Thanksgiving

Amy and I started off Thanksgiving with the Utah Human Race 5k.  I'm not sure what part of me thought I could just up and run 3 miles, but that's what I did.  Now I can't even walk I'm so sore!  I was pretty proud of myself for "running" the whole thing.  It was physically the hardest thing I've done since birthing Porter...wanted to quit the entire time!!  I had to do something to balance out the 5 pieces of pie I would eat later! (Oopsies!)

 

 We had Thanksgiving dinner at Nana and Papa's this year.  James and I made stuffed mushrooms for everyone.  They were delicious!

 We had a delicious dinner after squeezing our nephew Taylor.  He got home from his mission that morning.  It was the first time for Porter to meet Taylor.  It was so fun!  Then we followed up dinner with pie...lots of pie!

 Here was our Thanksgiving crowd...

 

This was the first time that Brett and Jenny's new kids had ever had Thanksgiving.  It was so cute to see how excited they were to try turkey and all the Thanksgiving fixings.  Such sweet kiddos!

 

Matt and Max came too, but we missed taking a picture of them.  It was a wonderful day!  I really hit the jackpot in the in-laws department!!

Football and Snow

We have finished another season of football.  It has been an interesting season to say the least!  The one thing I can't complain about is the weather!  We couldn't have asked for better football weather this year.  Thankfully football and snow never mixed this year!  We took Porter to one game.  We were prepared for it to be a nightmare.  He doesn't sit in one place for very long.  It ended up going great!  By the end of the game when he was ready to be done, the Cougs were winning handily, so people cleared out and Porter had room to roam. 

 

 The Grossen's had tickets near us, so got to play with them for a little while too!

 The last home game was a little windy and cold, but the snow held off until the next day.  Another season in the books!  James and I had the most fun testing out all the new food vendors and of course a cougar tail or two!

 We got our first snow on Nov. 17.  When I brought Porter downstairs, he noticed the snow out the window on the back door.  He exclaimed, "Oh wow!!!"  Then he kept saying, "mess! mess! mess!"  It was pretty funny.  It sure is a mess!  And a mess that last 4+ months and it cold and terrible but kind of pretty as long as you don't have to touch it!  Porter asked to touch the snow so I got him all dressed up in his snow clothes and let him play.  He lasted for about 10 minutes and had the time of his life until a big gust of wind blew snow all over his face.

 You will noticed I did all my videoing from the back door.  Sorry Porter...you'll have to wait for daddy to get home to have a parent play in the snow with you!

I heard of someone doing a family tradition of eating a first snow pie on the first day it snows in the winter.  James and I loved the idea, so this year we had banana cream pie for our first snow pie.  Any excuse to eat pie!

Rocked the Vote and Football

It has been a pretty wild week!  On Tuesday, James and I headed straight over the elementary school to vote.  I have never had such a difficult time deciding who to vote for.  Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place!  I woke up at 3:45am that morning and couldn't stop thinking about all the things going on, including this vote.  The whole process took us about an hour at the elementary school, but I voted.  It's done!  Then all these gems rolled in...

 That night, Kara and Ryan had us over for dinner and we watched all the numbers come in.  It was a crazy, crazy night!  Around 1am, Ryan and I were the only ones still awake, and we watched as Donald Trump delivered his speech.  I still can't believe it!  I am overjoyed that Hilary lost and hesitantly hopeful that DT won.  It will be interesting to see how this all goes!

Then yesterday, we were brave and took the P-nut with us to the BYU game.  This was the first home game that wasn't in the middle of the night, so we decided to make it a family affair.  Those who know Porter know that he does not sit still for more than 3 seconds so James and I were fully prepared for this to be the worst experience of our life, but he really surprised us! 

 I'll take a 65 degree November 12 any time!  It was a perfect football day!

The Grossen's were just a row below us, so once people started clearing out in the 4th quarter, we all got to sit together.

In Porter's words, "Go Cougars!!"  We are bowl eligible now, baby!!