Thanksgiving festivities

The morning of Thanksgiving my family and I were going to run a 5k but all of them backed out last min so I decided to run all by my lonesome. It was actually kind of nice to run by myself. Anyways, after the race I went home and got ready, got the kids ready and headed to my parents house. Aaron stayed behind to get a little study time in. We all helped in the kitchen and ate our feast around 2. Aaron got there just in time to grub. After we were stuffed ourselves we just hung out and enjoyed each others company. Later that night, the boys played basketball and the girls went to walmart. Ummm... I will never do that again. It was insane. Sadly these were the only pictures I got that day.

Friday I died Whitney's hair red!

On Friday night we went bowling as a family and had so much fun. Of course with my family we had to make it a competition so the teams were Me, my dad, Aaron, Lincoln and Ezra. The other team was Eric, Whitney, my mom and Scott. Good times, good times even though my team lost:)

Halloween

We went to our ward carnival Halloween night and played some games, ate some chili and trunk or treated.
Then ended at the Kiefer's home. Good times were had and then we came home to poor little Lincoln having a really high fever. He was a champ though.Oh and me and my girls at school were the taco bell sauce packets. We are awesome:)

Feelin crafty?

Thanks to my friend Jamie and also pinterest I have done a few crafty things the last month. I'm so proud of myself because I really struggle when it comes to that department. Here's what I did:)

Candy Corn Wreath and...

Hand and foot ghost. Thanks to my little kiddos for lending such cute hand and feet:)

Another year

So, I stole this idea off my friends blog. Thanks Alison:) These pictures are of the 1st day of school and I interviewed each kid and I plan on doing the same interview every year. I think it will be fun to look back on.

1st day of Preschool

what's your name: um um Lincoln
how old are you: he held up 3 fingers
what's your favorite color: blue
food: ice cream
animal: dog
song: police car song
show: cars
game: cars 2
what do you want to be when you grow up: bigger than you
what makes you happy: when I'm at the house
what makes you sad: when Ezra hurts me

1st day of 1st gradewhat's your name: Ezra
how old are you: 6
what's your favorite color: green
food: I have lots of favorite foods
animal: I have a couple like a dog, a cheetah and a tiger
song: I have 2. Apologize (One Republic) and Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
show: Power Rangers
game: On the Wii? Wii resorts
What do you want to be when you grow up: I don't know yet
What makes you happy: When I get brand new stuff
What makes you sad: When someone hurts my feelings

Mt. Timpanogos

I really wanted to do a good hike this summer that I've never done. So, we decided to do Timp. We were originally going to do it Aug 1st. Then moved it back a week because there was still to much snow. Then moved back one more week just to be safe. I am SO glad we moved it back two weeks. There was a lot of snow we had to hike through and running shoes don't have the best traction. Even with the snow we had a great time. 18 miles of pure beauty!

Pictures throughout the hike oh most these pics come from my very talented brother in-law:) You can tell the ones that came from my phone

On the saddle (freezing)

At the top

Aaron's family has done this hike a few times and every time they do, they slide down a glacier. Sounds fun, yeah? Well, everyone was wearing jeans except myself so I literally flew on some parts because I was going so fast. Needless to say, I don't think I will be doing that part again. My tailbone still hates me.

After that glacier beat me up, I was a little nervous on the parts of the trail that still had snow on it. On one part I was going really slow across the snow because if you fall well then you slide off the mountain. Okay, not at that part exactly but still. Anyways, Aaron was walking behind me and asked me how I was doing. I said "I'm good. This snow just makes me really nervous. I don't know why but it scares me." Literally two seconds after I said that I lose my footing and there I go sliding down the mountain. My wonderful husband grabbed my backpack and tried catching my fall but instead I take him down with me. Honestly, we weren't in any real danger because there was no cliff at the end or anything like that but it scared the shiz out of me. It was intense. The trail looked like this with the snow.More beauty

I'm so glad we were able to hike this beast. I love trying something new:)

Lincoln turns 3!

This year Lincoln's birthday was on a Sunday so we kept it real low key and just had my family over for dinner. It was nice to not plan a big event for his birthday. Sometimes I feel like it's better than going all out. Maybe that's just me but anyways, we had dinner, ate cupcakes and opened gifts. Oh how I love Lincoln! He is such an easy kid. Honestly, if Heavenly Father told me the rest of my kids were going to be this easy, I would have ten. Oh did I mention he pretty much potty trained himself. Yeah, I don't know how we got so lucky. He is funny, sweet, smart and horribly shy:) We went to my friends reception a couple weeks ago and he was so shy that he put himself to sleep. It was hilarious! I couldn't imagine my life without him.

Harry Potter

The last movie came and gone. I have been going to Harry Potter movies on opening night for almost a decade now. It's no secret that I am a Harry Potter nerd. I will be one of those weirdos going to Harry Potter conventions in 20 years. Yep, that's right. Anyways, it was fantastic. I loved it. I might be a little sad that I was never accepted to Hogwarts;) Good times were had.

Six years ago...

...this was Ezra

And this is him today!

We celebrated his birthday a couple weeks ago by going to Chuck E Cheeses. He had been talking about it for months. He wanted a cowboy theme. This is what he told me "I want a REAL cowboy theme not Woody from Toy Story!" So funny! Anyways, I think he had a great time!

We also had a celebration at my parents and of course he was spoiled:)