Jamie lost a tooth

Yay!!! The tooth fairy came to our house last night to pick up Jamie's first tooth.

Colby's half marathon

I just want to say how proud I am of Colby. He ran his first half marathon on Saturday the 8th of August. He had to wake up around 3:00am in the morning so that he could make it to Provo and on the bus that takes you to the top of the canyon for the race. The race started about 7:00am. Thanks to Ron and Nancy I was able to see him at the end. Ron and Nancy picked the girls and me up at 7:00am, just in time to see Colby running to the finish. He ran 13 miles in 1:59:36. Just under two hours. Great job Honey, you did awesome. Hopefully next time I can say that I got to run too.


Yay Daddy!! We were SO surprised to see him looking so good. I thought he'd have to drag himself across the finish. Nope, he proved me wrong. He said the only bad part is that he was keeping pace with a bunch of girls. I'm sure he liked that more then he was putting on though. lol. He only walked once and that was to grab a drink of water at one of the watering stations.


His brother Zach instigated the whole thing. He talked Colby and their friend Jess into running with them. Poor Jess wore his soccer shoes with no padding and felt like his feet were broken. Zach and Colby went back to find him and jogged with him to the finish line. Good job boys!


Camrie showing how fast she can run.


Jamie showing how fast she can run. The girls both had a good time, and were able to just run around and play on the grass while we waited. They were so excited and cheered for Colby when he passed by.

Going to the beach

I took the girls to one of the beaches that are in Daybreak, thanks to Aunt Kristie who told us all about it and went with us with her kids. Jamie has been asking to go to the beach for um lets see probably about three years now. Whenever she'd say she wanted to go to the beach I always thought it would be forever before we could go to California or something like that, but this little beach was perfect. There was a lot of people at first, but I still didn't think it was too crowded, but the longer we stayed the emptier it got. We almost had the beach to ourselves for about an hour. It was so fun and the girls just loved it.

RODEO

We went to the Tooele Rodeo on the 4th of July, it's kind of becoming a tradition, and had a BLAST. Ron signed Jamie up for the Mutton Bust for us and it was hilarious. She won third place and was given a check of $27.50. Woo Hoo! She's been wanting to ride a sheep for like the last three years and she was finally able to this year and she just loved it. We asked her what she thought about it and she said it was fun and she wanted to do it again. She also said she liked how soft the sheep's wool was, and she lost her hat. When Jamie was done with her great ride and the whole crowd was cheering Grandpa said he was as high as a kite. lol. I think we all were. It was great. The girls had a lot of fun, and we got to see some great fireworks afterward. We'll have to get Camrie on a sheep next. She won't stop asking now that Jamie's done it.
This picture is Colby and Jamie on their way to the sheep pens.Colby and Jamie are waiting for her turn. There in the middle. Jamie with her white cowboy hat and pink shirt, Colby with his black hat and blue shirt.Sharing a slushy with way to much juice. Better too much then not enough though. Thanks Nancy for taking a pic of Colby and me. I had to post this picture. I thought it was cute, even though she was sad. lol. We didn't want her running on the sidewalk with all the people walking on it, so she sat down.Ron and Nancy ran into someone in their ward and her Grandson was in the mutton bust too. After she walked away Grandpa said, "you just have to beat him". lol. He was just teasing of course, but it was funny. Even funnier is that he's the boy that's up right before Jamie. That's my girl. I didn't film it that great, so I'll post Nancy's video too, she actually kept Jamie in the frame, and she's not moving around as much.

Lots a stuff

There's A LOT of things I've been wanting to blog about, I just didn't want to until I got all my pictures onto the computer, and it's taken me awhile to do that. Now there on so here you go.

First - Jamie is doing so good in softball, some days she really loves it and others not so much. I've really gotten some great compliments on how athletic she is, and that's always a joy to hear. Every now and then she hits the ball. She's doing better at not playing in the dirt the whole game, so that's good. We've had to bribe her with a toy from the dollar store though. It makes it that much more fun for her.
Second - Jamie graduated from Pre-school, crazy how time flies. I can't believe I have one girl going into Kindergarten, and my little Camrie starts Pre-school.
Third - Also Jamie. She got bit by something, and it got infected and so her arm swelled up from elbow to wrist. I took pictures of when it was completely swollen, but there not very good, you can't really tell, so I'm just posting the beginning of that fun. We took her to the doctor and they gave her an allergy medicain and that didn't do it, when it kept getting bigger and bigger they gave me an anit-biotic and it started healing right away thank goodness.

Fourth - Daddy (Colby) set up a garden box on the back porch, and that has been his and the girls little project. There having a lot of fun with it. All of our plants are doing really well. Colby let the girls help plant the garden and everything. The girls just love to go out with Colby everyday to water and see how the garden has grown. We've been able to eat some strawberries and rhubarb so far. Also, Daddy had just got done mowing the lawn and needed to take dirt to the back yard for the garden, so the girls got a fun little ride.
Fifth - Grandma Holmes has some dresses made for the girls that turned out so cute and the girls just love them. We let them pick out their favorite fabric and then went to a friend of Nancy's and she made them for us, and did a great job too. Jamie of course picked out leopard print, and Camrie wanted whatever Jamie had. They got to wear them to church on Sunday and they were so excited. We also got a stretchy t-shirt fabric that was pink, brown, and white camo, and they turned out more like pajamas, but there still really cute. The only time I can get them off the girls is when they get dirty and I need to wash them. Thank you Nancy. We love them.
Sixth - Grandma and Grandpa Holmes put a chicken coop in there back yard by the horses, it's all enclosed and the girls just love to hang out in it. We were at their house the other day and I was looking everywhere for them to tell them dinner was ready and sure enough they were out in the chicken coop. I told Nancy it was a great little babysitter. They have a lot of fun with it.
And Last - I like to try new hair do's on the girls, and I wanted to post a couple that turned out cute. Some are really quick and easy and some took me a bit longer.

My baby

Hey everyone, the wait is finally over. We had an ultra sound today and IT'S A BOY! Yay!! We're super excited. I wanted it to be a boy, but in the back of my mind I thought for sure it was going to be a girl, so when I saw him on the ultra sound I was so surprised and so happy. Then I started thinking about it and I was thinking "what am I going to do with a boy, how do you raise a boy?" This is all going to be so new and different. I was raised with all girls, and Mason is really the only boy in the Fail family, and no boys on the Holmes side. I'm going to have to get all new clothes, different colors for everything, it's going to be different having little boy toys around, and what the heck am I going to do with his hair? Do they have boy bows? Just kidding, I would never do that. I hope that he's not going to be too little all his life, although Colby was pretty little and I think he turned out pretty great. Anyway, it's going to be different, but Colby and I are excited about it. It will be great.

Easter and Softball

Easter was a lot of fun this year.

First we got together at Zach and Nae's and colored eggs then hid them in the house because it was to cold outside. Nae made some wonderful roasts, she even made a special crock pot just for me without onions, thanks Nae. I provided the mashed potatoes, and it all turned out really good.

The day before Easter we got together at Rory and Lisa's and colored eggs, then went outside to find them. The funniest part was that one of the kids found a plastic one from last year.

Lisa bought some really good turkey and ham, I made rolls, and Dee brought her famous potato salad. For dessert my mom brought cheese cake. It was all yummy. We let Camrie come out to find eggs early because she's the youngest, and she knew exactly what to do, she busted out the door and ran after all the eggs. It was pretty funny. Next year she'll have to come out with the big kids.

This video is kind of long, but it's cute.

Thanks everyone for all you do.

Jamie started softball this year and she's doing really good. I just love to watch her cause she's so small compared to the rest of the team, they all giggle at how cute she is when she throws the ball or runs the bases in her huge helmet. She just stands out on the field and smiles. She's happy to be involved in something. She gets kind of bored at the practices, but her coach is really good about finding something to entertain her so she's not standing around all practice. Jamie says she starting to really like softball.