Family Pictures

It has been a while since I have posted because my computer was having issues. We recently had family pictures taken. Here are a few.







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Life

It's been a long time since I have blogged. I was waiting to get our family pictures done so we could post them, but I won't get them back for a while, so I will update you on all of us! Madi and Haiden have both started basketball so we are busy driving them to and from that. Haiden was in a JUDO tournament on halloween and took second place, she did awesome. Madi just started taking a dance class twice a week and is really excited about it. Elle just finished soccer and is taking a break for a while. Ryan and Haiden are headed to another JUDO/JU tournament in Montana at the first of December. I just switched to night shift at the hospital and am trying to adjust. I also started taking an adult clogging class which is really fun. That sums up our life currently and I will post our family pictures soon, so be watching for them!

Elle's First Soccer Game

As you can see from the pictures, Elle did not do much playing. She sat on the side lines, then sat in the middle of the field, and refused to play. Hopefully she will play in the next game!

 

Marathon

Ryan and I decided early this year we would run the marathon and the 1/2 marathon. We signed up and paid for it in March of this year so we would have the motivation to train throughout the year. Ryan ran the full marathon which is 26.2 miles, I ran the 1/2 marathon with my friend and cousin-in-law Connie and her sister-in-law Melody. What a great feeling of accomplishment, I can't believe we did it! I dropped Ryan off to get on the bus a 5 am, his race started at the top of Buckskin at 6:15 am. My race started in Inkom at 8 am.

Connie and I just before we left to catch the bus to Inkom.

Crossing the finish line.

Ryan running the last stretch of his race finishing in 4 hours 40 minutes.

I decided to join him.

Definantly a happy moment.

Groomsmen

Ryan's friend just got married and Ryan got to be one of the groomsmen! Here are some pictures of the event.

Here is everyone waiting to get pictures taken!

Ryan's friend Josh.

Ryan

Us!

Lagoon

We decided to have one last trip before school started so we packed up the kids and went to Utah and stayed at Ryan's cousin Amie's house. Connie, Amie's sister and Ryan's cousin, packed up her family too and drove down from Pocatello for the fun. We went to Lagoon with 6 adults and 9 kids. We had so much fun! Here are some pictures of our adventure!

Here are the girls on our way to Utah!

Amie has a Convertible Bug here is Madi enjoying a ride in it!

Poor Paige didn't want to ride on any of the rides, she stood and the fence and cried because her Mother (Connie) tried to make her ride the swings.

Here is Connie getting ready for the ride!

Here we are enjoying lunch together. (Clockwise) Amie, Connie, Derek, Me, Madi, and Anthony.

Lagoon

Here are the kids at lunch just relaxing! (Left to Right) Paige, Elle, Drake, Brendan, Haiden, and Logan.

Elle and me on the SCRABBLER!

Elle and Logan enjoying the ride!

My biggest kid, Ryan!

Haiden on the swings!