Catching up

Well, time is flying by and here it is, 2 months since my last post. We have been more busy than ever so I will touch on some of the highlights from the last 2 months.

School started for all of us (the kids and I) at the end of August. Sadie is in the 7th grade, Cody is in the 4th grade and Jackson and Greg are in the 2nd grade. They are all doing great this year at helping around the house and being more responsible for themselves. I am in my senior year in the dental hygiene program at Idaho State University. I had an instructor tell us last week that our program has to be the hardest bachelors program in the nation - I would agree. I will not bother you with a list of why I am so stressed, just know that I am really busy and can't wait to graduate in May.

September was a good month. On the 12th of September I ran my first ever 5k. That is 3.1 miles for those who don't know. I had trained since July with my friend Tasha. We slowly worked our way up to be able to run that far and ran in a race together to say that we had. It was a fun, and exhausting day.

For anyone who knew me growing up you are probably a little surprised that I would do this. I used to think the cross country runners were crazy. I have to admit though that I really grew to love running and felt such wonderful benefits from doing it. I can't wait to get back into a routine with it after school gets done in the spring.

Here I am with Tasha and her husband Bob, and their oldest child Aliysa.

Before the race.
This is right at the start of the race. I was feeling a little competitive with all the people around, so we kind of started off faster than we should have.

Here we are at the finish line. We finished in around 34 minutes, which was great for us.

Afterwards, just grateful to have it done.

That same afternoon we had a family reunion for Brett's mom's side of the family. It was fun to catch up with people we hadn't seen for a while and meet some new members of the family.

Since then we have just been busy with school and Brett has been really busy with work. He is finally done with his field season, of course now he is just hunting a bunch so he isn't really home any more than before! He was able to go out this past Thursday and get his antelope. He got a really nice buck, I will have to have him post some photos when he gets home.

Sadie is excited to be turning 12 years old tomorrow. She has asked for a crimper for her birthday, which is kinda funny because crimping your hair was popular when I was in middle school too - pretty crazy. She is growing up so fast. She is wearing mascara now, (one thing at a time) and she talks way too much on the phone with her friends. We really are blessed to have such a sweet spirit in our home. She is so helpful with me being in school. She has even started getting dinner ready for us on the nights when Brett and I are both late getting home.

Anyway - life is pretty good for us Highs. We are so grateful to have such wonderful friends and such supportive families who help us out while things are so crazy right now. Thank you all! We would love to hear from you.