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!

Santa Clara Swiss Days

Last weekend, Sean , our friends Heather, Brecken, Kaye, and I ran in the Swiss Days 5k. We had lots of fun and hated it at the same time. But, we all finished without collapsing, so that's good. I'm happy to say that Sean beat me by 2 minutes, without having any asthma! What a good little sport he is! I'm a little embarassed to put these pictures of me on our blog, so just remember I just got done running!

"You Had Me at Hello"

You know, it actually seems like it's been 20 years, but only four years ago (September 4, 2004), the four of us started our journey together. It's been crazy and wonderful, and I wouldn't change it for a thing!