Color Party

 Mom and Dan came to visit us the first week of January. I decided to find our the gender while they were here. My mom wanted to come to the ultrasound with me and I said she could but that she couldn't see the gender. So she didn't come. Then she was holding the envelope with the gender inside up to the light to cheat. Later she even tried out the ultrasound machine in Randy's office on me. -but we couldn't tell what we were looking at. I decided that I must get my impatience from her😊 I gave the envelope to my sweet visiting teacher and my mother and the rest of us had to wait a whole day to find out. My mom decorated my chalkboard like this for the gender party:

I made team pink and team blue stickers and had people put them on as they came in. I also had pink and blue balloons they could blow up and write their names on. I saw a lot of pink guesses. Willy even took one of each so he could pull the right one out after the reveal. I wore my blue shirt and put my team blue sticker on my belly. Randy's cousin, Tyler, said, "You're not on team blue!" I replied, "I am on Team Not Disappointed." 

It was a fun night and I enjoyed it. My aunt said that when you are good at something you might as well stick to it. Can't wait to meet this little man at the end of May!

Office Evolution

Randy finally decided that we are too noisy for him to be working in our house. So, he had an office built in our front yard. They started on July 4th. When we came home from fireworks at the Fuller's house, there were huge dirt hills piled up. The kids shouted, "What happened?!?!" I replied, "Those darn moles!" It will be a sad day when I can't tease them anymore.

 I tried to take pics of the various stages but it is clear that I missed a few. The almost completed product! We just need the concrete poured in front of the door and to hang the blinds. The first time they poured it, they slanted the concrete the wrong way and the office would flood every time it rained.

 Hard at Work!

 Finnik is my lovely photography assistant

Randy has enjoyed working in his silence. Tripp and Deko love to go in there in the morning and read their scriptures before they get on the bus. Raidy says it smells good in there and likes to visit Dad. It has been nice being able to be noisy in our own home again, but I miss Randy being just a yell away. Now I have to go outside to talk to him.

Plants vs. Zombies Halloween

We were Plants vs. Zombies this year for Halloween. We had 3 zombies and 4 plants. Randy was the dancing zombie, Deklan was the football zombie, and Finnik was the cone head zombie. Tripp was the venus flytrap, Baine was the peashooter, Raidy was the freeze peashooter, and I was the lovely sunflower.

 I had to make most of the costumes. Good thing I started in August!

Deko won the scariest costume at our ward Halloween party. Poor Randy and Deko had to scrub off their blood tattoos until their faces were raw. I let Finnik be a zombie baby for a week cuz I didn't want to scrub his baby face.

 Such a cute little peashooter! 

 Tripp helped design his Venus helmet 

Rotten Finnik wouldn't keep his cone on his head.

 If you don't know what this game is, Look it up! We look pretty darn close to the real deal!

5K Happy

I know I'm awful at updating this blog, but this is something I wanted to remember from this year. I ran in 4 5K races with every member of my family! And it was so fun!

The first race was in May and was a Color Run at our High School with Tripp. This was super fun!

 I didn't know how fast Tripp was. He really pushed me to go faster and finish quickly.

 He is such a character! We both had pink stains on our face afterwards. I had several pink dots on my forehead and a pink elbow. Tripp told me not to worry cuz they just looked like zits. Oh boy!

 My second race was in July and was a Bubble Run with Deko at the fairgrounds. It was so much fun going through colored bubbles with this guy.

 This race didn't go as quickly, but I didn't mind. On our shirts it says, "Good clean run." But our shoes got super soggy and muddy at the bubble stations in the grass. We had a bubble drop at the beginning of the race and then 5 colored bubble stations throughout. Then we ended with a huge bubble shooting cannon and dance party. Deko smiled the whole time.

 I loved how bubbly our legs looked after the stations.

 Super Fun!

Randy organized and put on a 5K for the community in September. I had no idea how much work goes into preparing and running a race. Randy is so amazing! It was a family fun run. This was the only pic I took, but I ran in it with all of my boys. Most of the time I was pushing a double stroller loaded with 3 rotten boys -Raidon, Baine, and Finnik. Tripp and Deko got in the front of the line and took off and I didn't see them until the finish line. Brian came and DJ'd for it and Willy and Carol helped with the sign in table. We also had several volunteers along the course. It was quite the production and went well with no injuries.

 One week after Randy's race, we ran in the Warrior Dash. It was a beautiful day! There were 12 obstacles to go through with a huge water slide and mud pit at the end. It was so fun running with my lover! He entertained me the whole time.

 Showering off at the end. This water was so cold!

After running with Randy in this race, I had run a race with everyone in my family. It was super fun and I can't wait for the running season next year! I already signed my whole family up to do the bubble run again since it was my favorite.

Zoolights

Deklan and I went to Zoolights at Point Defiance Zoo with out friends Tina and Benton. It rained the whole time, but it was pretty cool

 Had to take a picture of the 12th man tree.

 Tina brought us hot apple cider in a canteen that kept us warm

I loved all the neat light displays. There were so many and they were so cool. Definitely worth going to, even in the rain! That should conclude all that we did in 2016, well most of it anyway. Now I need to catch up with 2017!