Well, we didn't drop off the end of the world, just couldn't "find the time" nor motivation to update our blog. I can't believe that I haven't posted since August. I am a terrible blogger!
August Recap- I can't remember if I posted about the Dirty Dash. We went to the dirty dash in Boise with Jennifer and her fam. First, I ran the full course with Jennifer's work (Who were all very nice) then we did the Piglet Plunge with the kids. They had lots of fun, but it was somewhat chilly that day, so after the "plunge" and waiting forever to shower, the kids got a little grumpy. But don't worry, after getting hosed down with a fire hose, and getting into dry clothes, they couldn't quit talking about it!!! Yes, I finally got the last bit of dirt out of my ears about a month later. Below: Me in the mud pit. Can you see me?
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September 2011- We were very busy with Cross Country, Ryan's School, Hadlee's School, my BIRTHDAY!! (27 isn't so bad!) making scarecrows for the scarecrow festival, (and another year of not winning any prize, I am determined next year!)and anticipating the most awesome holiday of the year... Halloween! On Labor Day Weekend, we went to Lava with Ryan's Parents, and Michelle's family. It was a lot of fun, we stayed in a KOA, went 4-wheeling, to Hooper Springs, ice cream outing, swimming, fishing. A great weekend! (If you want somewhere to go kid's fishing, and are in that area, go to the kid's pond in Soda Springs! The fish were huge and there were tons of them!)
Aezlyn with Princess' Hadlee and Aezlyn! (Can you tell which one is which?)October- I admit we are a little Halloween crazed! We have an awesome reason to be so "enthusiastic" about it... Aezlyn's Birthday. Besides the anticipation, we did lot's of the regular fall activities, pumpkin painting, carving, decorating. It was such a mild October, we were in heaven! The girls were witches, and Aezlyn wasn't afraid to tell anyone about it! We went to the Pumpkin walk in Logan. It was so cute, our girls loved seeing the pumpkins. My cross country finished up
Aezlyn's birthday was quiet again, but she loved it. We celebrated on Sunday the 30th. Her cake was a barbie witch cake! She received tools to help dad, horse and rider, cinderella and horse, and lots of other presents! We decorated pumpkins also! We trick or treated on Monday. First we went to the Neal's neighborhood party, which they do an awesome job! Then off to the trunk or treat at the church, then we hit the nursing home, then to a few of our patients' homes. After that, we were pretty much done! So, we came home and decorated cookies, and the girls had tons of fun giving candy to trick or treaters. (Which is nice because, we gave away all of the candy that we didn't want our girls to have!)
November- Pretty quiet! We went to Boise for Thanksgiving. All of the Summers' clan was there, and we had a great time. A few of the stores started their black friday sales on thursday night, so we headed to Walmart, Target and Kohls. We really didn't have that much we wanted to get, but as always it's fun to see the chaos. The worst we saw was a guy dumping his pop on another fellow over a vacuum!
Christmas!! We were decorated for Christmas before Thanksgiving, no joke!! We were pretty quiet for Christmas too. With no snow, it was very odd. We had a Christmas House! We had lights hanging, a blow up santa, and lighted tree things. Funny story about our Christmas Tree. This summer, we decided that a blue spruce tree in our back yard had to go, it was starting to interfere with the sandbox. I had a great idea to use the tree as our Christmas tree, saving us a couple bucks, and a trip into the mountains. So Christmas time, Ryan cut it down and shaped it a bit (so it wouldn't take up the whole living room) and we had a perfect tree with little amount of work!! I loved it, and added bonus; the needles were sharp and hard, it made for a perfect deterent for wandering hands!
January 2012- Pretty much the same things as always, but with nicer weather, we were able to be outside a bit more. Which means less cabin fever!!
February-
I apologize for not having more pictures, but it wouldn't let me upload the pictures, I need to do some investigating!
