Just for Future Reference

I would like to say that you should NOT purchase Scentsy Candle scents that smell like any sort of treat.

...I've had a sweet tooth ALL day because of it.

The Dirty Dash

A few months ago, Krystal found a new "fun thing to do in Boise". Stephen, Shane, and Krystal were all pumped. That is until Krystal started to "train" for this event. I LOVE YOU KRYS! There's no way I would have done it! Baby or not...

The Dirty Dash is a race they have been doing for a while in Salt Lake and just started to do this year in Boise. This race in a 10K up a ski hill. When I say hill, I really mean mountain. I couldn't believe what they ran up!

The race was Saturday, September 18th. The runners were Stephen and Shane. The obstacles were a mountain, a root beer, a water slide, and a giant mud pit.

Here is the before picture:

Here are the after pictures:

Honestly, I can't believe they made it out as clean as they did. That mud pit was intense. They even had strings going across the mud pit indicating that they had to go underneath the strings to get through the obstacle.

The strings were laying on top of the mud.

People were diving head first in the mud.

Personally, I think that they were the first people to the mud pit and it was water at that point. They were that fast.

These water spickets were set up to rinse off the muddy runners. Stephen said they were freezing.

Here's the glorious mud pit.

Any takers for next year? They have an option to run as teams! FYI, all of the teams were dressed up in awesome costumes. I'm very sad that I don't have pictures of those...

Maycee's Blessing

Maycee was blessed on September 5th. It was such an amazing experience! I am not a crier, but I cried through the whole thing. I love my husband and I love his commitment to the gospel. We are so blessed!

We were trying to get Maycee to smile, but instead got this reaction...

We put her in her car seat and took pictures in her dress. She is SO cute!...she sure loves that tongue.

I have more pictures to add of her in her dress, but that will have to wait.

We're recalls?

On Labor Day weekend we had our Call Family Reunion. The BIG kind that involved all of my Dad's brothers and sister and their families. This year wasn't as big as last time. I was kind of sad that we had so many of our Calls that weren't able to come!

The theme of this reunion was Re"Call". Honestly, I understood what they were trying to get at. Stephen, however, did not. No, we were not all sent back to the factory because of our problems...thank you Toyota...we were focusing on recalling memories of the years that we all had together! We had fun!

Here are some of the pictures from our events:

The love of my life and ME!

Brigitte and her little boy, Ryan.

This tractor and train was my Grandpa Calls. He built the train so that he could drive all the grand kids around in it. This is the first time that the train has made an appearance since my grandpa passed away about 16 years ago. It was really neat to watch it in action. This is Thad driving all the great-grand kids around!

Volleyball...

This is one Grandma Calls favorite things to do...puzzles. She could sit and do this for hours. If there is a puzzle set up somewhere she will sit at that table until the puzzle is finished. So, naturally we would do it at the reunion!

Let me explain...being a farm girl, you have a lot of opportunities to do things normal people (or sane people) would not. This one I decided to forgo. In this picture we have Nathan showing off all of his skills in repelling. Grandma was freaking out. It was quite humorous.

This is Krystal. You might just say that swinging on a crane is her favorite past time. She's that good.

This picture also needs some explanation. This was a really neat game that they played. It's called battleship. The next two pictures are dedicated to it. There were about fifteen people on each team that were seated, as shown, on either side of the volleyball court with a tarp draped across the volleyball net. Each team had a cooler full of water balloons that they launched over the tarp to hit members of the other team. It was like a giant battleship board! When you were on either side of the tarp, you couldn't see the other members of the team. It was way fun to watch!

Here in Ethan hiding in the tarp that was over the volleyball net.

Every Call family reunion that I can remember involved a huge water fight. I don't know why, but it always happens. This time it was started by my mom. Good job Mom!

This picture shows the guys that were in the middle of the whole thing: Dad, Clint, Stephen, and Shane. You see my dad sporting some lovely red suspenders. He was supposed to wear them to remember Grandpa Call, but he didn't ever really have them over his shoulders until he was soaking wet. He said that if he took them off at that point he would "lose his britches".

Thanks to all who came! It was a lot of fun to see everyone. Here's to the next reunion!...

Silly Daddy

...Let me explain...I was working on my blog when Stephen started to poke Maycee's face over the computer screen to get my attention.

Maycee just wanted to suck on his finger.

She is so stinkin' cute!

Fire Hazard

I keep forgetting to post this...this is entertaining...

About a week before Maycee was born at 10:30pm, 15 minutes after we had gone to bed, we heard the chirp of our fire alarm. Not warning us of a fire, but squawking that the battery was low. Refusing to get out of bed, we both ignored it and fell asleep.

The next morning as I was sending Stephen off to work, the alarm was still going. We found out where the noise was coming from. This particular fire alarm happened to be at the tallest point of our ceiling. We have vaulted ceilings and no ladder. Being almost nine months pregnant, Stephen told me to leave the alarm alone until he could fix it when he got home that night.

The alarm stopped chirping at 8am that morning. Stephen and I completely forgot about our alarm until it started going off again that night at 10:30. Again, being in bed, we ignored it.

This round about chirp kept going until the day we brought Maycee home from the hospital.

This is how Stephen figured out how to solve the problem.

It's a good thing Stephen is not a construction worker. If we was, OSHA would definitely be chasing him down...Just in case you can't tell, that is an old trunk turned on its side with a bar stool standing on top.