Happy 34th I'm Old, I'm Old!!

TYSON at sourdough

With grandpa boyd, He loved the bus

I cannot even believe it. He would have been 34. It tears my heart to think of all he could have been or would be doing. I am also glad he is in a better place, but I miss him immensly.

Update #2

Once again, we got NO pictures of Alyson and me together at the race. It was a fun get away, I promise.

The next weekend Grandma and Grandpa took our kids up to the Fort while I competed in my last triathlon of the year. The 70.3 World Championship. It was fun, but a flat tire during the bike kept me from hitting my goal. At least I finished and still had an impressive race considering.

This weekend we're up there again for the Respite Ball and then Thanksgiving where we'll see all of you again!

Update #1

Our Ft. Collins weekends started with Halloween. These are our "scary" kids before we went up to the Fort to trick or treat with the cousins.
Halloween weekend was also the BYU game. On the day of the game, we went for a hike. Mia and Luke enjoyed hanging out together!
We were the craziest BYU fans there!
The boys loved cheering against the home team!

I had to get rid of the lizard picture. Besides, I haven't updated much. Mostly, this is for the RIchard's because we've been in Ft. Collins the last couple of weekends...

Meet Gidget...

The newest member of the Richards' family!

Gidget joined our family last night. We are so exctied to have her...note I could not get a single Richards' child to hold her for the picture...including me! Shelby was "DYING" to have her own pet. This was her $130.00 (for pet plus housing and 2weeks worth of live food) choice. She says she needs to warm up to her before she holds her...hmmmm, lizard anyone???

Meet Shelby's other newest friend...her packing tape body double...

And the reason it looks just like her...

is because it was made from her own body! We wrapped packing tape (sticky-side up) on each part of her body. Then we re-wrapped twice (sticky side down) and cut each peice off and re-taped the cut line. Finally we taped all the parts together. This is what we got. This was a fun school project she was so excited to do. She was one of ten students in her class who were chosen to do the entire body.

Belated Halloween Wishes

Grandma and Grandpa's Halloween party at their church was AWESOME!!!

I don't know if the Richards got to see Grandma and Grandpa dressed up, so I had to post these. Check out more on our blog.

Hooray for dad, again

HOORAY for DAD!!!
Adam may be a great tri athlete, but his daughter is wonder girl

A cheer from the home front for another great race by the Adam dad.  We love you dad, Connor, Preston, Batman, Wonderwoman.  Wish we were there!!!! the kids.

Almost a grandkid camp

Hot chocolate and pancakes
The good witch

Real Angels 

Well if we only had the Richards kids and Jane, we would have a grandkid camp.  7 kids allocated to grandma Nori.  It is like a batch of worms.  They play really well together, but they talk about the Richards kids.  Luke says his favorite is Alec.  Perhaps if Alec were here, Luke would be GI Joe and not the witch.  I think he likes the dresses the best.

We finally got them all to bed last night and Luke and Mia were only quiet when I put Maggie in her cage in their room and told them they could not wake Maggie up.  They were asleep in no time at all.  Of course they were up before the crack of dawn and dresses up all over again.  Luke claims he is the naked strong man, but only until he gets the dresses on.

Grandma Nori has to keep reminding Ethan that she is older and knows more than he does, but I think he is just ignoring her.