And this is why I can't pay the kids by the penny to pick up the crabapples.  :)

For many reasons of course, running a half marathon is just one of them.  :) What a lot of work goes into something like this!  Next stop, full marathon…

When I was tucking Carter in he asked (as he often does) if I would snuggle by him… since if I did that every night I'd fall asleep and get nothing done, I told him (as I often do) that I couldn't, but that I would come snuggle by him when my work was done.…

We ran up there to walk around the monuments on a gorgeous fall night… It was fun to learn more about the Pony Express (we have relatives that live on an old pony express station on my dad's side of the family so I have seen a few of these re-enactments in my day!)  …

We were excited to find a pumpkin patch that was just that – a patch of pumpkins.  We did not bank on how much fun would be had with the wheelbarrow.  Poor Nate, who ran a 1/2 marathon that morning, ended up pulling 4 pumpkins + 4 kids… yeah, he's awesome like that.   On…

  We discovered a fun little hiking area up behind one of our favorite parks this fall, and had a few good adventures there enjoying the beautiful leaves and the lizards!  The first trip was just with Carter and Meg the day after he broke his arm and wasn't sure he was up to going…

  After spending plenty of time in MN cheering on the Twins, it wasn't much of a surprise that when we showed up at tee ball organization to the news that Carter's team was the White Sox, Zach loudly declared, "Oh no, Carter – the one team you DIDN'T want to be on!"  (To be…

Just a few pictures of one of the best weekends of the year!  I love General Conference!   

With the opening of a new Lego store nearby, we had to take the opportunity to help a real master builder (Zach knew his name and everything) create an enormous model of the Hulk.  Our job was to create big "blocks" with small blocks that the builder would use in creating the big model.  Even…

First no wheels…       So awesome!!  It was so fun to see him take off, balancing, starting on his own, turning and everything!  Good thing I took a few photos, and that Dad was around to see the excitement, because after a fall off of the monkey bars at school we ended the day…