October 2015

October seemed to fly by. We continued to have soccer games on the weekends. Ruby and Mordecai are both really good at soccer, when they want to be, and had awesome coaches this year.

On the 17th, before soccer games, we hit up a pumpkin patch as a family. We picked out 4 pumpkins, then hit up the kid activities. The kids enjoyed the bounces house, corn maze, and farm animals (Ruby didn't enjoy the animals...she has her moms nose). From their we hit up McDonald's for lunch and then off to soccer.

We of course celebrated Ivy's 3rd birthday on the 23rd. In the morning she had a friend birthday party with 7 friends that came over for breakfast and cake and ice cream. The girls just played while the moms chatted and it was tons of fun. Then later that night for dinner we took the kids out to Red Robin to celebrate as a family. After dinner we came home and had Ivy open her presents. She loved her musical card, money and outfit from the grandparents. From us her favorite toy must have been her "puter" computer. We sure love her and glad she was feisty enough to hold on so we could have her.

The 28th we carved pumpkins as a family. It's tradition to listen to Halloween music, have treats, and have fun. This year we tried making pumpkin seeds...the kids liked a few and then we're done, so I don't think I'll go through the trouble of making them again. 

We also had our ward trunk-or-treat on the 30th, which the young men and young women were in charge of, which meant me being in charge of and just sending out assignments. The kids loved it! We had chili, hot dogs, salad, cornbread, and pumpkin desserts. The youth headed up carnival games and then we went out of trunk-or-treating. Emily & I were a babies, Mordecai was Darth Vader, Ruby was a fairy and Ivy was a mermaid princess.

The next night was of course Halloween. For dinner we had our traditional jack-o-lantern shaped pizza from papa murphy's. The weather was nice enough to all go out. We were out for an hour before Ruby and Ivy were done, and then Mike took Emily and Mordecai for about another 45 minutes. Halloween Ruby and Ivy swapped costumes. 

October was fun, busy, and really fast! Between all the activities I still had school and my first anatomy and physiology exam in there too, plus mutual, piano lessons, and kids homework. Life with a family is hard, busy, full of ups and downs but great and so worth it!!!

 

 

The Rest of July

I signed Emily and I up to run a 5k bubble run. Mine and Marci joined us and it was really fun. The weeks prior Emily and I went on a couple of runs together. She talked the whole time, and twirls and runs backwards all while I'm just trying to breath. Haha. We plan on doing more runs together.

Later in July the kids and I drove up to Rock Springs, Wy to visit Felicia and her family but also to see Wanda and Rachel since they were driving through to pick Joseph up from BYU-I. It was a fun visit and makes me ache for family to be close again.

Last, but not least I graduated from the pathway program this month. I'm so glad I did it! I made some very good life long friends and I'm furthering my education.
 

 

Bolder Boulder 10k

Bolder Boulder!!!! I wasn't planning on running this 10k because 2 weeks ago I did the Spartan, but after feeling so great after that race I decided I would. Plus it helped that Marci was doing it and looking at the website for it they had all these fun pictures; so I decided to sign up. I also talked Tom into doing it with us so they drove down Friday night. My goal was not to beat any previous time records, but to run the whole 6 miles nonstop. I did just that. I was a little bummed that I didn't do so well with time,1:15:05, but I hadn't really run since the race 2 weeks ago except for one 6 mile run and a 4 mile run so I guess it wasn't so bad. I am just amazed that I can do it...even with in inhaler.

Spartan Sprint Race

A while ago Joey texted me and told me he was doing a Spartan Sprint race here in Colorado Springs. He casually hinted that Mike or I or both should do it with him. Later in the month of April he sent me his flight information and a text telling me that I should do it with him. The 4-mile run wasn't the part that I was worried about. The obstacles were what I was worried about because I looked at their website and saw how crazy they looked and that they were Military type obstacles. Anyway, I finally gave in and did it because I wanted to spend some time with Joe. We ended up roping Felicia into doing it with us, which was totally fun. We crawled through more slippery, slimy mud than I can say. Over some pretty high off the ground nets and ladders that up until now I had no clue I was that afraid of heights. We climbed over countless walls and jumped over fire. My body is so sore and tired, but well worth the experience. I LOVED every minute of it and would do it again.