Thea's team for girls on the run

Hopfully I will have time to update next week we have been so busy and enjoying this wonderful time of year!

Girls on the Run!!

Thea has been doing Girls on the Run. This is a program that helps the girls train for a 5k and have lessons about different charter traits that are good to have. Thea has loved it and is so it is over. Last weekend she did her 5K. Corey ran with her. They had so much fun and did great. Corey ran Theas pace her time was 52:11!

 Pink hair getting ready to run

 Thea and one of the girls on her team

 Waiting for the race to start with some hot cocoa

 Anna having some cocoa and not loving being the baby pack and being so cold

 Thea's Team

at the start just about time to run

 Seeing Santa while waiting for Thea and Daddy

 Run THEA RUN!!!

 Right after the race they did great and had so much fun!!

 Thea and her coaches

 Showing Santa her Medal

Race day

Thea is off running her 5k!

Super student

Donovan got this super star student award for having his homework always done and turned in on time every week so far this year! He is very proud of him self just as we are!

30 days of Thanks

For the last few years I have done 30 of Thankfulness on Facebook. And this year I thought I would share them on the blog for my family to see and for me to be able to come back and look at, so about one a week I will add what I have been thankful for each day.

Things I am Grateful for

• living in a time with such amazing technology that lets me keep in touch with all my family and friends no matter the detents
• Saturdays that my wonderful husband has them off to spend time together and with our kids
• Baby's that sleep in for an extra hour
• General conference talks so when I am home from church with sick babys that I can still be spiritually feed lifted and I hear from our prophet
• having a warm house. As much as I loved our wood stove and having a warm fire and the smell of a good wood fire. I am so glad that we have a heater and don't have to cut, hall or start a fire each day to be warm
• For the amazing friends I have made this last year. Wonderful women who get my crazy and make me laugh till it hurts are there when I need to cry or need a shoulder! Trisha McGary Liz Steiner and Jezi George my girls are all amazing
• For Corey's job, that he works so hard and so many hours to support our family. I am so very blessed that he is willing and able to work so that I can have the gift of staying home with our 4 crazy kid!

Happy Halloween!!!

Happy Halloween! I love Halloween it's so fun to get the costums made and see what our family is going to be, dressing up, and gong trick or treating. This year Thea asked to be a Indian so I jumped on that. I thought the boy and Corey would be Cow boys and the girls could be Indians, but when Donovan saw a picure of and indian boy with a head dress he was set on that.

Logan is a cow boy. He wants to be a farmer every day and being a cow boy was heaven for him. My mom had a leather vest and the start of leather chaps that her borther had as a kid. I so Logan and I fitted them and then he helped me sew them. He loves loves loves it and I'm sure he will live in it for the next few weeks.

 Luckly we had a boy Indian coustum that my Grandma Geroge made for one of her boys and had passed on to my mom who passed it on to me. It fit him just right and he loved it one night h was a mountan man and the next he was an Indian.

 

 

 Mine Thea and Anna's costom I made and all trunded out really cute. Thea Loves hers and really love having a fether in her hair.

 Getting ready to go trick or treating

 Anna my little Indian Princess

 

 Anna's dress is by far my favroit. and she loves to spin around in it and watch it twrell around her

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weekend Plans

 This weekend like most weekends was a busy one. I was up at 6 with the kids, darn Anna wakes up at 6 am every day even weekend, she doesn't' know that weekends are for sleeping in. The kids and I did some early morning cleaning and had cold cereal, which is for Sat only at our house the kids love the treat and I love not having to cook for one day in the morning. at 10 our baby sitter came over and Corey and I left to go mini van shopping. I loved my big SUV but it was time to triad it in for a van with better mpg. I took us 5 hours to find and get a van. it's nice enough for a van not my favorite car but it will work for out family. We spent a small fortune on our great babysitter, but it was worth it not to have to drag the kids with us for 5 hours. Then we took the kids in our new van, that they love and think is so cool, to go to the pumpkin patch. We had lots of fun finding pumpkins Thea got the smallest one she could find while the boys found the biggest ones they could carry. I found a cute blue one and hopefully tonight we can carve them up.