Christmas Eve Family Picture 2012

Christmas Eve Family Picture 2012
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

We Love Halloween!

Rick is starting to be less excited about dressing up :(  He let me make him a black eyed "P"

I always make them take a pic on the porch.

Abby, the dragon loved her treats but wanted to eat them all right away...

Sydnee, the witch and our Monsters Inc. pair.

Abby got pretty mad when we cut her off of her treat bag :(
Our family loves to dress up each year, and even though it is a bit stressful to get five kids to decide on what they want to be, quit changing their minds, and gather all the necessary items, it really is fun!  I am not one of those overly ambitious moms that makes homemade costumes each year, but we manage to make everyone happy.  This year I did make a felt version of Mike Wozowski from Monsters Inc. for Adyson.  We had a fun Sully costume from when Rick was younger that Avery wore to match.  Abby loved going to our ward trunk or treat and having everyone hand her treats like crazy.  After we pigged out on homemade donuts we headed out into our neighborhood to trick or treat for awhile.  The kids had a blast running around with their friends.

Monday, October 29, 2012

It's Pumpkin Carving Time!

Avery's camera face :)

Abby loved it!

Rick was happy to do his own.

Our master carver.

Adyson's pumpkin was really hard for her to cut through.

My brother, Tanner decided to join us!
We have always had the fun family tradition of carving pumpkins together and roasting the seeds afterwards.  I think my husband is starting to enjoy it more now that the older kids can do there own and he isn't carving all of them by himself :)  It is a messy affair, in fact this year I found pumpkin on things for a week.  It was even on the ceiling in the next room....

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Court Of Honor-Rick's a Star!

Rick has really been enjoying all of the fun activities he does with the scout troop in our ward.  He is always working on parts of different merit badges and rank advancement.  This fall he received the rank of Star and is on track to eagle.  We are so thankful for this program and for all of the great leaders that he has working with him.

I couldn't be there so his dad went up to receive the pin from him.

Rick receiving his awards.

Monday, October 22, 2012

Adyson the "Captain"

Adyson recently finished her first cross country season with Pacific Middle School.  She did great and had a lot of fun!  Her team voted her to be one of next years captains and gave her some fun socks and roses.  Only one other 6th grader has ever been picked.  She was pretty excited!

Captain Adyson!

Getting her certificate

Sharing her PR

Saturday, October 13, 2012

We have a teenager in the house!

Rick and his friends

Yummy ice cream cake

Rick and Braiden...too cool for a picture :)

New beanie!

Sheesh! He is getting big!

Pumpkin pie for his family B-day Dinner

Our only boy is "13"!  It is hard to believe how big Rick has gotten, but when I look back on all of the fun things we have enjoyed doing with him, and what a joy it has been to have him in our family, we have spent the first 13 years of his life wisely :)  We celebrated him by having a big waffle breakfast the morning of his birthday.  Then he and his dad went to the rock climbing gym for a bit.  After that we had a fun joint birthday party with his friend, Braiden Broadbent.  They both invited friends to come and play basketball games and dodgeball at one of our church buildings.  They had fun goofing around and then we had snacks, ice cream cake, cream puffs and presents at the Broadbents house.  On sunday, we had a family dinner to celebrate.  Rick requested Beef Stroganoff.  We are so blessed to have such a great kid.  Rick is truly a good person.  He is sensitive to others, and such an obedient, hard working child.  One of his gifts from us was a scrapbook of letter, pictures, and advice from close family and friends.  I wanted him to have some things to think about as he enters his teenage years. Some of his favorite things are:  Food: Beef Stroganoff, Orange Juice, Sports: Running, Wrestling, Basketball, Books: Anything by Rick Riordan, Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, Movie: Finding Nemo, Cars 2, T.V.Show: Psyche, Phineas and Ferb, Family Vacation: Yosemite and Disnseyland-Big California trip, Family Tradition: Summer Camping.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Districts!

Getting ready at the start-her coach made them all cute hair ties.

Up front with some of her teammates.

Pain in her face...but she still ran hard!
Adyson had her first District Cross Country Race.  She was hoping to stay in the top 10, but she was fighting fevers, headaches, and a sore throat all week :(  She even came home early the day of the race with a sore throat.  She took tylenol, and decided to go anyways.  It was a rough run, but she finished and got to be a part of a fun meet.  She placed 14th overall with a time of 10:23 for 1.5 miles out of almost a 100 girls in the district.  Not bad for her first year!

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Fall Fun

Adyson and Abby being goofy

Avery and her bright blue eyes!

Abby loves cows!

Climbing the hay pyramid

Quick family photo

Abby had to skip her nap for this trip and she got sleepy on the hay ride.

Sydnee claiming her pumpkin

Avery took awhile but she finally found one she liked

Tortured the kids with another family picture...
We got lucky and were able to get to the pumpkin patch as a family on a bright, sunny day.  The kids had fun going through mazes, petting farm animals, climbing hay pyramids, going on a hay ride, and picking out a pumpkin of their own.  The rule is that they have to be able to carry their own pumpkin if they want to keep it and now that they are getting older and stronger, we are ending up with some pretty large pumpkins on our porch...

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Abby's first haircut

Getting ready!

So blonde still :)

All done!
Abby was finally due for a trim.  She is over 2 1/2 years old and it was getting pretty uneven and stringy.  She was very excited to act like a big girl and she held pretty still.  A family friend of ours, Yvette Ogata, did the trimming and since she has very baby fine hair still, it did not take very long.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Nike Prenationals

Run, Rick, Run!

Racing to the finish

These are just the middle school girls-So many!

Go Adyson!

Fast finish

Running buddies :)
Rick and Adyson recently competed in the Nike Prenationals.  It is a really fun, large race free to participants that is held inside Portland Meadows horse track.  They run with Bowerman Athletic Club that is sponsored by Nike.  This club does all kinds of fun meets together and they even get to rub shoulders, train, and get to know a lot of the Olympians that train at the Nike campus.  Some of the olympic runners even do training runs with the kids. They ran a 3K race with all middle school age kids.  They had a lot of fun and did very well.  Rick ran it in 11:50, around a 6:20 pace. He placed 43rd out of almost 180 kids.  Adyson ran it in 12:45, around a 6:45 pace.  She placed 33rd out of over 190 girls.  I love that my kids share a love of running with me!