The start of Halloween fun...

Our pumpkin carving contest....
Everyone was wondering what design we were carving. Little did they know...

Madison won the "cutest" pumpkin (can you see why)
She wasn't enjoying it as much as we did. It sure was cute! We had the perfect pumpkin! Spencer's mother gave it to us for our anniversary. It was a perfect pumpkin that I hated to even carve.

It was a miracle....

A good while ago my knee started to act up. What? I've NEVER had knee problems! What horrible timing! It put a MAJOR damper on my marathon training. (I'm going to die: another story) Anyways, the night before the Bisbee stair climb my knee was very irritated. (from my soccer game: another post later) So I was not really looking forward to the stair climb and thought I was going to have to walk. (parts) Right before the race (literally) I saw my friend Jamie who is very into the natural oils, ect. She rubbed some "dark blue essential oil" all over my knee. Let me tell you folks... It was awesome... I ran without too much pain! I could still feel the grinding and popping but it was tolerable. Jamie saved the day!

Here I am... (Spencer caught me making faces)
Here is my Brother-in-law Russ (the one in the white shirt: that looks like Spence)
My Cousin Bryna (in the pink tank top)
My sis-in-law Katie
And My Mom
All done...

It was a new course this year so I couldn't compare my time to the past years. The running part I was prepared for but I didn't do much stairs to train. (because of my knee) This year there were just under 200o runners. I got 124th over all, 3rd in my age group.

So PROUD....

Spencer signed up for a race and ran it all by himself!! haha That makes him sound like a little kid. For those of you that don't know... Spencer HATES to run, or should I say he USE TO hate running. He came home one day and told me he signed up for a 10mile run in Tucson. (Oct 9th)I was lost for words! He said it was to help him prepare for the half marathon that he has in a couple of weeks.
Waiting for the race to start... (I think I was more nervous than he was)

Here he came around the corner! Madi and I were cheering so loud!

After the race...

He is AWESOME!!! It was a great race, very organized, lots of people, and lots of food. I am so proud!! I never thought I would hear these words from his mouth..."You know I really like running around 6 miles. After that I wouldn't say I really enjoy it." Did you hear that...he said "I really like running around 6 miles." I know my jaw hit the floor too.

6 months from now....

We will be in our house!!!

Yep... they broke ground on the house!!! YEAH, we are so excited! They say around March we will be in.... I'll keep you posted on the work in progress.
(this picture was taken when they first broke ground, I will post a picture of the progress later this week)

After 8 weeks....

Before....
The Equipment used.... (yes the Dr used the ear plugs too)
After....
YEAH!! After 8 weeks Madison got her cast off. (Oct 4th) As you can see her arm was sick!! All the skin was peeling off and she had nasty build up of stinky sweat and food in her cast. It smelt horrible! She uses her arm like it was never broken.

How in the world...

How could you sleep like that? She has always been a wild sleeper.

2 years???

That's right.... 2 years have come and gone. Elder Haymore is home! He came home Sept 29 from Chile Vina Del Mar Mission. He is doing great and trying to adjust to the "World."

Here are all the nieces and nephew with there signs and shirts. (plus Jordan and Meg) This was the first time Madison met Jared and really didn't want much to do with him. Now she loves him.

It sure is fun to have Jared live with us.
The family that was at the airport to great him. He also had friends there but I didn't get a picture of "everyone." (Someone send it to me)
It was so fun to see him again. We were all waiting in the lobby and playing. All the sudden someone looked up and said, "There is Jared." Sure enough there he was! Jordan (my bro) ran and gave him a huge hug. Then all the little kids followed and Jared made his entrance. There was a lady sitting in the same area as all of us and she started crying when she saw the excitement from us all. She told us, "I don't even know you guys, but that was a wonderful welcome home. What a great family." We were counting down the days to see him.