Halloween Festivities

Halloween time and the boys wanted to be..... you guessed it Mario (Koen) and Luigi (Kael).  No surprise there! 

Right before we head out the door to go trick-or-treating.

Family Halloween Party.  Some of the kids.  Aidan, Kael, Jace, Hannah, Koen, Brody and Klayton.

We went on the Heber Creeper up the canyon and they let off everyone to pick out a pumpkin out of a pumpkin patch and decorate it.

With our freshly decorated pumpkins we headed back down the canyon with hot chocolate and cookies!

I ran the Provo Halloween Half-Marathon with my sister Kim and Sister-in-law Kyrsten.  I picked the Where's Waldo costume because I thought it would be appropriate in picking me out of the thousands of people running that morning.  It just so happened that it was my first half marathon and although I did survive, I learned some very valuable lessons..... 

1-     DON'T run 13.3 miles in old shoes you bought back in high school

        from Payless.   

2-     DO some sort of training before signing up for such a feet of endurance. 

3-     DO get a decent breakfast with carbs.... Monster doesn't count!

Needless to say, I finished.  I ran the first 8 miles and started to crash and pretty much walked the rest of the way.  I placed right in the middle with everyone else that ran and I couldn't walk for the next 2 days because I was so sore.  I did get some good girl time in.  It was an absolute blast hanging out with the girls and chit chatting.  This pics was taken after the race.