Thanksgiving (one week late)

TOP 11 THINGS I'M THANKFUL FOR:

11 - spa days

10 - make-up

9 - contacts

8 - my house

7 - all of my fingers, toes, arms, and legs

6 - the internet

5 - cell phones

4- freedom of religion

3 - FRIENDS!!

2- FAMILY!!!

1- and of course. . . . my husband and my children!!! (They are also included in #2.)

I tend to forget how thankful I am for all of the many blessings I have. I have so many that I can't even name them all. So, here is my top 11.

5 THINGS TO REMEMBER WHEN RUNNING A 5K RACE

5. Don't wear pants (unless they are the kind of pants that you can rip off of you while running.)

4. Don't wear toe rings!

3. If you are going to listen to music, don't use anything bigger than an ipod nano.

2. Drink a little bit of water before the race.

1. DON'T SKIP THE WATER STATION!!! (No matter if you have to wait for a couple seconds!)


For some odd reason, I have been very motivated to run some 5k races. I have always hated running. I used to run track in middle school and part of high school. I'm not a good runner. Never have, never will. But, I love to exercise (actually, I have a love/hate relationship with exercise; hate to do it but love it when I'm done.) Anyways, I ran another 5k race on Saturday, November 8th. These are the top 5 things I will definitely remember next time I decide to run a race.

Halloween

Halloween pics! It was a lot of fun taking the two little girls trick-or-treating this year! Raimee was scared out of her mind! Alexis was very content after the first two houses: she had a piece of candy in each hand, and that was all she needed and wanted.

Harley and Sean went with their friends. They are already too cool to be trick-or-treating with their parents. I'm thinking, "Whatever! We are such cool parents!" I even dressed like a devil.

So those of you who know Mike, he absolutely will NOT dress up! I try to get him to dress up with me every year, but he just won't do it. We were invited to a Halloween party that it was mandatory that you wear a costume. Plus, the best dressed couple won a pot of money! Woohoo! Well, I knew we weren't going to win the pot, but I got Mike to dress up with me.

I searched and searched for matching costumes at the last minute. I just couldn't find anything that Mike would dress up as. Finally I found the T-bird and Pink Lady costumes from Grease, and on sale! Well, as you may know, costumes are non-returnable when they are on sale. The T-bird costume was a one size fits all. I'm thinking this will be perfect. Well, I get home and Mike pulls the costume out of the bag. He says, "Oh, this is way too small." I said, "It's one size fits all." He held it up to him, by the way he is football player size: 6'3" and 260 lbs. I cracked up laughing! It was half his size! He said, "I'm a little bigger that ONE SIZE FITS ALL!!!" I said, "Perfect! They wore tight pants and floods in the 50's!" He wouldn't let us take a picture of him full length. But he did wear it, and we did have fun!

BYU Game

We attended the BYU/New Mexico game the same weekend we got our family pix done (thanks to Jon and Tasha and Jon's dad.) Little chilly, but not bad. We were yelling at Cosmo (the Cougar), "Hey Cosmo, buddy, take a pic with us!"

We were also yelling at Bronco Mendenhall (first pic, 3rd from the left), "Hey Bronx, are we still invited to the party afterward?" But I think he forgot how good of friends we are cuz he didn't put us on the party list. I was like, "But we got a picture with Cosmo, doesn't that mean anything?" I guess it doesn't.

New Fam Pictures

Thanks to my brother and sister-in-law (Chris & Karrie), we just got new family pics done! Woohoo! (Chris was the talented photographer.) It is a chore! Kids don't sit still, they pull funny faces, Alexis kept pulling Harley's hair, Sean wanted to hold our poodle in all of the pictures. . . I think this is why we only take them once a year. Out of the billion pictures we had taken, only 2 came out with everyone looking forward (and still not everyone was smiling).
We had gone up to Orem for our niece's blessing, and to take Keetch family pics. We had woken up to snow, (which made a wonderful background for pictures), but it was soooo cold!

Mike and his cousin Cameron entered cars into the Swiss Days Car Show. Mike put his '72 Chevy Truck in (which he's been working on for 3 years). He won first place! Seeing as how he's been working on it for this long, we were ecstatic for him!