October

For the month of Ocober I have a disclaimer to write...my Camera broke after the first week so not many pictures.... but here's what I got:

Garet's B-day/Conference Weekend: (10/1-10/3)
For the past 2 years Garet and I have gone to the cabin this weekend to celebrate his birthday and also watch conference. I love watching conference up there. We have no distractions and its very peaceful. This year we talked all my family into coming. Jared had just got home from his mission 2 days before so it was a great excuse for everyone to come and spend time together. And then of course Garets birthday celebration is definitely an added bonus. Garet and I left Friday afternoon with Paige to the cabin. Most of the family got there that night as well. We all didn't fit in the cabin so some of us had to stay in tents. We stayed in our tent again...and Paige had a blast!!! Friday evening we got there early enough to get things settled and to get dinner started. Saturday morning we had the works for dinner then settled down to watch conference. Conference was great. I always enjoy listening to conference. Sunday was Garets birthday. We pretty much did the same thing we did the day before, (Eat great food and listen to conference.) Between sessions we had Garets birthday party..this is when my camera broke!(grrr) We had a great weekend. It was fun to be all together and especially spend time with Jared!

Garet, Jared, and Jordan enjoying some gourmet sandwhiches

Hallie, Kacey, Megan, Karlie, Jacie, Teagan, Paige, and Kade..eating lunch!!

Garet, Karisa, Justin, Allison, Landon

Kade, Hallie, Karlie, Jacie, Teagan and Paige- making some crafts that Allison brought.

Jorday, Kacey, Landon, and Taylor- playing a silly shooting hand game that Jared taught us. Its a game that he said that they often played on the mission.

Karisa helping the kids make smores...over the grill:)

Jacie, Paige, Karlie, Kade, Hallie, Teagan...eating smores

Allison, Landon, Justin, Karisa, Hallie, Karlie

Garet and Paige- Garet's birthday! This is the last picture I was able to take before camera broke!

Garet we hope you had a great birthday! I am so lucky to be married to you. You are a wonderful husband and father! Thanks for making me so happy! I love you!!!!!

Paige's Birthday- My BIG 3 Year Old: (10/13)
Paige was supper excited for her birthday this year. Which of course made it lots of fun for Garet and I. Paige gets to share her birthday with her Aunt Megan. Grandma "Marsha" (as Paige calls her) wanted to come surprise Megan for her birthday so we got to spend the day with her and also Jared, Jordan and Kade who came with Grandma. So just as Paige wanted we started the day off with fruit and donuts. (don't know where she thought of donuts) We then got ready for the day and we went to the Library's "Dinasour Day". Paige thought they were having a special library day because it was her birthday. We met some of her little friends at the library. At dinosaur day they have different stations for you to go around and do. They had a couple different crafts, games, and even cookie decorating. She had a great time. After the Library we met some of her little friends at the park. They played at the park for about an hour, had cupcakes and opened some presents. Again Paige had a blast. It was so fun to watch her. She was so so excited. After the park we came home and had tortilla pizza and then took naps. That evening we met up with Megan and her roomates and we ate dinner at La Cassita (Megans choice) We had to hurry home from that because Garets family was meeting at our house for cake and ice cream. Paige and a day full of nonstop play. She loved it! It was so much fun for all of us!

I love this face. You can see how thrilled she was. This is the donut she picked out...chocolate with sprinkles!!

mmmm..Yummy!!!

Look are her messy face...after just one bite! you can imagine how it looked when she was all done with it.

Kade, we are so glad that you came to celebrate with us!!! We love ya bud! Thanks!


Paige at the park

Kade, Paige, Blake, Savanna, Britni, and Aunt Laura


Ashley, Spencer, Braden, Brandi, Audrey, and Lanie

Paige loved opening presents. ( Braden, Paige, Brennan, and Blake, (Grandma Marsha is in the back)

Paige wanted a Dora Cake. I had a couple problems when making it so, I was a little worried on how it would turn out. I think it turned out cute. The only problem was....because of one of the little problems...we had TONS of cake!!!

My 3 year old!!

Paige and Katie

Kade, Paige and Katie- Paige wanted so badly a woodie doll for her birthday. I totally procrastinated buying her one because I was trying to talk her into something else. When that didn't work I had to hurry and go buy one. She was really really excited so it was totally worth it!! she is in a Toy Story stage right now...and still is.

These were a new toy to us. She loves her princesses though and will sit for an hour playing with them.

We had a great day like I said before. Paige we love you! We are so glad that you are in our family. You have brought more joy to us then we could have ever imagined. You are a special little girl. Your very smart, tender to others and happy. We love you and are so glad to be your parents!

Pregnancy Scare: (10/20,& 10/21)

Wednesday night the 20th I had a little scare where I thought I was miscarring...actully I knew I was misscarring. After dinner sometime I started bleeding a little bit. I tried to wave it off but couldn't help but being scared. It was more then just spotting. I expressed my concern to Garet and he assured me that everything was probably ok. I wasn't convinced and was still really scared when he left to go play a basketball game. I text mom and told her and of course she immediatley called me. She tried to calm my nerves. After getting off the phone I went and got Paige ready for bed. While reading her stories I couldn't help the tears from falling. I tried to hide my emotions from Paige. My stomach started cramping some and I just new I was going to loose the baby. Soon Megan came to my house. When she came to comfort me I couldn't hold back the emotions and started sobbing. I was so scared. I was going to be 12 weeks the next day. I didn't want to loose the baby. I didnt' want to have to go through being sick all over again. Megs stayed with me for a while and Paige finally went to bed. When Garet came home he gave me a blesssing. I am so grateful for him. Jared was also here in town and helped with the blessing. I don't remember much of what Garet said but I remember feeling peace after he was done. I then remembered a sweet experience I had had in the temple months before. At the temple I had a strong feeling that I knew I would be able to bear a child.....didn't know when but I knew my body would be able to do this. It was very comforting to be reminded of that sweet experience. I didn't have anymore bleeding that night but my stomach continued to cramp. The next morning I decided that I should let the doctor know what was going on. I called and informed them and they told me to come to Tucson that day to check the baby and make sure the baby was ok. So later that afternoon Garet and I drove to Tucson. I was so scared. It brought back to many memories from the year before when I got induced after my water had broke. Well everything ended up being fine at the doctors. They couldn't explain the bleeding or the cramping but they said baby looked good and so did my body. I was just told to take it easy for a couple days. It was such a relief to hear that everything was ok.

Girls Day:(10/23)

For Garets Moms birthday we all gave Kathleen tickets to Broadways Beauty & the Beast. (and we all bought one for ourselves) So all the daughters, daughter in-laws, and grand daughters over 5 went. Everyone from Thatcher all drove down Saturday morning. We grabbed a quick bite to eat at Chipotle and then headed over to Laura's. There we met up with everyone else, and took off to the Theater. We had pretty good seats...or at least I thought so. It was really fun to be with everyone...and the show was so good. I loved it!!! After the show we went and got frozen yogart at Ocean Blue. It was YUMMY! I had a great time though with all the girls. I am so lucky to be married into such a great family!!!

Halloween Weekend: (10/29-10/31)

Well we didn't have a camera this weekend so I don't have pictures. I was able to steal one off of Marlee's blog though. I was hoping to get more but that's ok. I have already done a little post on Halloween....but I didn't really journal much about it so I wanted to add more.

We started the weekend off with a doctors appointment in Tucson. Many of our trips to SV have recently been started off this way. Well the doctors appointment went well. Baby seems to be doing good and I'm doing good. I am now 12 weeks pregnant. After the appointment we headed down to SV. Since Halloween this year fell on Sunday we did trunk or treating Saturday night. This year Paige wanted to be Tinkerbell. I found her skirt and wings for a really good price at the county fair. She was really excited and loved her coutume. Paige and a fun time trunk or treating and loved getting free candy. She got more then what she needed. :)

After "Trunk of Treating" we went back to moms for pizza, and cake and ice cream. Jared's birthday was on the 28th but he wasn't in town so we were celebrating it that night. It was fun to be with the family as it always is. We went back home late that night because Garet had meetings early that morning. (the end of September he was called to be the Elders President)

All the grandkids that went trick or treating....this is after "Trunk or Treat"

September

LABOR DAY WEEKEND 2010

When you are talking to someone in the Haymore Family you would find out that Labor Day is a big Holiday. When I was a little girl..(not sure one the age) Grandma and Grandpa Haymore organized a reunion this weekend and probably 20 years later we are still doing the same thing!!! WE LOVE IT!!! and look forward to it! This year Garet and I were pretty excited because we were going to finally be able to stay the full weekend. We arrived to the cabin Friday night and stayed until Monday afternoon. It was lots of fun visiting with everyone. Kids and tent were everywhere. Paige was excited to be able to sleep in the tent again. Garet made and nice little comfy place for us there that weekend. The only downfall of that weekend was that this was the first time I would get sick with this pregnancy. I wasn't expecting it because I was only 5 weeks. With the other pregnancies I didn't get sick until 6 or 7 weeks. But not this time. I was pretty nauseated and yucky a lot of the weekend...and couldn't keep everything down. :) Yet we still had a blast!!!! here are some pics:

A truck load of cousins ready to go on a hike! (Spencer, Uncle Ron, Arlee, Holden, Hutson, Brycen, Kelli, Uncle Flint, Garet, Shanna, Hunter, Paige, Karlee, Cooper, Brittney)

All the hikers... Ryan, Brycen, Holden, Garet, Paige, Me, Shanna, Karlee, Kelly with Hastings on her back, Brittney, Hunter, Cooper, Marlee, Spencer, Madison, Jan, Flint, with Arlee on back and then Hutson,

Flint, Spencer, Garrick, Garet

Paige...she LOVED LOVED LOVED the DIRT!!! She got it EVERYWHERE!!!

Kids all playing together...(Teagan, Cooper, Kade, Paige, Hunger, Rylee, Brycen, Karlee, Hudson, Holden.)

Paige and Kade

Paige taking a nap with Great Grandpa Haymore..it was so cute!

Allison, Marlee, Me, Bryna...visiting on Sunday afternoon.

FHE...every Sunday night

Followed by delicious cobbler...apple, peach, cherry, blueberry...we got it all!!!!!

We never run out of food! Jacie, Kade, Paige, Karlee, Hailee, Teagan

Paige, "Look how dirty I can get!"

Staying out of the rain during Pinata time... Karlie, Jacie, Allison, Jordan, Kacey, Megan, Amanda, Madison, Hallie, Paige and Kade

Piage and Pinata....even though this picture doesn't show it, Paige actually hit the pinata this year. She had lots of fun and talked about this for months after!

Rhino Ride!!! Spencer and Marlee thank you, thank you! They couldn't get Paige off! This is Marlee, Spencer, Hailee, Kade, Paige and Karlee

I'M SO CUTE (9/12 & 9/13)

These pictures aren't anything special or of anything in particular but they are some cute ones of Paige.

I love her laugh! This is a picture of her in complete joy!

" I wear my sunglasses at night"

Garets calling was the cub master. For one of his pack meetings he had to buy colored sand and the scouts did an art activity with the sand. Well there was A LOT left over and Paige got to reap the benefits of it.

ANGLE ORCHARD (9/18 & 9/19)

One of the things we love about fall are APPLES! So when Allison and her kids came and spent the weekend at our house we took advantage of it being apple season and we drove up to Mt. Graham to Angle Orchard. Brooklyn Long my cousin also came for the weekend. Paige loved having her stay with us and have a playmate all weekend long. The weather was nice up the mountain but there were TONS and TONS of nats. The little kids especially Paige and Teagan didn't last very long. They were sick of the bugs. Paige didn't like them at all and even had a little melt down because they were all over. (in your eyes, ears, nose...yeah it was grose) but the apples were really good. After picking apples we drove down a little ways to a campsite and had a picnic. Everyone enjoyed this.

Allison, Teagan and Kade

Brooklyn (see she's even squinting to keep the bugs out...its not because of the sun light or flash.)

Paige and I....(Paige not very happy)

Our little picnic! Brooklyn, Paige, Kade, Teagan (love his smile) & Allison

After the mountains and the car ride home we stopped and got a yummy (messy) snow cone

When snow cones were all said and done Paige decided that my door was a little dirty...so my little helper washed the window and door for me.

Paige and Brooklyn enjoying apples

By the time the weekend was over Paige was exhausted....Brooklyn made Paige a little bed on the floor and BAM she was out

ELDER WILLIS (9/26/10)

September 26th we got to go up to Heber to see Elder Mathew Willis and here him talk in church. It was great to see him and hear his testimony and stories of his mission. He did a great job speaking in church. We of course took the opportunity to take some family pictures since mostly everyone was there!

All the Handsome Goodman Grand Boys: Matthew, Tyler, Justin, Mitchell, Jacob, Jared, Brycen, Carson, Reed, Jaden, Garrett, Seth, Taylor, Brennan, Hunter, Braxton, Andrew, Jorgen and Grady

All the beautiful Goodman girls...with elder Willis: Kara, Matthew, Brinlee, Ashlee, Hailee, Makenzie, Kylee, Paige, Katie, Allie and Tess

The entire Goodman Gang

Elder Haymore (9/29/10)
Our other missionary also came home this month. We were supper excited to have Uncle Jared back home with us. We left early Wednesday morning for Tucson. We had to drive to my doctors appointment first. This was our first visit so it was really exciting to see the baby and see the heart beat. It was to early for us to hear the heart beat. I was almost 9 weeks along. Paige was with us at the Dr's appointment but was oblivious to everything at was going on. Once we found out that the baby was healthy we had to cut our visit short and run to the airport. We arrived just as the rest of the family did. We were there only about 5 minutes when we saw Jared come down the escalators. It was so fun to see him, and see the joy on everyone's faces. We were all crying because we were so happy. We had some people watching us...and they even started crying. It was a sweet moment. After taking lots of pictures at the airport we all decided it was time to leave. Garet and I had to make a quick trip to Costco and then headed to SV to be with the family. There my mom had prepared a little Mexican fiesta. We spent the rest of the afternoon listening to Jared talk about his mission, share pictures and souvenirs and of course ate some food. It was a special day. We love Jared and we are so glad that he is home. He set a good example to all of us by serving an honorable mission.

Our little family with Elder Haymore, (Paige, Me, Jared, Garet)

All the Grandkids plus Jordan had shirts that said "Welcome Home" they were so cute!
Madi, Megan, Taylor, Elder Haymore, Jordan, Hallie, Karlie, Jacie, Kade and Paige (don't know where Teagan went- but he was there to)

The "Gang" at the airport: Tyler, Cole, Garet, Dad, Karisa, Justin, Grandma, Grandpa, Landon, Spencer, Bryna, Me, Mom, Megan, Jared, Taylor, Hallie, Allison, Jordan, Marlee, Madi, Karlie, Jacie, Paige, Teagan, and Kade.

August

MY FIRST GARDEN
This year was my first time to plant my own garden. I was really proud of myself. Back in April Garet and I road-a-tiled the ground and I started lots of little planters with cucumbers, green beans, squash, zucchini, and tomatoes. Then in May Renee my sweet sister in law came and helped me plant the garden. I had no idea what I was doing so it was nice to have her help me. She was so sweet to take time out of her day and help. Along with the starter planters I had previously done we also planted some string beans, watermelon, cantaloupe and okra. Garets mom also started some cherry and grape tomatoes that we planted. I really tried all summer to keep up with the water and the weeds. Of course some days/weeks were better then others. Over all though I think I ok. I did learn though if you stay on top of the weed picking it is much much easier!!! So when it came time for harvesting our fruit....we ended up doing ok. We had plenty of okra, and cherry/grape tomatoes, and green beans. We had an ok amount of cucumbers, not very many large tomatoes, a couple watermelon(that were quite tasty I might add) no cantaloupe and not very much squash.
Things I learned this year that I hope to do different next year:
- plant my tomato plants A LOT further apart. They were way to close this year made it hard for sun to get to them, water to get to them and hard to pick the fruit.
- I would like to install some kind of drip system. Our water bill went up way to high. I think If I watered it less more frequently (if that makes any since) I'd save a lot on the water bill.
- And lastly...I am not going to plant my zucchini in the shade.- I didn't mean to do this I thought they would get enough sun where they were but nope.....apparently they need more!

Backyard..looking at the garden..see how big and how close my tomato plants were?

Just one picking of grape/cherry tomatoes in a morning. (paige and Garet loved the "baby tomatoes" as Paige would call them.)

The rest of my picking for the day

WEEKEND FRIEND RETREAT!! (8/13-8/15)

Over this past weekend Friday the 13th through Sunday the 15th we got to go to Phoenix to have a fun time with our friends the Woodsides. We stayed at The Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort in Phoenix(price-line is the best). Our friends Justin, Kiri and there son Jaran, stayed in the suite next to us. It was a wonderful weekend! It was so nice to get away and do something fun as a family and to be with amazing friends! We got to Mesa late Friday night. We met Justin and Kiri at Pei Wei. (one of our favorite places to eat) Then we went to our resort and visited for a bit and checked out the pool before bed. The next day we went to the pool for a while and had a blast. This resort had a fun water slide and all of us adults tried it out! Paige was a little fish that we had to watch really carefully. I wish she was big enough to go down the slide. I think she would have liked it. However the end kinda had a little kick to it and that probably would have really scared her. We then went back to our rooms and got ready for the day. Then the shopping began. With 4 people all wanting to go different placed all over the metroplex we had alot of places to go to. Garet and I didn't get to finish all we wanted to but it was alright. Garet and I didn't spend much money shopping so that was kinda nice. We shopped all afternoon together and we did not get back to the resort until 9:30 that night. We were all so tired and bummed that we missed out on going swimming again since the pool closed a 10pm. So, we stayed up and talked like old times. Kiri and I visited while Garet & Justin talked Chiropractic. It was a lot of fun. The only thing missing was Adam and Hillary who live so far away from us. We missed them being with us. Sunday we said goodbye to the Woodside and we left the Pheonix area and went to the Mesa area. We tried to hit a church but unfortunately it didn't work out. I can't really remember why but I do know we tried 3 different buildings with no luck. I do remember though how frustrated we were. After trying with no succcuss we stopped by Marcos and Estthers house before going out of town. Esther was kind enough to let us crash there Sunday dinner. It was nice eating with them instead of trying to grab something on the sabbath. After dinner and a quick nap we headed back to Thatcher. It was a great weekend and lots of fun. I really hope we can do it again with them!!
Now here are some pictures: :)

Jaran and Paige were so adorable! They got along really well. Paige is a year older than Jaran and he is a good 2 inches taller than the tiny and petite Paige. I think all our kids are destined to be like this.....sorry guys!!!

Garet and Paige at the pool. I couldn't really get either of them to look at me.

Kiri, Jaran, Paige and I

Paige and Jaran in the car....they had no idea of all the shopping that lied ahead of them....(actually either did we..:))

Our little family before leaving the resort Sunday morning.

OUR FIRST TRIATHLON (8-28-10)

My family has really gotten into Triathlons. Marlee and Spencer were the first to compete in one. They then talked Justin into it, and then Landon. Garet and I always said we were going to do one but we never kept up in the training. I think the next people to do one was Allison and Mom. Well this summer Garet and I decided that we really wanted to do one. We chose the local triathlon as our first one. Landon and JJ (old volleyball friend) also came down and competed the tri along with Allison and Mom doing the relay. They also had a mini triathlon that Garet talked Renee, Brinlee, Mitchell, Reed and Jordan into doing. The Training wasn't to bad. Garet and I had already been biking around 1o miles a couple times a week and had been running about 3 miles a couple times a week so we thought we would be ok in those areas. It was the swimming that had both of us scared. Garet mapped out a training program and made it possible for each of us to do what we needed to do. Like I had previously said in another post we started spending lots of time at the Safford pool. From what we have learned most triathlons have the same transition areas. Here, at this one it was different. The race started in Pima at the city pool there = 600M. We then rode our bikes from Pima to Safford= 12miles. Then in safford ran a 5K.
Garet did so good in the race and had good times. I don't remember what they were. He did good in the swim....better then he thought he would and then did good on bike and then awesome on the run. I didn't do good at all in the swim. I was really frustrated. I had goggle problems. I know this sounds dumb but I was so nervous I forgot to put them on when I first started swimming. Then when I realized I didn't have them on I was underwater so then I put them on...duh on my part. Of course I am going to have water in my goggles if I put them on underwater. So the rest of the swim I was messing with my goggles and swiming with my eyes half open. It was really frustrating. After the swim I did pretty good on the bike. The entire ride my goal was to catch up with mom who was doing a relay with Allison. Near the end of the ride I finally caught mom. I didn't do to bad on the run. I could have done better but I was still happy with it. It felt great to be done. I was so proud of myself.
We only have pictures of me during the race because Garet gave Jordan the camera after Garet had already finished the race.

Me just finishing the run portion!

Mom and I after the race.

All who came to participate in the race.
(a friend of Allison's from SV) then Allison, Landon, Garet, Me, Jordan and Mom

I just wanted to add one other piece of information about the triathlon. So Garet and I really wanted to have a baby. We'd been trying for what we thought a while. Well the Tuesday before the race I found out I was expecting. Garet and I were of course excited. He then said, " So how are we going to celebrate you being pregnant?.....Lets run a triathlon this weekend!"....and that we did!

PLAY TIME AND PLAY DATES

Paige is a funny girl and constantly is entertaining Garet and I. One night while Garet and I were busy doing things on the computer Paige came walking into the Kitchen dressed like this. She thought she was so funny....and she was. So when we started laughing and taking pictures. She really ate it up and acted even more goofy. (8/9/10)

See look how funny I am!

She didn't even get matching shoes!

Paige is a busy little girl. She is usually pretty good at playing by herselft but she is constantly doing things. Don't get me wrong she loves loves loves her movies and TV shows and will watch them forever if I'm not careful but once they are turned off little miss active comes out. She likes to play dolls, kitchen, Dora, puzzles and she likes to color. Anyways one day I decided it would be fun to make some play dough together and let her play with it. She loved it. I made a big batch and then made lots of different colors. I tried to separate the colors at first but after awhile I gave up. All Paige wanted to do was mix them. She had a blast playing though...and it actually didn't get to messy. I kept it in an air tight closed container so it lasted for months!!! (8/2/10)

She loved making all the shapes with all my cookie cutters.

Paige has also reached the age where she has realized that she loves to play with friends! She is lucky enough to have lots of kids her age to play with. When it was warm..(and not to hot) we would go to the park 2x's a week where I could visit with the moms and all the kids would play. Our other favorite thing to do was (and still is) go to the library's story time. Paige loves this. The lady that runs it does a good job. Library day usually consists of story time of course then craft time, then play time...and then we like to end it with picking out books ourselves to take home. Not only is library time good for Paige because it teaches her about books but she again has lots of little friends that go and I can visit again with their moms. Paige has also discovered how fun it is to go to a friends house to play and have them play at ours.

Paige and Braden Bryce (neighbor) (8/11/10)

Paige and Lanie eating lunch in her room (8/30/10)

Isn't this a cute picture! Lanie and Paige (8/30/10)