Joy

JOY is teaching your children one of your favorite childhood games and then watching them play it with sheer joy and delight. Tonight I introduced our children to the classic card game of slap jack. They loved it and I loved watching them play it. I played one game til I lost then they took it from there.

11-11-11

Seth turned 6 on 11-11-11

And what a party it was!

ghostly

This is how crafty and sweet my Ma & Pa-in-laws are. They sent the kids a Halloween package with these black plaques, with each child's name in vinyl, and instructions on how to make these hand print ghosts. So cute! What a fun decoration to pull out each year from now. Seth and Trey's are the most hand-print looking.

These boots fit me and I'll be wearing them Saturday night. I'll let you know why soon!

Halloween

It's either post these pictures or trim my toe nails. I need to do both really badly but I can feel Halloween slipping away so I better post these pictures of our adorable children. I really liked our kid's costumes this year. For me there is something about coordinating them, matching them up that adds that special touch. Presenting the two bunnies and two Beybladers: Gingka and Ryuga. Costumes all personally chosen by each child, except Sadie, she just went along for the ride.

Cute face painting compliments of cousin Leah

The Latest

These are our newest family pictures. I love getting family pictures. Not so much having them done as much as seeing them after they are taken and realizing that some of them turned out! What a relief! Truthfully I was the one with the the funny faces and goofy expressions in this batch of pictures. Our photographer was a girl I had never met who was just advertising that she was starting up and would take pictures for cheap. So we gave her a try. I'm very happy with them.

My favorite time

I love when my kitchen is clean. When everything is still and I can relax. That is my favorite time, one of them at least.

This is so old news but I am finally getting around to posting a couple pix of the marathon. And I know it doesn't look like rain or hail or any of that in any of these pictures. All the bad weather happened during the first 20 miles of the race. No one came out to take pictures then. These pictures were taken by my dad and the weather was rather nice mile 20-26. Thanks dad! Nonetheless it is was an awesome experience. I put my heart out there and ran.



Other happenings: We went to the USU homecoming parade.

Canned some peaches. With these helpers the process went twice as fast.

Our girls snuggling.
Just a fun picture
Sadie has started pretending stuffed animals have poop and that they need their buns wiped.

And our most impressive event of the last two weeks: Chicken Pox. I didn't even know they were going around until one evening Samantha was hopping into the bath tub and I noticed 10 spots on her back. The rest is history...It has spread through our children. Girls both had it, then Trey, now Seth. The boys have had major cases. I was at Walmart last night at midnight getting the extra important Calamine lotion. I pray the worst of it is over for Seth.

My creative juices are not flowing tonight. I'm low on sleep and so I'm not sharing these lovely experience as well as I'd like. But I promise another blog post soon.

I can do hard things!
(I really like this motto. It is from Sister Elaine Dalton. It is inspiring. With the Lord's help all things are possible, even the hard things in life)
You can do hard things!

Marathon

You know when you sign up for a Marathon and you worry about all sorts of things and you hope you've trained enough and that your shoes will give you the support you need and you hope you've drank enough to stay hydrated and you hope that you've carbo loaded enough and you wonder how you will feel at mile 8, 10, 16, 19, 21, 24 and then finally at the finish line. Well these were all my thoughts too but I never once thought about the weather.

SATURDAY I RAN 26.2 MILES IN A THUNDERSTORM!!
Complete with Thunder and Lighting, POURING RAIN and HAIL!
IT was amazing and so wet!

I CAN DO HARD THINGS~!

Pictures to follow.

School Days

Makes me Smile

Love this age. Sadie is so much fun. She is talking so much and making us laugh.