Gingerbread House 2013

Sorry this one is out of order...We built gingerbread houses before Christmas last year. The boys were so excited!

SELFIES!

The boys are really into taking pictures with my phone. These are some of the selfies they have taken.

My monsters are freakin cute!!

SO CLOSE!!!

I have been following the Patriots closely...I think it's about time they win another SUPERBOWL! These pictures were taken the day of their last game. They played the Broncos....unfortunately they lost to the Broncos ending their season for this year. Too bad! I would have loved to through a party if they had gone. 

My game day attire!

The only game day buddy I had that day. The boys were at their dad's, so it was just us girls! She watched the whole game right by my side...such a sweet dog!

Christmas 2013

So this Christmas was the first of many by myself and just the boys. I had to work Christmas eve so we did it the Sunday before...they didn't know the difference! They were just ecstatic that they got to finally open their presents. Unfortunately I didn't get pictures of this one. They had a good time though. 

They Saturday before we had a family Christmas party. It was pretty fun. All the kids came out, and my cousin Spencer brought his little baby out. I did get pictures of this day! GO ME!! Oh, Ry brought out her boyfriend too! 

Spencer and Jason

Carson opening his LEGOS

Mak with his LEGOS

Daniel and Kendra with Isaac's head. Carson actually took this picture!!

Ry and Andrew

Ben and his Boys, and Kendra

Ben...Carson took this picture too!

Daniel decided to go play outside with the boys and Nessa. He pieced his snow suit together!

I don't remember what she was laughing at...

They boys with their LEGOS put together

Mak helping pass out presents...I think he just wanted his!

Rose and baby Jason

Daniel and Nessa

2013 ZOMBIE RUN!!!

My friend Mindy and I have tried to run together for motivation and something to do together. We decided to run some races, and one of them we chose was the Provo Canyon Escape. It was a ZOMBIE run. It started up Provo canyon and you run "down" to the finish. Well, it was not all 'DOWN" like they said. We were on a paved trail that went up, down and all around! 

Here's how it worked, at the beginning when you signed in they gave you a yellow flag (symbolizing your "BRAINS") and a clip. You had to clip the flag to your person somewhere visible. Then they bused you to the top. We received a 5 minute head start in front of the ZOMBIES...not enough!! They had what were called stumbling ZOMBIES. These were just ZOMBIES that were on the trail in certain spots to scare or throw you off. They could not however take your "BRAINS", only the running ZOMBIES could do that.

The race started and we hadn't seen where the ZOMBIES were even at. We ran up the trail a little ways and there was a guy dressed in army gear with a fake machine gun yelling "HURRY UP< PICK IT UP< THEY'RE COMING!" the whole time shooting at these freaky looking ZOMBIES.

We did pretty well, Mindy lost her "BRAINS" about 3/4 the way through the race. Probably the last mile I found one extra "BRAIN" laying on the ground, so I picked it up. You never know when an extra "BRAIN" would come in handy! Turns out it did. We turned a corner and there was a ZOMBIE in the middle of the trail waiting...He zeroed in on my flag and started for me...I traded the "BRAIN" in my hand for the one clipped to my waist! HAHA, he took it, and it looked like I was going to be a survivor of the Race...

Last 200 yards was up hill with 2 ZOMBIES. I didn't know whether they were stumbling ZOMBIES or not, but he saw my flag and started for me. I had to SPRINT the last 200 yards uphill to keep my "BRAINS". I am happy to report that I SURVIVED!! 

We both had so much fun during this race, we will be making a reappearance in 2014! Here are the pictures I was able to take, there aren't a lot because I was running.

These were signs that they had posted all over. Rules...They were pretty funny!

The starting line. It was really pretty here in October, and actually there was a ton of people here taking family photos. Couple of the little kids got a little scared when they saw the ZOMBIES. They had a make-up artist come in and do their make-up so they all looked really freaky and cool. Somebody probably got a ZOMBIE photo bomb!

Mindy and myself. <3 her!!

A sign at the starting line, It says INFECTED AREA BEYOND THIS POINT

I'm so upset that this picture didn't turn out! she looked really cool. Had bones sticking out her arm and blood everywhere! You can kinda see her. They boys love this picture. They are obsessed with ZOMBIES lately!

This is the only picture I have of my SURVIVOR shirt. It is so funny, when I wear this Carson gets so excited and wants to look at my ZOMBIE shirt all the time!! The bottom of it says I CAME. I RAN. I SURVIVED!

Mak Turned 5!!!

I hate having to catch up blogging, but I have been horrible at this...BIG surprise, I know. Mak turned 5 this past November. He got a lot of fun things. I think next time I will reconsider giving legos. It really sucks having to put them all together. He only got a fire truck and a police car, but those things are very complex! Whoever came up with these are rolling in the money right now. Anyways, here are some pictures of the occasion. 

Here is the Cake I made for him. He wanted a Lego cake...this is what he got. It's not great but i thought it turned out good. He enjoyed it. That's all that counts right?!!

New family pictures!

Back in June I had some family pictures taken of the boys and me. I wanted some pictures to put on my walls that were new and had no old memory tied to them. Most of them turned out pretty well. I'm still in the process of sizing my walls and seeing what size to make all the pictures. Here are some of the ones I like!