OFF and RUNNING!

The cross country season has begun!  Our school has participated in 2 meets so far.  Everyone is doing a great job!  The girls are even thinking that they might want to start training to run in the Rock-n-Roll Marathon in January!

Tanner is in the black shirt, coming up on the finish line!  He took 12th place!

Addy coming up on the finish line.  She took 6th place!

Amanda heading out with a whole pack!  I'm not sure what place she took, but she was first from our school in the 7th and 8th grade girls!

Definitely my Daughters!

Friday night Amanda and Alyssa planned a SURPRISE Birthday Party for their friend Emily. They did a great job!  There were about 30 teenagers that kept the secret and surprised Emily!

Amanda announced to me later that she wants to be a party planner when she grows up!  I think that is a great idea!

4 Handsome Dudes!

Yesterday we attended the baptism of 2 boys in Tanner's primary class.  There are 6 boys in Tanner's primary class!  One boy (that may or may not be Tanner) started wearing a suit to church about a year and a half ago.  Now all 6 boys wear a suit to church.  They look so SHARP!  I love that they feel church is important enough to look their VERY BEST!  Notice I didn't say always acting their very best!  I know their teacher has quite the job keeping 6 boys on task, and we really appreciate her!

Our Last Good Lake day for 2009

Again for Family Home Evening five boats full of people from our ward headed to Lake Pleasant for an evening of visiting, wake boarding, tubing, and dinner.  It has really become a fun time we all look forward to!  For the first time ever I got pictures of all four of our kids wake boarding on the same day!

Amanda

Alyssa

Addy

Tanner

I say our last good lake day for 2009, because the following Monday when we were all enjoying our time at the lake, the engine in our boat decided it was not enjoying the lake like we were.  So we bid our boat farewell for 2009, and say we will see you again in action next year! 

Toys?

Who needs toys, when you have a bag of 240 red cups from Costco!

Or the blanket off everyone's bed! 

JUST BECAUSE

This is what I found on my kitchen counter the other day,  just because, I have an awesome husband!

CERTIFIED SCUBA Divers!

This weekend my three girls and I did our 5 open water check out dives, and are now certified SCUBA divers!

It was a lot more fun than I thought it would be!  And the girls loved it!  I have to say that I had a panic attack Friday night, just thinking about going under water at Lake Pleasant!  But I conquered one of my fears, and did it!  When you become neutrally buoyant underwater it almost feels like you are flying, which is a really cool feeling!

We can't wait until we can go somewhere tropical and apply our new skill!

Our class. The 4 of us, a 13 year old boy named Josh, and our instructor Chris.

Amanda underwater at Lake Pleasant.

Alyssa underwater at Lake Pleasant.

All of us getting ready to enter the Lake.

Getting ready to go under!