Family Pictures

We just decided last minute...very last minute to have our family pictures taken. We haven't really had a great one since 2008 so we were read for church and asked Tara to take them. I love the pictures of everyone except me. It was my greatest concern to get Kylie's because she changes so fast and I really needed an update on her. Her's turned out amazing luckily. The best part is that we are done!

Happy Birthday Diego! :)...2 teeth in 1 day!

November 15, 2010
Well,I feel like a pretty lame mom. I wanted to really celebrate Diego's birthday when his main present arrived which was supposed to be the week of his birthday. Well, the tadpoles still are not here. I have written all kinds of nasty emails and notes on their facebook page, but that is beside the point. It is the middle of November and still we haven't sung happy birthday to Diego!!! How rediculous! So I decided we may never see those tadpoles and it was time to move on. So finally we sang to Diego and had his frog cupcakes. My cute boy is 6!...That sounds weird, he has been for 2 months :)


Also, Mason lost 2 teeth in one night! Well, one fell out and the other was hanging by a thread. I talked Mason into having dad pull it out so he would get double the money. Really it was to consolidate and have less chance of the tooth fairy forgetting to come :) It hurt a little more than planned. He did the first jerk and it didn't come...ouch! I said "Oh Mason did that hurt a little?" and he said, "A little?" with big tears in his eyes. Poor little boy. I am proud to say the tooth fairy remembered to come. A rare occurence in our house.

Fishing with Dad

This is our "mess" of fish.

Saturday November 6, 2010
Yesterday my dad took me fishing on the Weber river. I haven't been one of the hunting, fishing, outdoorsy types that my parents tried to raise. I guess I am the black sheep of my family. I liked to stay home and cross stitch, write in my journal and I would Never kill anything. Plus I don't like to be out in the cold. Well, I haven't changed much. My dad asked me to go fishing and to be honest I wasn't to excited about it, but it sounded nice to go hang out with him. My mom volunteered to watch the kids because Esteban was coaching Gabi's practice.
Well, it turns out that I had a great time! It was a little colder than I am comfortable with. My cute dad did all the hard work. He baited the worm, unhooked the fish and cleaned them. I caught eight fish! My dad has been fishing his whole life and it is so obvious. I swear he knows exactly how the fish think. He would tell me just to move my pole a bit or let the line out a little and immediately the fish would bite. It was cool to see him so in his element. Thanks for the great time dad and letting me do all the fun part! You're the best!

October Wrap Up

Soccer, Soccer and more Soccer



Our pumpkins. Gabi's at the top,Mason's, Diego's and Kylie's at the bottom

Our scary crew

This is Porter and the other mummy is Gabi

Kylie was really into this activity

Matt was in charge of our mummy so of course we were laughing our heads off the whole time.

Our completed mummys.

After the mummys ripped out it was instantly a party of confetti as everyone threw toilet paper EVERYWHERE. Kylie was in heaven!

This kept us warm as well as entertained as they threw rolls of toilet paper in it and watched it explode.


Well our October slipped away pretty fast. We kept busy with Gabi, Mason and Diegos' soccer. I can't believe I don't have one picture of Diego playing soccer. Next spring. For Halloween we had a fabulous party at grandma's house. Grandma had scavenger hunts, guessing games, mini golf, mummy making and lots of great food. Everyone had such a great time. Trick or treating wasn't the best this year with a crazy downpour of rain that came exactly during trick or treating hours. We rented our costumes this year and the kids were all very happy with what they ended up being.

Montana Trip...Funeral

At the graveside

My poor grandma. So sad.


I wanted to see a bear so bad. One night we drove around town looking for them. It was a blast. Man did we see bears! We watched this one for about a half hour parked ten feet from him. We were hanging out the windows taking pictures and throwing twinkies and he kept coming closer and closer. At one point he got very close to the hood of the car and my sister very seriously said, "Alan, if he wants to get on the car...let him. Alan didn't even hesitate and seriously said, "Ok". I couldn't stop laughing. We had so much fun.



I love this. How often do you see this sign? It said Grizzly bear crossing next four miles. We took this picture about 6 times before we got it on the grizzly bear crossing part. So we have a ton of pictures that have us with scared faces and the sign says next 4 miles. :)

We saw so many animals on the Bison Range!

I have so many beautiful pictures like this. This is on our hike to the mountain lake

Yes that is a bear paw print (most likely a grizzly)

Last Monday (September 20th) my grandpa passed away. He isn't actually my grandpa but feels like it. They have been married 10 years. He made it to 96! So Annie Alan Chelsey and I went up together. My parents also went up in the trailer. We drove halfway Friday and finished Saturday morning. We arrived just before the funeral. My poor grandma was taking it harder than I expected. I'm afraid she is going to be quite lonely.
We did have an enjoyable 3 days after that though. We went to Glacier National Park (beautiful). We bear hunted and found 4 bears (all within 100 yards of where we slept in my uncle's yard.) Most of them were right in the yard. :) We went on a little hike to a beautiful mountain lake and we went to the bison range and saw so much wildlife.
I missed my little family, but knew they were in good hands with Esteban and Abuela. It was a great little break and nice to support grandma. She fell on the last day we were there and ended up in the hospital with a HUGE hematoma. So sad! Talk about getting hit when you are down. She will be in there for a month.

Top of Utah Marathon

September 18, 2010
Getting Ready at 4:00am


Ready to go and nervous as can be!

Last Goodbye

Mile 24

Coming down the last stretch!

4:09



We made it!

My biggest Fan!

About 6 weeks ago I was talked into running this marathon with Jen. It's not that I didn't want to but I didn't have much time to get trained properly. This was Jen's first marathon and she and John were planning to run it together until John dropped out. So I trained as well as I could and here we are!
We went up to Logan the day before and ate, picked up our packets and chilled at the hotel. The race was very hard. Poor Jen was injured and icing her leg the night before so of course that was not an ideal circumstance. It helped her to walk and give her leg a break and then go again. That was very hard on my body. I got stiffer and stiffer the more we walked and ran. At mile 21 Jen's knee completely went out and she was not able to run at all after that. It was amazing to see her push through her pain. I was so impressed. I left her at mile 23 because I knew John and Esteban were at mile 24. John went back and walked the rest of the way with her. Those last 2 miles were a real struggle for me. My legs have never been that tight before. But, we both made it and are excited to run another one.