Happy Thanksgiving

I have been taking my camera with me wherever I go so I can capture the beautiful colors of the season!!!I love watching the trees change all different colors!!! We had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Sam n carries hill had tons of snow on it so we went sleding all morning and then we all came back to our house for to have dinner with my parents. As usual we all over ate and ended up all crashing out for a little while before Chris n Molly, Dave n Audra and there kids showed up for games and my favorite PIE!!! I am so thankful for my family and friends who have made my life better!!! Happy thanksgiving to all of you and may God bless you!!!

ROOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRR!

William had a blast going to our next door naighbors to trick or treat! Our street gets loads of kids and he was really enjoying running around with some of the other kids from our naighborhood!!! Next year we will have to do the whole street!!!

Its finally complete!

I painted our main bathroom a few month ago but haven't had all the right accessories until now. I got the color from the oops paint section at lowes and after deciding to use it in the bathroom (believe me it was a hard decision!!!) I chose black and white accents! enjoy!

I hate October

The only reasons why I like october is because its my birthday and halloween! The reason why I hate october is because everyone in my life who has join our father in heaven have all gone or so it seems, in the month of october! I lost a friend and two relatives this month!!! ('m not even going to list past years!) I guess its fitting with Halloween and death being intertwind, why shouldnt people die around the holiday celebrating death?! Although for me death is not the end its just a gateway to bigger, better, and brighter things! God is real and his eternal plan of happiness is one of the cornerstones in my life! I feel the love of those who have gone before me daily and I know they are in a better place and that when I return to my Heavenly father they will all be there with him welcoming me home!!!

This is a picture of the Manti temple on the way to my cousins funeral! It was amazing how it was dark and cloudy everywhere except where the temple was the sun was shinning!!!

Camping

The Kearns and Hall family got up bright and early one Friday morning and headed east over the mountains to Cle Elum. We played on the throwing rocks in the river, floating down the river, slip n slide, went for a leisure bike ride, canoeing around the lake, and of course huge fires for smores!!! The boys played all day together! Of all the things we did do over the weekend the boys favorite thing to do by far was throwing rocks in the river!!! We had a blast with the Hall family and I cant wait to go again!!!

Father son camp out

Will decided to take William to the father son camp out with our friend Kevin and Williams best friend Clark. After convincing myself that it was OK for William to go overnight, in the woods, with Will I decided to have a nice shopping adventure at the mall. While I was there all I could do was think about my boys and how much fun they were having without me that I broke down crying in the middle of the mall! A stranger stopped to see if I was OK and sheepishly explained that I was going through withdrawals from my son. Then I got up and hurried away! I decided to get a blizzard and watch AVATAR from the comfort of my couch. The boys had a blast! William and Clark had a contest to see who could get the dirtiest the faster and loved throwing rocks in the river! They played on the big toys and the swings all before bedtime! They did the same thing all over again in the morning before heading home to me who was pacing by the front door! Next time I might have to just happen to be in the same place at the same time!!!

Like Father Like Son!

Wills Mom (Donna) likes to share a story about Will when he was little. He was a great escape artist, especially at night when they were trying to put him to bed. She would place him in his crib and hurry out of the room like all mothers do. Before she could make it to the bottom of the stairs he would climb out of the crib and be sitting at the top of the stairs laughing. Fortunately for me my son hasn't learned how to completely climb out of his crib yet!!! He does have his own unique was of escaping...I really hope he doesn't try it when we are not around! My favorite part of the whole thing is that he is almost laughing to hard to even do it!
ENJOY!!!

I want to ride my bicycle...

I want to ride my bike...I have started riding my mountain bike in the mountains!!! I know crazy but I am having tons of fun!!! Will, my brother Dave and nephew Drew are teaching me lots and we have been on some crazy trails and I didn't break anything!!! AMAZING!!! Its great exercise and my knee feels ok doing it!

Color #2

When my fabulous Aunt Alaina was in town I asked her to help me since she is an awesome decorator and shopper! We took on the major project of my living room. there are still a few things I would like to do but for the most part its done and looks AMAZING!! We bought a bunch of throw pillows and one of them was the perfect color for the walls. I took it in to Lowes and they stuck the pillow in this scanner and came out with the perfect shade of brown. It goes great with the yellow and the rest of the decor! We also bought some wall decorations and some new curtains with rods!!!

What do you think so far?

Thats the awesome pillow!

Basketball!

After having Surgery #11 I decided to swear off all sports and anything else that I might hurt myself doing! Basically I had become a shut in!!! Then my brother Sam brought me back to reality like he always does and practically forced me to start playing wheelchair basketball with him. I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT!!! Its really hard and I suck really bad but its a ton of fun, good exercise and I get to hang out with my brother two nights a week. Sam is ridiculously good and they usually end up double or triple teaming him which doesn't do any good because he is so freaking tall that he just flicks the ball up and of course it goes in!!! I am slowly improving and with any luck will be ready to compete in the fall. I am slowly coming back out from being a shut it or whatever you want to call this funk I am in. (and I'm sorry to all of you that has found it hard to live without me. Lol!)

Here are a few photos of me and Sam at practice!