Instagrammed October

The middle of October we headed to Sun Valley for the weekend.

Matt had a conference for his semester in practice and we stayed with our friends

Nate and Ashley at a family members cabin.

I have never been to Sun Valley but it was beautiful.

There was a Minnie Mouse at the cabin

and Mylee got a little obsessed with it.

Love this picture of her and Minnie.

The road the cabin was on.

We actually got to see Matt while we were there :)

A little tour of Sun Valley!

One of the best parts about this month was that I got a family pass to the YMCA.

I got this guy to come with me :)  

We lifted together and played basketball, and then took the kids swimming.

We go every day!

My parents came to visit the next weekend, and we had SO much fun.

We went to Linder Farms and enjoyed the fall festivities!

My kids just love their grandparents.

We were able to go to the Boise Temple Open House.

We were walking out and Colton said, "The temple is Booti-ful"

I couldn't agree more.

Colton had his last soccer game and my parents got to be there.

The farther in the season we went, the less interested he got.

Oh well, he had fun and smiled a lot!

Mylee and her kisses....Yikes!

We also made a Quick trip to Pocatello/Idaho Falls.

I started being a consultant for a company called Heritage Makers.

I am loving their products.

I love to scrapbook, always have, but I can't get all the paper out anymore!!

I have never been into digital, but tried it with Heritage Makers and it's great!

You can make pages that are so similar to real scrapbooking, as well as calendars, christmas cards, etc.

Anyway, I went to Pocatello to have a little workshop for Heritage Makers.

I also got my hair done :)  

I copied my sister in law and tried the "ombre"  hair style,

 so my roots don't look so terrible when they grow out!!!

Our Halloween Festivities started a week before Halloween.

We went to Matt's work for Trick-or-Treating

We had our church Trunk-or-Treating and Halloween Party.

We went to Boo at the Zoo

AND...we had a Halloween Party with friends.

Seriously not my favorite picture of them in their costumes, but since today is the Real Halloween

we will be getting some cute ones!!

Last Saturday I ran in the Boise Color Run with four of my friends, Jackie, Suzie, and Rachelle

We had a blast, but probably most fun watching all the crazy people that were there.

Here we are "colored" at the finish.

OK, honestly, I was going into the race to have fun but when I got near the finish and realized my time was going to be "decent" I didn't care about the color.

I ended up right at 26:00, and that was weaving in and out of the people literally Rolling in the color.  I really want to do another now, but think I will stick to 5k's!

 At the Boo at the Zoo

The weather in Boise has been incredible.  

We were at the park yesterday and a lady was going on and on about Mylee and how cute she is.  

She then said, seriously, she is the Marilyn Monroe of babies!!

I had to laugh.  I think she is pretty dang cute too.

I started coaching this week, a 9th grade girls basketball team.

I was loving it, so excited for it

and then found out that there were not enough teams in the district to play.

I am pretty bummed.

Sometimes it is nice for a mom to have some sort of outlet, 

or something to do that makes you feel worthwhile.

But today I took my kids swimming for a couple of hours

and am happy I get to spend ALL of my time with them!

Happy Halloween!!!

Fall in Boise

I have been so bad at blogging this past month.

We have managed to stay very busy and always have something going on.

Which is the way I like it.

Not to mention Colton and Mylee keep us very busy!

Mylee is about 21 months old.

I feel like I documented Colton's life so much better...

She is talking a ton, pretty much everything I say, she says.

She has a HUGE personality, both feisty and sweet as ever.

She likes attention, good or bad.

She LOVES her dad.  I can't express that one enough, it's cute.

I have a new little hobby.

Eating clean.

For the most part, I do pretty well.

The first week I started, I did great.  Nothing processed, tons of fruits and veggies, lean protein, etc.

Friday night, I said, "Let's go to Fuddruckers!!"

Matt did NOT complain :)

These are part of my obsession.

Mylee likes to do everything Colton does, as I suppose, does any younger sibling.

Even pee like a boy!!  I don't know how I am ever going to potty train her as a GIRL!?

The beginning of September, my friend, Courtney from Moscow came down with her mother in law and we were able to attend Time out for Women.

It was incredible.

I came home feeling like a new person.

 We had to take a picture and they entered it into a contest, I seriously thought we should have won!

I love this picture of Matt and Mylee.

This was at our Stake activity.

He is a good daddy.

I have started making these Homemade Whole Wheat cinnamon rolls...

Love them.  

Kind of proud I made them,

even though they are not THAT hard. 

Totally random post...

Just pictures of our lives from my phone.

 We pretty much like to go do something every night...while the weather is beautiful.

This night we went downtown...

Colton's first soccer team...

he likes running around and smiling... and looks really cute.

But during his games...his shy side comes out.

We'll go play another time and he runs around like crazy kicking the ball...

but not during his games!!

Checking out the BSU bball stadium on one of our morning jogs :)

Matt and I were so lucky to have someone give us tickets to the BSU vs. BYU game.

The final score was 7-6 so you would think it would have been a boring game.

I loved it.  Best date ever in my opinion.

I love watching football and it was so fun to be at the game live.

We were so lucky to have Matt's family (parents, and brother and family) come to visit us that weekend also.  They went to the game but we were all sitting away from each other.

 Colton was in heaven with his cousins there.

The boys at the zoo.

My sister in law Misty with Colton and Rhev

Grandma and Grandpa with the grandkids (except Sayli who was sleeping

 and Cooper--we miss you!!!)

That night we got to go to Chuck -E- Cheese

I don't think I have been there in 20 years.

Wow, it was really fun.

Don't let Mylee fool you in this picture, 

it was her first ride and she was a little nervous.

But she Loved it!

Matt and I had a little competition going in the basketball game.

We ended up beating each others scores a bunch of times and had to keep playing.

We ended up in a tie!

Are you kidding me?

But we were out of tokens and had been there forever

so it was probably better that way.

We got to go to the Farmers Market and play in the splash pad.

Oh...and don't forget about the Cheesecake Factory

We were sad to have them go, but so glad they came!!

Here is a random photo...but I put Mylee's hair all the way up in a pony!  I love it!

Family popcorn/movie night.

Seriously Colton, does the word "Cheese" make your face do that?

The next weekend, we went to Pocatello so I could play in the ISU Alumni game.

It was really fun.

Not a lot of girls from my year played, 

but I love playing basketball even if I really struggled :)

Lots of family came down, which was SO nice.

The next morning we got to go to the ISU homecoming parade...

My kids were in Heaven with the candy...and cousins....and action!

We went up and visited my parents as well, my little brother Tanner

made me take this picture of him and Matt so he could redeem himself from his adorable picture from over 6 years ago.

 Mylee loving the cats at my parents house.

The night before we left, we had dinner with Brandon and Misty and their boys.

They love playing together.

I tried to get them to take a picture together and this is what I got.

2 seconds later, this is what happened!

We're back in Boise.

Here is my little beauty coloring on everything she can.

I straightened her hair to see how long it was...Wow.

She looks all grown up.

I got to watch some boys for a little bit one afternoon...

my kids loved it!

Playing behind the lovesac.

This is what happens when he puts a hat on for 5 minutes!

I love these two.

I have been thinking a lot about why I want to stay at home with them.

Because I do not want to miss anything they do!

I love every second of it...ok there are definitely seconds I don't love

but I wouldn't trade it for anything.

I hate how sporadic this post was, but I don't want to forget about our every day adventures 

(if they are really considered adventures)

Here is to blogging more consistently!!