A good deed

In Ashton's class they are collecting canned food for the Food Pantry...

Ashton came home on Monday, he and his friend, Collin, had made a sign...

"Please donate canned food to K-1 for a Thanksgiving Meal!"

He asked if for Family Home Evening we could go around to our neighbors with his sign and ask for canned food donations. Great idea! So, at about 7:30 our family went all together around to the neighbors to ask for donations for school for the Food Pantry. Ashton was so nervous, daddy helped him! :) But, he held up his sign at every door, very proud! He had great success! Everyone was so nice and told Ashton it was so kind what he was doing! A neighbor even came over tonight with more canned food. We drove to Grandma and Grandpa's and Grandpa gave us some canned food too! We brought in 2 full brown bags of canned food this morning to school. Ashton's teacher was so proud of him!

stats

Just looked up half marathon stats:
me: Time 2:03:01.5 / Pace 9:23

mom: Time 2:03:43.8 / Pace 9:27

Primary Program 2011

Yesterday was our Primary Program. All the children did such a beautiful job on their parts and the singing was angelic. These children carry such a sweet spirit with them, it was a beautiful program. My kids had invited their teachers and were disappointed cause neither of them came.
Sierra's part: "We are richly blessed in these latter days to be given a prophet to lead and guide us. I hear a living prophet speak the things that Christ would say and I fell the Holy Spirit as He teaches truth and right."

Ashton's part: "If we listen for the voice of our Father in Heaven. He will lead us on a course that will allow us to experience the pure love of Christ."

The Half

13.1 miles

Yesterday was the Marathon in Santa Barbara and me and my mom ran the Half. My time was 2 hours 3 minutes. I ran to the finish lightening speed, my family didn't even see me! :) But, they saw my mom running to the finish. We stayed together the entire time until about 2 miles before the finish there was a good size incline and that is where I lost her. I kept turning around to see where she was, couldn't see her. She said she could see me the whole time. She was only about a minute behind me.

It was SO much fun! All the people that came out to cheer us on, didn't know any of them but I loved giving all the kids high 5's. Well, I did see Blake Webster and the Malloy family and I loved the fact that my family was waiting for me at the finish line. Looked forward to seeing them. Then when I reached the finish line I didn't even see them, there were SO many people everywhere.  SO cool! Thanks for coming my family, for your love and support, love you SO much! xoxo
About 1 mile before the Finish a girl was running in front of me and she peed her pants. It almost got on me cause I was right behind her. Totally just peed! GROSS! All down her legs, into her shoes but she kept running like nothing happened. YUCK! I sped up and passed her, I didn't want to be down wind. :P
This was my first Half, hopefully many more races to come! :)

11/11/11 and tomorrow we race!

Jake's Great-Grandpa Elmo is the only Veteran in our family that is still alive. Yesterday Ashton was supposed to bring the star back to school with a veteran family member, their relation to you and what part of the armed forces were they a part of. He was excited to put his Great-Grandpa's name on the star and draw a picture of him on the ship.

We called Great-Grandpa tonight and wished him a Happy Veteran's Day! We are grateful to all our Veterans, their courage, bravery, sacrifice to keep us safe as we continue to enjoy our freedoms.
And tomorrow is our (me and mom's) Half Marathon. YAY! We're ready! We even ate a big plate of spaghetti for dinner! :)

Sweatshirt Weather

We are finally amidst the colder temperatures and I just love it! I love being cozy in my flannel sheets! I love wearing my uggs, my sweats and taking hot baths! This morning it was 57 in our house and it was the first time since last winter that I felt like I needed to turn the heater on just to take the chill out of the air. I was in the kitchen putting lunches together and Ashton came out and immediately smelled the air and said "ooohhh, it smells like Christmas! I love that smell!" :)

This is Halloween...

The King of Knives is ready for school.

 Little Red Riding Hood is ready too.

 In the school parade with fellow Police Officers, Princesses, Kitty Cats, Army Guys, Baseball Players, Wolves, Zombies, Mummies, Saloon Girls...

 Gumby was running down the street.

 I picked up a Pirate.

 Picture with cousins.

 Ate homemade Cafe Rio.
Ready to go Trick-or-Treating with Halladays, Dunns, Harris' and Whitmores!

Recovering from sugar coma!