The London Run!

Here is a picture that my brother Jason took of Rich and I running in a 10K (6.2 miles) on January 31st. What another great accomplishment for me. I never would have believed that I could do this. This picture was taken when we had about 100 yards to go before we reached the finish line. However, this picture is a little bit decieving, because Rich finished the race 20 minutes before I did. He came back to cheer me on and that is why we are together in this picture. Plus, I was really not this smilely by this time in the race.

This run was called the London Run http://www.londonsrun.org/ it was held in Queen Creek, Arizona. It was a beautiful day and a great event to particapate in.

Snow???? If you can call it that.

The day after Christmas, we had a very light dusting of snow. However, in Arizona that is very exciting to us. The boys were hoping that it would snow more, but it didn't. There was not even enough snow to make a snow ball. Dang! It was still exciting. The picture of Caeson is funny he looks so cold. We don't have jackets warm enough for snow.

Christmas Morning

Here is a picture of the boys at 5:00 in the morning Christmas day. -- Rich's parents came down Christmas Eve. We had a little Family Home Evening that night, we told the Chirstmas story and we all wrote down what we are thankful for. Christmas morning, we got up at 5:00 and opened all of our gifts. The boys were so excited about opening their presents. They could hardly wait. Our family got a Wii this year. They have had fun playing it. They played all morning long with their "toys" they got. That afternoon, we went to Globe to eat dinner and open presents with the Perry's. Degen (my brother) also called us. He is on his mission in Montana. It was good to hear from him. That evening we went back home. The boys wanted to go play the Wii some more.

Christmas with Rich's family

Tevin

Ryan

Maddux

Caeson

Every Christmas, we get together with Rich's family sometime before Christmas to celebrate Christmas together. We always eat homemade Mexican food (which is really yummy). Then we exchange a $5 gift. This is one of our favorite traditions about Christmas. Throughout the year, we are always on the hunt for a $5 gift. We try to find the craziest gift for $5. We then wrap the gift in the prettiest
bow and hope that someone good gets the gift. Rich has gotten a battery operated curling iron. And one year he got a beaded curtain with marajana leaves on it. We have to remind the kids, that they probably will get a gift that they don't want. We have so much fun and lots of laughs.
After the $5 gift exchange, we let the boys open their gifts from their cousins and Grandpa and Grandma Hincha.

Christmas pictures already!

This picture is of all of the cousins on the Hincha side. Rich has only one sister. She say 4 boys. Front row: Tanner (5), Parker (7), Caeson (5), Maddux (3), Middle row: Logan (10), Tevin (11), Back row: Ryan (14), Tyler (18), Spencer (15).

Here are some of our Christmas pictures with Rich's family. Rich's parents, Gary and Diana, are in the middle. The family on the left is Rich's sisters. Rich's sisters name is Joy, her husband is Ladd. Their boys names are Tyler, Spencer, Logan, and Tanner. Our family is on the right.

Our Ward Christmas program 2008!!

Ryan was such a good sport to have his picture taken with Santa. I wanted a picture with all five of the boys by Santa.

Parker and Caeson the shepherds

(Sorry this picture is turned. I have to figure out how to flip it next time)

In December, just before school lets out our ward has a Christmas program every year. It is fun. all of the Primary kids dress up and present the Nativity story. The ward provides all the costumes. It is great. Caeson graduated to a shepherd. He was happy. The 3 and 4 years old boys are sheep. And yes they have sheep costumes. It is great. Parker was a shepherd too. Tevin was one of the 3 wisemen. Ryan and Maddux just got to watch.

Ryan's Elk!

Ryan got drawn for elk this year. His Dad was quite excited. Ryan doesn't get excited about too much. They went hunting the weekend of Thanksgiving. Rich and Ryan went with Ben Allred (our neighbor) and some guys that Ben knows. They horseback in to this area up by Alpine. They left Thanksgiving day. That night Ryan was sick and threw up all over their tent and sleeping bags. That was not very good, because they were out in the middle of nowhere. So they weren't going to be able get new sleeping bags and a tent that they had left in the truck. The next morning they got up very early to start the hunt. Ryan shot his elk that morning before noon at 624 yards. He was quite excited then. The area that they were in was so rugged it took them 2 days to pack the elk out.

The 5K!!!

My biggest accomplishment this year is to run in a 5K. Yes, that is 3.1 miles. The 5 K run (Turkey Trot)was held on Thanksgiving day in Pima, Arizona. I can't believe it did it. Sorry there are no pictures of me crossing the finish line. That is because there was nobody there to cheer for me. I guess they had great confidence that I would make it or they were hunting. One or they other.
Here is my story of how I got started running. One on my friends asked me last year if I wanted to run with her. I told her I do not run. I am not a runner. She said "OK, how about if we walked and maybe just run a little." I said "OK, I can do that." So we set off walking one morning. After walking a short while she said " Now lets run from here to there". Again that was something I figured I could do. However, I told her that if I was going to run I could not talk to her, because I was so out of breath. She was probably thinking "Great this will be lots of fun".
After a few short weeks I was running most of the way and talking to my running partner at the same time. What a great accomplishment. I have been running now consistently for a year and a half now. I really enjoy it and am grateful that my friend keeps me going.
Rich and I are training for a 10K now. I will let you know how that goes.

Carving the Pumpkin

Caeson picked this pumpkin before Halloween, during a field trip at school. (I am a little behind on my blogging, I got a new camera and just figured how to get the pictures off). Caeson couldn't wait to make a Jack-o-lantern with his pumpkin. We didn't carve it until after Halloween though. I let Caeson and Parker carve it all by themselves. It was so fun to watch them. Caeson had his tongue out the whole time. He was really concentrating. Parker carved his face on one side of the pumpkin. And Caeson made his face on the other side.

Thanksgiving!

These are pictures of the boys in the age order. It is kind of fun seeing a pitcture like this. There are a couple of tall ones and then a whole bunch of small boys.

This is a picture of everyone that was at my parents house for Thanksgiving. Only a few people were missing.

Thanksgiving

I know I am still trying to catch up, but I can't forget to post our Thanksgiving pictures. We did two Thanksgiving dinners this year on two different days. It was great. The Perry Thanksgiving was the Saturday before Thanksgiving. And we ate with the Hincha's on Thanksgiving day. It was a lot of fun. I liked doing Thanksgiving this way. We didn't feel like we had to hurry and rush to go to the next person house. We also got to sit and visit with everyone instead of leaving.

Anyway, for the Perry Thanksgiving, my Dad's brother and sister's family come to Globe every year. It is great to see all of them. This is the one time of year that we get to see my Dad's family. I am grateful we have kept this tradition with them. Before we ate dinner we went up to the Elementary school to see the new huge playground equipment that the school got. My dad volunteer to help put it together. It was so fun to watch the kids play on it. We also took some pictures of all the boys together. My parents have 11 grandsons. It is crazy. We have 5 boys, John had 3 boys, Jason has 2, and Vern has one. However, Vern and Becca just found out that they are having a girl in March. My boys told Vern that they were ruining it. It will be fun to have a girl around.

The picture to the left, the boys go: Front- Kyson, Riley, Maddux--Trey, Ridge, Caeson--Parker, Conner, Cody-- Ryan, Tevin
These are my boys.

These are the boys being silly.

He's so SEXY!!!

We took Christmas pictures this last weekend at my Aunt Karen's house. She has the perfect yard for taking pictures. I take a lot of pictures at her house. Anyway, After I took our Christmas pictures, I took some pictures of Maddux, because I don't have any recent pictures of him. I told Maddux to stand in front of this gate. He told me this was going to be his "Sexy picture". So I have to post his sexy picture. Isn't he so cute? I don't know about sexy.

Twins

Sylvia and Parker have matching shoes. They had to take a picture of them. Don't they look cool?

Aunt Syl is coming!!!

My boys love when their Aunt Sylvia comes down. She always plays with the boys and takes them places. These are picture that they took when Syl took them to play racketball when she come down at Halloween.

The pictures I forgot

This is "just Maddux"
This is the ninjas, Sylvia and Ryan. ---Scary---

Is it almost Christmas?

I am so far behind in my blogging. I have had to step away from my computer for a while. It seems to suck me in sometimes and I can't get anything else done. So now that it is almost Chistmas, I thought I would post my boys Halloween pictures.

For the whole month of October, I had been asking my boys what they wanted to be for halloween. I told them they could be anything that we could find a costume for at home. So, they all wanted to be a Star Wars guy. Caeson and Maddux were going to be Yoda. Tevin and Parker were going to be someone else. I thought great, so I only had to come up with lightsabers and robes. I was just greatful that nobody wanted to be R2D2. So I gathered the costumes together. I only had 2 Mickey Mouse lightsaber and they didn't think would be very cool . So, I went to Walmart to get Star Wars lightsabers for them. Then they were all happy.
However, as you can see from the pictures Tevin and Maddux changed their mind. Tevin decided to be a soccer player. And Maddux had been so excited about being Yoda for a week before. That is all that he could talk about. However, he did not want to dress up. That morning we were going to Caeson's school. I told Maddux "let's go get your Yoda costume on." He said he didn't want to be Yoda. So I let it go. Then we were going to Parker's school for the Costume Parade. I again told Maddux, "Let's go get your costume on!". He said his didn't want to put it on. I asked him if he wanted to just put makeup on. He said "No". I then asked him if he wanted to just spike up his hair. He said "No, I just want to be Maddux!!!" And Maddux he was.


Sylvia, my sister, came down from Mesa that day. I was excited for her to come down. Ryan and Sylvia dressed up as ninjas. Don't they look scary.

Halloween evening we went to the school carnival. It was alot of fun. They had tons of activities for they kids to do. Sylvia also took the boys trick-or-treating to a couple of our neighbors.