Happy Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is my favorite Holiday, I just love it. I have so much to be Thankful for and thought I should share a few things.

For a while now our little family has been faced with many challenges. Although things haven't been easy I am so Thankful for those challenges and what I have learned from them. And for what I continue to learn from them.

I am so Thankful for a Sweet Husband who truly is my best friend, who works so hard for our little family.

I am Thankful for my cute little boys who are so good and always willing to help when needed.

I am Thankful for my parents and their great example and their willingness to always help when they can.

I am Thankful for Ryan's parents and their continued love and support.

I am Thankful for all of my family and friends and the great people they are.

I am also so Thankful for the Lord and his love and patience with me, and the Savior who has done so much for me.

I am greatly blessed and am so Thankful for that.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Finally some Halloween Pictures.

This year for Halloween Sam was Darth Vader, Jack was a MINJA that is how he says ninja, and Lil Will was a very scared Dragon. Will did not like wearing his costume any time you said the word costume he was start breathing hard and then start crying. He doesn't like wearing coats, backpacks, or slippers either I guess they are to scary.

The kids at the TRUNK or TREAT a few days before Halloween.


Will was sick on Halloween so he took it easy and watched Elmo all night. Jack was kind of sick but felt good enough to go out trick or treating.

Our dear sweet TORI!!!

Yesterday I had the opportunity to attend the funeral of our cousin Tori. Tori was an amazing girl she touched so many lives during her short time here on earth. I am grateful for the chance I had to know her and can't wait to see her again. Tori we love and miss you.


Here is a link to a tribute video of Tori.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdWpvWXTFGc

ThInGS!!!

Here are a few things that we have been doing lately.
One night for Family Home Evening we had ice cream and Will really enjoyed his. It was all over his face, in his hair, pretty much everywhere. Look at that cute face. :0) Will is talking so much. He loves to sing Tinkle Tinkle Star. He is still very very small he is still zero percentile on all of the charts he is up to 18 maybe 19 pounds and will be 2 in January. He is such a fun little man.
Sam played flag football again and loved it. He was on the same team as his friend Sam. Sam has also started cub scouts, Ahhh. Not a huge scouts fan but maybe it will grow on me. Sam really likes going so that is good.


Jack wanted to play soccer this year he had a great time playing with his buddies Collin and Logan. Oh ya and Jack finally got a hair cut. He still reminds us everyday of Ashton(Ryan's little brother) he talks and acts just like him. When ever he reminds us of Ashton I say, "Okay Ashton", probably a month ago Jacks asked, "when are you going to stop calling me Ashton" and I told him "When You Stop Acting Like Him". That will never happen so he will have to just get use to being called Ashton. He is a fun little guy.


A couple of weeks ago I had my brother Jeremy's kids for a few days. We had a lot of fun. One day we went down to the Beehive house and walked over by the temple it was fun. It was really nice having a couple of cute babysitters around the house too.
I guess Sam didn't get the memo to wear black or green. :0)

Luke & Mal's Wedding!!

Ok so I have been a big blogging slacker.
My little brother Luke and Mal got married a month ago on September 11th. It was such a great day. I am so happy for them. The day started at the Salt Lake Temple, then we went to Delta for a luncheon, and we ended the night up in the OC.(Oak City)It was a really fun day.
My friend Melissa and I. She is married to Mal's brother. We kind of hooked Luke and Mal up. :0)
Jack hugging Mal.
That is the moon up in the sky. It was such a pretty day.
My 6 brothers and I.



My whole family.

REDROCK RELAY!!!!!!!!!!!

On September 4th my sister-in-law Amber, me, my friend Jen, eight Delta girls, and one guy all ran the Redrock Relay. Here is what the Redrock Relay is: 187 mile relay from Brianhead to Snow Canyon, a 8 thousand foot decent. There were 12 on our team we each ran three legs any where from 7 to 18 miles total per person. We spent the night before at this cute little cabin.

It was such an amazing experience. We had the best time we had a fun group our drivers were great, we had a blast. Although it was the hardest thing I have ever done. My first leg was 6.5 miles down Cedar canyon. My first mile was uphill then the last 5.5 were all downhill. I dropped almost 1800 ft. It was raining the first part of my run and I ended up getting a blister about 3.5 miles in. I also was lucky enough to wear a cute reflector vest because it was a really busy highway.

I was in the first van with the first 6 runners, after we all did our first leg we went into Cedar to get some thing to eat. By the time we started eating I wasn't feeling well I was getting really sick. My lungs and throat were killing because of the high altitude. (about 4 or 5 of us were pretty sick and we went threw a bottle of Maalox like it was nothing)

We started our 2nd leg around 7:00 PM, I was runner # 6 and started my second run at midnight it was 6.4 miles up for a while then down the last little while, and I wore the cute vest again, and endured with my blister. I ran from Virgin to LaVerkin. While I was running there was tons of thunder and lighting in the distance and I just barley missed having to run in it. Poor Carly runner #7 had to run in it. After our second leg we went and tried to sleep for a while, it didn't work out very well I think I ended up getting maybe 20 or 30 minutes of sleep.

We started our last leg around 5 AM and so my leg started about 11 AM or so. I ran past Gunlock reservoir. I was still sick and it was starting to get so hot. I struggled the most on this leg. It was 5.5 a lot of up and down again. With not much sleep, my blister (that I could feel swooshing back and forth), and the heat----but I did it, I finished. 18.4 miles I did it.

Everyone did such a great job our team finished in 30 hours. Amber and Jen did awesome. Poor Amber fell, and poor Jen had a lot of uphill. The other van had lots of rain, thunder, and hot temperatures during the final legs. But we all did it and had a great time.

Amber

Shannon passing off to Jen. We passed off a slap braclet.

More pictures to come later. I didn't take very many. But Shannon took lots so I will post more when I get some from her.

Jack's 1st Day of KINDERGARTEN

September 3rd was Jacks first day of school. It is so crazy to think that he is in kindergarten. He is such a fun, cute little guy. :0)

GiRLs TriP!!!!

A few weeks ago I went on a little girls getaway with my mom, the Shepherd's and the Draper's(my neighbors growing up). We had such a great time. We went to Olive Garden for dinner the first night then worked our way up to Park City. We did tons of shopping, laughing, and not sleeping. It was so fun and so good to get away from busy life for a couple of days. (Lacey left early so she wasn't in the pics)

Jen and I



Jen, Danica, Shelly, Cindy, LuJean, my mom.
We are all a bunch of Shorty's

Sam's 1st Day Of School & Cute Pics!!

Yesterday was Sam's First Day of school. I can't believe he is in 3rd grade, he is growing up way to fast.

Here are some cute pics of the boys. I just love these little faces. :0)

A Birthday, A Baptism and More.....

Last week was another crazy week. Our final Birthday of the month. Ryan's birthday was last Monday. We went to dinner with some family and friends we had a great time.

Then on Tuesday we threw a shower for Mallorie, it turned out really good.

Last but definitely not least Sam got Baptised on Saturday. They did his baptism early so he could attend the Temple Dedication on Sunday. What an amazing day. I am so proud of his choice to get baptized. Thanks everyone who came and supported Sam on his big day. :0) Let me tell you it was the most eventful baptism I have ever been too. Tony and Missy were stuck in traffic so they were late plus some lady wouldn't let them in a door and made them go around. Jeremy and Jeanna barely made it in time to see the baptism because Dex had a football game earlier, Dex had the black make up lines under his eyes and was caring his belt in, Brianne was running in with her shoes in her hands because a few doors they tried were locked and they had to run around the building, Drew fell in the font; so so so funny, and during the confirmation there was some girl in the chapel just singing as loud as she could. Sam's baptism is for sure one we will never forget.

Lil' Will

Lil' Will got a haircut last week. Here are some cute pictures of the event.

Happy Birthday Sam!!!

Today is Sammy's Birthday, I can't believe he is 8. Sam is such a fun great kid. He is such a big help too. Hope you have a good day Sam.

Our Anniversary!

Last Friday, August 7th was our 11th wedding anniversary, so we decided a few days before that to make a quick trip to Cali and go to Disneyland. I love last minute trips. I have always wanted to go to Disneyland with out my kids so I can ride the rides I want. We had so much fun. Thanks Ry for taking me!!! :0)
The only reason Ryan went was to get a yummy turkey leg.

This is the first time we sat down all day, it was at 8, we were so exhausted

Happy Birthday Jack Jack!!!

Today is Jacks birthday. I can't believe he is 5. Jack is such a good kid, he is always cracking us up too. We are so grateful that he is part of our family. Today we had an exciting combined birthday party for him and Sam. (Sams birthday is next week)We had so much fun today. Man I can not believe my boys would hold those icky snakes.

Jack holding the pancake turtle. It was his favorite reptile today.
Jack going for a little ride.

Lake Powell I Love You!!!

Last week we were able to go to Lake Powell. Man I love that place I have been going since I was a little girl and can't get enough of it. We went with my parents, my brother Jeremy and his family, my brother Van and his family, and my cousin Garret and his family. We had such a great time and I really want to go back soon.
Sam had so much fun wake boarding.
One night we took the girls on the Ski Bob and they had so much fun they ended up naming him Ski Bob Johnny.
Jacks favorite thing at Lake Powell was cliff jumping. We got him jumping even higher than this. When we first got there we could barely get him to jump off the boat.
All of the girls jumping. Me, Brianne, Rylee, Jeanna, Macey, & Amber.
Every year the kids make up skits and perform them for us. We had a huge rock that they were able to use as their stage.
Our Cute little family, minus Lil' Will he stayed home with Grandma Tina and Aunt Missy. It was so nice not having to worry about him.
Ryan and Sam cliff jumping.
This is our camp we had shade until 11 in the morning then again around 5 it was so nice.
Hole-In-the-Rock. Every year we go to Hole-In-the-Rock, but this is the first time we climbed it. I am so glad that we decided to climb it, it was so awesome. Other than the gross rattle snake I saw that totally freaked me out.

This is about half way to the top, look how tiny the boats look. And look how tiny the water line looks.
This is at the very top looking down.
We left Jack back at camp with Grandma and Grandpa.
The kids had so much fun tubing, wakeboarding, cliff jumping and swimming.
Jeanna, Brianne, and I all wake boarded together, I had to use Sams wake board because mine was in another boat, it was so hard using that little thing.
Jeremy beat the crap out of us on that thing.

The kids doing a little bit of morning fishing.
Rainbow Bridge.
Rainbow Bridge.


The day we got there Jack had to use the bathroom before we could get the tent set up and had to go out in the open, he really did look so cute.

4th of July

The kids and I spent a few days in Delta around the 4th of July. We had a great time. Ryan came down a few days later. We did some great fireworks that our friend pick up for us in Wyoming. We went to the parade, park and finished the day with the Derby and fireworks at Grandma Lois' house. On Sunday we had the Annual Beckstrom Boat Race. T-Bone, Will, and Luke.
Jack
Missy helping Sam.
My Dad and Uncle Gary. Uncle Gary and my dads cousin came down and played in the tennis tournament and won.
Will fell asleep on Luke during the fireworks.
Derek, Sam, and Jack at the parade.
Will and Grandma Tina.
Sam caught a fish in the fish pool.
Kelda and Jack
My mom and dad.
The Beckstrom Boat Race.
Ryan and Will
The finish line.
Will and Grandma Lois.

Beckstrom Reunion

A couple of weeks ago it was my parents turn to be in charge of the Beckstrom Reunion so we had it down in Delta at the res. Us, my parents, and Van jr all took our boats out. We had a great time tubing, wakeboarding, and playing in the sand on the beach.




We even ran into Ashton.





Cute Grandma Helen :0)

They're BAAACK!!!

Every year we look forward to seeing little baby quail. :0)

Happy Birthday!

Last week was Grandpa Mikes birthday we were able to go down and see him for a little while on Sunday when we were picking up the kids.

Zoo

We went to the zoo with our friends the Andersen's the other day and had a blast.