Jay & Melissa and cute baby bump.

Snyders

Ramos

Braden & Angie

kiddos

We spent Christmas in Vernal.  It was great waking up and relaxing at my mom's.  Well after we filled every single toy with a bazillion batteries.  It was a remote filled Christmas this year.  My mom made a big breakfast while the kids played with everything.

I swear she's happy to get this thing.  She asked for it in August and never forgot.  Good thing it was still available.

Here is Mike showing Colin how to fly his helicopter.  Colin received some legos and he said "Dad we have work to do"  Ha he meant Mike has work to do.

Christmas was a blast, but the following 3 weeks was filled with sickness.

Colin got Pnemonia

Kade got an ear infection

Steph got bronchitis & sinus infection.  The fever lasted 8 days.

Mike prob bronchitis & sinus infection.

Annelise nada.  I guess school has paid off and boosted her immune system.

We started the year off relearning healthy habits.  The kids share the new job of clorox wiping all the door knobs and we are fanatic about washing hands.

Thanksgiving was spent in Vernal.  It is always so fun to be with cousins.  We spent Thanksgiving with Danielle's family.  I really need to get pictures when we are there.  

There was a mishap.  I made banana pudding and left it on the porch, because the fridge was full of other fixings.  When Dylan & Braden came back from duck hunting they said they chased a dog away from my dessert.  It was demolished, Mike was mad.  I was too, those pepperidge farm cookies are not cheap.

A funny story was when the boys went hunting colin observed the boys with guns, and a dog.  He asked "Are they going to shoot that dog"  He didn't know the dog was going to do all the work for them.  City kids.

The only photos I have are the following day at Holly Days:

We went to the western park and played on the free bounce house.

Colin got in one of those balls that you run on the water.  We waited in line for about an hour.  He did say it was his favorite part.

Here he is a day after she removed the stitches.  Handsome little fella.

I have Reay feet.  Ive had bunions for awhile, but this thing started hurting this summer.  I decided to get it looked at and fixed.

Surgery was November 8th

I had to use the ice machine and compression machine for 3 days.  I stayed off it for 5 days.  

My mom came to keep kids while mike went with me to surgery.  Then she hung out a few days and cooked my fav chicken noodle soup.

Delicious.  

Mike & Colin showed up with beautiful yellow flowers that lasted forever.

I was visited by a mission companion Sister E and fantastic friends.  We got 4 amazing dinners.  I was on the receiving side of service, and it felt sweet.

 The next month I wore a big black boot.  If I had to choose a worst thing, it would be after the boot because I had trained myself to walk on the outside of my foot.  I guess I got tendonitis from trying to correct my walk.  My toe never did hurt, itchy yes but not hurt. Next was ALWAYS wearing good shoes.  Thats trickier than you think.  It was hard not to jump up to grab something out of the fridge.  

Here's a picture after week one

yucky

still wearing wide shoes but I ran 15 miles on it on Saturday and it felt great!

We headed to Snyder's neighborhood to run the streets of Sandy.  I say that, because that's how fast they were.

Colin was swamp fire from Ben 10.  Yeah we didn't know who that was either.  Luckily its not to popular so $12 on party city website.

love Kade's face.

In the car ride home, Mike loves to say "his favorite ride of the day, is the car ride home"  Not me I love roller coasters.

Birthday cake time!

He's got a contagious smile and laugh.  I can't be serious when Colin is being goofy, no matter how bad I try.

Presents

We gave him a skateboard and pads.  Grandpa Slater sent cash and he choose legos.  Grandma & Grandpa Webb gave him a bat rack that Lane made.

Awesome!

He came to us cute!

Colin..

Is sensitive

Enthusiastic

Loves friends (Jimmy tops)

has great handwriting

likes to please people

plays Ratchet & Clank with the best of them

teaches me everything he learns from Wild Kratts

hates long car rides (big time complainer)

favorite thing to say "what we gonna do now"  He's a goer.

We love our peacemaker.

We heard about Hee Haw Farms in Pleasant Grove from my friend Kristina.  Its a pumpkin patch/activity place .  It was really cute with lots of fun activities for the kiddos, but the pumpkin patch was a big disappointment.

super fun train ride around the farm

bag toss game.  My kids didn't really stand very far away so I'm not sure if they were any good at it.

The fun slide that Colin never wanted to leave.  Kade was brave enough to go down alone but it was scary with all the kids going down at the same time.  I don't think he would have been able to get off at the bottom without being taken out by another slider.  Next year he will be ready.

They let you get in with the goats and pet them.  My kids were loving it.

Tire swings that looked like tractors.   They were cute but not easy to work so they didn't play on them very long.

cutest faces ever!

A hayride to the pumpkin patch.  Along the path, they have people dressed up in costumes throwing candy into the wagon.  It was a great idea and we all love it.

When we got off the wagon is when the fun ended.  We should have noticed we were the only family getting off the wagon.  The pumpkin patch was horrible.  We decided to let the kids stay 15 more minutes and head to Riverton's Pumpkin patch, it was much better.

see what I mean?  Mike is all business when it comes to getting the pumpkins.  Annelise and Kade are still enjoying lollies from Hee Haw.

It was a super fun night.  I'm so glad Mike had the day off so we could beat the traffic and make it to 2 patches in one evening.

Happy Pumpkin Search!