Thanksgiving

We had a great time up in Idaho over Thanksgiving. Of course Cindy made a wonderful turkey dinner complete with mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce and her ever famous orange rolls. Jenni provided a perfect brocolli salad and I just whipped up Dads favorite salad and some sweet potatoes. Mom brought up 3 pies and Cindy had another 8 pies. I wasn't quite sure if we'd have enough.... as long as I had plenty of pecan pie it didn't really matter.
We ate way to much food and then played games way to late in the night. It was great. Of course tradition sends us off hunting for the Idaho grown Christmas tree the day after. I don't mind missing Black Friday. I'd rather trapse through the snow looking for our tree than battle a million people to save some money. We had such a fun time this year. There really wasn't much snow, a little disappoining to the kids, but better for us to search. We got off pretty early and all had our trees cut and loaded before dark! A record for sure. We had a lot of fun and now are looking forward to getting the tree decorated for the rest of the
holiday season.

Happy Halloween!!!

Boo!!! We had a great Halloween. The boys decided back in July that they were going to be missionary companions this year. I loved the idea, easy easy costumes. They did a fantastic job. They obviously wore white shirts and ties and dark pants and then the took their scripture bags as trick-or-treat bags. Then, they carried their backpacks so they could empty the scripture bag in it when full. They looked really good. I wish I had taken better pictures of the two of them, but they where in and out of their costumes so fast! So , I hope your imagination can visualize them.

Rae started out as a zombie. She actually makes a very cute zombie. Then she decided she was the corpse bride... (good idea for next year)... and finally ended up telling every one that she was a spider? Whatever.... anyway, Rae and I went trick-or-treating together. She was awesome. What a little trouper. She didn't want to stop. House to house. We made up Halloween songs and had so much fun looking at all the costumes and watching for friends. Finally, she decided her feet were hurting too bad to walk. So, of course she wanted me to carry her from house to house. No Way!
Needless to say, we were soon knocking on our own door and staying home. Ben did a wonderful job of handing out candy. Go Dad. The boys came home shortly afterwards and we all agreed it was a fun and successful Halloween night. (We have enough candy to open a small sugar store). Hope you all had a great holiday as well!

Hunting season

Ben got one! Ya-hoo!!! We have enjoyed venison steaks and some mighty tastey jerkey. Now that deer season is over, he is excited about feeding us pheasant. I can't wait.