Halloween

Adam and Eve made appearances again this year.  As always, a big hit! :)

Our 4th little one to wear this costume.  I love my pumpkins!

We trick or treated in St. George this year.  Here we are at Grandma Heatons

And some action shots at Grammy Nadaulds.  Little Sam was in heaven.

Fall Violin recital

Jake is getting pretty good.  It's a battle to practice, but once he does -- he likes it.  I have become the hated mom that makes her kids do lessons every morning before school.  I guess I have to get used to not being liked around here!  Bummer for me.

 

He got a little confused at the start, but finished strong.  Way to go Jacob...  Can't wait to see the difference in next year's recital!

Hiking with the Brostroms

On such a beautiful Fall day, we couldn't stay inside.  We went for a hike with our best of friends, the Brostroms.  We drove up American Fork Canyon and did a little 3 mile hike.  The views were AMAZING.

Nina and SOME of the boys... we have a lot between the 2 of us.

Nate wasn't super thrilled about his hat.

 

 The boys had to stop a few times to catch their breath.  But .... we finally made it to a pretty waterfall on quite the death cliff.  The view was amazing, but we couldn't enjoy it too long, because we we all panicked someone was going to fall.

What a group of handsome boys I have!
Luke is mad in this picture because he lost his treasured pocket knife on the hike.  He didn't have pockets, so put it on his head, under his hat -- it fell out. :( 

Pupkin Patch

Every year we try to go pick out our pumpkins at a pumpkin farm.  I think 5 out of the last 6 years we have gone with the Brostroms (either in Ohio, or Utah).  This year we made it easy for the men and Nina and I went without them to a fun nursery that had pumpkins for sale. This kids had a lot of fun in the maze -- although we got lost a couple times.

And then we had a fun family night carving.  I took a picture of the finished pumpkins, but I guess I deleted it.  Bummer, they were cute -- as always. :)

Preview of HEBER

Grandpa Nadauld is creating a dream for all us Nadaulds.  A place to all gather together in Heber City Utah.  It's supposed to be done in Spring 2011, and we can't wait.  Until the home is finished, we get to check on it and eat at some fun Heber Restaurants and visit park city.  The following are a few pictures of the Apline Slides -- SUPER FUN.

 Taylor and Luke on the left and Jake on the right.

CABO Oct. 3rd - 10th pictures to come

The Marathon -- At least I finished....right??

The hardest part about a marathon is all the time it takes to train. Thanks to Taylor I went on many hours of running sessions. He some how managed to keep the kids entertained (and alive) every time. I'm so grateful he lets me do this, I know it's a pain in the toosh!

A shot of crossing the finish line. The time isn't that great, we are walking, we are dead tired... But at least we made it. Next year, when I'm not nursing a 5 month old, and it's not 100 degree's out -- my time BETTER be improved!

My mom is the best -- she brought my kids over early and did the Mayor's Walk. They loved it... Well, Jake loved running, Luke survived because grandma pulled him along.

One of the BEST parts of the race was training with friends. I would have died if I didn't have Nina to run with every weekend over the summer, and it was so fun to run with Amber during the race (her and Mike flew from Ohio to do the race). Even though Holly is MUCH faster them me, it was fun to talk about training and get ready for the big day together.

A shot before the race L2R: Nina, Me, Holly, Jon(Bowen), Kyle Frei, Mike and Amber

Love these pictures of the finish. Taylor took the one on the left and was very bugged at the guy on the right getting in the way of photographing me and Amber. It wasn't until several days later he realized it was MIKE getting carried across the finish line. That heat wasn't good for any of our times! :)

Mike (along with MANY marathoners that day) suffered some dehydration, but a few days in CABO with some major R&R fixed us all right up.