Nephews Halloween Shirts 2013

Year after year, this remains to be my favorite tradition.

This year, I bought each nephew two shirts.

 

Tyler got the candy shirt and Preston got the ninja shirt.

 

Daxsen got the Mickey shirt with the pumpkin and Valex got the ones with the bats.

 

After I submitted my order online, I realized, I should get new Halloween shirts each year too! So I went back online and found a few for myself.

Hogle Zoo 2013

Since we were in the city for The Electric Run, we decided to stay the night and then go to the zoo the next day. Josh had some stuff he needed to get done, so he went home the next morning, but I stayed with my sister and the boys to go to the zoo. My brothers were both there, along with my aunt Renee and aunt Janet. We had plenty of adults to keep track of two very excitable kids.

 

The first animals we saw were the elephants. Daxsen was totally enthralled with them. He's learned to use an arm as an elephant trunk "when you make their noise" and he kept doing it over and over again. He LOVED the elephants.

 

 

He was not so sure about the gorilla. Maybe because he was right next to the glass. He would not get very close.

 Valex loved everything.

 

 These boys are so imaginative. They played with this statue for several minutes. It ended with Daxsen sticking his finger in the mouth and then telling his mom that it "bit" him.

 

 

The polar bear wasn't near as active this year. Last year, he was a hoot. But this year, he was just chilling inside his box.

 

But the tiger was awesome this year! Last year, he was sleeping in a far corner and you couldn't see him well. This year, he was very active, and he even growled several times.

 

We checked on the polar bear one more time, but he was still sleeping. So we decided to ride the Carousel before leaving.

 

I was going to ride on the gorilla with Daxsen, but they told me I had to ride one separately. So I rode the one next to him while keeping a death grip on his shirt. He did fine, but it had me nervous.

 

After we finished, the boys wanted to go again. So this time, I bought the tickets, traded boys with Vanessa and we went again.

 

We had so much fun. I'm glad I was able to go with them.

 

Electric Run

 

Back in March, Vanessa saw a link on Facebook for an Electric Run. I showed it to Josh and the three of us decided to sign up for it.

 

It felt forever away, but race day finally came. The race was at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi.

Josh didn't care to dress up, but Vanessa and I made good use of a tube of 100 glow bracelets.

 

 

 The race took FOREVER to start. Apparently, "The Bachelor" was bringing a date and the race couldn't start without him. I was less them impressed. Find someone who can be on time!

 

We knew it would be big, but we had no idea. Just that morning, they announced they still had 500 tickets for sale. The race was set up for 6500!

 

Josh ran it in about 26 minutes. Vanessa and I stopped for pictures along the way, so it took us a little longer.

 

I've decided I don't mind running when there is a lot of distractions to help me forget I am running. We had fun and hope to do it again.