Thanksgiving festivities coming soon!
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Thursday, November 24, 2011
2011 Turkey Stuffer
I am sitting here waiting for rolls to finish cooking and so I thought I'd spend a minute updating my blog. This morning we had a great experience running/walking in the Turkey Stuffer through the streets of Thurston. It starts at the wave pool, goes for 3 miles and ends again at the wave pool. There were 1500 people running it this year! Here is a picture of us before the race started:
Casey of course was our runner. He finished in 20 something minutes. Charlotte and Jillian ran and walked while the little girls and I walked.
The little girls did pretty well. We did have to take a shortcut because Lydia started crying halfway through. She was SO cold! The best part was running by Grandma Walburger's house. She and Uncle Matt and Aunt Kristen and their kids had made signs for us and and were cheering us on! It was AWESOME! It gave the little girls a boost of energy.
As we were finishing our race, Uncle Jared (who had finished 20 minutes ahead of us and was walking home) stopped, grabbed the stroller and ran the rest of the crew in for the finish. The girls LOVED it! What a great way to start thanksgiving day!
Casey of course was our runner. He finished in 20 something minutes. Charlotte and Jillian ran and walked while the little girls and I walked.
The little girls did pretty well. We did have to take a shortcut because Lydia started crying halfway through. She was SO cold! The best part was running by Grandma Walburger's house. She and Uncle Matt and Aunt Kristen and their kids had made signs for us and and were cheering us on! It was AWESOME! It gave the little girls a boost of energy.
As we were finishing our race, Uncle Jared (who had finished 20 minutes ahead of us and was walking home) stopped, grabbed the stroller and ran the rest of the crew in for the finish. The girls LOVED it! What a great way to start thanksgiving day!
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Seaside, Oregon...the best city on the Oregon coast!
This weekend we had the chance to get away and go to Seaside Oregon. Casey is involved with the Oregon Association of Student Councils event held there every year. We share his hotel with him..and while he works, we play! Seems fair right? We got there on Saturday and immediately walked through our favorite part of Seaside...the main strip. They have fun little stores and things to look at. We rode the carousel and Charlotte bought a sweatshirt.
This is our favorite store on the Seaside strip. It has so many different kinds of treats! They cover everything in chocolate here...pretzels, pop-tarts, bacon, and even twinkies. Did we buy a six pack of chocolate covered twinkies? yes we did!
After touring the shops along the main strip, we ended our walk at the beach. This statue is of Lewis and Clark looking out on to the Pacific ocean. It was just gorgeous! (the view of the ocean, that is)
It was tough to keep the Sabbath day holy on Sunday. I took the girls up to Astoria to visit the ward there. It is always interesting visiting another ward. This one was kind of funny because the microphone was not working. Right in the middle of the sacrament song, the microphone backfired and let out this horrendous screech. The organist and chorister were startled and it took them a moment to start again. Everyone in the congregation started to giggle. Not exactly reverent...but it was pretty funny. After church, we drove across this gigantic bridge that links Washington to Oregon. The girls were so excited to tell their dad that they had been to Washington today. (We drove back to Oregon seconds after entering Washington...but the bridge was really cool!) The rest of the day was spent watching movies in our hotel room and walking the pristine Seaside beach.
Monday morning, we slept in, and then I took the kids swimming at the hotel pool!
Allison and Maggie were banned from swimming due to bad behavior the night before. (Really bad). So, while the other three kids swam, Allison and I played cards. (Maggie sulked.) But hey, hooray for following through on a punishment right?
All in all, it was a great little get-a-way.
This is our favorite store on the Seaside strip. It has so many different kinds of treats! They cover everything in chocolate here...pretzels, pop-tarts, bacon, and even twinkies. Did we buy a six pack of chocolate covered twinkies? yes we did!
After touring the shops along the main strip, we ended our walk at the beach. This statue is of Lewis and Clark looking out on to the Pacific ocean. It was just gorgeous! (the view of the ocean, that is)
It was tough to keep the Sabbath day holy on Sunday. I took the girls up to Astoria to visit the ward there. It is always interesting visiting another ward. This one was kind of funny because the microphone was not working. Right in the middle of the sacrament song, the microphone backfired and let out this horrendous screech. The organist and chorister were startled and it took them a moment to start again. Everyone in the congregation started to giggle. Not exactly reverent...but it was pretty funny. After church, we drove across this gigantic bridge that links Washington to Oregon. The girls were so excited to tell their dad that they had been to Washington today. (We drove back to Oregon seconds after entering Washington...but the bridge was really cool!) The rest of the day was spent watching movies in our hotel room and walking the pristine Seaside beach.
Monday morning, we slept in, and then I took the kids swimming at the hotel pool!
Allison and Maggie were banned from swimming due to bad behavior the night before. (Really bad). So, while the other three kids swam, Allison and I played cards. (Maggie sulked.) But hey, hooray for following through on a punishment right?
All in all, it was a great little get-a-way.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
week 44
Hey guys, blogger is giving me problems...I am having trouble posting...hopefully I can figure it out and post more about our Seaside trip and other stuff later :)
Thursday, November 3, 2011
week 43
Week 43 is up! I am so sad to say goodbye to October! It is my favorite month of the year for sure!
Halloween in Levi Landing is quite an experience. We had over 400 kids come to our door. People park all along Thurston road just to trick or treat in our neighborhood. I think it's because all the houses here do it up big. There are inflatables, lights, and in our case, a movie playing in the window with full sound! We had such a crowd outside our house all night! We even put out chairs for people to sit on and watch the movie while their kids trick or treated! I took this video before it got dark but you get the idea of how it looked!
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