Turkey Trot

At the kids’ school, they do a running competition every fall. The kids have to qualify by running about 3/4 of a mile around a course. The top 10 runners for girls and boys grades 3-5 qualify for the Turkey Trot and the first place winner each gets a free turkey. Lucia and Marco both qualified this year, so I went to watch them compete. The PE teacher predicted that Lucia would win for the girls since she had been getting the best time. Marco was up against 4th and 5th graders and was the smallest kid out there, so he thought of it as a practice run for next year. The girls ran first. They were all kind of bunched up at the starting line when the whistle was blown, but one girl was on the end and got a good take off from the starting line-she got a really good lead so Lucia wasn’t able to catch up and came in 2nd place. I was really proud of her! Marco was towards the back of the pack when a boy in front of him tripped and fell, causing Marco to fall over him. He got back up though and ran his heart out-coming in 8th place and beating 2 4th graders! He couldn’t breath at the end of it, but I was so proud of him for not giving up! I see two future track stars here.

Cousin pics from my cell phone

Dress-ups, the mall, the park, lots of fun in November with our cousins! Now, if I can only get the other pictures to upload.

Halloween Festivities

We managed to fit in one Pumpkin patch during the month, but with soccer, Saturdays were pretty full.

We attended Grandma and Grandpa’s ward Trunk-or-Treat. Sylvie just wanted to be a ballerina this year.

Tessa won the prize for Prettiest Costume-a fairy.

Marco was Legolas from Lord of The Rings-minus the blond wig.Mom and I passing out candy.

The only picture of all the kids together.

Assessing their loot.Tessa’s preschool group.There’s a reason Sylvie didn’t get to go Trick-or-Treating on Halloween. She got into the Halloween candy and ate 14 candy bars. So, she and I stayed home while Julio took the other kids out.Lucia was a 50’s girl-she looked so pretty with her hair curled. I wore my Peruvian attire-here I am with my Peruvian friend Roxanna at our ward Trunk-or-Treat, which was on November 1st.

Lucia invited her friends Heather and Deirdre to the trunk-or-treat.

Another year down-always so much fun with the kids and always WAY too much candy!!!!