Banks Family Pictures

Josh and I had a great, yet chilly, day on the 1st grade field trip.  They planted seeds, worked in the garden, learned about bugs, and had the chance to visit a beehive.  When they were learning about bees, they were told that honey is essentially bee throw-up.  This, of course, grossed everyone out, and…

Phoenix flights were pretty expensive this year, so we ended up in Austin for our warm weather vacation.  It was lovely.  It always takes us all at least one day to settle in and learn to get along in such close quarters.  So, the first 24 hours were pretty rough.  Lots of whining, complaining, and…

In exactly 12 days my Ragnar team leaves for Sunny California to run the So Cal race.  200 miles from Huntington Beach to Coronado Island.  Remember how much fun we had at Wasatch Back last year? This year promises to be even better.  Our team name is Mind Over Mileage or M.O.M.  We have about…

We had so much fun on our Winter get-away to Phoenix last year that we decided to do it again.  It’s been a really mild winter in Colorado this year, but it was still fun to go kick back in the warm sunshine for a few days.  We made one fatal mistake this time.  Friday…

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We threw Halle and Josh a combined Halloween Birthday Party on Sat.  I went a little overboard, and we had 27 kids between the ages of 2-6 in our house, all dressed up in their costumes.  The kids had a blast running around and causing chaos.  We had hot dogs, banana “ghosts”, chips, and “witch…