Thanksgiving in AZ

Cymon, Shiva, and I went to Arizona to spend Thanksgiving with her family. Her brother Chad and his wife Amanda live there with their two children Kelsey and Cole. I apparently failed to get a picture of Cole but here is one of Shiva and Kelsey on Thanksgiving day.



We stayed with her step father Rich and his fiance Janet, who I also don't have pictures of so here is a picture of their cat Meechan.




We went to the range, ate at Sonic and In-N-Out, spent money at the mall, had fun in the 85deg sun and overall had a wonderful vacation and Thanksgiving.

Here are some pictures from our Thanksgiving. It was quiet, just the four of us. Still, in its way, nice. Our biggest dillema was what pie to make--since it was just the two of us, we couldn't justify making more than one. After much deliberation we decided to make a traditional pumpkin for Thanksgiving and make the sweet potato pecan pie for Christmas dinner. The other big thing was trying to figure out how to take a family picture. It kept going off before Mark had a chance to get settled. We tried a couple of times and this was the best we could come up with. Which is, if nothing else, very indicative of our crazy and wonderful life together.

The night before Thanksgiving

What do you think of this Butterball?

THANKSGIVING CHALLENGE

I haven't included a picture in THIS post - just a challenge. DON'T FORGET YOUR CAMERA TOMORROW!!!! Take a picture of your individual Thanksgiving celebration and post it.

Autumn day in the sun

Well, The weather was nice and like my mom tought me. We took our rakes, camera and video camera and went to the school that had the most leaves on the ground. We took so many pictures and at least an hour of video of just running and playing in the leaf pile. The kids are hams, and learned very quickly that a leaf fight is so much more fun than a snow ball fight. Its not cold, wet, and it doesn't hurt when it hits you in the head. At first Brian was very skeptical
on why we were putting all this in the truck. He to soon learned how much fun it was. By the time we were done, we were covered in mud, broken leaves and sticks. Just laughing our heads off on how silly we were and how much fun it was. The funniest thing was watching the people driving or walking by. The wonder in there face was like "what on earth were they doing".

McMaddy.

Happy early Thanksgiving all! Here are a few pictures of 18 month old Maddy. Some of these were at the McDonalds play area. We met my friend Josh and his girlfriend there the other day. Maddy is doing well, you can tell she is on her way to two years old! She's got her mamas attitude for sure. She recently had a cold, so now she can say "Tylenol?" :) She is talking all the time. She says, "Yada." For Lydia and my friend Leda. "Citen" for my friend Nathan, "Yee-shaw!" for Alysia, "BEE!" for her cousin Billie, and any other name you ask her to say.

I'm at Albertsons, I usually work from about noon to nine. I rarely get to put Maddy to bed, which is a big bummer, but soon I will be getting trained at the customer service desk, and I also have been trained in the chippery. So, hope fully I will be getting off sooner than later.

One last interjection, I have met a guy. He's 20. Works at Boeing. (Wooo!) & has a 2 year old. Nothing going on, we have just started hanging out. :)

There's a little update. I'm going to go chase Maddy.

Goodbye!

He's HOME!!!

Daniel got home yesterday morning and I just wanted to share a few pictures.
One is the plane landing. The other is him getting of the plane and then finally one of us together. YAY!

Trick or Treat (in reverse)

So, you see it's like this - we live on a busy corner and in the years past, the only people who trick or treat at our house are our grandchildren and they are growing up, so . . . we decided to turn the tables. The gradual moment of recognition on Zac's face was all we needed to get over our embarassment over how ridiculous we looked.