dirty newsies

the last time i saw a sunday paper was... oh i don't know, in high school when we (me and my cohorts) were piling an entire streets worth up on our friends doorstep for a joke. us little pranksters thought we were so funny! whoops! that really was the first thing that popped into my head when i saw the 3 papers in our driveway as we opened the garage to go to church on sunday. kinda funny! i get 3 of these dirty little things delivered so i can use them for couponsense. i have turned into one frugal nerdy little mother. and they really are gross to touch, worse than how my hands feel after rifling around at goodwill. these newsies better save me some mad dough.

training in session!

the turkey trot is coming! and i am siked to start training. i usually annoy the heck out of everyone trying to recruit people to run but not this year, my lips are zipped. this will be my only attempt for getting running buddies. the buds is already in. chad is a never again, unless i come up with a good bribe. so how about you? don't you want to chase a grown man dressed as a turkey on thanksgiving day?
i got my training schedule from google and it looks pretty good. and if you click from this page there is also a training schedule for walking a 10k. so if you are interested there is another site that i like called mapmyrun where you can put in your exact route you run/walk whatever and it will tell you exactly how far, how many calories you burn, and you can keep track of everything on a calendar.

VW's and hats with stickers

it's in his blood! chad couldn't be more proud. i can't wait for him to peel that stupid sticker off. chad told avery the bug is his when he turns 16, thats why he is so excited in the last picture. maybe it will be all the way done by then. we can't believe how grown up he is getting. he does something new everyday. avery day=amazing!

thank you, thank you, everyone!

thanks amanda! you gave me this wonderful unfinished frame forever ago. i loved it and knew just what i was going to do but never managed to do it, until now. i finally finished it and i love it. our home is blessed to have a picture of the temple now so thanks madem!

thank you devin and kristin. we had so much fun in show low this weekend hanging out and playing around. you were so nice to set us up in a cabin. we will have to find a way to make it work so we come up on your day off so we can all hang out and nobody has work. you are amazing and we love you!

thank you scott and chad. they manual labored for two saturdays to put this beast up and our yard (dirt) is hard as rock. scott was even so kind to bring over the heavy machinery to make it slightly easier (thanks gold medal gardening). it looks great and avery will love it-someday!

ooh la la!

voila! we have a new headboard.