HaLLoWeEn

I love Halloween time! I love everything about it... the decorations, the dressing up in costumes, the Halloween parade at school and of the trick-or-treating! This Halloween was no different!

Family Party

We had the family Halloween party at our house this year! I am so glad that everyone dressed up:)

We totally rocked our costumes!

Ha Ha Ha

My Sexy man!

Work it!

Love this family of mine!

Shane, Em and Kids

Loved my dad's costume!

Look at my tough guy!

Cross fit is paying off :)

Zombies

Troy, Tristin and Carter

Cody, Wendy and Kids

Wendy and Hayden

School Parade

So glad that the big 7th graders still dress up and participate in the parade.

Trick-or-Treating

at Dad's work!

How lucky that my kids got to go from a school parade to a HUGE party at their daddy's work.  They got a butt load of candy.  Way too much!

Love Scoob's costume

Troy had this AWESOME costume for Halloween night! Thanks to his dad and Grandma Terra for making it for him.  Seriously, how cool is this?!?!?  

Looks like she made out like a bandit!

CRAZY!!!

Halloween 2013

Family Pictures

My cute friend Tori took our family pictures back in the fall.   My kids love her as much as I do, so it was easy for her to get them to smile:)

I am in love with how they turned out.

Here are a few of my faves!

October 26, 2013

SoJo Half Marathon

Back in October, I got this crazy idea to sign up to run a half marathon with my two of my bestest friends, Emily and Ariane, my brother Shane and my sister in law Emily.  I went into the race with absolutely no expectations other than to finish the race.  I did a 15K just a month earlier and survived.  I ran two long runs in between that race and this race, so I thought "hey, why not?"  Little did I know that 13.1 miles is FOREVER long!!!     

Starting Line

Ariane

Finishing time 2:02:04

Emily

Finishing time 2:04:48

Shane and Em

Finishing time 2:06:39

The Caboose

But hey I survived another race!!!

Finishing time 2:17:58

I did it!  I cried crossing the finish line.  I was so emotional!  I was the last in the group to finish but I didn't care at all.  All I kept thinking was I just ran a half marathon and I didn't die:)  Not sure if I will ever run another one, but I did it this time! Now I just need to figure out how to get this skinny again... hmmm

October 19, 2013

Preschool Field Trip

Blakley had her field trip to the pumpkin patch.  The kids had fun picking out their own pumpkin, listening the Farmer Luke tell stories about farming and going on a tractor ride.  I really LOVE her preschool.  Even more important, she LOVES her preschool.  Ms. Hilary is the greatest!

Blakley's preschool classes with lots of siblings mixed in.

Carter had the day off of school and got to tag along with us!  He was acting a little too cool for school but secretly I think he loved being there:)

Blakley was in love with all of the animals.  She could have spent all of her time just petting the different animals and been in Heaven.

I love this little girl so much!! I am so sad that she will be going to kindergarten this fall.  What will I do with my mornings?!?!? 

October 17, 2013

Elder Lindquist's Farewell

Oh my!  Oh my!  Oh my!  How is my little cousin Caden even old enough to go on a mission already?  Seriously!!! He shouldn't be this old.  He received his Mission call to Argentina back in the summer.  He had his farewell in the middle of October and left to the MTC shortly afterwards.

He did such a great job speaking at his farewell.  The spirit was very strong and you could just feel his excitement to go and serve the Lord.  He lives the Gospel to the fullest.  I am so glad that my boys have someone like him to look up to and to follow in his footsteps.

Here are some pics from his farewell:

  

Such a good lookin man!

Caders and his cute mom!

The Elder and his grandparents.

(My Uncle Bob and Aunt Jo)

Good Luck Elder Lindquist!  You're going to be an excellent missionary.  We love you very much!  See you in two (long) years!

October 13, 2013

Diamond Fork Hot Springs

Back in October, we went hiking with our good friends, Scoob, Rachel and Carlos.  They took us on an awesome hike.  A hike that my kids loved! yay! We hit the Diamond Fork (Fifth Water) Hot springs trail up Spanish Fork Canyon.  I usually don't like to hike with my kids because I don't like to hear them whine about getting tired (especially Blakley).  I usually leave the hiking to Clint and the boys.

The weather was perfect and the leaves were gorgeous!!

  

Blakley did get a little tired towards the top of the hike but lucky for her she had lots of adults that took turns holding her.  Spoiled Rotten!

Once we hiked to the top, we got to enjoy the hot springs.  The kids were in HEAVEN and didn't want to get out of the warm water.  I was so thankful that Scoob, Rachel and Carlos were smart enough to take their swimsuits because Clint and I spaced packing ours;)  

I am so thankful for friends that love the outdoors and invite us to go places with them.  I swear if it was up to Clint and I, we would become couch potatoes and never leave the house.  BORING!

October 5, 2013