Thankful

Our Thanksgiving began with a family 5k race. Jim and I both pushed strollers filled with kiddos and still posted a time of 31:29. We could have even been a little faster, but got bottlenecked with other runners when the route turned from road to trail. Between the Color Run and this Give 'n Gobble, Jim loves the idea of continuing to do more family 5ks (muahh ah ha - my plan has worked)!

We spent most of our day and turkey meal with my cousin, Greg's, family. It was great to see Mark and Uncle Jim and Aunt Veda! We had great food, great company and great fun!

 

 

We are thankful for our family, our kids, grandparents, brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts, uncles and friends whom we regard as family. We are thankful for our Heavenly Father's plan of happiness, for our Savior, Jesus Christ, and for the restored Gospel. We are thankful for the ability and opportunity to learn. We are thankful for the ability and opportunity to be active, to play, to run and exercise. We are thankful for our capable provider, for his stable and challenging career, and a great work environment that gives us all that we need and a lot of what we want. I am grateful for the opportunity to be a stay at home mom and be able to spend so much time with my perfect (for me) children while they are young. We are grateful for our Marriage and for the Husband & Wife relationship. We are grateful for eternal families. We are grateful for so many little, ordinary things that happen each day to make up our extraordinary life.

 

Happy Thanksgiving!

Fort Schaffer

 

 

More fall fun

Ouch!

"Ouchie!" This has been one word in Aron's vocabulary he has seemed to master lately.

This road rash is from trying to tricks on a tricycle.

How to cook a turkey:

How do you cook a turkey?

 

Bridger: "Kill the turkey and bring it home! Wash it with water and stuff it with candy. Cook it in a pot or pan for 20 degrees for 25 minutes. Eat it with eggs and toast and green eggs and ham."

 

 

Kacy: "I would catch the turkey with the love in my heart. We could cook it in the oven at this much (arms extended) for 20. I would stuff the turkey with marshmallows and eat it with marshmallows."

 

Yum!



 

Halloween

We had a fun Halloween season... I say season, because with little kids this holiday seems to encompass more than one evening as a celebration.

 Here is another picture of our pumpkins: Bridger - witch, Kacy - cat & Aron - Elmo vampire. Aron really liked removing the Elmo head and hands and putting them on in different locations.

 Kacy LOVES to dress up. This is probably an understatement. Almost everyday I ask her to go get herself dressed, and she comes down as Supergirl, Cinderella, Dorothy, Ariel, Repunzel, Pinkalicious, Aurora, a Fairy, Spy-girl or a ballerina dancer. She feels it is totally appropriate to go to the store, YMCA, preschool or a friend's house in one of her 'outfits'. So, leading up to Halloween, I really had no idea what she would choose the day of when she was actually be told to get dressed in one of her dress-ups. (Flashback to her 3 year old "Pinkalicious" party where she attended as Dorothy from Wizard of OZ - a lovable character, but severely lacking in anything pink.)

 Kacy got fancy for her preschool Halloween party as Cinderella. She dressed and accessorized herself, and I only helped with the sparkly hair. Too cute!

 She even has the pose and "princess walk" down.

 On Halloween night, we had Spiderman come along to keep us safe and Ariel along to sing beautiful melodies door to door.

 Our little Moo Cow

 We did our trick or treating with our friend and neighbor, Scooby-Doo.

 At church we had a trunk-or-treat night, where we had our little cow, a Ninja Warrior and Repunzel make an appearance.

 Back to Halloween night, we had a great time trick or treating in our neighborhood. Jim was an Uber-Runner complete with multiple medals, race bibs and headband.

I tried to not let Aron go to every door (being 1, he is a little slower than our 5 year old Spiderman). However, he ultimatly would do his best to wriggle out of my arms and approach a door and knock all by himself. This kid catches on quickly and has no fear! He would knock on the door, hold out his hand and say "Moo". He actually earned quite the stash of candy on his own.

 After trick-or-treating, before we let the kids dive into their candy they had collected I made sure they ate a 'Halloween Mummy' first. It made me feel a little better if they had some protien in their tummies before all the sugar hit. Bridger especially admired the tiny little eyes I included on each mummy, and of course we all had fun dipping them in 'blood'. :)

Happy Halloween!

Corn Maze & Pumpkin Farm

This year we visited Baggenstos Farm for our pumpkins.

The kids enjoyed the hay maze & corn maze.

They actually navigated pretty well through the big "Romney/Obama" corn maze.

And we picked out some interesting and fun pumpkins to bring home.

As you can see we had beautiful, sunny weather for this outing!