Happy Halloween

What a great and stress free Halloween this has turned out to be! Thrift stores and hand me downs are the greatest places for costumes. Everyone was happy and got all the candy they could eat. The best part was that at the end of the night dad offered to buy everyone's candy and everyone agreed! What a genius idea! Now I don't have to deal with it! Everyone picked out their own costumes and wore them proudly. We had a zombie, cowgirl, a witch, and a princess. What a night. Happy spooks everyone!

Pumpkin Carving

What a fun night of carving. Everyone's creations turned out fantastic, great work guys! Thanks for your muscles dad.

Milk, it does a body good!

Grandpa Shrek will be proud to have such great milk drinkers.

Happy Birthday Dulci!

Our sweet Dulci turned 2 this month, my how time flies! I'm such a stingy mom when it comes to food, and I HATE cake and having the leftovers for a week after the birthday. So since Dulci couldn't object I decided to do an apple pie instead. Yum, everyone loved it. Right when Seth lit the candles she blew them out and it suprised her so much that she wouldn't even look at them when we tried to light them again for a picture.

My old friend

In my efforts to purge and declutter I finally convinced Seth to get rid of my old cast I wore my freshman year of high school. You'll notice he signed it huge in red right across the top. This was before he was ever interested in me and I was annoyed he had taken up so much valuable signing space. Who would have known that 15 years later we'd be living happily ever after. Can you find your name?

There's nothing like a lollipop...

Fun with cousins and friends

We had lots of fun playing with our cousins this month.

The weather has been beautiful, perfect for an afternoon on the tramp!

And finally we got to return a favor to some friends by watching their kids while they went out of town. Lots of fun for everyone!

Can't stop us now!

I've always wanted to run while I was pregnant, but never made it past a month or two. So when I found out I was pregnant two months after I finished a marathon in April, I decided this would be the pregnancy I ran through. I envisioned me not gaining much of anything until after the race and sailing through pregnancy getting a healthy baby at the end of it all. Let's just say training has been hard. Instead of getting faster and smaller like I usually do when I'm training, I got slower and bigger. But, I did it. Today I ran 13.1 miles, 20 weeks pregnant in 2 hours and 33 minutes. I doubted whether it was worth it while I was training but now I can say without hesitation that it was worth it! The race was fun, I feel great and I'm grateful to have been blessed with a healthy and strong body. I'm grateful that my husband likes to tag along for the ride too.

Here we are before the race. We made it a family event.

The guy in the shadows there is Seth finishing the race. The reason you can't see me in the picture is because I wasn't within sight. Yes it's true, even though he ran only about 3 times to prepare for this race he still beat his pregnant wife.

Kinda hard to see the belly, but I promise it's there and I promise it's not from too much pizza (although that was very tasty after a long run!) I thought I'd quit running for the rest of my pregnancy after this race but now I'm wondering, what's next?

Fun Run Runners!

After Seth and I finished our races we got to enjoy watching the kids do their thing.
Here's Abe finishing strong!

Miss Ksusha is always smiling, even when the race ended on an incline.

And JoyeLoni couldn't decide if racing was for her but walking the course with dad was fun anyway!

A family of runners showin off their stuff after the races ended.

Terrible 2's!

Sure, 2 year old's are cute, but come on, why do they have to push so many limits? The other day I was checking my email when JoyeLoni came in and said, "mom, Dulci is doing something naughty!" I followed her into their bedroom and found this:

She had found the anti fungal cream I use for her diaper rash and decided to use it all over her face. At least there won't be any fungus growing on her face now...

She has become a monkey and climbs up and down everything including but not limited to the changing table, her high chair, the table, bikes, and the bunk beds. When I returned from the General Relief Society meeting last week I found her like this:

She had crashed her bike on the paved patio. Oh Dulci, the 2's are a doozie and technically you're not even 2 yet!

Finally!

In April my sister Kayla came to visit after she ran the Boston Marathon. She and her daughter were wearing adorable skirts she said she made in 20 minutes. Yeah right, I thought, I can't make anything in 20 minutes, but finally I tried. Guess what, it only took me 20 minutes so I had time to do 2! Here's JoyeLoni and Dulci modeling their new fall skirts.

End of Summer Fun

It's too bad summer had to come to an end. I didn't blog at all this summer because we werer too busy having fun together! Here's our last beach trip for the season...

We are eagerly awaiting Memorial day when the fun begins again.