Hee Haw Farms

For Aria's preschool we went to Hee Haw Farms for a field trip. We were lucky enough to get to be with Ruby too! Aria's wearing her yellow preschool field trip shirt though 1/2 of the kids didn't! It was so much fun seeing all the animals, corn maze, picking a pumpkin, trailer ride, and picnic!

Our friend Kohen was with us for the field trip too!

Aria loved chasing the animals.

Oddly enough, Aria was most excited for the pigs. She kept telling us that's what she wanted to see. So, we made sure she got to see them! She kept trying to pick them up.

I love Aria's face in this one!

Pumpkin Pickin'

Trailer ride!

Huge slide as well as a burlap sack slide

Showering Lindsey

Drew's awesome sister Lindsey is getting married soon! On the 18th a couple neighbors/friends threw a shower for her and had it in our backyard. It was so much fun! Lindsey is such a wonderful girl. Ben is a lucky guy to have her!

Anna, Ericka & Karla

 Lindsey telling how they met & proposal story

 Opening gifts! She got so many things! So sweet of everyone.

 Good pick Heather!

 Some of Lindsey's best friends/bridesmaids

 Some of Lindsey's in-laws & their friends

So excited for you Linds! Love ya!

Play Park

We have been trying to video the kids even more so we can see how they grow and change. We were at the park with Monsons and I thought it would be fun to follow the kids around to show how they run and play at this point in time. It was fun!

Blogger is tricky sometimes and wouldn't upload Ben's so to You.tube it went!

I followed the kids down the slide again. This time went better! Haha! I love how Ellie is screaming behind me on the way down! She's so cute and fun!

Y is for Yes, I Am That Crazy

And so are about 25 bajillion others! Me, Lance, Cecilia and Julian decided on last day of sign up to run the Color Me Rad 5k at my old University! Go team Adrenaline Shot! My SIL Rachelle and her Sister ran it too - but with that many people there, we didn't ever see them. :(

It was a blast. It wasn't so much of a run though - at many parts we didn't have a choice and had to walk because of so many people. It was still fun. We were colored from head to toe. Litterally, because the color sprays went through clothes and colored our skin. Luckily the powdered stuff came off fine because my skin was raw from scrubbing the spray off! Totally worth it.

Before. Clothes sparking white.

Running along.

 Finish Line color blast

The kids don't come to too many of my races since they are in the early morning, but they know what to expect. Not this time. Aria was weirded out when she saw me. Ben was/is still pretty sick, so he didn't really show emotion one way or another.

 This is how to run through the color stations without a lung full of colored cornstarch!

 Even still... our faces got pretty dirty.

With the race sunglasses on, sprays still got in my eyes!

 After! My stomach, bum and feet got soaked through my clothes! 

 Finish area color throw at the end.

 There was a haze in the air all over. Everyone who didn't run even had a dusting over them.

Near us there is a Hari Krishna Temple (Hindu) that celebrates Holi with a huge fundraiser/festival where color bombs are thrown similar to this and is a blast too!

Our Busy December so far...

I love Christmas time. It's my favorite time of the year. It is, however, such a busy time of year too.

On the 2nd I got to go to the Christmas party of my old company! My brother still works there and took me as his +1. It was so great seeing friends I haven't seen in a while.

That weekend was fun! Aria went to her first friend birthday party. Miss Olivia turned 3! Aria had a blast and was such a good girl. Ella did an awesome job with the whole thing - it was an amazing party!
We also went to the big family Christmas party on my side of the family. Had a lot of fun there too seeing my cousins, aunts, uncles. I look forward to it each year.

Aria with her present from the kid gift exchange

Ben would NOT look at the camera! Normally he loves to!

Later that night was our friend Christmas party with our friends from high school that we still hang out with. Crazy how much it's grown over the years with the addition of spouses and kids. The gift exchange was chaotic, but lots of fun!

Sunday was Thanksgiving with Drew's family. It was nice we could all still get together!

Phew! Busy weekend! Since then we've been wrapping gifts (all done shopping!) and other Christmas related things like RS Enrichment, 2 friends with birthday get togethers, etc.

A Full House!

My house at the moment. Minus Ellie though, she went home to nap.

Alecia, George, Teddy and Henry playing Little Big Planet.
Aria, Ben and Ruby napping.
Funny how 8 kids are about the same amount of work as 2. Well, these kids anyway - they are such good kids!