ON your mark, set , GO!!!

13 miles later---She made it--and still in good spirits too....

here she comes on the last stretch...

dad gives a little massage on the tired muscles
while she gets some energy from the oranges

this was funny--a hurst--(just in case its needed) ha

stocking up on apple oranges --bananas for the runners
it was a good stach for the expected runners at the finish line


yeah for good shoes--worn out from training--but all broke in


kaci now you and hayley are matching with medals for your run


stretching after the 13 mile run and just talking about
the race and what music she was listening to
and how she felt and stuff

way in the back is the time clock--and then the Halloween marathon truck
we were so happy when we saw her cute face on the trail
headed our way--I had binoculars and sawy her a bit a way
there was so much energy in the air with the crowd
clapping and ringing cow --bells and giving them fives
on the way in--that's the first time I've been at the finish line


here she comes (isn't the trail pretty lined with tree?)

I (mom) looked like in this pic I was dressing
up for halloween with that crazy hair!! I had
been wearing my hood it was cold
there really were lots of runners in costumes..
it was like a Halloween parade as they ran by--

pictured --dad and hayley and mom then leaving the track till next time
hail the conquering Hero..........................................
Hayley is a hero to us for training & running her 1/2 marathon -(-to dad and I-)- thirteen miles is a quite a Feat (surely not for the feigned hearted)
way to go! it was fun being there see you cross the finish line --and in a great time too!!!!!
;by the time we saw the time clock it was somewhere around 1 hour and 45 min which averages an 8 min mile --wow--but check her blog for 'official time" that's a pretty good clip clop--woo woo--you've come from winning the 'turkey trot' in elementary school to this--thanks for letting
us share in it--that was a lot of fun.

ps we'll think of that when we're running our little 1 and 2 mile workouts and feel exhausted (:

just a thought about flowers

Kaci asked for flowers for her 4th birhtday....and was so delighted to get them, we grow flowers at the earlier possible time in the spring and keep them as long as we can till fall. one of my favorite parts of a wedding reception are the flowers. I just pulled a geranium out of my garden and put it in a pot and brought it inside--because it still had a flower blossom on it --after Megan and kyle made their last vistit to primary children's hospital it was Flowers that made Megan feel better when we got home. I love the visit a garden green house and see the flowers, I like to see what others plant in their yard for flowers-- In short for some reason --our Heavenly father's creations of flowers really are "Heavenly" and they make you feel good

So When my friend kathy P called to say come get these beautiful roses I jumped at the chance
nice of her to think of me when she was giving them away--she knows I love flowers, (some of them cause me grief as I get alergies being around them--hum, but overall yeah for flowers).

tooth pulling time...

I have heard the saying "pulling out my hair" but I don't often hear my friends say much about:
I've been pulling out my grandchildren's teeth"

but the last time the grandkids were together --I ended up pulling one for Mayley and one for Adriana (she prefers to go by her full name now--for those of the family that didn't get that memo)

before now -I don't believe we have taken any pictures of me actually pulling a tooth-but -good for Nancy to suceed in capturing the moment-in the following pics and good for the grandkids to be brave enough to let grandma --pull their loose teeth

it really boils down to me playing a game that my dad used to play when we finally were going crazy with a loose tooth--he would try to pull a solid (not loose tooth) and say ..."is it this one"..to which we'd reply no--then thinking he was sorta funny--he say is it this one in my hand? and give us the loose tooth and it was over before we even knew what was going on...

-I thought that was funny that over time--the errand of "tooth puller" has somehow fallen to me--when time permitted it to be so--I don't know quite how it started?

There's a reason..

there is a reason I i like to take pictures with dad and the grandkids or I (Lynda) and the grand kids. The thing is I (to my knowledge) do not have a single picture of Me & with any of my 4 my grandparents. Bryan has one picture with his grandfathers and his sibblings and that's it. Yup
Its not just the having the picture with them --but having the "shared experience' with them to have a picture or two--so thus--I've blogged a few of the numerous pictures of us with kids and I hope they always can find here or there a picture or two of 'being with the 'ole folks" ha...I never want them to say like I am saying now that I don't have a single picture together...(okay so maybe I've swung too far the other way and have over done it with too many pics...sorry--

Stake Conference

dad out working--I know he works hard physically and
Spiritually to do what he knew he needed to do for Stake
Conference...As he always has. I'm glad I got him.
Oct 23 2011
Dear family
This time around for Stake Conference Bryan *(dad) as asked to speak at the Preistood session on Sat and the Adult session Sat evening. The Sat Evening talks were about Forgiveness , Forgiving ourselves after we;ve made right and forgiving others and accepting others forgiveness to us.
it was a great spirit that was felt and I left the meeting feeling a greater spirit of Forgiveness than I have ever felt and I was proud of dad for the message he delivered and how he said what he said and knew the his many hours of preparation and our prayerfully seeking the spirit of the Holy Ghost to be with him, all made for a wonderful experience.

time to 'winterize'

raking out the dirt after tilling the garden
I hope hunter remember helping grandpa when
he gets older the way our kids slightly remember doing
projects with their grandpas...such as riding the tractor

more pictures of the tilling up process


Hunter spray painting a rusty truck to prevent
it from rusting more over the winter months


Mayley looking at the changing leaves-of Fall

bryan & hunter working to till the garden spot
hand over hand..

hunter taping the truck in preparation to paint
it for preserving it in the winter snows

I guess it's time to get ready for winter:
* chairs away (check)
* arch taken down (check)
* I pulled up a bunch of old flowers and garden plants that had seen their better days.(check)
*planted some new tulips with the hope of spring coming again...I got it into my head--to plant tulips --when we were at the temple last spring and seeing all the pretty tulips there so I planted
only 6--but hey--better than nothing--plus I have some that will come from last year too...plus I have a friend who gave me some new bulbs to plant next spring--that she thinned out.
my favorite part of the pic below is bryan --even better than pretty tulips..





..I thought why work so hard at the rec. center or on a tred mill,?? why not work hard in your yard--that is how my parents exercised --good old fashion hard work.. They kept their heart rate up just fine..not like a little chipmunk on a tred mill...go figure..

even so I have to admit...I still love going to the rec center though. I've taken advantage of some introduction classes being offered at the rec center in Zumba--spinning--water exercise
(in the shallow and in the deep) and also a class called kranking (it works your arms)

pictured is a pumpkin made of wood-tree stump...-painted orange--now that could stay out in the cold and its cute--I'm working on making my own today--this is much cuter than mine

monster bash...

going to gardner village to look at pumkins was also part of the day's activites and watching hunter ride a bike with no training wheels...oh how these goblins are growing and growing...











I love seeing the kids dressed up around Halloween time and I love to dress up myself--
so last year--I sort of started a little Halloween party for the grand kids including making some
'witches brew", and a game or two. This year's bash included, wearing costumes eating donuts
playing 'cup' cake walk, and making home made rootbeer for the 'witches brew' along with a spiced up witches brew.. the funny thing was I had more fun than the kids I think. oh year we also served scones like we do to the neighborhood kids and we pulled two loose teeth (mayley's and adrianna's) I liked that they rang the doorbell and they got a treat from grandpa. and that he put on the mask for a moment to chase them....a good time was had by all