Oh my goodness, it's been forever!

Sorry Dad! I've been out of the bloggin world for way too long. I just haven't been in the mood I guess, but now it means catch up. I've tried to combine pics so this post isn't huge! But it still is pretty long so ... hope you like it!

Back in September we decided we hadn't gotten enough campin in this summer, so we took a last hurrah campin trip with Dan, Heidi and Tag Goodrich, up Farmington Canyon. It was a quick trip and a little chilly but well worth it! I love campin. This was Mayci's very first camping experience! It was a bit of a rough night, I don't think I slept more than an hour or two!


James started piano lessons in September too. He LOVES it, I think it's mostly because he has a little crush on his teacher! But I do have to say she's pretty awesome. Thanks Sadie for taking on this challenge! James is catchin on quick, he'll be great if he sticks with it.

My kiddos discovered a new love. We went to fee the ducks up at Weber State for Family night one night. They loved it, and ask all the time when we get to go again. We've actually been two more times. It's a fun thing to take up spare time waiting for Pete to get out of class. We've downsized to one car recently, so we have to go pick up Pete from School and the timing doesn't always work out just right with picking up James and Ragan from school too, so we have to find things to keep us busy rather than make ten trips!

Mayci is growing up way too fast...she already grew out of her cradle and is in her own room in and in the crib. She sleeps through the night most nights, I think this is due to the fact that she is officially a thumb sucker. I never thought I'd let one of my kids do this, but...well I guess I'm a "sucker!" She has already rolled over both ways and she's starting to get up on her arms when she's on her belly, but it still makes her mad after a few minutes of tummy time. She is an angel baby, she rarely cries and she is always happy to see me. I love it, but it makes me sad that she's growing so fast!

Pete ran his first 5K. His respiratory class puts one on every year and he was required to participate by volunteering or running it. He chose to run. He and his group had to drag a respirator with them which ended up falling apart half way through. So their time wasn't anything wonderful, but they had fun! I'm just happy to see him so happy. He loves his program and all the people there!

This is an odd thing to post about but I just find it funny. Leave it to Pete to make gourmet Ramen Noodles! (They are actually really good)

And of course I can't forget Halloween! I L O V E halloween! We always have a lot of fun. We have lots of halloween traditions. This year we made our own decorations. We made a paper plate skeleton for our door that the kids named Rudy. They would say goodbye to him every time we left the house. They also made some cute little handprint spiders to hang in the window. These kinda things are so much more memorable than store bought! Of course we carved pumpkins. And then a really fun thing happened this year. We went to my mom and dad's in Heber for trick or treating and all of my siblings decided to do the same. We had all the grandkids there together to trick or treat (except Chloe of course :() It was a lot of fun! OH and we had a way fun witches party at Pete's mom's house with some of the neices and one of Pete's Aunts (Deon) We had a witch parade at Grandpa's work and then we went dressed up to Don Pedros for dinner. We were quite the sight!

So that is my update minus a lot of details, hopefully I'll keep up better from now on!