September Happenings

For some reason this month seems like it has come and gone. Not sure how it has gotten away from me. I had this perfect picture in my head that when school started a routine would start and life would not be so crazy. Boy was I mistaken. Seems like life has been extremely crazy. I have been asked a few times if I am bored with my kids at school, REALLY? How would that happen, I catch myself dashing through the house trying to get everything done before they get home (that is just working on the things that need to get done, not what I want to get done).

Seems like our month has been filled with biking to school and homework - tons of homework. Crazy that my 1st grader has a lot more to do than my 5th grade. We then jump in the car and are dashing off to flag football, tumbling, Scouts, Soccer etc...
I am embarrassed to mention that this month I even turned into "one of those crazy moms" over sports. Yes we talked to the coach about how things were not going well. All over flag football, man I guess I may need to chill out a bit.
Here are a few pictures of Max and his team. We have been blessed that he has had great coaches. I do not have any pictures of Asher


Canning has been going well and I do love looking at the finished product sitting on my shelf. The only bad thing is I wish the food could wait a day or two for when I was ready, but that will never happen.

For some reason this month I found myself in a bit of a funk. I am 100% sure it was because I had myself consumed in not all the right things. Whatever it was I was not loving my sad, gloomy feeling. One early morning I asked Nelson for a blessing and in it he said many great things I needed. The thing that he said the most was to study and learn about humility. I knew this was something I needed. In my searching here is a quote I found that I really loved:
"to be humble is to recognize gratefully our dependence on the Lord to understand that we have constant need for his support." Humility and gratitude are twin characteristics of happiness. I am grateful we do have the gospel to help us get out of our gloomy days and most of all give us hope and keep us grounded.

Of course here is the biggest sign that school is in and running full speed. I think this is a typical picture of any kid that spends all day at recess on the monkey bars. We have all had hands looking like this:

The Dirty Dash

Nelson's cousin Bryan and his wife signed up for a race called the Dirty Dash. Jen ended up not being able to run and asked Nelson to take her spot. Nelson said he would only agree if the kids an I went with him. We agreed and so it was we spent most the day up at Soldier allow participating in the dirty dash. On the way up Asher prayed that I would not be sad that I was not able to do it (it was sold out). His prayer must have worked, I was perfectly happy just watching them. It ended up being a fun day, who would not love getting as muddy as can be.
Sorry I am having a hard time with this post, it is out of order and the pictures are everywhere. Just bare with me. This is Nelson and Bryan running through the mud. I swear that man can have fun no matter where he is at.












We paid $4.00 extra dollars after for a warm shower. This is what his warm shower turned out to be. I could have done that myself for free.












Nelson after his race was finished, he ran the 10k. While he was racing we took the kids to the top to see if we could see the guys racing- but we missed them. While we were waiting the kids decided to give all the participants high five. That did not last long for Max. He hated how dirty he was getting. Asher on the other hand thought it was cool.
















This is Asher in the middle of his race. It is right after he got off the slide. He could not have been happier. He was so excited with how filthy he was.












Max- just coming off the slide. He had a hard time with that mud. He kept falling down and could not stay up. Because of that a girl passed him to take 2nd place. He was a little bugged- but it is just for fun. He was to worried about hurrying, totally opposite of Asher.












Of Course my goofy, filthy Asher















My cute adorable kids. We had a blast and were so glad we were able to be apart of the race.