Luke is a cub scout now

Luke had his first cub scout pack meeting the other night, and it just happened to be the rain gutter regatta.
We of course, forgot to go and get him his scout shirt.

It took him a bit to get the hang of it, but once he did, he did great!

I am excited for him to start this new chapter in "big boyhood"! I can't believe I have an 8 year old! He is such a great helper and example to his little siblings. I can't wait for his baptism in 4 weeks!

Running update

(Me and my little wanna be runner in her undies) She swears she's gonna run with me when she's older, and I can't wait to have her as my partner!

So, I am officially signed up for the LV full marathon!
Got a new running outfit and a new hydration belt too. :)
Yesterday Mandi and I ran 18 miles for the second Saturday in a row. It was the toughest run I have ever had! We were hoping to do 20, so we were quite disappointed when we weren't able to do it. I think our bodies are just so exhausted from all of the training! The last few Saturdays have been so rough. It's hard to come home from a long run and try to get recovered plus still be a mom of 4. Not to mention, the sore, sore muscles and tired body. I am so grateful to my in laws for taking care of the kiddies while I am gone in the morning.
But, only 4 more weeks and we will be accomplishing a huge feat!
I am glad to report that I have not had any toenails fall off in several months, and my knees have been pretty good, so I can't complain! I have taken several Ibuprofen in the last few months, however.

Totally unrelated....
I had to post a pic of the lovely bruise left from the fall I had at the park in Utah. I wish the pic did it justice. It however, doesn't hurt as badly as it looks.

Kanaraville

We made a little trip up to Kanaraville with the Leavitt family for the weekend. We were a little nervous when we arrived at midnight to find the basement flooded, but it didn't damper the fun.

Birthday cupcakes for breakfast? Yeah, there are no rules in Kanaraville. It was Luke's 8th b-day.

He got the new Toy Story Mania Wii game. He and his cousin Kavin played the heck out of it.

They all got to do quite a bit of 4 wheeling also. Cole loved it!

What a cutie!

The little park was so much fun! They have way better stuff than any park in Vegas!

Look at that cute Emmy girl!

Cole has no fear.

Here is where it gets funny! We had Luke take the camera while us big kids had some fun. I was a little nervous about it. I was off the ground right away, and instead of telling them to stop, I did this...

haha, yeah, flew right off! My arm is really bruised and tore up, but I was trying not to hurt a leg or foot. We seriously couldn't stop laughing about it afterwards!

Kavin the dare devil!

We all had so much fun, we are going back up after church on Sunday. It's kind of nice that the boys have the same days off and the kids are on track break!

A weeks worth of Halloween activities

First we attended the kids' school carnival. Here they are at the cake walk. Chloe won! Too bad it was the last one, and it was a weird sweet potato pie. They seemed to enjoy it anyways. They all got to play a few games while supporting the school. (costume #1 for Chloe)

My handsome little Yoda.

Coco and baby Chloe Covington. Aren't they so dang cute?

Some of us Moms in the ward had a little Halloween party for the kids. Last minute we ended up at the church due to the cold, windy weather. We got to do a few little crafts, and of course ate lots of goodies. It was tons of fun!

Loryn and Chloe. (costume #2 for Chloe)

We had the ward trunk or treat in the middle here, but I didn't take any pictures. WORD! To Kim Meeks for putting it all on! It was the best trunk or treat we have ever been too. So many ward members had some cute costumes!

Here's me and Yoda on Halloween night. We went to my brother's neighborhood for just a bit. We went to Utah afterwards.

Chloe, costume #3 Snow White, Riley the bad spirit cheerleader who is obviously having some bad spirit, Hayden the monkey with her momma Heather, Luke as Obi wan Kanobi, and Cole as Yoda.

We all had a fun week and glad we got some use out of our costumes!

I love U2!

Friday night we were able to go with a great group of friends to see Black Eyed Peas and U2!

Amanda, Brittany and I have all been big fans since high school, but have never been able to go see them all together. We started the night off at Guadalajara for dinner with a few other couples. I totally forgot I had my camera. It was a good and fast dinner. We were worried about getting to the concert in time with the 40, 000 other fans!

We made it in perfect time and it didn't start on time anyways.

Darren found a few guys from work who were actually working on the floor, so we went to visit them down there. We had to take a pic to prove we got down there. I can't believe people actually pay more to stand the whole time. Maybe it's just because I am so short!

Amanda and Cason snuck down there with us. They kept getting sweated by the stadium safety patrol!

Amanda and me.

My handsome man and me.

Fergie. She is so awesome! We had a blast singing and dancing to the Black Eyed Peas.

Brittany, Amanda, Joella and me. We had a lot of fun trying to get a pic with all the drunk people busting in front of us. We took about 15 of them!

There's my other man Bono in the middle.

Thought this was so cool!

U2 really is so awesome live! It's crazy how long they have been together and touring and they just get better. This one made it my 3rd time seeing them live in concert, well 4 if you count the 3D movie Darren took me to. haha No matter what, the fans are still crazy, drunk, loud and pot smokers! I can't believe how many times we could smell someone lighting up. It made for some great people watching though!

I had such a fun night, and I am so glad Darren did too!

Accident prone boy

I love this age so much, but also hate this age so much. It seems like babies at 1-1 1/2 have heads that are much too heavy for their little bodies. Especially my big headed babies!

This first one was a few weeks ago and it was a doozy. It looks much better than at first. It was an instant huge goose egg.
Thankfully, he is really good about letting us ice it.
Can you see how his eyes started to bruise too?

Right after that one healed, he did it again in almost the same spot!
Poor kid! He really didn't even fuss much with this one. I'm sure you will be seeing some kind of bump or bruise on is head in every pic for the next few months! He is one busy boy!

He sure seems happy though!

Ice cream truck

I had promised the kids a trip to 7-11, but Cole was in desperate need for a nap and Grandpa wasn't home to stay with him. Then I heard the ice cream truck. We haven't gotten anything from there since Luke was 2 probably. It seemed to work out perfectly and the kids thought it was super cool.
I tried hard to get a pic of all of us. They are quite hilarious pics!