Kids With a King

Olivia has been practicing for her Christmas play after school, two days a week, for three months now. Last weekend she had her big show and she did awesome. I was so impressed with how well she knew the words to every song and all of the dance moves. She was very proud of herself. Grandpa Greg and Grandma Karen came to watch her perform on her last night and made her dreams come true when they gave her flowers. She loves to be center stage and does such a great job.

Happy Thanksgiving

What are you most thankful for?

Olivia:
I am thankful for my family, friends, cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents.

Brianna:
I am thankful for my dress ups and my family.

Aubree:
some toys and you (meaning mom)

Madelyn:
I suppose she would say that she is thankful for milk, chocolate, and her blankie.

Tyler:
I am thankful for thanksgiving. I am thankful for pumpkin pie and turkey.

Brad:
I have a lot of things that I am thankful for. I am thankful for family, a wife, good food, warm clothes, firewood (I wish our shed was full of it) and water slides that are really dark inside.

Cari:
I am thankful for pie.

Jeff:
I am thankful for temples.

Becca:
I am thankful for quiet time and noisy happy families.

Casten:
I am thankful that I am able to go to school, work, be a dad, and somehow fit it all into my schedule.

Heather:
I am thankful to live in such a sheltered environment and for my awsomeness family.

Kalie:
I am thankful for family, little kid hugs, and a wonderful husband.

Halloween

I am just proud of myself for posting Halloween pictures before Thanksgiving. We had Little Bo Peep and her sheep and the crazy chicken accompany us to the ward Halloween party this year. Every year we find ourselves at the same spot, our church, for good food, fun, and trunk-or-treating. Before we went to the party, we hit up our neighbors. In years past, our neighborhood hasn't had a single trick-or-treater. So, my kids had full bags before we even left. I cannot believe how much candy we had this year. According to our graph, we received more Hershey Kisses than any other candy. Livvy and Aubs helped me make a bar graph on Sunday afternoon when everyone else took their naps. We didn't do so well in the Butterfinger department.

For three days we let the house go and worked really hard on apples. We made 176 Quarts of applesauce and 45 quarts of apple pie filling. Earlier in the week made 48 gallons of apple cider. We took 4 trips to the orchard to pick apples and ate who knows how many apples. We now also have 5 bags of dried apples that we have been snacking on for the last couple of weeks. WE LOVE APPLES, but we are a little sick of them right now!

Saturday afternoon after scrubbing the kitchen floor, we packed up the kids and drove to a neighboring town’s park. The girls love to go to that park. We can spend hours there. I just enjoyed being with them and out of the kitchen.

our cute CRAZY life

My birthday was spent preparing for the 5K race and setting up my booth for the festival. Regardless of the busy day, my family made the day special for me. Mom, Dad, and Alexi came out to visit and hang out with us for the weekend. Brad and the girls know how to spoil me, and Brad was so thoughtful in his gift giving. A couple of years ago when we were remodeling our house I bought a temple picture for our house. Because we weren’t ready to put anything on the walls, the picture remained in the box for a long time until I went to hang it up and couldn’t find the box anywhere. My best guess is that the box and picture went out to the dumpster with a lot of other things. I was really sad but got over it. Brad told me about 8 months ago that he knew what he was going to get me for my birthday. I now have a beautiful picture of the Logan Temple, the temple we were married in, to hang over the piano. Alexi brought out hair color and did my hair for me. YAY! And then to top it off, Shay made a delicious Chocolate cake (homemade), that we devoured.

Shay and I ran a 5K at the end of September as training for our own upcoming Applefest 5K. Brad and the girls cheered us on. Thanks guys, we love you. The finish of this race was awful. We ran on a course that followed the river which was wonderful until it looped back past the start line and then ran around the track. The whole time you could smell the pancakes they were cooking and see all of the people who had completed the race before you resting. Not the best ending to a race!

PINK is my Favorite Color

When Olivia goes to school, Aubree thinks that we should be playing school at home. She calls me teacher instead of mom, and loves any school related activity we can think of. I should really be taking advantage of this time when she is so willing to learn. I am enjoying the time we are spending together. She is so fun to have around and makes everyday an adventure. It is so cute to hear her say “Teacher teacher.” These pictures were taken on pink day.

Millions of Peaches, Peaches for Me

Millions of peaches, peaches for FREE!

We Love Peaches! We really love living in our little corner of the world during the Harvest season. We live amidst many peach and apple orchards. Because of this, we have plenty to go around when the picking is here. This year we got peaches and apples for free. We filled the freezer and the storage room shelves with a lot of yummy food.

first day of school

Livvy was so excited for her first day of school. She goes to all day kindergarten and loves it. She is reading, writing stories, loving math, and is top of her class. Life has gotten so much busier. We are running her back and forth to school and to all of her extra curricular activities. She begs me to let her ride the bus, but I am not quite ready for that. Maybe one day I will feel more comfortable about letting her go. Until then, I will drive her to school everyday and cry as she walks in to class and grows up before my eyes.

Hanging out with the cousins

Amity, Shay and I took the kids to the splash pad one hot day in August. The cousins really enjoy spending time with one another. We miss seeing them more often.

ST. George Plague

We lucked out and go to go on two Lindsay family vacations this year. Except this vacation wasn't actually that lucky. We went down to St. George for a week in August. On Sunday night we packed up the kids and the bikes and drove many hours to get in some heat, biking, pool time, family games, and maybe a little bit of shopping. Monday morning Cari, the first victim, woke up not feeling so great. A few hours later, the stomach flu started taking out people left and right. By Thursday, twenty-two of the twenty-four people we were with had spent a day in the bathroom. At least it was only a twenty-four hour thing. It hit hard and fast and was the craziest flu plague I have ever experienced. NO, it was not the SWINE Flu! So, we spent the week, in a beautiful condo, with a wonderful pool, great bike trails all around, not to mention the outlets, in bed. We did actually get out to a water area with the kids. The kids loved it and it was FREE. Gotta love that. I really hope that we didn't get close enough to get anybody else sick. This flu bug would probably take out all of St. George. We called the health department the day we were leaving and they were very interested in what we had. They asked if somebody would bring in a stool as a sample to see what was going on. We didn't have any takers.