It's autumn time, it's autumn time, the leaves are falling down

Andrew 4yrs, Ryan 3yrs( on Nov. 13th )

I love seeing them helping eachother because that tells me I'm doing something right

Yesterday the sun came out so we decided to rake up the leaves and jump in the piles and take some pictures.

Freeze!

One day this past week, we were about to go outside to play on the playset when the rain came down and the winds blew. So I got creative and decided to do a freeze dance with the boys. I only got Ryan on here because I didn't have my camra handy when Andrew was dancing too. They had fun. Mommy even danced as you can tell from the video.

The last week

General Conference weekend. We invited neighbors over for Saturday's session. The kids had fun playing with all the toys during
and in between the sessions.

Andrew and Ryan playing on the computer. They like playing games on candystand.com

Run for your life!

( One didn't carpool with us)

On a very cold Saturday morning, 6 crazy sisters from the Ward ran in the Love your body Women's 6k at Thanksgiving Point in temp.s in the 40's/50's. Standings.......569th over all out of 1067, 115th in my age group............time: 49:32.7. My goal time was set for under 50 mins. and well, I made it by 30 SECS.!! Yeehaw!!!

It's not going to happen

OKC Oklahoma South Stake reunion is cancelled due to the lack of persons. Sorry! Will try Again different time and place.

A tribute to a "Giant of a Man"

Today marks the 10th Anniversary of my fathers death. So when I saw an ad for a cancer 5k run/walk, I knew I wanted to do it.My mom ended up coming too.When I got to the end of the race, I felt so many emotions all at once and started to cry. Tears of joy that I finished, tears of sadness because I missed my dad, and tears of accomplishment that I was able to help someone by contributing to the event. I collected myself and grabbed a water then started to walk back the trail to find my mom and walk the rest of the way with her. when we finished, tears started flowing for my mom and we hugged for a bit. It was a neat experiance to do that race and to do it with my mom. My Sister Debra did a race in Idaho and my Sister Tamra and her family did one in Provo. My brother Alen was able to come over for a bit this evening and look through pictures from over the years, brother David did service by helping someone move, and brother Jon is in the military so he thought of my dad during PT this morning. I'm grateful that I had 16yrs on this earth with my dad and I can't wait when we will be reunited once again. I have a testimony and know that families can be together forever. I know that as we fullfil the covenents and promises we make with the Lord in the Temple that we will be a forever and eternal family. I'm grateful for a 14yr old boy who invited the missionaries to his home and later joined the church. I'm grateful that my parents were sealed in the Provo Temple and that I was born in their family. I love my family! Wouldn't ask to be reassigned to another. I have 5 great brothers and sisters and loving parents.

I love you Dad! See you later! Wish me luck( The last words I said before I left for school that morning. The wish me luck pertained to, at the time, an english paper that was due that day)

Sherilee

I'm making a run for it!

Mad Dash to beat Cancer 5K Sat. Sept.25th, 9am American Fork Cancer Center. Making it a tribute in memory of my Dad, James Howard. I thought that would be a nice 10yr death anniversary tribute, don't you think?. Mom's going to walk and I'm going to run. It will be 10yrs to the date.