The Carroll Family: October 2011

Flag Football

Walker has been waiting for years to be old enough to play flag football. Well, the time has finally came and he has loved every bit of it.

Walker turned 9 this year. Yes I said 9 years old. So crazy. It's hard to watch him get older but it's so fun to see the little boy he's turning into. He's got such a sense of humor, he's obsessed with sports, xbox, friends, and Preslie. He is loving 3rd grade. He told me that it was his favorite year so far. He also told me that it's too easy though. Just wait buddy...

We love him to pieces.

Walker really wanted to have a Sports party this year so after lots and lots of planning....texting my friends and telling them Walker was having a party the night before. We decided to throw one together. I was mean and only let him have three friends. They had lots of fun though and I got to keep my sanity.

Opening Presents

Mauricio, Austin, Walker, Jonah, Meg

Little did we know, until this picture was uploaded, that Austin totally blew Walker's candles out. So funny!

Yellowstone

This year for family vacation we went to Yellowstone with Cory's family and stayed in Island Park. We had lots of fun, saw lots and lots and lots of scenery, geysers, buffalo, elk, and even a mama bear and her cub! We were actually just driving in Island Park when we saw the bears run across the road. So glad I was in the car!! We stayed in some really nice and way cute cabins. We went into Yellowstone two separate days and had some days just hanging out in the cabins relaxing, hot tubbing, playing settlers, and chasing lots of kids. We had a really fun game of Newlyweds one of the nights too. I really do have the best in-laws.

Cory and Preslie on the doc at a lake we drove up to on a random drive.

The boys

One of our trips to Big Springs. The kids loved feeding the ducks and fish. We saw a muskrat too. This place was so pretty

cheesing it on one of our many hikes in Yellowstone

I had to put this picture in because of what Meg said while she was dancing with Cory. The two of them were just playing around dancing to a slow song and Meg said, "Dad, I wish Kael was here." Cory asked her why and she said, "Because then I could dance with him." Kael is our neighbor boy and they are the best of friends, but when she's slow dancing the last thing I want her to be thinking of is a boy her age! She should only want to dance with her dad at this point.

Remember the first picture where Cory is sitting on the dock with Preslie? Well, the boys had a great idea to jump into the water off of that dock. It might look like it was warm, but it was not. Cory made a makeshift swimsuit out of his tshirt and Kurt just went for it. It was so funny. We got all the little boys to do it too. It was definitely entertaining for Elicia and I. We weren't dumb enough to jump into the freezing cold water.

Posing in front of one of the 10,000 geysers we saw

I know this picture looks like we are torturing our daughter, but that's because we were. It was so funny how afraid she was and we had to take a few pictures

Old Faithful

Red Rock Relay

A bunch of my friends and I ran the Red Rock Relay this year in September. It was one of the most fun things I've done. Talk about the most gigglingest, stinkiest, sweatiest, bondingest, cheerleadingest, hardest time of your life! (Yes I made up some of my own words to describe my experience) We stayed in Stacia's in-law's cabin up Parowan and I got about 4 hours of sleep the first night. We started the race at about 6 a.m. at Brian Head and finished around noon the next day in Springdale (right by Zions canyon). We lived in the car for most of the time except for some much needed breaks at Cassie's and Haley's. Showers were the best things ever! I ran my first leg (5.8-SO HARD!!!) around 10 am, my second leg (5.6) at about 8:30 pm, and my last leg at about 5 am. All on about 7 hours of sleep in two nights.