Thanksgiving in Blythe!

It was fun celebrating with my parents and brother’s family.  We played outside, ate good food and rode horses, which is always a highlight for my kiddos.  Looking at these pictures I realize it was the end of November and all the kids are in short-sleeved shirts.  Love the desert!

Hiking Exploration Peak

I have all these really fun pictures that haven't been posted on the blog yet.  Some from MONTHS ago.  Anyways, here are some from when we hiked to the top of Exploration Peak the last week in January.  The kids really liked it.  More than I thought they would!  Grayson even hiked all the way to the top and he's known for claiming he's too tired to finish ANYTHING.

Half-way up we found a small cave. These pictures make me laugh because I couldn't help snapping a few as Grayson was explaining to me how we should be scared of this four foot deep cave because bears and bats live in caves.

Davis breaking some rocks to find cool ones to take home.

Whitney looks so mature with her legs crossed!

At the peak with the city behind us.

Color Run 5K

I really couldn't be more frustrated with Blogger right now.  It took ALL DAY to get these pictures on my blog, grrrr.  Anyways, these are the pictures from the awesome Color Run 5K that we had here in Las Vegas.  It was to benefit 3 Square Food Bank and I'm sure they were very pleased because the event sold out!  Thousands of people participated.  It was awesome.  I had found out a few days before that young kids are welcome to participate and that was the best thing ever.  Davis and Grayson were so excited!  Leah said she doesn’t like to run so she declined the invitation haha.  But in the end she got into the spirit of it and had color head-to-toe :)

There were lots of people we knew there and so we all tried to bunch up at he starting line.  They staggered the start times so the color stations aren't too crowded and Grayson (and Kashina)= thought we had to wait forever and were not too pleased.

Once it got started Grayson did great and ran all by himself to the first color station.  Anyone going by HAD to make a comment that included the words “cute” and “little guy”.  He was so cute.  But then he got tired and I carried him on my back.  For the rest of the race!  I got a serious work-out!

When you sign up for the race they give you a pouch of color that you’re supposed to save until the end and they do a “color explosion”.  But the finish line festival wasn’t very organized and a lot of the people just used their pouches whenever they wanted.  Layne poured some of hers on my kids while they were posing for a picture and then she gave the pouch to Davis and he tried to get me.  It was fun and made for some great action shots.

In the end the kids couldn't stop talking about when we can do the next one and how they want all their cousins to do it too.  It was really one of the funnest family activities we've done in a long time!