Bailee really brave. Bailee can swim across the whole pool and is quite a good swimmer. She still hasn't figured out how to come up for air but once she does that she is good to go. That is her under the water in the picture. Tyson is a little swim bug also. He loves to blow bubbles and put his face in the water. He has jumped in a couple of times but still has to work up the courage to do that. This past weekend we went to Lake Couer D'Alene with some friends in our ward who have a cabin on the lake and a couple of boats. It was a ton of fun. The kids loved swimming and Ryan and I wakeboarded. We had a blast. Bailee almost had the guts to try and ski but was just a little leary. Our friends had a little board that the kids stand on and hold onto a rope that is pulled behind the boat. There was a little two year old that skied all by herself. Maybe we can get Bailee to it next time. Well I guess that is it. See you later.