Chris's Adventures

As many are aware now, Chris took at the adventure of joining Farrell's Extreme Bodyshaping. Let me tell you, he did take it to the extreme but it paid off for him 100%. Most people don't recognize him at first anymore and he looks great.

Here is a link to the website if you want to check out the winning pictures.

http://www.extremebodyshaping.com/winners.php

Then change the All Locations drop down to be Waukee and the All Sessions to be Fall. Pretty darn impressive.

As part of the new Chris, he has been running also and the weekend before Thanksgiving ran an Extreme Cross Country race with our neighbor Shane. Here are some pics that Ann took since I couldn't make it to the race.

The guys before the race....

After the race.. if you look closely you can see some of the mud on their clothes.


This is a huge accomplishment for Chris and I can't express how proud I am of him and for being able to keep it up. Mr Universe better watch out cause Chris is on a mission...

Autumn days

Hopefully everyone is enjoying the awesome weather like we have been getting. On Sunday the temperatures were prefect and we spent most of the day outside. I decided to rake some of the leaves up in the front yard and of course I had a little helper.

Chris decided it would be a good day to work on the Christmas lights. He put them up but we won't be turning them on until after Thanksgiving!

If you can't tell, someone isn't to fond of heights but he got the job done!

Halloween

Caitlyn loved the thought of going trick or treating, especially the candy part of it! She had two different costumes to pick from and for Beggar's Night she went with the Poodle. It was a perfect night for going out. Chris took Caitlyn around the block and she came home with a bucket full of candy, thank goodness she didn't want to go to more houses in the neighborhood!



Of course we had to get pictures with Grace and Faith!



Caitlyn loves her blow up pumpkins! Every night when they were out, she had to say goodnight to them before heading to bed. It was pretty cute!

Caitlyn with Lexie and Stacia (two of her favorite babysitters) on the afternoon of the neighborhood parade.

As you can see from the video, Caitlyn had a blast in the parade and Chris said she ran almost the entire route. At one point, she even tried to pass the cop car that was leading the group. Maybe we have another runner on our hands!

The Dentist!!!

Bridgit took Caitlyn for her first visit to the dentist last month. It went alright until they tried to actually clean her teeth. That part did not go so well!

New furniture.

Early this spring we decided to order a new set of bedroom furniture. We found a really nice Amish man in Wisconsin who had some pieces that we liked. We thought there will never be a better time, so we ordered them. We were looking forward to having a full set that matched. Well, flash forward 5 months and it was finished. We borrowed a trailer headed for Chippewa to see the family, and brought the furniture home with us.

As you can see Caitlyn approved of our new bed.

The furniture turned out really nice. It was so much bigger than our old used stuff. Plus it was all the same color. Chris even got a chiffarobe so all his work clothes could finally fit in something, instead of on top of something.

Mia and Logans birthday party.

This past weekend we got together with some of our friends to celebrate Logan and Mia's birthdays, in Glenwood. Here we all are at the pumpkin patch.

Mia, Caitlyn, and Kenna on a hay rack ride.

Caitlyn found her own pumpkin with "grandma" Webber.

Kenna's was a little bit bigger.

Progress on the Shed!

As many of you know we have been building a shed on our acreage to store our camper, and other things in. Their was some turnover in the company doing the work, so we got delayed again. However, we are finally seeing some real progress. It might be done before Christmas after all.