Train them young...

Here's to Jacob giving Caleb a fun new ride.

Caleb thinks he's big enough to start doing jobs!

Or he'd rather have Jake work extra hard and vacuum and give him a ride at the same time.

Jake gets frustrated because Caleb just gets in the way. So we have decided to only vacuum when Caleb is sleeping.

Halloween 2010

Happy Halloween



Jacob = Buzz Lightyear to the rescue...

Alayna = Jesse the yodeling cowgirl...

Caleb = The cutest Bumble Bee ever...

The boys wanted to be matching Tigger's at the elementary school parade...

Halloween 2010

All the grandkids visiting Gr. & Gr. Perry for their BIG size candy bars!

Alayna was also a dog on Halloween because it was RAINING and FREEZING cold so her Jesse costume didn't work while being cold.

Jacob and Olivia...(Cleopatra)

The Peck Family wins the award once again for going ALL out for Halloween...The King, Queen, Princess and her frog.

Halloween 2010

The Bishop aka Hot Toddy...and Baby Hot Dog Blake

Angela also WON the award for the most hilarious costume. She looked awesome and oh so wide!!!

Jake so excited to go back out in the rain.

Hot Toddy and Shandra passing out Hot Dogs...

Snow Canyon Half Marathon

#3 - Half Marathon! I am glad to say that the last of the year was the VERY BEST YET! We had a GREAT time. It was short and sweet. We left Friday afternoon for St. George. Then we ran Saturday morning, showered and returned home by 6:30pm. Just in time for Sunday! I think the 8 hours of driving was TOTALLY okay because there were four fabulous ladies in the car and we never got bored of chatting.

Krista, Diana, Amanda, Holly, Amber (Camille & Alissa I need our other pictures to post you there too!)

Here was our good luck fortunes from Emily...who couldn't make it to the race this month. We SO missed you! But she was cute to send these darling fortune cookies.

Here is to the biggest trooper of them all, my sister Krista. She decided on Friday morning to run with me. So we enlisted in some childcare between our sisters and she joined me. It made the race the best. I had a buddy to talk and chat with the entire time. I was totaly impressed by her abilities. Who needs to train for a half marathon...not her! She even improved her time by 12 minutes from her last one in June. Now, as for me I LOVED this race. It was primarily down hill which ONLY helped my time. I ran this race in 2:09... My first race in June I ran it in 2:32, then my 2nd in 2:17, so for me to meet my goal of 2:10 I was stoked. The other ladies I ran with did AMAZING...They left us in the dust by finishing between 1:40-1:54...Seriously, amazing! But the best part of the race was that at the finish we had ALL met our individual GOALS. So it made for a perfect ending of running in 2010! I know for me, waking up and not HAVING to run was an early Christmas present! My house finally gets the cleaning attention it's been in need of! Oh, this journey has been amazing. I can't wait to do this all over again.

Best Buds

Jacob and Isaac

Cute boys...

Caleb

I just think that these little guys are adorable! The fun thing about having these close up shots of these two is to realize how different they look. Would you even think they are brothers? I don't see a resemblance, but maybe you will?

Jacob

A few of my favorite things...

Fall time. Halloween costumes. Happy little girls. Fall leaves. Hot Chocolate. Outside activities in cool weather. Family parties. Smiles. Joy School. Really, so many things right now have been so fun. Busy, but fun.

Today after church we had a few visitors. The Madsen parents had a busy after church schedule so the kids needed a place to go. So why not come over and spend time with their cousins. A few of my favorite things was listening to all the cousins watching a family video of our trip to California/Disneyland last week. The cousins were SO excited each time a picture of somebody came up. It was so fun listening to them giggle and be so excited to see one another. The other favorite this is seeing Alayna enjoy some good ole "girl" time. They set up a hair salon. I loved watching them! She came to me today and said, "Mom, will I ever have a sister to do girl things with?" At some point I'm sure, but heaven decides that choice! But until then I told her cousins are probably the best sisters out there. Every time you are together your having FUN. She loves these two girls. So thank you Madsen girls for being so darling with Alayna.

Here is handsome Jared doing what he does now on Sundays...Staying busy but being HAPPY while he does it. I have to add in and looking as cute as ever.

It's Joy School Time...

Seriously, is Jake old enough to start Joy School with his cousins and friends? You betcha! He has talked about going to school ever since Alayna started Preschool last year. Finally, it was his turn! Let's just say that this morning he was beaming from ear to ear. The kids were DARLING! I was the first mom to teach the kids and I was totally impressed. I had the six little monkies and they were great. My personal favorite part was teaching them a poem to memorize. I was cute. Next week I am getting it on camera and I will post it all for everyone to enjoy. But here is to really one of my favorite parts of being a mommy. It was a complete delight. Reading books, being super animated, happy, laughter, giggles, choo choo train rides, oh, it was wonderful! Anyways, I can't wait until next week and neither can the boys...and our one princess girl.

Herriman Fire- What we did.

Well, I'm sure everyone has read all they want to about the Herriman Fire, so I'm not going to re-cap everything. We simply packed up our goods that meant something to us. And that we sat in camping chairs outside and watched the fire burn down the mountain till about 2:30am. We had a great time visiting with our neighbors, family and friends. We eventually decided to just go to bed because we felt we were safe. It honestly was an amazing blessing and miracle that so many homes were saved. With that being said, the very next day the kids were working on "thank you" cards for the fire fighters. We consider them our hero's around here. So for Family Home Evening the kids wanted (I promise it was their idea) to make cookies and bring them to our heros. So that's what we did. Alayna brought her card and off we went!

"Police, Firefighters, Soldiers...Thank you very much for saving us."

We decided to bring the cookies to the policeman and soldiers that were stationed just up the street from our house. I figured the Fire Fighters at the station were well taken care of by all the other mom's and kids out there so we decided to take it to them. Anyways, they were GREAT to the kids. They let them turn the lights on in the cop car, the siren, climb in the Hummer, shake their hands and just visit with them. It honestly was wonderful to tell them "thank you!" It was a great experience of service and gratitude. I loved it and so did the kids!

Dilemma of being a girl

Welcome to Alayna's 5 year old little life. What shoes will she wear? We were on our way out the door the other day and I found her in the corner looking like this. Who knew picking shoes would be so difficult and take SO LONG??? Certainly not me! I have two pairs of flip flops, 1 brown and 1 black. (Currently, my black is missing so, it's the brown where ever I go.)

I made her smile just because she has such a cute little face when she's smiling.

As I am warning her that she will have to go with out shoes because she's taking too long she finally picked her favorite pair. Her brown Reef sandals that were given to her. They are finally getting too small after being worn for two years in a row, but they are her first choice. Oh, I think she is the reason our oh so unsightly shoe basket is exploding everyday!

Life of a toddler

Let me introduce you to Caleb. He is (I think) 16 months old. He is Mr. Trouble around here. The kids call him, Coo-Coo or Fee Fee Love. Really, where do my kids come up with these nicknames. I like to call him Crazy Man. Because simply he is. If he's not strapped down in his car seat, high chair or caged up some how. You will find him on top of the dining room table, standing on a stool reaching anything that is NOT meant for him on the counter, finding my jewelry in my bathroom cabinets, touching any electronic in sight, remotes to the television, my computer, anything in the office, pulling books off the bookshelves, etc. The list can go on and on.

Things I do that I shouldn't...Oh, eat markers...even though this messy face was created by Jake sharing some M&M's with him. He normally is FULLY covered in markers. He has learned to take off the lids, chew on the marker point and pull it out. Which ends up in your fingers and it turns everything on you PINK, BLACK or BLUE! Oh, you find everything you shouldn't!

Alayna's favorite job on her job chart is when it's "Help with Caleb" - she is the BEST big sister. She will get him milk, a cracker, play with him outside and entertain him while I am cooking dinner. I have GREATLY appreciated Caleb's vocabulary growing. It's amazing how much "AHHHH" and "SCREAMING" we have been enduring lately...so with even a few words being used we LOVE to hear them. "Down, Don't, No No, Mum...Dadda, F-oohn (Phone), Uh-Oh, Out, All Done, Mmmm-k (milk), Ah-Na-Na (Alayna), Isaac (We think he means this for Jacob...because he's always yelling it at him. Maybe it's just because Jake and Isaac are always together, but it's easier to say than Jake). My favorite moments in the day with Caleb is when he arches his head and neck up and says, "Mum...and stares at me than he begins to ramble baby gibberish..over and over again" But he is dead serious, that I should know what he's talking about. It's hilarious. I can't wait to get it on camera!

But Jake said it best, "We just love him, huh mom." Yes, we do. Even though you are causing us to lock every door and continue to child proof everything, over and over again. Yes, we love you Caleb! (Who couldn't just want to hug and kiss my big toothy big eared baby??)

BYU Football should be Jacob's middle name

Here is one little dude who loves BYU Football! When Jake heard that a "real" BYU football player would be coming to our house on Sunday he ran right upstairs and put his BYU football shirt on and hasn't taken it off since. Thanks to his Aunt and Uncle Brian he has plenty to wear! :)

Here was a dream come true...meeting a "real Football Player" - This is Walter #71 (I won't even attempt to spell or say his last name!) He's dating our really good family friend, so they came to dinner and pretty much made every little boys dream come true!!!

Here's Conner thinking he's pretty cool stuff with the football player!

A great reminder on those hard days.

Please tell me I am not the only one that has hard or difficult or tiring "mom" days! I'm not complaining I just simply watched this video when I needed someone to remind me, "I am magnificent!" Enjoy.