CAN NOT WAIT!!

Ok so I have had a few minutes to surf the net tonight. I am giddy as a little school girl and am laughing at myself right now. I don't think that I have ever posted anything about this topic but I am just thrilled so I am going to!! I cannot wait to see TWILIGHT! Cannot wait! Counting down!! I loved the books as most who read them do. But I watched the trailers on Fandango (I have seen them before) and I got all silly excited again. Then somehow I found myself taking a silly little quiz and this is what I came up with . . . .














Take the Quiz and Share Your Results!

I have mixed feelings about this. I took it again and again and came up with some different results but I felt that I needed to go with my first one. hee hee I don't think that I am totally Bella --especially since I know some of you don't like her and she really bugs others--however, I do see myself in her and I think that most girls that do like or love Twilight have to see themselves as her too. So I will take it! Please please take this quiz and post it!! I really want to see who my fellow Twilighters are!!!

TROOPER'S ONE!!!

My baby boy is big!! Trooper had his first birthday on Saturday! He loves puppies and dogs so we decided to throw a puppy party. I made some cute puppy invitations where you pull out the doggy's tongue and it has the information on it. It said "Its a PAW-ty! Wag your tails, bark hooray! It's Trooper's 1st Birthday! Sat Oct 25th at Trooper's Kennel blah blah Come for some puppy chow and doggy treats. Woof your Arf!SVP!"
Troop loves the outside so we had it in the garage--which I thought was funny and fitting! We heated it up with heaters because it has been super cold. We decorated tables with newspapers and stuffed dogs and bones. We served hot dogs with salad and chips(in doggy dishes) and then cupcakes and ice cream. I tried to think of a drink that would be dogy-like and we teased that we should drink out of a toilet-- but we would need a NEW toliet so it wouldn't be too gross for everyone--and then suddenly we got asked to pick one up for my grandma and I thought it must be destiny. So we served bottled water out a a NEW potty! It was pretty funny. We had everyone secretly record their best bark and then played it for everyone so they could try and guess whose bark it was. Then Troop opened his presents and ate his cake and then crashed for his nap! I think he had a ball!! We gave our guest doggy bags with "puppy chow" to take home and I found gram cracker doggy bones too. I hope everyone had as much fun as we did! We love Trooper so much! I cannot imagine our family without him. He is such a boy!! He has the sweetest personality! He is so funny, and happy. He loves to cuddle with his mommy, loves Josie alot and thinks that he can do everything that she can and LOVES to play and wrestle with dad. Man that year sure did fly by--but we cannot wait for the next one! WE WOOF YOU TROOP! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

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Run

Yeah!! We just finished our first 5K! A little while ago Josh and I had a discussion about our hobbies together as a couple and well we don't really have very many things that we do together that I would consider a hobby. We LOVE to be together and be with our kids and we LOVE to work together alot, but I don't think those qualify as hobbies . . .So we decided that we would start doing some more fun hobby-like things together. Josh surprised me and we went crosscountry skiing last January together and it was a blast! We might get into that as our hobby but there hasn't been much snow for that. . .yet! So we thought that we would try the 5K running thing. For those of you that didn't know Joshy in HS he was smoken fast and I think still holds some records at Snake River. hee hee I am bragging about Joshy. But I was never really a runner so this is pretty new for me. Anyway we thought that we would try this and kinda keep it on the down low cause well less pressure right? hee hee But I did tell our Martin friends cause they are like professional runners and run like marathons and stuff so I thought that for safety reasons we should ask their advice! hee hee
The Run was on the coldest morning ever! Later that day it snowed several inches so we dressed super warm. We ran with the Martins and I totally stole this picture from Becky! I hope that is ok Beck! I was the last in our little group but I feel pretty happy about it--especially since this is my first race ever and well I didn't train very well either. I think I was 39:06 and Becky and Nick were 34:48 and Joshy was 31:26! I was so proud of him he did awesome! AND he was even sweet enough to offer to run with me so we could finish together but I am glad that he did so awesome and left me all by myself . . in the dust!! This was so much fun! I really think that we could have this as a hobby! Thanks Martins for doing it with us it really made the run funner! hee hee

Potato Harvest!!

Yeah for Thompson Farm they finished their potato harvest!! I think that they finished the Friday before conference weekend even!! That is pretty impressive I think. I can remember plenty of harvests when I was trying to listen to conference in my ten wheeler. Not that you could really cause the reception was bad and the radio was worse. But oh the memories that I have of harvest. It was miserable picking potatoes, riding the combine, the wind, the rain, the dirt boogers but the funny and irreplaceable memories of Jana's shirt getting caught in the machine and being ripped off her body, of being dared to eat a dirt clod and being dumb enough to do it, trying to go potty in the middle of a field with 6 layers of clothes on and and laughing so hard that you didn't quite make it, feeling your truck sinking in feet of mud, driving my truck with the park brake on (oops), having a mouse living in my truck and wanting to die in the middle of a dark field in the middle of the Fort Hall reservation driving a fully loaded truck down the road and your lights go out. Ahh what fun. I don't think that my kids will ever get to experience the real harvest like I did but I still wanted them to get a look at what grandpa was doing. They had a great time. Troop loved the tracker and the dirt and grease and Josie loved all the "Tatos" and getting to ride with Grandpa. Thanks DAD!!

What is with my kids and mud

I have to post this as well. There was one day a while back when we still here having days in the 80 degrees that it rained. It beautiful and still pretty warm outside after so I let Josie go outside with Aspen her little friend. They came back in a few minutes later. Josie was covered in mud (which isn't rare she seems to be a magnet to it) so I washed her off and sent them downstairs. Later that night We saw what she had been up to. I didn't really have time to clean it up right then. . . or even a week or so later. BUT I cannot tell you how many comments and looks I got from this little art project. People would pass me on the road and turn around to look and smile. hee hee so I had to take a picture of it with the culprit. The picture doesn't do it justice. it was really cute, hand prints all the way around.

BUSY Busy! When the cats away. . . .

Things have been uuper busy for us lately. I think that it is mostly just us trying to get into the swing of things. Between family stuff, work and our church jobs we don't really get to spend much family time together. One night for mutual, at least one night for Elders Quorum, one night for RS stuff and then add in some family parties, friends and recreation and we are not home. I am sure it is like this for all of you as well, it is hard sometimes to find a balance--but it has made me really enjoy and cherish the time that we do get to be together as a family. AND it lets Joshy have at least one night with the kids by himself. So far every Tuesday Joshy has taken Josie and Troop on a little mini date--to the park or to get kiddy cones or to visit friends. Josie tells me all about it the next day. She and Troop love it. I am so grateful to have such a sweet husband who is such a great daddy. However as I am going through my pictures I found these:


Now I know that I already posted one of Trooper eating a dirt clod--but I didn't really let him eat it-he just had it on his face. This time Josh took like 20 pictures of him eating handfuls of dirt out of a little play kitchen that we have out side. He just let him eat it I guess. No wonder on mutual nights Joshy says not to worry about dinner he will take care of it. Now I know what he is feeding them. hee hee

Joy School

Josie is doing Joy school this year!! Yeah!! She has been asking me about school for a while and wants to know when she could ride the bus. hee hee I wonder how long the excitement of school will last once she really is in school. We went school shopping and she had a ball. She carried around her bookbag for like a week before anything started, carefully laying out all of her "things". We have been doing it for like 6 weeks or so and I forgot to take a picture of her first day!! (I know, what kind of a mom am I?) anyway so when the kids were here at our house I took a picture. They have on thier Dotted Doggy Ears cause we learned the letter D.



Then this is a picture of her this week. She is growing up so fast!!

Harvest

It is that time of year again isn't it. I don't know if I am ready for winter just yet! I do love the fall colors and all the fall things like cooler nights, frost on the grass, harvesting the veges, canning, pumpkins and football--(Joshy thats for you). BUT when fall comes, winter is just around the corner. Yesterday October 9th there were snowflakes in the air!! Yes snow! Megan called me yesterday just so I wouldn't miss it. Nothing stuck but still it was snow. I do love the excitement of the first snow and am sure that when we do get some to stick it will be fun but after that it is like an eternal frozen dead land. BUT I am not going to dwell on that.

I decided to harvest most of our garden cause it is supposed to be in the 60's and 50's this week! So I pulled up the tomatoes and picked all the corn and I have to say that it is the BEST corn that we have had all year!! It looks pretty pathetic cause the cobs are so little you have to eat a whole one to get a mouthful but it is sooooo good. I love that we grew a garden--even if it didn't do as well as I would have liked and was lots of work. I am grateful that we have the means to grow our own food. Someone discovered that he loved it too! Trooper cannot seem to get enough of it. I think he might sit in his highchair and eat it all day if I would let him. Here are some good pictures of him enjoying it. hee hee