June Was a Month of Beginnings and Ends

This was Hazel at the beginning

of her first year in pre-school 

(sept 2012)

and here she is 

at the end.

June was the beginning of consistently warm weather 

which marked the beginning of our garden,

lots of time spent in the water,

sunglass wearing,

and an endless amount of popsicles. 

The beginning of June was the Utah Valley Half Marathon,

which (thankfully) was the end of training

and thanks to an amazing sister-in-law who kept our running on pace,

we ended our run in less than 2 hours.

1:58 to be exact!

Boo-yeah

June 18 marked the end of my mom's 50's

(sorry to out you mom!)

 which we celebrated with the best 60th birthday party 

(in July, 

so I won't be blogging about it 

until next month's posts)

June was the end of bottles

(goodbye baby),

 and the beginning of walking

(hello toddler).

June also began a great tradition

of Monday night's 

spent up the canyon 

with, lots of dirt, lots of food and friends.

And finally,

June 23 

ended my baby's first year