Snow ball (or powder) fight

This is like the first snow of the year and the boys had fun throwing it around. We even got the next door neighbor involved. I don't think he thought Josh had a mean bone in his body, but Josh got him good!

Josh even got sweet little Nate in the face. Nate was a little trooper and threw his little heart out!

Now here is Jared...most likely to hit everyone he could find. I got him a good one though. I told him to come show me his snowball that he was making so I could take a picture of it and I squashed it right in his face. What a mean mom I am!

This was a small snowstorm compared to what we got on Christmas, but we made sure we had lots of fun!

House picture

I just thought I would post a picture of our house. Only because Mike did the landscaping for it. He is really talented in this area and it is much cheaper than hiring someone. Mike actually lost quite a bit of weight over the summer doing this. He has now gained back some of that weight to keep warm for the winter. hahahaha!!!

Bowling and Purses

Heidi had us take a picture with the turkey when we were done. It's kind of creepy, not knowing who is in there.
Okay, see this lady with the purple purse...we gave her the rude award for Thanksgiving day. One of Shaun's kids accidentally spilled her drink and it went behind us and went towards this lady's purse. Shaun started apologizing, but the lady told her that not any of her apologizing would mean anything. That purse was a---get this---$300.00 purse. Shaun tried to offer money, but the lady was just plain rude. Okay, 2 things...who can afford to spend $300.00 on a purse and secondly, who brings that purse to a BOWLING ALLEY!!! Shaun was sincere and understood why the lady was upset, we just couldn't understand why she wouldn't take Shaun's apology...sad lady!

We had a blast bowling like usual....a bunch of pictures follow! It wouldn't be Thanksgiving without bowling.

Loves and kisses between cousins!

Leah getting her pose on!

Mike's sister Marilyn, Denny and Heather.

We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We don't' have any pictures
of us eating, but it was nummy!

Turkey Trot

Here's Heidi showing us all up. She did the 10K and beat here time from last year!
Here comes the mama. Way to go Mom!

Here's Matt, Leah and their 2 girls!

Here I am, going slow, but at least I was out there. Got the bug to run again, but just have to get rid of my joint pain. I also got to work off a few calories before Turkey time

Okay, these pictures are backwards. This is us before the race. We are trying to stay warm!

Cub Scouts

We are very proud of Josh. He got some awards at cub scouts and this was the first time I got pinned. He "helped Daddy" do the space rocket ship thingy. Don't you love the rubber bands on my shoulder. I was the keeper of them because they kept turning the propeller too much!

I know this picture is dark, but if you click on it, you might be able to ask yourself...where are all the cub scouts? We've got Mike, a webelos den leader and the bishop...all watching. The boys had gone off to play.....got to love scouts!!

Almost Caught up....Halloween

This is one gross pumpkin. We had it out as decoration outside and we noticed that there was a hole on the bottom of the pumpkin. Mike definitely got to carve that pumpkin

Look at how much fun we are having!

Mike got to dress up too! You may have to click on his picture to see the detail on his pockets to see who he is. Since his company runs on a lot of Macs, this was a real kicker at work!

No homemade costumes this year! Josh wanted to be a pirate, Jared a Power Ranger and Nate got to be a hand me down from Josh, but it's always fun to be Tigger, right?

Planes, Great Aunts and Soccer

Two of my dad's sisters came to visit! In this picture is Great Aunt Bev from St. George UT. My boys loved meeting a new aunt. I think both of my
aunts were ready to go when they left our houseHere is my Great Aunt Carolyn from Ohio. It has been a long long time since I had seen her. We had to make sure we got pictures of the boys with her too! We kept calling her Aunt Jeanette who passed away a few years ago. Oops! We only did that because they are both from Ohio and we didnt' get to see them that often.

Nate thinks he is one cool dude! He can't get enough of being outside and getting on anything with wheels and running us ragged!

This picture just cracked me up! Jared and Josh are in time out and Nate can't stand Jared's crying and Josh's harrassing of Jared.

Here is some fun pics of the boys. The boys hanging out at Josh's soccer game!

Go Josh Go! Josh can run like nobody's business, but he would rather watch to see how fast his shadow is going or run along side the other team when they are taking the ball to their goal. He also likes to get string and let the wind carry it away. I finally got him to actually look like he was playing soccer when I said I wanted to take pictures of him!

The boys getting a close up look at the airplane panel thingy! If Mike was writing this blog you would get the proper verbage. Josh actually stuck his head out that window on his right. He looked like a dog enjoying the ride, even though the plane was going nowhere.

Josh getting his award for playing soccer.

Here is Jared playing one of his many positions in soccer. I think he was really good at defenseman. I didn't like him in the goalie position. Too much pressure for mom to be watching that. Jared liked to play forward. Mike is going to try to be his coach next season. They had a good team this year though!

Jared and his 2 awards. Jared LOVES to get trophies and medals. It is quite funny!

This my niece Zoe. She did really good on her first plane ride. There was a
beautiful sunset as we took off from Reno.

Here is Leah's 2nd daughter, Savannah! She is just a bundle of love. I got to go to AZ with no kids, so I got to just hold the babies (and get spit up on by Jenelle's new baby 8-), but it was fun all the same. I just had to get a picture of her in the blanket that I crocheted for her and that I had the majic touch to get her to sleep...yes she did fall asleep!

This is all of us in Arizona for Ailee's baby blessing. It was quite an adventure with all of us trying to get around places. No one was killed as part of this excursion!