We are still recovering from October

Whoever recommended having three children in the same month was crazy. And then somebody else said that it would be great to celebrate Halloween during that same month. We need to have a talk with that person. We mentioned that Boyd turned 5 (and we went to the races - a very Prician moment for us). It was followed shortly thereafter by Blythe's first birthday, which of course involves a child hungry for sweets going to town on their own little lady bug. Melody does great with these cakes.
She's a little trepidatious..
But somehow manages to overcome her natural daintiness and really enjoy everything there is to enjoy. It makes me wish we still got to do this, then birthdays would mean something again.
This is Noah's cake. I've mentioned several times how much he loves football, so he got his very own field, complete with goalposts made to Louie Sakodas specifications. You will notice in the bottom corner that mom took a few liberties that were not previously approved by the birthday cake steering committee.What power ranger can resist. We can't believe he is seven.This was Noah's present. There are a few family members (aunties and grandpappy) that should be in this photo. Lucky the Utes won in overtime or my boys would have been banned for life because of their bad luck. We found out that, while Noah hangs on every play, Boyd is very content eating fruit by the foot for three hours.And now we get to the crown jewels. Melody does a magnificent job every year with these, and as a bonus, she gets to visit DI every other day to raid for potential costume accessories. See if you can guess this years theme...

Got it yet?
Getting warmer.
A poker playing family?
This ended up awesome. Melody wanted me to point out that the crown eventually shrunk a few inches. She colored the black stripes underneath with magic marker and we all were high for the next several days. Notice her devoted subjects groveling at her feet.Ada calls this the "Madder Hat"Just in case you are still in the dark...
So we love October, but we also love when it is over.

Farewell to summer - we will miss ye

News and notes after a fun and eventful summer.
Trial run for family pictures. The rough draft if you will.

I dig the hair do.
And again...
We went to Deseret Thunder Raceway. I am not ashamed. The kids loved it...after we got some earplugs.
First season of soccer. As a former defender myself, I could't be prouder that this boy is a defensive monster (can you say that of a five year old?)
Learning the stairs
Birthdays (now 3)
Hiking with siblings.
Raging waters with cousins
Ninja destruction at the reunion
This lovely lady's golden birthday - I won't tell you how old, but her birthday is on the 30th.
Horses up in Logan.
N loves football. Here's his flag football debut. He did really well, but his team lost in the Super Bowl. He also knows more about football than me by now.
Had to get some work done around the house. Took out this load of trash but M made me bring it back.
And it's a good thing she did.
Birthdays galore. He's in a major monster truck stage.
I don't remember anything about this.

I've got a lot of catching up to do

It'll take a while. Here's a start.

Goodbye house. We loved you and you were great for us.

Hello house. I just couldn't resist putting this in. This is B's favorite postprandial activity, just hanging out on the dishwasher.More tomorrow.

Kentucky and so forth and so on.

The long national nightmare is over. We post again. Maybe that means the long national nightmare is just beginning.
In June we went to Louisville to visit aunts and uncles and cousins and had a lot of fun (though we were sad we didn't get down to Bham). They have a really fun place and it was very pretty. Though it was difficult to get the boys to realize that in between Wii sessions.
I'm on a plane, Dad.

At the races. We didn't bet anything, but we sure felt like it when everyone else was cheering.

Poor Barbaro.

Visiting stadiums is a traditio of ithe in-laws, so it's kind of ours now too.

The Utes play Louisville this year. I wanted to talk trash the whole time we were there.

You should see their place. It's a lot of fun. Lots of rope swings too.

I love these girls.

Good company at the swimming pool

At the entrance to Mammoth Caves. It's pretty cool. Literally. The temperature drops 15 or 20 degrees in about 50 steps down.

Birds that are comfortable with humans are a little bit scary, in my opinion.

Watch out!

Fun day at the Cincinnati zoo. Poor girl was sick all day.

Louisville temple.

June 20th I went with my sister and some friends to compete in the Huntington triathlon. It was rewarding, especially the walking out of the lake part and the finish line part.
Just thought I'd give you all a taste of the good stuff.

Bike to run transition

M at the finish line. She's even smiling.

Unbelievably cute, and good supporters too.

Finally painting to get ready to sell the house. What great help.

Our painting princess.

Up the canyon with the aunties.

She'll just wrap herself right around your finger

4th of July partying

Like I said...

So if you know anyone looking for a cute house in Price, send them our way. We really have put it up for sale - not going to Atlanta though, basically just around the corner.