Kennedy's Thanksgiving Feast

Happy 9th Wedding anniversary to Shelli and Dustin.  

We helped celebrate by babysitting so they could go to the midnight screening of Twilight. See her blog for complete critique. 

We felt like royalty in the guest bedroom with sweet new extremely high thread count sheets. Thanks!!!

You always show us a good time.

Kennedy called every couple of days for the last few weeks asking Grandpa if his knee would feel good so we could come to her school for the Thanksgiving feast.  He decided at the last minute it did feel good enough for the drive.

If you look close  you can see that the only turkey is in the gravy...typical school lunch I guess. But the home made rolls were great.

Shelli pointed out it was a Thanksgiving feast, not a turkey dinner

Kennedy in her class room.

Her cute "thankful turkey"

Preslie and Will

We met Jeff and Jill's family in Orem on the way home from Las Vegas at Pizza Factory.  It's just so fun whenever we get any of the one-year-olds together, we work hard to get them to sit still for a picture.

Jami, Jay, me, Jill, Preslie, Jeff, Will, Cortnie, Tayler, Jenna.

Jami got her LETTER!

Tonight at the year end Weber volleyball banquet Jami received her letter, she's pretty excited about it.  She thinks she will wear a lettermans jacket a lot :) I told her it will be a good Halloween costume for her kids.  Club try outs are next week sooo more volleyball in our future.  It's almost year 'round with outdoor vball all summer.  Dustin, fyi: she has employment applications in all over town as of last night and no response yet. She thinks its meant to be that she remain unemployed :) Thanks to Jenna and Preslie for going to every game with me.

What! Another mid-life crisis!

My only comment is that I'm so happy the price of gas is down. 

Not the best timing for his knee surgery but.....

look at that smile, he's a happy guy.

This is what 5.1 % body fat looks like!

I was just so impressed I had to blog it!

Garret went in for some kind of physical, work related, if I recall correctly (so don't hold me to it) and was told he measured 5.1% body fat. Isn't that better than like Lance Armstrong? Or maybe he's just skinny. Either way I told him to celebrate with a milk shake!

Garret,Trulie and Jace and Trulie's parents came down last week and we went to lunch at the train station. 

If you come to my house, you're gonna get a glamour shot!

Jacey came to our house while Jill took mom to the doctor in SLC.  Jenna couldn't wait to get her hands on Jacey's long gorgeous hair.  She asked her if she wanted "princess hair".  Well, what 5 year old girl doesn't want princess hair?  She was such a good sport and posed like a pro for a photo shoot. You HAVE to take pictures if you have princess hair.  Cute Jacey Diane!

Tayler is 6!

Cortnie and Tayler came to grandma's for a birthday party sleep over and we had "Tayler" pancakes for birthday breakfast. Followed by Jenna hair and birthday pictures. Cort and Tay know the hair drill.....they have a salon at their house!

I took this picture of Cortnie for a grandma birthday book I made for her. Cutie! Can't believe she's 10!

Sisters trip to San Diego!

We stayed on Coronado Island and made it a priority to have an ocean view at every meal.  We did it, with the exception of one lunch in the gaslight (gas lamp? I can't remember) district.  And one night we drove up to Oceanside to visit Jill's friend and ate at a mexican restaurant that probably had a view but it was dark. We can't get enough of the ocean!

San Diego Temple

Me  *  Julie  *  Janie  *  Jill

Last year we started a fun tradition as sisters, we planned a long weekend getaway.  We went to Chicago and Janie showed us the town. We had so, so much fun that we have decided to do it every fall.  This year we invited mom and let her choose the city.  I think she chose San Diego so she could visit the Mormon Battalion visitors center (we were regularly reminded we have an ancestor who marched here, she would love to share his history if you're interested :))  but to her dismay it is being renovated.

Me and Julie.  Julie takes 1st place for most challenging year

Janie and me

Favorite Janie quote

        "I am so awesome,

if you don't believe it,

just ask me"

paraphrased and as told

by her husband.

btw: you are

me, mom, Jill

Jill: the yardstick by which niceness is measured

Mom: just laugh at yourself

We rented this surrey and pedaled it from one end of Coronado Island to the other, it was so pretty and the weather, of course, was perfect.  We flew back home to a blizzard.

The weekend was constant chatter, laughing, eating, walking, shopping, teasing.  Whenever I got a call from home it was NEVER a good time to talk because I would miss something hilarious, extremely interesting or juicy :). I'm not sure if we got it all said in 4 days! I'm so blessed to have such fun sisters and always happy mom.