Seriously!!!

OK, so no kidding, 5 minutes after we posted the other blogs of the crazy ways our kids sleep, we went down stairs to check on them and this is what we found. Bailee was just about falling out of her bed dead asleep. Luckily, she has this little basket filled with books and toys and she had her little unicorn to rest her head on. It's a good thing we check on them before we go to bed.

7 Years Strong!!

well we had quiet the eventful week this week (at least for us) Ryan started school. he has such a busy schedule this year, we're hoping we'll still get to see him. He's working more consistently at his job now, and his classes are all night classes. so he leaves at 9:00 every morning and gets home at about 8:30 every night.
Me and the kids keep busy by going to the park and lake, and by me scrap booking while they play house and color.
Ryan and I had our 7th anniversary on Thursday, I can't believe it's been 7 years. it has gone by so fast, and I must say I am so glad to see how far we've come and how much we've grown together. so anyways, we got a baby sitter and went out to dinner, it was great.


so anyways here's a picture to show the progress of my pregnancy, I' m now 28 weeks. okay, so I'm just going to rant about my weight gain once and then I'll leave it alone. I was at Target and the lady who worked there says " you look like your about ready to pop , you must be due like any day? (no lady, I've got a good 3 months to go, but thanks. ) F.Y.I. it is not okay to comment on a pregnant womans size!!!! I can say that I am huge, but you can't. you can NOT say you are looking huge, you can say your belly is looking cute, that is okay! !! and NEVER assume someone is further along than they are. so yes I look like I'm 9 and1/2 months pregnant but don't worry I'm not. okay so I will to try not to make any more pregnancy rants in my blog but that's a hard goal to keep. we went to Coeur d'Alene again this weekend, it is so fun there, I love it. I wish you could all come visit us in the summer, there are so many cool places to go and visit, and there all within a 20 minute drive. the fall is really pretty to, there are so many trees and the leaves are so pretty. the winter is cool as well and the spring (hint hint) come and see us any time.
the kids have such a blast at the beach. they love to play in the sand and make castles.
here's Tyson and daddy showing there strong muscles. Tyson has so much fun playing with Ryan in the lake, he loves him to throw him up in the air. he has turned into such a little fish this summer. he loves the water.




I wanted to tell you one more funny thing that happened this week. (well funny if your not the mom) so it was about 6:00 at night (which is when I'm right out of patience) and Ryan was still at school. so anyways I gave the kids dinner and then started to straighten up the house, ( I hear them in the kitchen just laughing there heads off, in one of their crazy hyper moods) so I go into the kitchen and find soup EVERYWHERE on their heads, all over their clothes, all over the table, and all over the floor. so I lost it and got mad at them. you would have thought I was the funniest person in the world (to the kids) I obviously have no authority with them. Bailee just looks at Tyson and says "Tyson listen to how funny mom is, she's snapping at us."
if Ryan just raises his voice at them they're in tears. it was so depressing. they usually listen a little better than that, but I think this is going to make for a long semester in school. we'll see.

well I have to say I miss being the family blogger, it's kind-of therapeutic, so I am going to try and up-date a little more often (more than once every 6 months.) I love you all and hope all is well. love Katie

More Sleeping Kids!!!

Well as promised I am posting some more pictures of the crazy way our kids sleep, and the amount of drool that Tyson produces. This is a only a small-medium amount. A couple of times he has practically soaked the pillow. I love the one of Bailee facing the wrong way with her feet on the pillow. If you look close her fingers are practically up her nose, so I of course had to zoom in on that one. I'm diggin' that shiny purple pillow too, I might just have to sneak that up to my room soon.

Sad news in blogging world, this is going to be my final production. I have noticed that I am the only dude that writes on these family blogs, so it is going to end. Hopefully Katie can keep up on it. That's the only reason I was doing it, as she would always put if off until if was too late to post the pictures. So as Michael Scott would say...Good Night, and Good Luck. Seacrest OUT!! (My words)

Ty's New Way to Sleep

So I just wanted to put some funny pictures of Ty up...I guess they wouldn't be funny if he suffocates himself, but he has decided that he likes to fall asleep wrapped up as a mummy in his blanket. I'm not sure what made him think that this would be fun but I had to roll him over like 4 times to get him unwrapped after I took the pictures. This was like the third time in a week that he was totally wrapped up in his blanket and sound asleep. I swear when I'm not trying out some wacked out form of child behavior modification, he just does it all on his own. Hopefully, he won't be doing it anymore. He has also turned into a drooling machine...I haven't got a picture yet, but when I go to check on him before I go to bed his is practically swimming in a pool of drool. It is nasty, but funny. His pillow is soaked and sometimes it looks like he's peed the bed. Anyway, hopefully I can get a picture of that soon and I will post it.

LAKE COEUR D'ALENE

Here are some pictures of a little trip we took to Coeur D'Alene, Idaho to go to the lake. The kids had a real fun time. We went with the Fischers who are friends of ours here in Spokane. Bailee and Ty had so much fun in the sand and water. It was a beautiful day and the water was great. It is only about 25 minutes from our home and we've been a few times but I think this is the first time we have taken the camera. There is a huge sandy beach and right behind the beach is a huge park with a massive playground that the kids love to play on. Most of the beaches around the lake are private and there are some MASSIVE houses right on the lake with their own private docks. It is really nice. Almost like a Park City, but on a lake, so I guess more like Lake Tahoe. But either way it is sweet.

The beach that we go to is one of the only public beaches and it is right next to The Coeur D'Alene which is a huge resort with a real nice hotel, boat rides, plane rides and all sorts of other cool things. They are probably most famous for one of their golf course holes. It is a par 3 with a floating green. You have to be taken out by boat to putt. I have never played there but I hope to someday. The green fees are like $300 for 18 holes so just a bit out of our price range. Anyway, enjoy the pictures we are going to try and go again this week since next Monday I start school. Only 1 more year to go!!! Graduation is May 10th but I'm not eager to finish.Bailee the supermodel...And here we have Bailee sporting a $4.99 one-piece from Old Navy, the cooler is from Target and can hold all kinds of Drinks and ice...I think I will send this to Sports Illustrated.

Bailee the Sand Mermaid!

Attempting to build a sand castle

More sand castle building

The Sort-of Muscle Men!

Ty made his own sand castles for about an hour straight he loved it and did a good job too.

SWIMMING NIGHT

Well here are some pictures of Bailee and Ty from Family night. We have some neighbors that let us go to their pool and the kids had a blast. Ty just swims around in his life jacket and just loves it. He will just kick around the pool for hours. He also had never gone off of the diving board by himself before but he just got out of the pool and walked over to it and jumped off without any coaxing. He loved it. After that there was not stopping him. He went from the pool to the ladder to the diving board over and over and over for like an hour. Later he whipped out the goggles and would swim with his head in the water and thought it was so fun.

Bailee is an excellent swimmer. She can do a front flip off the diving board and can swim all by herself. He is getting really good at swimming on her back and can keep her head up out of the water to get some air after swimming for a bit. Anyway, it was a fun time. We are heading back to Spokane after a fun summer in Utah so our next post will be from home!!!!

Family Kickball Night

Well here are some pictures of a family kickball night that we had this week. It was a lot of fun and the kids loved it. Bailee and Ty just loved to run the bases. They would kick it like 5 feet and then just run. Most of the time it wasn't to first base but towards second or third. We had to put people at the base they were supposed to run to and tell them to run towards that person. Tyson was a running machine. He was so funny when he ran because he has these little legs and tries to run so fast and then he's looking all over the place and looking to see if there is someone chasing him. He ate it hard about 5 times. He would look over his shoulder and when he turned around he would get tangled up and just go head first to the ground. His legs would then flip over and almost touch his head. It was quite funny to watch but only because he thought it was funny too. I've also loaded a picture of Ty running, but not falling. I didn't capture that on video.

I rule Dad!!!

I am the Man!!!

Way to Kick Bailee...Nice Form!!

OK, So this picture has nothing to do with Kickball...but I went running 16 miles this morning and I didn't wake up until 8:30 because there were no kids to wake me up early (Katie and the kids are in Colorado visiting her aunt) But by the time I left it was already 80 degrees and when I got back it was almost 90 degrees. Anyway, this is a picture of my sweat stained shorts it was a scorcher. So just more nasty pictures of me running.

Canyon to Canyon 1/2 Marathon

Here are some pictures of a Half-Marathon that I ran yesterday with my Mom and Dad. The race started at East Canyon which is almost directly east of Jeremy Ranch which is up Parley's Canyon. It was an out and back course up in the mountains. The first and last mile were on the road but the rest of the race was on "trail." It was actually just a dirt road but it was bumpy and rocky. I was pretty happy with my race. I ended up taking 2nd Overall in a time of 1:22:02. I was in the lead until about mile 10 and got passed by another guy and he beat my by about 1.5 minutes. It was kind of a slow race because it was up at about 6500 feet and very hilly. It was described as "rolling hills" but there were quite a few steep and tough hills and it seemed like they never ended. The race had an official photographer taking pictures of all the runners. Usually you have to buy these pictures and they are like 20 bucks for an 8x10 but this was the last race that he was ever going to shoot so he said that he would put them on his website and we could download them for free so that's where I got the pictures of me running, otherwise I would have had nothing. So lucky you for reading this because you get to see some dirty, sweaty pictures of me. Enjoy!

Bullock Family 1/2 Marathoners...Dad (1:53:59) , Mom (2:04:22), Me (1:22:02)

And down the stretch he comes...actually this was only about mile 2

Floating like a gazelle (I hate floater pictures)

POSER

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TY!!!

Well yesterday was Tyson's 3rd Birthday. He was excited to have a big "Shrek" Birthday Party. He didn't notice at all that the only thing remotely Shrek about the party was the birthday cake but he was thrilled. it was so random that he even wanted a "Shrek" party, he kept asking for it, and I don't even think he's that into "Shrek." Katie put together a nice little swim party. There was a little pool, a slip and slide, and all the kids got buckets filled with water balloons. The slip and slide was a huge hit and even after the party ended Bailee and Ty were playing outside all day long. They had Hot Dogs (Ty's favorite food), Cake, Drinks and Watermelon. Ty invited his cousins and some friends from here in Utah. Ty is now a "big boy" also because he is now 3 and has been potty trained for about a month and half now...finally. ( I think we'll wait until all of our kids are 3 to potty train them, I can't believe how easy it was with him) Happy Birthday Ty!!!!




Tyson really enjoyed the Cupcake Cake as you can tell. I think he ate like 4 Cupcakes.



Here is a nice Picture of the Cake



Opening some of his presents.



A few more presents...this one is bigger than him.




playing hot potato (or who can pop the water balloon the fastest.)

Family Night Mountain Excursion

I meant to post these pictures a couple of weeks ago but I couldn't get them to upload to the blog, but it worked tonight so here are some more pics to enjoy.

We went up to the Tanner's Flat campground in Little Cottonwood Canyon just below Snowbird and Alta to roast marshmallows and hot dogs with the kids. They love the outdoors and have been begging me to take them fishing so I guess that is next on our list of things to do.

We had a ton of fun. My favorite pics are the ones of Ty eating his marshmallow. He didn't want to roast it, but he wanted to put it on the stick just like everyone else. He put his marshmallow on this stick and just started eating away. He got stuck by the point a couple of times but just kept on eating. He loved it.

Bailee, as you can see from the pics, was sitting like a little princess eating her dinner....all proper with her legs crossed. She even had the crown to go with it. We went on a little hike down to the river and threw some rocks in and watch the rapids.

We had a little visitor squirrel that was interested in our food. The thing was huge. I think it had eaten one too many hot dogs. It looked like a Cat...it was nasty we would just throw it food and he would take it. Anyway, it was a lot of fun.

4th of July Fun

Well here are some pictures from of 4th of July activities. We obviously didn't get many pictures because all we have are some pictures of some sparklers. We are such fun parents. Bailee and Ty had a lot of fun and really like the show. We went to Riverton Park later in the night to watch some real fireworks and the kids loved it. Ty doesn't really like the noises so he just sit and puts his hands over his ears the whole time, but he seems to like watching.

I got a tee time through work, so my dad, two brothers and I went golfing at Thanksgiving Point. It was a lot of fun and HOT!! Good thing for me I won...of course...I shot a 43 on the front nine. We got about 4 holes into the back nine and were waiting like 10 minutes on each hole just to tee off, so we drove ahead because we had to get home for a BBQ. Of course we get to the 17th hole and see these moron golfers hitting from the Blacks, like they are pros or something. They were holding up everyone on the course and they couldn't even play. Anyway, it was a lot of fun.