Thanksgiving

Cody making progress on the stairs. By the time he had gotten to the top he was asking himself why he had ever started this endeavor!


This is what it looked like AFTER our Thanksgiving Feast!


We had a very nice Thanksgiving. Even though it was our "off" year, we still were not left alone on this family day. Derek and Cindy and kids came. Cindy's Parents are here,Joe and Imelda, staying with Cindy and so they were able to come down with them. Todd was here. Kyle and Tif and Cody came and then left for another Thanksgiving dinner with her family. My mom was at my sisters house this year, we missed Grandma Allen being here. They all came down on Wed. night and we played a card game until midnight. I actually stayed awake...just barely. At 9:00 a.m. Thurs. there was a "Turkey Bowl" with my ward that all the guys participated in. All the younger guys that is. Neal was putting up Christmas lights (Yeah for Neal) and Joe watched some of the Turkey bowl. All in all, it was a wonderful day. Thanks to everyone for bringing such wonderful food and to Olivia for making the cute napkin rings. We have MUCH to be thankful for and hopefully we express it regularly. We missed having the rest of our family with us, but will enjoy them at Christmas and next Thanksgiving we will have the WHOLE crew. (Hopefully that includes Shannon and her family. Let's get them closer!!!)
Happy Holidays! (I can officially listen to Christmas music now AND turn on the lights! SOOO Exciting!)

Little Blue Eyes....so sweet!

Shaylie didn't use to like grandpa. Obviously, she has decided he's o.k. She even passes right by me to go to grandpa!



Weird huh? A zebra (actually there are two) down here in our neck of the woods. Too funny.

UPDATE!!!

The above pics are the boys having a little "outing." The girls stayed at the house and had a little craft moment! It was fun, we should have taken some pics of that, oh well, next time.

Olivia's recital

We were going to have to miss Olivia's recital because of....go figure....softball! So Derek and Cindy brought the recital to us. It was very nice. Olivia did a great job, she has just started playing and is doing very well.


Here are a few other pics of the evening. I especially like the one with Jake deciding for some reason that he should not use his fork while eating his potatoes. Too funny!

St. George

Right after Alabama we went to St. George for a softball tournament that the girls I coach at North Sanpete High were in. Jen, Shaylie and Todd went down with us. It was fun. The softball girls LOVED Shaylie, it was so cute. Kyle, Tif and Cody also went because Kyle has been coaching softball at Timpanogos. All in the family, for sure! The sun was incredible and we had a very nice time. Fun to see friends from Timpanogos also. I hate to see those girls graduate, Alison, Natalie and Jessica. Such fun to be able to spend time with them during the softball season.

Alabama

Let me catch you up on my life. In March Neal and I went to Alabama to see Shannon and her family. It was GREAT fun! I have posted some random pics. We really didn't do anything fancy, just hung out with each other and enjoyed the time. The kids were on Spring Break and so we were able to spend a lot of time with them. We spent a lot of time playing a dice game and eating James good cooking. It doesn't get better than that. The kids are growing up and I really don't like that, but, what do you do! Damon was sooo excited for his "best friend, grandpa" to come. We really did have a great time and we look forward to them coming here the end of June thru July.