Thanksgiving 2012...

Thanksgiving this year was with Bryce's family, and it was a blast. We decided to travel back and forth from Boise to Middleton each day since it was a short 30 minute drive. Thanksgiving Day Pennie reserved the church building since our family group was so large. While prepping for the feast the cousins had fun playing games together. Each family was in charge of bringing something, we were in charge of a veggie platter. I found a cute idea on Pinterest to create a veggie platter that looked like a Turkey, gobble gobble. It turned out pretty cute. Everything was super tasty, there was a lot of food. Before leaving the church Pennie bought each family a giant ginger bread house to decorate. Everyone, especially the kids had fun decorating their houses. We all cleaned up and left the church. The rest of the night was spent relaxing and looking at ads to go shopping early the next morning. The remainder of the weekend was a lot of fun. Friday night was date night with all the adults. For dinner we went to Applebee's, and then went to Big Al's to play some games in the arcade. It was nice to be together with no kids. That night we stayed at Trevor and Marcy's house because the next morning Pennie treated everyone to Jump Time, all 38 of us. Jump Time is an indoor trampoline park with specific areas for adults and kids. Everyone had a BLAST. Later that night everyone gathered in Middleton to play games, chit chat, and eat snacks. Overall Thanksgiving weekend was fantastic. It's always fun getting together with Bryce's family and making new memories. Happy Thanksgiving!

Bounce

Our family has enjoyed going to Bounce many many times for Family Home Evening, birthday parties, or just for kicks. Bounce is a warehouse full of different blow-up houses the whole family can enjoy. One night our family invited the Wall's and Oakey's to join us for family night. The adults had just as much FUN as the kids. At one point the wives challenged the husbands to race in one of the obstacles. Guess who won? The girls, yeah! We had a blast.

Halloween 2012...

Halloween was a lot of fun this year. They looked super cute in their costumes, Miles was a dinosaur and Kyra was a monkey. We were busy busy busy. Starting at 3 we went trick-or-treating at Bryce's work, attended trunk-or-treating with our ward and two others, and then ended the night trick-or-treating door to door in my sister's neighborhood with my family. Needless to say the kids were definitely not hurting for ANY candy by the time they were all done. All in all we had a lot of fun together.

Miles in his glow-in-the-dark skeleton pajamas...

Adorable Dinosaur...

Spunky Monkey...

Tried and failed at getting a decent picture of them together, haha...

Trunk-or-treating, my GREAT friends Alli and LoraAnn [yes I'm the lame one who NEVER dresses up for Halloween]...

Brent and Kim as Super Heroes...

Boise Temple Re-Dedication

The Boise Temple closed down over a year ago for remodeling. The remodeling is all done and now open to the public for tours before the temple is rededicated on November 18th. Lots of volunteers were needed to make this open house run smoothly. Bryce and I were asked to be tour guides for two different shifts, it was a great experience. We also went on a tour with the kids another day. It was a neat to walk through the Temple with my kids and show them where mommy and daddy got married. I also took a few of my best friends on a tour as well. They enjoyed seeing the inside of such a beautiful Temple they know is super special to me. The Temple really is heaven on earth.

Color Run...

The Color Run is known as the HAPPIEST 5k on the planet, and it was indeed. The race is less about speed and more about enjoying a color crazy day with your friends and family. Our team name was Color Me Awesome. I ran the race with my good peeps Ann, LoraAnn, and Alli. We had a blast getting splashed with fun bright colors while running. I hope this race returns to Boise each year, super fun.