Thanksgiving

This year for Thanksgiving we traveled a lot. We began our vacation on Tues morning driving 3hrs to Boise, Id to see my cousin Dawn's family. Aqeel and I also squeezed in visits to the temple. Wed. we drove another two hours to Burley, ID to spend thanksgiving with my sister Staci's family. Staci is a wonderful cook and we had a great time playing and eating!








Friday we drove 31//3 hrs to Pleasant Grove to visit other one of my cousins and go to Temple Square to see the Christmas lights. We went to dinner at Texas Roadhouse Grill, which was fantastic and ran into a family I grew up with! It was a lot of fun seeing Jessica, Erica, Maren, Terrel, and Leah!!!



Jr, Parker, Amaya, & Aysia!


Jr at his best!


Us and the Bayles fam at the conference center!


Aysia at the conference center!


We drove the 31/2 hrs back to Burley on Sat and then 5 more hours home on Sun! It was a long trip but it was a lot of fun!!!!

pics

So much has happened over the last five weeks. We took family pics for the christmas card...







We carved pumpkins for Halloween...



We had our first snow of the season...



We had school Halloween parties!! I am one of Amaya's room moms and I dressed up as Superwoman! I don't have any pics of me though...




I selected a pic for my painting mid term. I am supposed to incorporate a part of my body with my still life object my professor gave me. It's a kitchen scrub brush. So this is what I am doing....



This last week we have all had the flu! It has sucked and I am sooo ready to be healthy again not to mention being able to send the kids back to school!!!So, I guess that pretty much catches you up to now!

It's been a while

I have been very bad about blogging lately and it is because of my new obession Facebook. I love the farming games on facebook and I am on there all the time! It is sad really. There are also other reason for not blogging... My children broke my camera. I don't know what it is about my children, but they always seem to find ways to destroy items in our home that were expensive to purchase. So, I have finally been able to afford a new camera that will help facilitate blogging. So, here is to recommitting to the blogging world!!!

Happy 6th Amaya!

At the Flintstone Museum


with Jr!


Stylin!


On her 6th b-day!

Look how big I'm getting!

I did it!!

I completed my first triathlon on friday!!! It was a 500 meter swim followed by a 12 mile bike ride, and finished with a 3.3 mile run!!! I did it with four other women from church and it was sooo much fun!!! Honestly I never thought an event like this could be fun but it was! I finished the race in 1hr 59 mins! I forgot to take a camera but my good friend Wendie took some pics and I am gonna ask her to email them to me so that I can post some! I am so proud of myself and this accomplishment! After the tri was finished I was riding my bike back to pick up my car and the front brake on my bike stuck and I went flying over the handle bars! I was hurt and thought I had re-broken my right arm. My knee was bleeding pretty bad and I have a pretty large raspberry on my left elbow. I went to the Dr who took x-rays and said that nothing was broken but that I did sprain my elbow quite bad. I am wearing a brace and am quite incapacitated for a while. I really just feel like a dork. I mean really grown people are not supposed to have such silly accidents. I'll post pics of my wounds later as well...

Soccer time!

Amaya had her first soccer gamelast night! It was cute watching the kids chase the ball around! Her is some footage from the game...