This is the stadium where the world cup final was held. I'm here for the biggest rugby game of the year. South Africa vs new Zealand. Sold out crowd of 97,000. I'm on the 10th on the 50 yard line. Very cool.

The story behind the hair

For a while now TP has been telling me I need to cut WB's (Wild Bill) hair. It's an uneven length, and it's super hot and humid here, but I still haven't been able to do it. I was liking the mohawk look. Last week I went to the outdoor marktet and left Will with TP-- TP sitting on the chair, Wild B playing on the carpet. I told him I'd be quick but before I knew it I was gone 45 minutes. Upon my return I walked in with a grin on my face knowing I had taken my time and I said, "You're the greatest :) Thanks :)" He had an equally devlish grin on his face to which he replied, "Don't thank me till you look at Will."

I hit the ground laughing so hard. TP had taken the clippers to Wild B's hair and gave him a buzz. I couldn't believe he actually attempted it himself. I couldn't help but laugh because W. just looks so darn cute. He is so darling and so big. My little baby is growing up so fast.

Did I mention he has four teeth on top, and two below?

Did I mention that he is also walking right now? He tucks his little head into his neck and stretches his arms out wide and takes step after step and then throws himself onto the couch, or me, or the wall...

These past couple days he has been practicing a lot! We got together with our friends last week and I guess he took the lead from the older kids. Without even thinking he was chasing after them.

He loves dancing to Shakira these days. He loves her music videos and he'll bounce his bum. He's taken a liking to Beyonce as well.

Will likes doing this razzing sound with his tongue. We want to teach him different skills, and he catches on quick, as he did with this. Then I realized we might be teaching him to spit, so we started teaching him to click his tongue. He caught onto this well too. Tonight on the couch he was clicking his tongue and grinning at us, and we'd click our tongues back at him, and he'd reply to us, back and forth. He kept grinning and clicking. He is so interactive and loves when he makes people smile.

He also started sticking out his tongue. I'll make silly faces at him to make him laugh, and he stuck his tongue right back at me. It's more of an open-the-mouth-waggle-your-tongue kind of deal. He is so smart.

We just love our little boy.

TP is on a plane to S. Africa for a week. He is excited to eat all the sea food he desires in Capetown, and do a morning run on the beach. He just left and we are already counting down the days till his return.

Random Pics

In Malaysia. I'm not sure who is putting who to bed. . ..

This is how much Will loves his new carseat.

Tay and Ty and the little buddies this summer.

Beautiful sunny day. We discovered a man made beach.

From mohawk. . .
. .to buzz!

Malaysia

I'm in Malaysia right now and the best part is that Will and Jen are with me! We had decided that they weren't going to come here because I was going to be so busy with the conference that they wouldn't hardly see me anyway. But at the last minute I thought it would be fun to have them here so I called up Jen on Tuesday afternoon around 3pm and told her to leave to the airport at 4pm so she could catch the flight that day to come down to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. They got here really late, around 3am by the time they got to the hotel. Some of the other people involved with the conference also brought their families so Jen had some company during the long days that I was working and she was able to make some new friends. I had to work long hours but it was so much fun to come back to the hotel and have my family here! It was great. They also got to come along for some of the activities. Will was the star attraction at the conference. My customers loved playing with him and Will now has new friends from 11 different countries!

The meetings ended yesterday so today we got to take Will and go play a little bit. We went to a shopping mall and had a Cinnibon, awesome, and then went to a little zoo. Tomorrow we will also go play around before heading back to Shanghai on a late night flight. Below are a few pictures from my phone.

These are the twin towers in downtown KL. They were the tallest building in the world from 98-04'. They are 451 meters tall and remain to be the world's tallest twin buildings. Part of the Sean Connery movie, Entrapment, was filmed here.

We had dinner at the top of this building in a revolving restaurant that overlooked the whole city of KL. It was right next to the twin towers so we had an amazing view of the tall buildings.

Here is Will prarie dogging it at the zoo.

Here Will is thinking to himself, "Polly want a cracker?"

Anyone remember the cartoon called Ed Grimley from the 80's? Here is Will's best impression as he sports a great hair do and trying to show his new 6th tooth coming in. It is pretty hot and humid here and his hair has a little bit of curl to it.

Will is so excited to look at some of the animals. We've been reading an animal book with sounds to him recently so it was fun for him to go to the zoo and see the animals in person.

This zoo was just a small zoo. I think tomorrow we might go to the national zoo which is much larger. Hopefully we will get some good pictures.

Singapore

I'm sitting back in the Singapore airport today using their free internet kiosks. I have been to this airport many times, but today I did something different. I actually went outside the airport! Usually this is just where I transfer but today the layover worked out to be about 8 hours so I left all my luggage at the airport and went out to see Singapore. It's a pretty cool place. As the taxi driver told me it's "clean and green". He was right. It is a very clean city and lots of trees everywhere. The trees there are really neat, I haven't seen too many like them before. They would be the perfect trees for building a tree-hut.

I was talking to Jen today and decided that one of the next times I'm tranfering through here that I'll bring her and Will and we will go to Universal Studious and the Zoo. They also have the biggest WWII museam in Asia that I would like to go check out.

My flight to Malaysia boards in a few minutes so I'd better sign off.

UT.

Utah has been great. Our time is now coming to a close. Will has learned so much over the past two months. Thanks to Uncle Adam he can now high five. He can stand on his own, he eats lots of yummy fruits and veggies, and he likes to chit chat in his own little Will way. He loves to eat and will eat whatever is put in front of him, so I take advantage of that and fill his tummy with peas and beans. He doesn't seem to mind at all.

This past week we had a family reunion at Aspen Grove. We weren't so fond of the flu that was passed from the staff to the campers, but Tay and I did have one awesome run.
We've just started running again together. Heavenly. The one person I want to be with the most, doing what we love best.
We woke up and left the baby with grandma. I am so thankful for her.
I slipped on my Nike Lunar trainers...the best running shoe of all time.
And my new orange sports bra and 26.2 black running shorts. I'm feeling fast.
We hit the Stewart Falls trail neighboring Timpanogos Mt. trail, and head out for an easy 4.
Climbing high in the mountains, the dirt clouding over our white shoes as we glide on past groves of Aspen trees and fields of ferns. The view was something so beautiful never seen in Sh. backdrop of Timp, large and monumental.

Moments like these, I can't help but thank my Heavenly Father for this wondrous Earth, and such beauty never before believed. I just cannot help myself but to pray in gratitude, this amazing beauty, with the most amazing husband, feeling so ALIVE, and free! Running is like a drug. All of a sudden endorphins rush through my blood--a jolt through my arms, legs, feet, head. It's the drug that keeps me running. I think it was the Holy Ghost manifesting to me that God is the Supreme creator of Heaven and Earth, that He blesses us with talents such as this so we can know and share with others our true divinity, and I think to myself: This is how God intended us to be--running in the mountains, free, alive, happy, thankful.
I am filled with complete gratitude.
I share my epiphany with Tay, to which he replies

"You pray and then you get a drug high?....
I need to pray more."

I am just so extremely grateful I had that opportunity to run with Tay in the mountains. This was the reason I came to Utah, and I'm thankful for doctors who can tell me to slow down a bit and take in the fresh air, and tell me how to strengthen my body so I can have runs like this one.
I'm thankful for Nike Lunar trainers.
I'm thankful for Heavenly Father and that he knows each of us and allows us to experience joy in life through the talents he blesses us with.

10 yrs.

10 year reunion. Wow. Can't believe it's been 10 years. It was SO much fun to see everyone and catch up. Let me just tell you that it was so great to just enjoy the night and laugh about high school memories. Those who planned the event did such a great job. Great food, awesome turnout, awesome venue, and memorable program. I won the award for the person-who-traveled-the-farthest. Well deserved. I got a small trophy and a round of applause. Can't beat that :) I just love these girls.



Will at the park.





They had already been sharing by the time I caught this video.