meet my therapist

therapist ther·a·pist (thěr'ə-pĭst)
n.
One who specializes in the provision of a particular therapy.

this is leslie. today we ran a half marathon. over the past few years we have trained for some races. in doing so i have found that the hours i have put into training have turned into personal therapy sessions. not that leslie is "specialized in the provision of a particular therapy" but she is a good friend who listens, laughs and has the best stories to tell. i have very much enjoyed the hours we have spent together laughing and talking and getting a great work out.

halloween...was that last month already?

dustin just loves to smile for the camera

if you look closely you can see madelynn and tate holding hands


part of the group we went out with


a few days before halloween, madelynn started to stress out about how we were going to do her hair. she wanted it to look just like Tinkerbell's hair. she studied the beginning of disney movies to make she i know just how to do her hair. it was so cute.

we went trick or treating with a group of friends and had a blast! madelynn was loving every moment of the night. ella totally got into it too. she was trying to keep up with the big kids, always a few steps behind. ella was a stinker and i didn't get any good pictures of her.

ode to shelby

this cute girl is shelby. oh how miss madelynn loves her. {and so do i} there is not a day that go by that i don't think of this sweet girl. as many of you know madelynn has a blanket affectionately call shelby blanket. before i had ella, shelby made me a blaket for her, when madelynn saw the blanket she ran up and said my shelby blanket, and that was it, she wanted nothing to do with her baby blanket and everything thing to do with her new shelby blanket. now comes the sting cheese, at our house it's shelby cheese, because at one point or another madelynn eat sting cheese with shelby and thats what it's now called. every sunday madelynn gets so excited when we sit down in sacrament meeting, cause she knows that shelby is going to be at church and i have to point out where shelby is. madelynn asks me a few times a week if shelby can come over to play. she doesn't get that shelby is 10 and is in school all day and isn't one of her playdate friends. i always get a huge smile on my face when think of this cute girl and how my madelynn looks up to her. so thank you shelby for being the girl that you are, and for being so sweet to my madelynn. we love you miss shelby!

poke a dot pumpkins

so i finally got around to doing my poke a dot pumpkins yesterday, yes i know on Halloween right. madelynn has been bugging me to do it for the last 31 days.