Thanksgiving!

We are having a fun Thanksgiving Day break. The break started by being cold, 4 degrees, and then the snow came! The kids love it!

Samantha and Parker made a large mount of snow, they will make a fort later.

We headed over to Grandma and Grandpa's for dinner. The kids like to be with their cousins!

Jessica and Safira, who enjoyed the phone when music was playing.



Safira and Eli enjoying play time together.

Zachary enjoyed dancing along with Mary Poppins, the movie that was on.

The sledding began outside! Samantha tried to snowboard!

What a pretty snow angel!




Zachary falling after trying to snowboard.

Parker and Eli on a sled that was being pulled by Kirk on the riding lawn mower.

Parker also had fun riding with Afton.

Thanks to all for the wonderful Thanksgiving dinner!! It was delicious!!

We still have some Thanksgiving Day break left.

Time to get out some Christmas decorations out!

Powderpuff

Last night Jessica and her friend Casey went to play in the Powder Puff football game. This is a football game for the girls to play. The boys are the cheerleaders! They had to get ready for the game; only girls would do that.

They look tough, right?



Show me those muscles!

Samantha had a Cross Country banquet. I think it was a bit on the long side, 2 hours. Samantha got the award for the best newcomer. Samantha is also wearing a walking cast. She might have a stress fracture. We will go back to get another xray in 2 weeks.

I made chocolate rolo cookies for the banquet. You use cake mix, butter and eggs and you wrap the dough around a rolo. Yummm.

After the banquet, Samantha and I went to watch Jessica play! Excitement!! Jessica has the green headband and the pink sleeves.



She looks excited to play. The game was the Juniors (Jessica) against the Seniors! The Juniors won 33 to 13! Woo Hoo!

Off to Wenatchee!

This weekend Samantha completed in the regional cross country meet in Wenatchee.

So we loaded up the car and took the family to cheer her on. Samantha wanted to compete in this meet really bad even though she was injured from a previous meet.

Here we are in the rain with Samantha. She is waiting for a heating pad to warm up so she can put it on her sore leg.

Here is our camping setting up. A pot with warm water heating up the pad for Samantha. Also a kettle with hot water to make hot chocolate, yum!

Jessica is loving the rain. My shoes and feet got soggy and wet from the rain.

The boys played in the playground during the meet.


Samantha is warming up with her team.

Here is Samantha finishing the race. I believed she finished in 20:34. We are so proud of her for finishing the race. She is glad that she finished. With the season over we will go visit the orthopedic surgeon and see what Samantha did to her leg.

Halloween!

Another year of dressing up has come and gone. Due to Halloween being on Sunday, the family went to the ward party on Friday and went trunk or treating. Samantha went to a pasta feed that night to get ready for the cross meet the next day and then she went to a Halloween party.

Jessica and her friend Casey dressed up as fairies! What happened to the cute princess outfits?

Andrew and I were pioneers. I figured that I could use this costume for others things, Pioneer day or Trek?

Parker wore his Halo costume again. We went out too late to get another costume, but I think he was happy with this.

Zachary was a ghostbuster. He also had the pack to go with it but he took it off.

The boys had fun trunk or treating. I think Parker went to some cars like 3 times.

Fun with Zachary!!

Today is Zachary's birthday so we took some of the family and his cousin Ian to Triple Play/Raptor Reef in Hayden Idaho. Triple Play and Raptor Reef is an amusement complex and indoor water park hooked onto a Holiday Inn Express. We stayed the night on Friday. We started with the water park on Saturday.

Zachary and Ian are ready to head out for some fun in the water!

Zachary likes having tons of water being poured on him!

I had a good time with Jessica; I had to keep her company since Samantha with staying with her cousin Emily because she had Cross Country practice.

We ate at KFC and made a new friend!

Zachary and Ian were excited to watch this movie, that you moved along with, but it was 12 tokens!

I think that they enjoyed the movie.

After having fun at Triple Play, we went to Cabela's! I think Andrew enjoyed himself the most at this store!!

I hope everyone had a good time, especially Zachary!!

Zachary Birthday!!

Zachary will be turning 10 tomorrow! We wanted to celebrate a little today.First, we went to his class to bring a birthday treat, yummy Oreos and Chip Ahoy cookies! We had a few presents for him to open before we go to Idaho. We will do the full celebration tomorrow at Triple Play; we are also bringing Ian with us.



We love getting the extra large balloons for birthdays!



Zachary will be moving up in scouts as well. He will part of the Webelos pack, yea!

He had to try out his new scooter. I think he likes it eventhough it is red.

We love you Zachary!! Happy 10th birthday!!

Dance and Race

Jessica went to Homecoming, with a group of girlfriends. She looks so pretty! They took a limo and went to a friends house for dinner. Jessica had a good time.

Samantha is getting ready for a race; it is the district race in Yakima.

Here are her last few strides! She did the 3 miles in 20:36

We are building a shed. We just need the stucco and the door, I think.

Samantha and running

Samantha is in Cross Country this year and she loves it!

The others showing support before the race!

Samantha is getting ready to go!

Way to go Samantha!!

My girls love to show school spirit, it is nerd day!!

My birthday!

Today is my 40th birthday! I can't believe it!

This is a picture of me in the 70's

Here is me today with my birthday cheesecake!

I love my birthday unicorn balloon! Jessica has threatened to kidnap it.



We had a nice BBQ at Mom and Dad B's

The girls like taking pictures with Reid.

Here I am happily opening a b-day gift from Charith, Thanks!


Noah looks happy playing on the swings!


One of the many beautiful pics of Jessica

We love you too Samantha!


Reid's fingers are just so tasty!

Enjoying some cake with Afton and Eli.



Samantha and Emily made this cool car for Eli, but he did not want it.

Thank you all for the birthday wishes! I had a great 40th b-day!