Finally some Dirty Dash Pictures

Half of my siblings and some of my friends and I put together a team and did the Dirty Dash at Soldier Hollow this year. The race was September 17th but I just barely got my hands on these pictures. So here is a little looksee at all the fun we had. This is definitely a "race" that I'll be doing again and again. I think I want it to be a family tradition that eventually includes my kiddos.

Danny being his charming self, getting all dressed up for the race. He was definitely our entertainment all day. Sadly about half way through the race he got dirt up inside his eyelid that scratched his eyeball and he had to call it quits! Bummer.

Here's the whole crew. Next year we are going to have some real costumes. This was our last minute throw something together "costume" idea....pretty lame I know!

This picture is to emphasize Pete's lovely short shorts...yes he wears these to the gym. Oh my!

Holly and Sarah posing for their potty break. Sarah's green stretchy pants were my favorite part of our "costumes"

Here we go!

If you look closely, you will notice all of our strategically placed handprints! (we got bored waiting for the race to start!)

Hi MOM! My wonderful mommy was our photographer, she ran all over the course to take different shots, I think she got just as good of a workout as us! She also provided a much needed meal at the end of the race! THANKS MOM!

This rope swing was pretty lame. I wish they had a big muddy pool to jump into.

Giant slip and slide, way fun but it tore you up a little if you weren't careful. There was so much gritty dirt, and then the landing looked soft, but it was pretty much solid rock!

We are definitely super cool...and buff, don't you think?

A little mud in the mouth never hurt anyone right?

You know that looks really fun, but it left some pretty good bruises on my hips! OUCH!

Ta Da!

And we're done! 6.3 miles of disgustingly dirty fun!

This is Heidi's clean shirt after the race....she forgot to clean out her pits! EEW!

Drum Roll Please!

So I'm finally posting after eight long months! So sorry. I banned myself from scrapping, because I was spending way to much time on the computer. In doing so I pretty much had to ban myself from the computer for awhile and now it's just not a habit to keep up with computer stuff anymore. But for posterity sake and for my daddy I figured I better blog again. I like keeping a blog, it's like my own personal history, complete with pictures!

So to make this easier I'm going to do one post per missed month and call it good! Enjoy.

OCTOBER

We paid a visit to Amy and the Lamborn cousins in Laketown over UEA. We rode horses and played and ate good food for 3 days!

Fieldtrips:

All the kids had field trips this month. Dallin went to the dentist office,

Ragan went to Black Island Farms

And James went to a historical museum, but I wasn't able to go on that one.

Halloween:

And let's not forget my favorite part of October! Halloween!!!!

Just all the usual awesome festivities!!!!!!!!

September

SEPTEMBER

The kids had a super fun carnival fundraiser at school. Dallin still asks when we get to go to the carnival again.

Just one of those cute pics. Who doesn't love a good orange smile!

Dallin started preschool. He was a little hesitant to hug teacher Natalie the first day, but now he can't stop talking about her!

August

AUGUST

My sweet Dalli-bob turned 4 and had a fun despicable me party:

Pin the goggles on the minion

Minion Bowling

All the fixins

Mom spending way too many hours late at night perfecting the cake and fondant minions

finished minions....so cute!

Finished Cake

Ragan started kindergarten. I am officially old! Two kids in school, holy cow time flies!

James is a big second grader.

Last summer hurrah with cousins. The girls came here and the boys went to Holly's. Poor Holly!

Mayci found a new love for the sandbox

We started physical therapy for Mayci. She didn't crawl until after she turned one, but she made fast progress as soon as she started therapy. She crawled within the first two weeks and is now working her way to walking.

The 5th of August we had a baby shower for Kat. She was so ready to be done with pregnancy! I feel ya Kat, that's why I'm done :) I didn't forget this time!

Sweet baby Cameron joined our crew on August 29th, the day before Dal's bday. He is adorable! He happens to look a whole lot like my babies! Way to go Dan and Kat!