Thanksgiving and other Things:)

We are starting out with cute Annie today.  She is serving on the very beautiful but so very tiny island of Maupiti.  She says they can ride their bikes around the whole island in an hour.  She is happy and working hard.  She loves the people on this tiny island so much and says the ward is wonderful!  Below is a picture of her and her companion wearing leis that the ward made for them.

A little harbor.

Below is Annie on Thanksgiving.  She and her companion celebrated by making crepes in the shapes of turkeys.  She returns home on Dec.30 and we are so excited to see her!!! 

I loved watching this cute little guy finish up his indoor soccer season.  Good job Warren!

The day before Thanksgiving we got to see our oldest granddaughter perform in the ballet of Molly Mouse.  It is the cutest version of the Nutcracker that I have ever seen.  She was a snowflake this year and was awesome!!!

Below is some of the family who came to watch her dance.  We couldn't convince the others to be in the picture.

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  It was our year to have the married kids come.  Below is me with cute Ruby who is growing so fast!

The whole family with the food!  A bigThanks to all my kids who helped so much!

The little cornucopias that were our favors.

Having dinner.

Cute Kaitlyn with the fruit turkey.

Grandkids:)

Grandkids and the threesome of Sister missionaries who joined us for dinner. One Sister is from England, one is from Australia, and one is from Tonga.

April had me take pictures of her family for her Christmas card.  That is always an adventure!  These are the best we got:)

I hope Dec. doesn't go by quite as fast as Nov. did.  It seemed like I blinked and it was over.

Halloween and Fun November Things :)

I got to attend Kaitlyn's Halloween Preschool party!  She was so excited and it was a fun program the kids put on for the parents and grandparents.

On Halloween I got to see all my little and big spooks and give them their Halloween treats from Grandma.

Our neighbors always host a fun Halloween barbecue and it was so fun this year because we had such nice weather for it!

Alyse and Jarom (AKA characters from the movie Grease)joined us for the barbecue.

Then they helped take April's kids trick or treating.

It was such a fun day!

I loved watching this guy finish up his little league football career.  His team went to the play offs!

I also enjoyed watching this little guy play indoor soccer!

Some of Westi's fans.

Little Ruby is just growing and growing.  She is so much fun!

We tried getting a family picture for our Christmas card and this was the best we got.  Little stinker Eliza stuck her tongue out in every picture and my oldest grandson was sick so he missed the picture, and of course Annie is still on her mission.

On Veterans Day Kim got to attend a special Veterans program and have breakfast.with cute Warren at his school! 

Below is Annie with her mission president and his wife.

Annie celebrating one of her companions birthdays.  

She has now been transferred to the beautiful but very tiny island of Maupiti. It is an hour plane ride from Tahiti.  She and her new companion are the only missionaries on the island.  There is just one road around the whole island.  She loves it there and says it is the prettiest place she has ever seen!

October, Lake Powell, Birthdays :)

Andrew is a die hard Broncos fan! Below he is pictured with his cute little daughter in their Broncos gear.

Ruby and I were twiners in our gray and white strips:)

April's family along with Alyse joined me for the Witches Festival at Gardner Village.

Over UEA we made another trip down to Lake Powell with some of the family and had so much fun!  Kim and Jarom had their birthdays while we were there and we had a joint party for them.  Good times:)

Me with cute Ruby:) 

I loved being able to watch the handsome guy below finish his football season.

I had fun with the three little superheros below at their ballet studios Halloween party.

Miss Kaitlyn turned four years old and we had fun celebrating with her.

She got two parties.  One on her birthday and one when we celebrated all our October birthdays at our family dinner.  It was a fun party!!!

All of our October birthday boys and girl:)  The cakes were divine!!!

The whole family:)