Library Parade

Cameron goes to story time at the library every week. This week, there was a costume parade before the stories. Cameron decided to be a knight for this parade. All the kids lined up and marched around the library stopping for little treats along the way. Then they listened to stories and enjoyed cookies and juice. During the stories, Cameron kept yelling out, "Oh yeah! Check this out!" He was busy inspecting his treat bag and was most excited about the tattoo and smarties. I'm pretty sure he didn't even know the librarian was reading stories. Rex dressed up like a little frog minus the hat that he didn't want to leave on his head.



We both tried to look our best for this picture.

October Snow

7 inches of snow on October 26 - right on track for Colorado. It seems like we are always trick-or-treating in the snow and cancelling soccer games because of blizzards. Cam and I went out to shovel snow this morning and decided to play for a little bit afterwards. (ps. I hate playing in the snow. So does that give me extra awesome mom points?) We tried to make a snowman, but the snow wasn't packing that well so we made a snowboy and a snow pumpkin.

Thanks for the craft!

Dear Grandma and Grandpa Marshall,
Thank you for the Halloween craft you sent us. We had a great time coloring them and are excited to see them decorating our dining room.
Love,
Your 5 far away grand kids








ps. our parents are taking us to Target this weekend to buy something sweet with the money you sent us.

Halloween 5k

I have been pretty motivated to lose baby weight since Rex was born. Something about knowing that I'm not getting pregnant again makes me feel like working hard to shed those pounds and inches that have accumulated over the past 11 years. One of the things I'm focusing on is trying to run faster. So for the past couple of months I've been training for a 5k and I ran it over the weekend.

Matt was so supportive as I was training, and I loved how he and the kids came to cheer me on during the race.





And for my own record, the official time was 25:15.

Cameron + desitin =

a big mess

No Bakes

Just because there is no baking doesn't mean there is no mess!





and as a side note - Cameron regularly wanders around with only one shoe on. I don't know how it doesn't bother him.

Out of practice

I am not so hot at blogging these days. Maybe I can attribute that to the fact that I really haven't been so hot at taking pictures. And maybe I can attribute that to the fact that I haven't been so hot at remembering to bring my camera along with me. And maybe I can attribute that to the fact that I haven't been so hot at having a brain that works. And I'm pretty sure I can attribute that to the 5 little lovelies that I call my children. But at one point in time, I remembered to bring a camera along with us on a trip to the mountains where I remembered to take some pictures. And I am remembering to blog about it. I am awesome. And hot.

And so here is a recap of that blessed day.

The kids found some safe pockets of water along the river where they could play



Rex was cute and sat on a blanket in the shade



I learned that Matt is fully capable of taking Rex along with him on all future fishing trips



The kids climbed up this little rock hill



And surrendered themselves to my every demand



Matt caught a fish