Christmas '08

Here are a whole bunch of pictures from Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day. There are also some pictures of when we had all the neices and nephews come over to spend the night, and we decorated gingerbread houses. There was a girls house and a boys house. :)

Mom & Grandma cooking

David being David

Dad... being Dad

Aunt Chris

Mom, Chelley, Bob, Chris, Grandma, David, Tyler

Same :)

Nathan, Tim, 1/2 of Brett, Malin, Janice, Grandma, Tyler, Braxton, McKenna, Jackie, Sierra, and Leora (at the very edge)

Tyler's gift from his dad

My gift from McKenna (perfect for the plane rides to come back and visit from FL!)

Nathan and Tim

AnnJillene's gift from Tyler

Tyler wearing my gift from McKenna :)

Malin, Janice, and Grandma

Sierra's new apron!

Sierra & Mckenna's gingerbread house

Sierra, McKenna, Braxton, Colt, Hunter (peace)

Braxton, Colt, and Hunter's gingerbread house

The making of the houses:

Oh Christmas Tree

Here is our tree all dec'd out!

As Promised

Here is more from David's Eagle Scout court of honor. There are some videos and pictures. I tried to keep the videos short so just so you know what you're getting into if you click play:


This one is the "musical number" performed by the drum line of the Layton High Marching Band, and of course David is participating. Kind of cool.





Here are some excerpts from talks. The first is one of David's leaders, and I only included a few seconds of his, and the rest is David talking about the road that led to his Eagle award.







And, here are some cute pictures:

Thanksgiving and Day After

Here are some pictures from Thanksgiving and the day after. We go get our Christmas trees with Tyler's family on the day after Thanksgiving, it's a fun tradition and we found the perfect tree, but it was not an easy one to find. :)

Here is Tyler teaching Hunter and Sierra some wrestling moves after eating pies at his mom's house. :)

David's Court of Honor Stuff

I thought I would post this video that I made for David's Court of Honor. He finally got his eagle scout ranking, and gets to drive instead of just sitting in his car in the driveway! Yay for Dave! We'll take lots of pictures, and I'll put them on here too. I guess his school band's drum line is going to perform, which is kinda cool. :) Anyway, the video is about 6 minutes long, but if you know david, there are some gems in there! Enjoy!

Happy Office Halloween

Did anyone see The Office last thursday? Hillarious. So on halloween, I was supposed to dress up because we had made an informal pact to do so, so that no one person would feel stupid for being the only one dressed up (like Pam was on the Office). Me being the incredibly intelligent person that I am, forgot it was even halloween until I was already in Layton. I had a small moment of panic and made a last minute turn in to the Wal-Mart parking lot and went on a quest to find ANYTHING i could use and call a halloween costume, so my co-workers wouldn't kill me.

Well, WalMart had already taken all of their halloween stuff out, and there was Christmas stuff on the shelves instead. (a topic for a whole other post: Why does Thanksgiving get no love?)

So when my friend showed up dressed like Dorothy and saw me in jeans and a t-shirt, I promptly dove under my desk to hide from the beating I was sure to receive. :) No worries however, we ended up going to get me a costume from a local halloween store, and got one for our friend Kyle as well. Here are some pictures of all the people in our office dressed up:




Kyle (the joker) also took inspiration from The Office, but it was pretty funny because right before this picture, we had gone to lunch all together and Kyle's family met us there. (Kids eat free at Sizzler for wearing their costumes in or something like that) His daughter was dressed up like a princess, but she was the angriest princess I had ever seen. She was SOOOO mad at her dad for dressing up scary and even stuck her tongue out at him once! It was pretty cute, and poor Kyle,
it just broke his little heart!
Anyway, Halloween was fun, and the fun, crazy times we have in our office is definitely something I'm going to miss... These guys are great

Wrapped In Support Blankets

OK my friend passed this on to me, and I thought it was post worthy. I am going to try and donate one, every one blanket helps reach the goal. :)

You can go HERE to check it out

Goal: 400 handmade Patriotic Fleece Blankets
Blankets: No Sew Double Fleece (See me if you want me to email you directions)
Colors: Red/White/Blue or Patriotic Prints ONLY
(Army Camo or Army Print is also acceptable)
Size: 45" to 55" wide x 72" long
Deliver to: (see me for the address to mail them to, and any other delivery/prep directions!)
Deadline: NOVEMBER 1, 2008

Pass this on to anyone else you think might want to help :)