11/26/09

Happy Thanksgiving!

I am so thankful for everything we have. We have a happy and healthy family. We have such wonderful extended families as well. We have a warm home and food and clothes. We have great friends and neighbors. We live in a great country. We have jobs.
I know this barely scratches the surface. One day a year is hardly adequate to express thanks for the many blessings we have in our lives.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

11/11/09

Veteran's Day salute

Thank you to all our Veterans!


This morning as I was getting kids ready for school, I asked my 9 year old daughter if she was excited for the Veteran's Day program at school. She said she was and then added that they were even going to have a real live veterinarian speak.
I had to giggle a little.

11/6/09

Grass

Since we built our house 8 years ago, we've had a patch of weeds growing next to our driveway. We decided it was time to clean it up. We rolled out sod on it and made more yard. It will be so nice to have grass there next summer instead of weeds. Looks much better now.



Big zucchini

Our friend gave us 2 zucchini a couple of weeks ago. They were huge. The biggest one was 22" long and weighed in as 12 pounds. The kids thought is was funny to hold it treat it like a baby. I wouldn't have wanted to squeeze that size baby out.





Halloween

We had a fun Halloween this year.

Friday night, Ryan and I went to a Halloween costume party with several couples from our ward dinner group. It was a lot of fun. We had some dinner and then played 2 lies and a truth. We had some good laughs and got to know everybody a little better. We discovered that there are some pretty good liars in the group. After the party, a few of us ladies went to the Haunted Mill.



Aunt Jamima


Jack Sparrow and his girlfriend


MMA Fighters


Couple of goofy basketball players



Zorro & a gypsy



jailbird & Bob the Builder


Saturday, we took the kids to trunk or treat and then later after it got dark, we took them around to some of the neighbors and other people who don't do the trunk or treat thing. Then we came home and watched "Monsters vs. Aliens". We were all exhausted by the end of the day. It was a lot of fun though.

a stylin witch


A leopard


a dead pirate

one tired little leopard