I had someone else take pictures

so here are a few of our results...we can never all be present or happy but I thought some of these were funny. It's always so hard to get that perfect picture for the Christmas card.

November recap...

What wouldn't be November without a little Thanksgiving Cheer we ate, we rested, we ate some more!


We braved the 34 degree temperatures and ran in a 5K turkey trot. We all finished and the kids did a 1/4 mile run. Thayne came in 3rd in his age group, Michael was 20th out of over 3000 people. It was really fun to start our day off running.







We also had some Cousin fun the week of thanksgiving, Crafts, movies, games, cooking and lots of eating.






We had a very cold, very fast swim meet It was fun but we think swimming should only be done in the summer time!

A visit to the Ranch

Really we are just doing the regular stuff around our house but this week I got to go with Emma's Class of 4th graders to Macado Ranch...It was a great time we made rope, learned about the rancher life, made our own Brand for our cattle that we bartered and traded for, drank hot cocoa, and best of all we learned to lasso! I think we may have a cowgirl on our hands. It was tons of fun.

Fall is a favorite around here...

We had so much going on this month here are a few favorites...

We had the Allred cousins come YEE HAH! These wild and crazy kids don't sit still they had so much fun we couldn't even get a still shot of them. They loved the dress up box!





We (Carissa) had homecoming week which means a different costume each day and lots of extra goodies , I had many nights shopping at T.J.MAX and the grocery store...I have never bought 40 bottles of red Gatorade for football players before, & then put labels on them that said "Bronco-Ade". I don't think it worked the team got killed on Friday night. oops.






Best of all it was Bob's birthday we had a great dinner out and cake and ice cream with all his favorites minus the pictures he really hates the camera ...but we got a few.






Last but not least we had Halloween weekend! Starting with parades and parties for the little kids and then pumpkin carving for 4 out of the 5 kids. We ate Roasted seeds till we were sick ate candy till we barfed and then went to Trunk ot Treat at the church...everyone loved the month of October.