To sum up...

This summer we went to Jackson Hole with the Astle side of the family, 7 Peaks waterpark, Jared and I took a long trip down the California coast. That was really fun. that pretty much sums up our summer. I felt like making a sad attempt to catch up since the Holidays are just around the corner and a sad attempt it is. My pictures are being difficult so maybe one day I'll be caught up. Not today, though.

Happy Birthday Jackson

Jackson turned 7 this year and he chose to have a small friend party with 2 of his friends Wyatt and Addison. We went to Kangaroo Zoo and they all had a blast. I didn't take my camera but it was really fun. Annie was probably the most hilarious. I thought she'd hate it but she held her own and loved flopping around like crazy.

Schoooool's out for SumMa!!

I have no idea what Tanner's preschool teacher thought about him, but he LOVED preschool! Tanner IS an individual. I don't really know any other way to describe him other that that. He marches to the beat of his own drum and he couldn't care less what the rest of the band is doing. If I look away for a second I can not predict where I might find him. He keeps me entertained and not a day goes by that he doesn't say something sweet to me.



Jackson loved first grade! He gets SOO excited about learning and he focuses very hard when he wants to learn something or get good at something. I can trust that he does his best and he's proud of himself when he does well. That makes me happy. It's such a relief to know he motivates himself and homework and practicing things aren't too much of a task.


They love the summertime!!


Like I said, Tanner is an individual.


I hope they stay buds forever.

Last Minute Half

The night before the Ogden Half Marathon my friend called me and said her running partner for the race was sick and she offered me her bib. I actually made a promise to myself that I was not going to run any races again because I get too nervous and they aren't fun for me. BUT, this particular race is kind of hard to get a bib for and I heard it was a fun race. It was fun. It was by far the easiest half I've run and it was beautiful. I don't know if it was easy because I told myself not to worry about time or if it was because of the perfect weather or if it was because it was all down hill OR all of the above but I'm so glad I got to run it.

Crossing the finish line. My actual time was 1:46:06, my fastest half so far. Maybe not training is the trick for me.


People kept calling me Nicole. I felt like I was living a lie. It was kind of exciting.

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Our Garden

We planted a garden this year. It hasn't done as well as we had hoped but there is also hope that we'll keep learning and getting better

Jared worked really hard to put the garden box in. We've slowly been weeding and getting our lawn and things fixed up. We've come a long way from where it started but we still have a little work to do.


About 5 minutes after planting the last seed it hailed on our garden.


About 5 seconds after it hailed it was sunny again.



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Easter 2011

I have so many pictures from Easter but this is just a tid bit.

Kids definitely MAKE holidays for us! They are so much fun.


Annie LOVED her first Easter. She was equally surprised and equally excited with every egg she found like it was the first egg she found.

Shanthony

Jared's younger sister (the 2nd youngest sister 3rd youngest child) got married this year. She married Anthony Ford who is probably the only guy in the world we all deemed worthy of Shanna Banana.





Just a cutie pie I found in the mix of people.