Open Wide!













Cute!













Sam had his wisdom teeth pulled... J/K it was M&MS. :)













Believe it or not I actually liked him kissing me. I was in the middle of making a face when the picture took.













OH YEAH! Enough said.

Halloween 2008

Sam and I went to the ward activity..bowling. Yeah we pretty much dominated.














Nov 17, 2008
We went to the Jazz game, they played the Suns. Phoenix Suns happens to be Sam's favorite team...too bad they lost to the Jazz:)













I'm wearing his hat which happens to be a couple sizes too big. I happened to be a Jazz fan during the game so while he cheered for the Suns, I cheered for the Jazz.














Sam got Deon to smile... Say cheese!!!!!













AWWW, now here we are on Thanksgiving Day over at Dad and June's. Sam's brother Brian and his sister Emily came with us to pig out on the best meal ever...Turkey dinner.

Hayden's new bed

Here is the window treatment in Hayden's room. It's not knew but for those of you who haven't seen it...here you go.












OK Here is the Head board I made for Hayden's room. Isn't it cool!!! I created. (from General Conference) who knows which talk?

She now has lady bug lights on it so she can look at books at night. The boys think her room and bed is way cooler than theirs so sometimes they take turns to sleep in her room with her. It cracks me up!

I'm a pretty little butterfly...I really wished I could have made here a catapillar with wings. But she wouldn't have it, she wanted to be a butterfly with makeup of course. And shock of all shocks, the other day I found makup all over the floor of my bathroom and mascara on her face. I opened up pandora's box. AGHH

Bryce dressed up in Jeff's old army clothes and had me put makeup on him too!! You can be a butterfly and GIJOE with makeup how ironic...Josh do you wear makeup? Wait don't answer that.

Ty wanted to be a nerd. He had a lot of fun with that and didn't even have to bring extra clothes to school to change into.

We went to the church and did the trunk or treat. Justin provided 12 dozen donuts for the preist group. So we were set up next to the hot apple cider (from the other ward) and the donuts.

Hayden didn't want to go trick or treating, she wanted to help me hand out candy! Needless to say her bucket was no where near as full as the boys...darn.

Do you guys remember doing this? They counted having over 350 pieces of candy. Then actually combined all of theirs?! I didn't say anything and waited to see how it would play out. The candy was put into zip lock baggies and kept in Hayden's room in her play kitchen. I thought that was funny. Let's just say the candy is now gone and Hayden did a really good job watching it for them.

Ok and proof that we went to a pumpkin patch...So maybe I only took Hayden with her preschool. We actually didn't even carve pumpkins as a family this year, yet throughout the week everybody but Justin carved one in one activity group or another. So I didn't feel too bad.

Meet DEAD FRED. Annette and I had such a great time pulling together Halloween parties this year. Dead Fred was the main course for the teenager party, however, no one would eat him. I don't understand. The funny part is he was not apart of our fear factor game. Can you guess what his guts are made of?

Trick or Treat! Kate was the Corpse Bride and Harry was...can you guess? I wish I could say he was a twin to somebody, but he would not stray from the original costume! Got to love Kate's makeup. Gene spent awhile doing her make up. Throughout the process I would hear, Kate, don't move and Kate would respond, but Dad I have an itch. It was rather entertaining.

Did I mention that our pumpkins were traditional with a twist. The baby eating pumpkin received the most comments. Erica, if you still want me to, I would love to watch your children for you while you are in Paris. HEHEHE

It was an ambitious carving year. We carved six pumpkins all and all. The kids loved eating the pumpkin seeds. (Notice how Harry is standing in the prep sink in order to clean the pumpkin out.)

Well if you can't carry it, at least sit on it. Harry wore himself out running all over the pumpkin patch. He decided to take a rest while waiting for the hayride.

26th annual Olympic Marathon

Ok, sorry everyone for not adding to the cool blog, Erica, I can't believe you called me out! HAHA oh well. So I ran a 42Km/26Mi marathon today and did really well! I finished at 4 hours and 42 minutes! Not bad for 0 training! The furthest I had run before this was 6 miles! My knees and legs are pretty much shot right now! I must admit, it was probably the proudest moment in my life, next to Erica's birth. But we all know how that's turned out! Anyways, let me paint the scene for you all. We got on a bus at 0700, and rode out to the town of Marathon, Greece. 26 miles away from some of the origianl Greek stadiums, for Olympics. Once we arrived, I met up with a few other people from Sigonella, Italy. We all agreed on a time of 10 minute miles. That's a nice and easy pace, not to kill us. So we start off, the helicopter is trying to get everything it can on film, baloons are flying, and we were pretty much walking out of the gate since there was so many people! This walk lasted a good 2 Km! So yeah like 100 yards after the start point, there were already like 10 runners watering trees! It was priceless! I saw a man dressed up like a Roman soldier, a marathon superman costume, and a lot of Greek athletic dresses. They had water stations every 2-4 Km. We started off making a huge circle around some a tomb of the original Olympians of old. It was just this huge mount in this protected field. Then we started ou 89% uphill run towards the finish. Now 89% was not the actual grade, it was just a nice (not) uphill climb the whole way! We were 6 Americans stong, until 21Km. The half way point. Our pacer fell back, and 4 others stayed with him. Myself and another guy pushed on. I was doing great, giving kids high fives as they cheered us on. Shortly after i got the great idea to try to give some Police Officers the same gesture. Well census showed that the majority were too busy listening to Walkmans or smoking cigerettes to give me a high five, but I did get two! YAY!!! So yeah continuing on, I could not believe the amount of trash that we would throw on the streets after a water station. You're supposed to take a few swiggs of water and toss the bottle of water to the side, when you're done! It kinda turned into a game, to see who could make the biggest explonsion. So 32Km into this bad boy, I was nowhere close to being tired. However my legs were really starting to hurt! I was feeling a lot of pain in my knees and hammies! I stopped off at a few medical stations to get icy/hot put on my legs and wobble off. This was to be the longest 10 Km in my life! (6 more miles) I had to stop at one point, and almost fell out cause my leg went numb, and I didn't know if I was going to catch myself on the next impact. But I had to push on! When I got to the last 120 meters of the race we entered into the statium, to a lot of cheering people! At this point my adreniline kicked in and I spotted my friend Alex, who ran the 5K and was finished way before me. He snapped a picture and cheered me in. I got my medal, and hobbled right into the medical tent where they proceeded to ice my knees and then wrap them, free of charge. I limped all the way to a taxi, got in and returned to the hotel for a nap. So there you have it, that was my first ever marathon, with very little training. I almost cried when I finished, not from the pain, but from the sheer accomplishment, I had just finished THE origianl Olympic Marathon. After getting home to the hotel, I took off my bloody socks, fell into bed, and took a good 1 hour long nap. Now I'm sore as all can believe!

Ricky likes his new little brother. This was taken shortly after we came home with Blake.

Pumpkins smell gross

Deon's first pumpkin! She didn't want to put her hands in it like Jeff did... weird.. She did enjoy watching us carve it though and pull out the pieces.

Halloween

So we figured out how to download pictures!!yeah! So, if any of you come to visit, you can visit our 4 story, very fun childrens museam with us!!! The kids loved the curious george exhibit.

Hailey is obsessed with her unbrella...need I say more

We had a lot of fun for Halloween. Hailey decided to be sleeping beauty and a fairy, and Tyler decided to be Buzz Lightyear's lesser known twin, buzz lightyear pirate.

The dress Hailey is wearing was given to us from some nice sisters in our ward. It is very difficult getting her to take it off.

This was Hailey's disaster castle cake, that I helped make. (The disaster began when I started to help) I did not know you can not stack moist cakes...so for future reference do not use moist cake mixes when stacking a castle. Not too long after this picture, the whole backside of the cake fell! I am thinking about writing a cook book entitled "what not to do in the kitchen"

We had fun carving pumpkins.. Hailey and I lasted about 5 minutes, the boys spent a good hour and a half perfecting theirs.

Tyler got to bring the class pet home for the weekend. Unfortunately we kept forgetting we had her, so we didn't have much to write in the school journal..(lets just say she took a lot of cat naps). The first night we accidently closed her into the ball pit, thankfully we found her the next day after we tore Grandma Airplanes bed apart. (Our ball pit transitions into a bed (thanks to my handy husband)).