Ammon's Documented and Fun Birthday...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMMON TOA!!! We love you so much! We can't believe you are 4 years old today!!!(Tuesday, July 15) Ammon was born at 2:37 pm on July 15, 2004 and has been a joy to our family ever since! My favorite things about Ammon are: his smile, amazing sense of humor, his eyes and eyelashes, his hugs and the way he gives everyone hugs when he is really excited, his amazing imagination and deep understanding for everything, his awes (R's), his love of sweets, his happy countenance, his inherent testimony of Jesus, his love for his family, his wrestling matches with baby Marrick, and so much more to love about this amazing, fabulous, wonderful Ammon Toa Boy! Alana stuffed Ammon with stuffed animals! Bex and em, remember doing this? :)
Always up for an adventure and a smile!
The sweetest boy ever!
Love you Ammon Toa!
Loves to play with "boy toys"

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Marrick is only 16 months and has mastered the slide! Ammon sure loves to pick on his brother! I am really enjoying the boy thing! (For real) Sorry, I don't know how to flip the movie!

The Johnson and Larsen's come to UTAH!

At the end of June we got to see Ray, Stephanie, Johnnie, Katie and Lizzie Johnson! Then Anna, John and baby mystery Larsen came a day later! Anna was 17 weeks pregnant and we tried to talk her into a mall ultrasound, but no…..

Ray called this the ultimate babysitter! Lexi and Clairie Gomez are also over watching a movie. We love having cousins come!!!!

Uncle John loves baby Marrick and gave him an awesome Mohawk!

Marrick looks completely entertained. Love you Uncle John!

We did fireworks for the Arizona folk who can’t do any legally there. The kids loved it, but Ammon wouldn’t go near them.

We all went to the Bean Museum at BYU in Provo. If anyone has ever visited Grama Annie and Pagah and is under the age of 10, you have bean there :} Aaron refuses to go after about 200 visits with local youth jobs and church callings. But the kids LOVE it! There are all sorts of animals from all over the world! This is the awesome butterfly wall made up of hundreds of little butterflies!They especially loved the big Rhino. Alana kept putting her fingers up it’s nose.We watched the magic school bus bat movie. Stephanie and I kept nodding off.The kids all came over for a sleep over on Friday night. Aaron was on a camp trip with boys in the ward, so I decided to have some fun with the kiddos. We played, watched a movie in the playroom and ate popcorn. Our kinda fun! This is when they all finally fell asleep after 11pm!
There are too many kids in this tub! There are too many elbows to scrub! I just washed a behind that I'm sure wasn't mine! There are too many kids in this tub!!!

Eliza's Wasatch Back Race

Eliza just finished running in the Wasatch Back Relay Race on June 20-21. This is the Craziest race ever, but so fun! It is 181 Miles from Logan Utah to Park City Utah. We had a team of 12 and we finished in 26 hours. Out of 579 teams, THE INCREDIBLES finished 123rd. We were considered a mens team with 5 women and 7 men. I ran 3.5 miles at 7pm, 7 miles at 2:30 am and 6.1 miles at 11:30 am. This is at the start line with Jamie and Jen.This is one of the 2 Incredible's vans! There were 6 people in each van. All of the teams decorated their vans. It was so fun and crazy!At each exchange you would wait for your teammate and then pass on a slap bracelet. GO!Every person you pass is considered a KILL. On one leg, my friend Jared killed 24 people! On one of my legs I killed 15. Yes, this guy is about to be Dead! It was a good way to stay motivated while running!The van would stagger each runner and stop at the 1 mile mark to offer water or anything else they needed. It was really fun to make running such a team sport. This is right after my 7 miler in the dark at 2:30 am. It was my favorite run. I always feel like I am in trouble running in the dark or that I shouldn't be there, but to have an excuse to run in the dark, in the middle of nowhere with a billion stars, getting 15 kills, absolutely AMAZING!This is on the Ragnar leg! Jared on our team ran this 4 mile, 8 percent incline in 46 minutes! The key word is RAN! But it was Beautiful!
THis is part of our team at the end of the race! Go INCREDIBLES!
Aaron and the kids came up to see me at the finish line. Aaron was super daddy for 2 days while I killed my body. He was so sweet and even gave me a good massage when I got home. I slept 11 hours that night after only sleeping about 2 hours the whole trip. Thanks family for letting mom be so crazy sometimes~
If this is interesting, check out this article on the race: http://deseretnews.com/article/1%2C5143%2C700237899%2C00.html

A few days ago, I was in the bathroom, minding my own business when I heard, “Mom, I found this little guy in the back yard, can I keep him?” Oh, the dreaded mother’s words, “Alana, what do you have in the house!!!!” Alana found this little parakeet behind the BBQ in the backyard! Crazy! We went around asking neighbors if anyone knew anything. One of the neighbors gave us a cage! and Grandma Annie got some other much needed things for this poor bird. Thanks Grandma! We had had an awful windstorm the night before and we think she got blown into our yard, poor baby! So, Charlie is now an official new member of the family! Leave it to Alana to rescue an animal! We think it is just a baby.
Ammon with a centipede, Alana with baby Charlie.
I love this picture! What more can you say?
This is our cousin Eme. She is Sacha and Paul Gomez’s 10 month old. She is such a cute thing and just about the same size as Marrick! We were having family night in our back yard and let the kids swim.
This is Marrick with Pagah and Grandma Annie’s bird, Birda.