Family Visit

Last weekend I convinced Drew to take me to Utah to see my family! We had a great time! Kyle flew in from Missouri (we missed his family) and my parents and Kelsey came from CA and we went to Garrett's last football game. It was so fun to see everyone and watch Garrett play. He did such a great job and we were really proud of him. I loved getting to spend time with my siblings and all 5 of us were together for the first time in about 4 years! Thanks guys for a great time!

8 MONTHS

I can't believe my little baby is already 8 months old. She is so fun and sooooo cute. She took a little longer to roll over and figure out how her body moves but she is really catching on quickly. She rolls all over the entire house and is now trying to CRAWL!!! It is so cute... she army crawled all the way down the hallway last night and this morning she was being hysterical the way she was trying to move and flip her legs around. I was in my bathroom this morning and she was laying on my bed and all the sudden she just sat up all by herself. She is going to have some serious abs just like McKenzie. At her dr. appointment she was in the 3% so it is just so crazy to see this little itty bitty baby doing all the big baby things! We love our Tilly, Bubby or Chayseeeee whichever you prefer to call her! :)

Halloween

I have been so blessed with such good friends! Our Bunco group always has a Costume party for Bunco in the month of October. It is always so much fun to see how creative people are and we always have the BEST time. I of course won the best costume... I have 3 years in a row now! :)

so cute...

I snapped these pictures of Chayse just after she ate her favorite food... squash! she is just so darn cute I can't help but plaster her picture up everywhere. She is starting to try to crawl and wants to be on the go ALL DAY. It is so fun to watch her get older and exploring and learning new things! I can't believe she is almost 8 months old.

Run For the Cure

Today was the 2nd 5k I did with Rhonda. We have been working out really hard for the past month and getting ready for this day. I have to say that we weren't prepared for the FRRRREEEZZZZING cold weather, but we did luck out because it didn't rain or snow on us until the race was over. It was a whopping 30 degrees this morning when we got there. YIKES! I had a really great time and am glad my running days are over... for now! Thanks Rhonda... you are an awesome partner!

It was so cold but my wonderful husband brought all the kids down to Idaho Falls at 9am to watch us! He didn't take any pictures during the race so he made sure we reinacted. We were really enjoying our HOT CHOCOLATE and Great Harvest Bread. It was very delicious after a good run in the freezing weather!

I do have to say that it was really fun to see all the woman walking or running that have survived cancer. They were wearing hot pink shirts and I wish I could have asked each one of them their personal story of survival. It is so fun to run and accomplish something for myself and to be able to do it with such a great person like Rhonda, but it is also so much more meaningful when I can do something to help a great cause like finding a cure for cancer.

What a cute girl...

Chayse is turning into a very very funny girl. She is definately very opinionated and knows what she wants. She LOVED her bumbo chair until she started to roll over and now she won't even sit in it for 2 seconds without making sure we know she wants OUT. She rolls everywhere... across rooms... into everything. It is sooo great! I took her to the dr. yesterday and she weighs a WHOPPING 13 lbs. 5 oz... which is actually less than what she weighed a month ago... 13 lbs 8oz. She is just so tiny! Well she has also discovered BITER BISQUITS. She is in love with them and goes crazy to chew on them for hours~


In other news it is harvest break right now so the kids have been out of school for almost 2 weeks. Got to love that..... They are going a little stir crazy, but we have been keeping busy with our "winterizing" of the house AKA CLEANING every inch because mom is sick of dirt. They don't think it is too fun, but I try to reward with something if they will actually do what they are asked. So far they haven't gotten many rewards! :)

We had such a good weekend with Drew's family. Brady and Rachael were here so we got to celebrate their birthdays, Clynt's birthday and have a fun fun fun baby shower for Rachael all in 2 days. And let's not forget conference! It was so great to be with family and be spiritually uplifted also. We had so much good food and such good fun! I have been trying for months to perfect my bread dough like Patty and so this weekend she helped me make it and did step by step instruction so today I had to make some on my own and it actually turned out okay! I will get it down eventuallY!

I do have to admit that I have bad habits in the kitchen. I didn't have a dishwasher for sooo many years that I got into the bad habit of STUFFING dirty dishes into my oven when company was coming over so I didnt' have to clean them really fast. Well last night I did because Rhonda and I were canning Soup Stock and today I turned on my oven to heat it up for my bread dough and OOPS... I forgot to take my dishes out. Too bad I didn't realize until about 30 min. later when my house was smokey and smelling really bad. How embarrassing... but even more embarrassing is that it isn't the first time this has happened! :)