What happened to one?

So, during Christmas break I had a wonderful time visiting with my family. Many nights I sat and put together puzzles with my mom or just watching a movie with my brother. It was very nice and very relaxing! On one relaxing evening, my brother and his family were over for a visit and I was informed that my nephew Cade knew how to count to ten all by himself. I love this kid! (OK, so I may have bribed him with a treat to get him to do it, but it was well worth it!)

Here is his performance for all to see:

Halloween 2009

So, I know it is late but I figured that I should post some Halloween pictures...better late than never. I was the tootsie roll (seen below) and I never realize how popular that would be. I had many people try to eat me, especially Mickey Mouse...
I also tried to be in a nice normal photo with friends, when the purple witch decided to push over the tootsie roll...
As seen here...this tootsie does not hold up well under pressure! Apparently the mouse also went crazy (check out the face) with little red ridding hood and the army brat laughing the entire time...Jack Skellington also showed up to the Halloween party...
As well as a fairy and some grapes... Not a bad way to spend Halloween, but I wish I could have been with the family in Utah! They had some great costumes.

San Bernardino Sheriff's Department: Mud Run

A few weeks ago (Sept 12th), I went to the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department Mud Run with some friends. We found many people in our ward who were going to run in the race (which made it even more fun to watch). The race started out with S.W.A.T. jumping out of a helicopter into red smoke and then lighting fireworks.
They made sure to hose down all the runners to make the race even muddier. There was a 10k, 5k and a 1k for children.
After running for about 4k on nice dry ground, the runners came into the pits where they had a very muddy stretch.
The kids even had a blast. J.T. in this picture (nephew of a friend) really loved it and didn't even slow down for his dad to run next to him.
Hills and other obstacles were also included in the last 1k.
They are looking to do it again next year...you all should come down and give it a go! For more information, go here.

California State-Wide Activity

So a few weeks ago there was a California state-wide activity that we were all invited to. Some of the activities included:

Quilt tying with people in our ward and in other wards in the Redlands Temple district -
Us cheering for the 20thing time that we were finished, and then looking under the quilt and realizing that we had to untie a few and fix them:Pretending to be happy, when we really didn't want to be there...we may have slipped out for a shake at In-N-Out (sanity check of course):
We attended workshops, that at times felt like 5 hours of Sunday School, but we made it through...at least we are still smiling for the picture, right?
We even found time to hang out on the stage and just hang out after we ate before the next round of activities:
There were many things that I would have done different, but the best part was getting to know so many new people, even if I thought I knew them before. Hopefully next year we will get the pizza we were promised!