Sunday, November 4, 2012

September and October

 We celebrated Seth's 10th birthday party and Sam's 7th birthday party by getting a huge waterslide inflatable, a cotton candy machine, a popcorn machine and snow cones.  We had quite a few people show up, I was glad it was outside and We could just hose off the mess!
 We spent labor day in Ouray (your way), Colorado.  We had a lot of fun ATVing and hiking around the mountains.


 The scenery was nice to look at




 The kids started school, Hailey is going to Bonham Middle as a 7th grader, Seth is in 4th grade, our neighbor Mrs. Leland is his teacher, and Sam started first grade at Sleepy Hollow Elementary.  Emily started preschool at Sonlight preschool with her best bud Zoe.


 We ran the Dirty Dash in Albuquerque on Sept. 8


 Emily didn't enjoy it at all.  She wouldn't let Aaron get mud on her.

 Seth raced through it and was one of the first to finish.


 Sam tolerated it.

 Hailey LOVED it!  She reveled in the mud.
 We all chipped in to buy my mom tickets to New York for her mother's day and birthday present.  It was an adventure from dancing statues in the Broadway show Mary Poppins to shopping to seeing the statue of Liberty and Ground Zero, I even saw an old mission companion at the General Relief Society broadcast.


 I ran my first Half Marathon in the Canyon with my friend Sarah Crane!


 For Aaron's 39th birthday we went to Maxwell's pumpkin farm with a bunch of people and we decorated the house spooky for when he got home from work.   He likes to have yellow cake with chocolate frosting.


 Seth drew this picture to enter into the reflections contest and won in the school!
 Halloween!  Grandma and Grandpa Thompson drove out to spend it with us.  We went to the ward Chili cook off and Trunk -r- Treat on the 30th.  We had the neighborhood over for taco soup and trick - or - treating on the 31st.





Sunday, August 19, 2012

July and August

We left for Utah, July 7 and returned to Amarillo Aug 7.  We had a great time and did so many things and saw so much family.  We went to City Creek in Salt Lake, Emily loved the Disney store.  She is sporting her new princess dress and sleeping beauty doll.  Anytime Emily gets hurt she wants me to kiss her on the exact spot of the injury.  If I don't get the exact spot, I am obliged to kiss her sometimes up to 4 or 5 times until I get the affected area.  She loves visiting grandma and grandpa.  She calls grandma, Grandma Soup.
We spent a lot of time with our cousins, whom we just love so much that we can't seem to get enough of them. We hiked to Stuart Falls, we went to the Days of 47 rodeo in the new multi-million dollar stadium.  Chris got us box seats.  Chris and Karen had an exchange student with them from Japan.  
 We went to Farm Days at Thanksgiving Point.  The kids fed the animals.  Emily especially loved the "horsey" ride and we went on a hay ride.  Charity and Rocky came.

 Julene and Amy ran with  me in the Speedy Spaniard 10k we run every year.  I beat out a girl that was racing me.  She never saw what was coming to her.
 We went with grandpa Mitch to the dinosaur museum, the fun thing about Utah is there is always someone to go places with!
 Aunt Amy planned a cousin camp, we took a tour of Texas Roadhouse, learned a line dance, went swimming, stayed over at Julene's house, went letter boxing and made crafts.
 We also got to see cute little Jack!!
 We love our cousins and Aunt Amy for planning it!
 On the way home we stopped off at Mesa Verde and saw the Indian ruins.  The ladders were scary one was 32 ft high.
                                              Martha Stewart
 Aaron and celebrated our 14th anniversary on Aug 4 by going to Wicked at capitol theater in Salt Lake, staying at the Anniversary Inn where we stayed 14 years ago to the day we were married.  We also went shopping at City Creek and went to the parade of homes.
 Seth has opened a lemonade stand.  I am proud of our businessman in the family.  He's sat out in the hot weather 4 days this week and he has earned $82 so far.  He and a couple of friends saw workers out in the hot sun building a home so they brought them over some complimentary warm lemonade,



Petey missed us while we were gone a month, he kept escaping our backyard.  We had 3 neighbors call us.   He has a strange way of laying down with his feet splayed out behind him.  We love our Petey!

Sunday, July 1, 2012

May and June

 We played miniature golf as part of Spring Break Sports Week
 Sam ran track
 We found a scorpion in Hailey's bedroom
 We met mom, dad, Charity, Ryan, Jada, Rocky, Julene, Angel, Amy, Joe, and Jack and Sam, Rambo, Natalie, Sarah, Adam and Spencer in Moab.  We hiked delicate arch and Sand Dune arch in spite of the strong winds!  We stayed at the good ole KOA in tents.
 The Princess and the Frog
 Hailey and I went to the 2012 girls camp
 Hailey went to Kabuki with Callie and Kaydance for her 12th birthday!
 Aaron and I ran the Amarillo Mud Run


We had a fun reunion in Missouri, we went to the lake, a drive in movie Madagascar 3 and had a fun cousin carnival complete with water games!