Halloween 2011

Lance had his work party at a bowling alley, the kids thought it was great!

We went to Gardner Village to do the yearly Witch scavenger hunt

Carved pumpkins on Halloween Eve:)

This year Carlie was a Cat and Cayden was a skeleton (only made a couple kids cry before I convinced him to remove the mask)!!

Pumpkin Patch

We went on our yearly trip to the pumpkin patch!! One way to speed things up is to go when it is almost dark!! The kids didn't have much time so the race was on to find that perfect pumpkin:) Usually Cayden is really quick but this year I think he picked about 5 different ones until he found "the one"!!

Cayden insisted we have a wheel barrow since everyone else had one!!

We always tell the kids they have to pick a pumpkin THEY can pick up:)

Farm Gate

Moving is never fun and we should be experts by now, but it is always still a huge ordeal!! Trying to decide what you are going to need for a few months since you can't take everything is difficult. In the end it always works out and you figure out what to do with everything one way or another:) This is our temporary home for the next 4 months until our new home is built.

Before

I was ready to cry it looked so impossible to find a place for all of this!! We only brought basic stuff and it still looked like (was) a disaster!!

After

Omaha Street

To make a really long story short, we sold our home on Omaha St. in Riverton after 3 years of trying to sell off and on and the past 2 months of living out of boxes and sleeping on the floor!!! This means the past 3 years I have had to have my house "perfect" and clean ALL the time (which is not easy, especially with 2 little kids)!! We had lived in this home for the past 5 years (the longest we had lived anywhere) and it was the only home Cayden has known, so it was bittersweet. We have loved the neighborhood and the friendships we have made!! It was time though to move on, especially since Carlie got into a Charter School 2 years ago and now both kids go there. The driving back and forth was getting old. So now we are living temporarily in an apartment (Cayden refers to it as the "hotel", I think he is a little confused since he has never done this before) while we build our FINAL (and I really mean it) home in Bluffdale!! This will be the fourth home we have built in almost 12 years and too many moves to count:) We are grateful for all the friendships we have made over the last 5 years and hope we can continue to keep in touch!!

Carlie's first Utah game!!

Carlie has been begging to go to a football game so today was the day!! She loved getting to go with her dad and even made it through the entire game despite the cold weather:)

Pink 1/2 Marathon

We went up to Park City this weekend for the Pink 1/2 marathon! It is in support of finding a cure for Breast Cancer!! It is a Girls Only run so no boys allowed (except for the nice pacers)!!:)

The night before the big race

The morning of the race

We stayed at the Newmark Hotel which is where the race ended. We ended up with the perfect room with the perfect view! They just watched from our balcony until it was time for me to finish. Of course the morning of the race it was raining, snowing, windy and freezing cold!! They shuttled us in buses to the top of the course and dropped us off in the dark and rain in what seemed like the middle of nowhere to wait for the race to begin!! I DO NOT ever run in these kinds of conditions on a normal day, (I go to the gym if it is bad weather) so I was kind of dreading being forced to run (there is only one way back) in these conditions!!:) Two weeks ago I had injured my ankle and hadn't been able to run since so I also had to worry whether I was even going to be able to run the race!! I decided I was going to run with the 2:45 pacer which I had never done. I figured it was the best chance I had of making it to the finish:) I was able to run with him until mile 9 when I could no longer run because my ankle was hurting so bad! I had to walk the next 3 miles and then was able to run off and on for the last mile to the finish!!

I wasn't able to run my best time but I FINISHED!! I was lucky to be able to even run to begin with so I have to remind myself of that!! I finished in 3:00:00 which I thought was pretty good considering I had to walk 3 of the miles:)

Big Cottonwood in the Fall