November 2021

 November 2nd: Jackson's 6 month Dr Appointment:

• Weight: 18lb 7oz (62%)  Height: 27.5 inches (76%)  Head: 17.9 inches (93%)
• Eating Solids once a day! Does not like green beans and turkey...dry heaved! 
• Rolling both ways and scooting all over the place! Getting close to crawling!
• Still no teeth yet!
• one hour nap in morning and 3 hour nap from 2-5pm
• Sleeps at night from 8pm-8am. If he does happen to wake up then he goes back to sleep right away once you put his binky in. 
• He likes to put everything in his mouth!
• He especially likes hair! He Loves when I tickle his face with my hair!
• He love snuggles! Especially if you wrap him in a blanket with his binky!
• Super easy to get him to smile but way hard to get him to laugh! 

At the beginning of the month I finally started working on the china cabinet again! Can't wait to show the finished look!

November 3rd: House2Home is working on a cool video for their website! It was fun being there to see how it is done from behind the scenes! Obviously I had to take some behind the scenes pictures!

November 5th: Probably the highlight of this month! Anika came down for a cousins wedding and stayed at my house! She flew in on the 4th and early the next morning we went to Antelope Island and did the antelope island half marathon!! It made for an early morning but so worth it to see the Buffalo with the sunrise!! Stunning!! The race went really well, enjoyed talking with Anika! However at around mile 11 I was running on a smooth dirt road when I decided it was safe to turn around while running to look where Anika was when I happened to step on the one rock that was on the road!  I heard a crazy loud POP and I thought that was it, thought I broke it and was super scared. A truck that was coming towards me saw the whole thing and stopped to offer to take me wherever I need to be. I decided to walk on it to see how it felt and luckily it didn’t hurt to badly so I kindly told him thanks but I want to finish…I only had two miles left! After walking for a minute I felt good enough to jog it out the rest of the way…if it weren’t for that I would have met my goal of doing the race without stopping (except for the one time I had to peel off to pee in the sagebrush) I finished! Had Buffalo chili and made it home! Now my ankle continues to swell and throb and I am sure will be black and blue tomorrow! Still I would do it again!! Loved running with my best friend!

November 6th: We took our family to the wilderness circuit rodeo in Heber today!! All time favorite rodeo with the best burgers ever!! I plan on going to this one every year it’s that good!! McKay says “I want to be a cowboy!! My favorite part is the bulls!” Haha him and Jackson slept through the whole bull riding!

November 7th: Just enjoying spending time with Anika and her two cute little ones!

November 8th: Tat came and stayed the night and we got up and got ready to go to the Aquarium with all the littles! They had a blast but McKay was not as patient as the other kids and wanted to see each attraction a lot quicker! Me too! We ended up leaving a little before the others so I could go home and get Jackson down for his nap! 

November 10th: Catherine is getting so good at back handsprings! Love watching her do her tricks!

November 11th: I love being able to compare all my baby boys at 6 months old! They are all so different and all soo dang cute!!!

November 12th: Then of course I had taken this picture of Jackson that reminded me of a picture I saw of baby Chris! I love it!

November 13th: Chris took Caden mountain biking up corner canyon! They had a blast! They went on a trail that took a lot of work going up hill but being able to go down hill was so rewarding that Caden kept wanting to again! I love that they have this great bonding time!

November 13th: That evening was beautiful! We Invited the Anderson family over to our house for dinner and Harry Potter movie. I am so glad this family moved into our ward, it has been so great getting to know them better!

November 14th: We invited Matt and Kaitlin over for Sunday dinner! So fun to see these two babies together!

November 15th: Catherine told us that she wants to run in the Thanksgiving 5k with us....so she has been doing just 1 mile every evening on my new treadmill that I bought for myself as a early Christmas present!! I am so impressed by her!

November 16th: House2Home had a work party! We met up in Provo at Heber Hatchets Axe Throwing. We had dinner first up in their loft and then finished with a few games of Axe throwing! I did horrible but didn't really care because it was just fun to get out of the house without kids for a date night!

Kids love going outside on the trampoline to do tricks even if it cold! They are getting so good!

November 20th: Our Christmas Tree Tradition! We drove up to Heber and quickly decided it would be best for Chris to go off on his own to find the perfect tree. We started off as a whole family searching but realized that it would take way too long. So I stayed at the truck with the kids and we just did some exploring. Chris pretty much hiked two miles before I found the perfect one! Good thing we brought lots of snacks for the kids....but they had a blast! Caden found a stump that they thought was hilarious to sit on...Catherine looked like she was going to the bathroom! haha

We then made it back home and enjoyed spending time as a family decorating the tree! Chris thought up a new clever idea to keeping the tree watered! 

November 22nd-27th: We drove Colorado to spend thanksgiving week there with Grandma and Grandpa Huntington. The kids did really well on the drive, I was very impressed with Jackson! Once we got there, that first day we obviously just hung out and relaxed from the travel. The following day, the 23rd,  Grandma and Grandpa took us to a wild life sanctuary! It was way cool! Basically you are walking on the bridge that goes out 1 1/2 miles and then walk back with along the way on each sides all sorts of wild big cats and some bears! It felt good to be outside and it was way fun too see the animals in a bigger open area! We thought that it was way cooler than a zoo! The 24th Chris went for a run with Michael but other than that we just hung out at the house! The 25th: Thanksgiving! That morning we got up early with Catherine and met some of the others at the start of the race. There were a ton of people. I quickly realized that I was not going to be placing or doing amazing. I was so impressed with Catherine! She made it the whole 3 miles without stopping! She did great! Chris ran with her the whole time. I got 25 min! Unfortunately the rest of the day I was wiped out though, it totally brought my head cold back on! The rest of the morning was prepping for the FEAST! Kathy did a really great job with the meal! That evening we finished it off by watching Big Paw! On the 26th Grandpa took Chris and the kids four wheeling for most of the day. I obviously stayed with Jackson at the house. It was nice for them to get outside and have fun with grandpa! The kids had a blast and McKay and Catherine were falling asleep on the four wheelers! That evening we went to Michael's house for dinner and birthday celebrations. The following morning on the 27th we packed up and left for home! It was nice to have Sunday to recover from our trip! So glad we made that trip, it has been way too long since we have gone to Colorado!

November 30th: Caden had William Anderson over to play. They were playing outside when the next thing I notice is that a bunch of other kids showed up to play. We had the two from down the street and both sets of twins! haha I love to see them all wanting to come play with Caden!