Thanksgiving 2009

We have had such a great week this week!  I love being with my family it's the greatest!  As some of you know, we usually have Thanksgiving in AZ!   My entire family from UT usually go down to the warm weather and we have Thanksgiving at my Mom and Dad's house in AZ...  Well this year my family came to all of us Utahans...  They were hear for a week and it was so much fun!
The reason they came up here this year rather then us all heading down there to enjoy the 80° Turkey Day weather was because my cousin Ethan got Baptized!
It was a very special day!!  Here is Ethan and Matt before his baptism...


And Ethan and Noah after wards....
Noah was so cute during the meeting!  He was so into it!!  After Ethan was confirmed a member of the church and received the Holy Ghost he shook all the mens hands that were in the priesthood circle...  Noah jumped right up and shook Ethan's hand too!  It was so sweet!!


All the kids that were there to support Ethan...


And a quick family picture! Ü


We had Thanksgiving Dinner at my Uncle Jeff and Aunt Bobbie's house in Cedar City...
Here are the girlies...
Jaxin, Maci and Aubrianna


And the smelly boys! haha!
Stockton, Ethan and Trevor


I think they're ready to eat, what would you say?! Ü


I think that would be a YES!!  Crazy face Jaxin!! haha!


Grandma tried to take a picture of Kernan and this is what she got...  I think it's cool!  Doesn't it look like he's holding a small cup of Pepsi?!





Bobbi and Grandma...


Mom and Lori brought a couple craft things for the kids to do... Here is Jaxin showing us the Pilgrim hat she made...


Here Chase is working hard on his Turkey....





Like Father, Like Son...  Notice the tongue?!


Not sure what this look is about...  He has the greatest facial expressions!!


Maci gives the Pilgrim Hat a thumbs up!


Showing off his creations...


And showing us his dirty hands after trying to stuff the entire Pilgrim Hat into his mouth!  Didn't work out so well! hehe...


This is Friday night at my Grandma and Grandpa's house...  The kids look like they're at the movies!  Guess that will have to do, since we didn't make it to a movie this year like we do every year!!  Bummer....


Then on Saturday morning before my family headed back home, we went to the mall to get our annual "Cousin Santa Picture"!
Kernan has been so excited to see Santa this year!  He's been asking me for the past two weeks if he could go tell Santa what he wanted yet!  On Thanksgiving he asked and I told him not yet, just a few more days, and he freaked out!!  So I showed him Santa in the Macy's Parade and told him he couldn't go see Santa because he had to be in the parade so he wasn't there yet... Then he calmed down!
It's so fun when they get to the age of really believing in him and excited to see him!!  I love it!
Here he is waiting to give him his list... He has 3 things on it and he'll tell you what they are if you ask!


Standing by one of Santa's soldiers....


This Santa was adorable!  He really talked to the kids and joked with them!


Here he's reading Ethan's list...  And what a list it is!!  He has 61 things on his list this year!!  Santa told him that he'd need to bring a double decker bus just to bring him all that's on there! Ü





Maci was waiting and waiting for him to finish looking at Ethan's LONG list so that he could check hers out!!


Kernan's turn to give him his list!!


I just love this picture!!  The magic of Christmas in a child's eyes is the BEST!!


So here we are again, trying to figure out how we're all going to fit in this picture!!  We do this every year!  And this year we had two missing... Our missionaries!


Almost got it...


I'm not sure what Santa said, but he had us all laughing!  Even Kernan!  It was so cute!


And finally our
SANTA PICTURE 2009
My favorite yet I think!!  My Uncle Jeff's family like the Y (ewww) and our family obviously like the U!  It just so happened that they were playing each other yesterday so we decided to wear our shirts in our Santa picture this year... And I love it!! Ü


I liked this "old school" look to so I put both! Ü


Kernan wasn't ready to say goodbye after wards...  He wanted one more hug!  And he TOLD Santa what he wanted rather then him reading his list... He wants 1. A Bumblebee Racetrack (Transformers) 2. LOTS of Transformer Cars for the racetrack and 3. New train tracks for his Choo-Choo


After Santa my family got in the car to head home...  We had to have a picture of us all in our UTAH stuff before they headed out....





It was a great week!!  I love my family and am SO VERY THANKFUL FOR THEM ALL!!  I love to spend time with them and just enjoy each others company!
Now it's time to get the Christmas decorations up!  We're headed home for Christmas this year too!  We're all excited about that!  Plus we get to talk to my Brother on Christmas!! Yay!!
So I have a few posts that I'm behind on that I'll be posting later this week, so check back!!
Hope you're Thanksgiving was wonderful, and remember to not just be Thankful one day a year, but be Thankful everyday!! Ü

God Be With You Til We Meet Again...

I know, I've been a slacker... I just haven't been in a blogging mood... Sorry!

But today, I'm thankful that my family is here!! YAY!!  And my Mom brought me my brother's full memory card he sent home from his mission with 200+ pictures on it!! Ü  I'm a happy sister!!

But the best part is that I just noticed there are a bunch of videos on there too!!  This one about brought me to tears... We sang this at Broc's funeral as well as Rylee's and I love that the Elders are all singing it and videotaping it!!  It's a great video to watch on this wonderful Sabbath Day!

Today, I'm thankful for my family!! Ü  Happy Sunday!

My Trip to Denver...

all by myself!
Man, I'm a slacker!!  Since I've been home I've been trying to get caught up on everything, and trying to process all the information that I got while in CO for the NILMDTS seminar!  There was so much information given to us all in such a short amount of time!!

And I can't believe I'm going to say this, mainly because I can't believe I actually did it!!  I took my camera with me, and didn't take ONE picture!!  Is that not cRaZy?!  Me!!  Oh goodness!!

 Here is a picture of all of us that attend, as well as the staff, and Sandy Puc' who is the co-founder of the organization...

The only pictures I took were with my phone!  I still can't believe that!
This trip was my first trip to CO ever and I saw something I've never seen...
As I got off the plane I went to use the restroom, as I walked in I saw this sign...
"Tornado Shelter"
What?!  That was a first!! Ü

On Saturday night, I went out with some ladies that I've met through a photography forum...  The girl in the red sweater next to me was at the training with me, we were lucky enough to be able to change up the hotel rooms and become room mates! Ü  The rest of these gals live in the Denver area, and make me want to go visit again!  It was so fun to hang out with all of them and put a voice and face to the reading I've done! Ü  Thanks again girls for a fun "girls night out"!!

The rest of these pictures were taken from my seat on the plane on the way home...  I sat right by the wing, pretty cool looking!  I also loved the mountain range...

So those are the only pictures I took!  Sad!  But it was so worth the trip!  I learned so much about how to spread the word of NILMDTS more in my area!!  And I also got some fun new ideas for my business!  I'm excited to see what comes from that!!

Be Thankful~ Day 6

Ok, I'm back... Well, kinda!

I'm still not home, I'm in Vegas at my Aunt and Uncle's house waiting to have pizza for dinner and for rush hour to subside... Ü

But today I'm thankful for my PINK (we all know I love pink!) Blackberry and the ability it gives me to get my emails instantly!! 

As we all know, it's Monday and in my house, and my parents house, we LOVE Mondays! 

Mondays= Emails from our Missionary!! 

And with me being in Denver, I'm thankful today for my phone!  I love that as I'm sitting in a shuttle van on my way to the airport I can get my brother's email!  It's the best thing ever!  I'm also thankful for cell phones in general!  What would we do without them?!?  I love that I can still talk to my family whenever I want while I'm away from them...  I can't wait to get home... after pizza! Ü

What are you thankful for today??

Be Thankful~ Day 4

Today I'm thankful for

RUBIO'S!

And the fact that I'm in Vegas where I can enjoy it!  You really don't understand how yummy and wonderful something is until you move some place that doesn't have it!  I know Sheena and Lauren over on the east coast know what I'm talking about... They miss Mexican food in general, sorry guys!
Oh and I'm thankful for awesome cousins who joined me!
Except I miss my hubby and kids... I'm off to Denver CO for a NILMDTS conference! My flight leaves early tomorrow morning...

Be Thankful~ Day 3

So today I'm thankful for Kernan and his ability to make me laugh!!  All. The.  Time.

Like today, first of all he was a chatter box all day, I swear he gets in that mood and he just can't be stopped!!  So as we're in Wal-Mart this morning he tells me he has to go potty... So we walk back to the bathrooms and go into the last stall, the biggest.  He's doing his business (chatting the entire time) and is done so I'm pulling up his pants, when all the sudden he asks,

"Mom, why food turn into POOP??"

oh.my.goodness.

Of course their had to be ONE other person in the bathroom then, in the stall right next to us!!  Why couldn't she have chosen the first stall, you know 4 doors down!! Not that it would have mattered, we were the only people in there!  I just hope she couldn't understand him because sometimes if you don't spend a lot of time with him he can be hard to understand!  Either that or the lady was probably LAUGHING hysterically but trying SO hard not to let it out! Ü

Oh that kid!  I love him!!  I could dedicate an entire blog to all the funny things he says and does!
I am defiantly THANKFUL for him!

Be Thankful~ Day 2

Today I'm thankful for Photoshop!! Ü  I've spent a lot of time in that program lately between editing pictures, and creating fun Christmas cards (more on those coming soon!)  So today I'm thankful for Photoshop and whoever invented it! Ü