The Pumpkin Patch

We went to a local pumpkin patch last weekend.

Here are the kids coming out of one of the mazes.  

They ran through these two smaller kid hay bale mazes over and over.

One of them Matthew and Anna (kind of) could see over.  

That made the maze easier to navigate, but they still had fun.

Playing in the corn sandbox

They had a huge sand box of corn.  The kids loved it!

 Burying Grant in the corn sandbox

We had baths afterward

We rode on a big trailer pulled by a tractor around the actual pumpkin patch

In the pumpkin patch while staring into the sun.  Sorry kids!

We picked out some pumpkins and got them all to the car.

Emma helped.  Now we've got pumpkins so we're ready for Halloween!!

Family 5K

Scott, Matthew, Anna, Grant my mom and I ran/walked a 5K on a Saturday.  My dad watched John and Emma for us.  Here we are at the starting line before the race.  I was hesitant to bring Grant 'cause I didn't want to have to carry him after a half mile.  But he ended up doing the best of all the kids. 

The race was at the kid's school so they saw a lot of their friends there.

The race was great!  Scott, Matthew and Grant took off together, running a little faster than me.  Anna and I (and her friend on a scooter) were together for a while.  

Anna and her friend fell a little behind and then took a short cut, cutting off 1/2 mile of the race.  She was very excited that she beat the rest of us.  :)

Matthew ran and walked and kept up (mostly) with Scott and Grant.  Grant ran 2 1/2 miles without stopping!!  Scott kept telling Grant he could take a break but Grant said he wanted to be "a winner" and kept running.  The last half mile Grant ran and walked.  But he was wasted and a little dehydrated when finished.  He had to lay on the couch and rehydrate for a while after.  So no more 5Ks for him until he's bigger.  But he did great!

The boys finished before me...barely.  :)  I was happy 'cause I ran almost the whole way and haven't run that far since before Emma was born.  So hooray!

10 Years!!

A few days ago Scott and I celebrated our 10th anniversary!!

He was in town so we were able to be together on our anniversary.  Hooray!!

Here we are 10 years ago.

And here we are all now.

In case you missed anything in the past ten years, here's a really long recap...
(some of this is borrowed from previous year anniversary posts)

 We met in Florida


We dated



We had fun together


We dated some more


We decided to get married


We got married


We kept having fun together


We moved to Monterey


We had a baby (Matthew)


We moved again...to Okinawa

and had another baby (Anna)


Scott deployed to Afghanistan


Scott came back, safe and sound


We moved again to Colorado this time


Scott broke his leg


We had another baby (Grant)

We kept having fun together...but there were more of us


We had another baby (John)

Scott deployed to Afghanistan again...

 

Scott got home from his deployment to Afghanistan about six months later

We moved again to low, humid, hot and flat Illinois.  

We had another baby (Emma)

That makes five if you're counting.

 our oldest (Matthew) got baptized...

and our youngest (Emma) was blessed on the same day.

Scott left active duty, joined the Air Force Reserve...

...and got a new job

Check out the civilian clothes!!

So we moved west

(that makes five moves since we've been married)

 The kids and I are in Utah

Scott is working in Silicon Valley

while we build a house in California

and we see each other about every other weekend

We're looking forward to our house being done, 

but appreciate all the people helping us out now!

We feel so blessed to have five awesome kids.
Here are some more recent pictures of our crew.

Kind, smart and funny Matthew (8 1/2)

Our sassy social butterfly, Anna (7)

The amazing and silly Mr. Grant (4 1/2)

Sweet, smiling, wrestle maniac John (3)

And busy, happy Emma (almost 1)

Life is good!
 Happy Anniversary Mr. Scott Guptill

It's been 10 amazing years!!