HAPPY THANKSGIVING

What a wonderful Thanksgiving we had!! We were able to go to Beaver and all the family was together. On Thanksgiving morning we were able to take apart in the gobble gallop and what a good time we had. We galluped for about three miles. Julie and Adam decided we didn't gallop fast enough so they finished a little before us but all in all we loved it and didn't feel so gulity eating all that wonderful food. How thankful we are to have family all around us that loves and supports us. We hope one and all had a great day.

Here we go the start of the gallop.

Enjoying the wildlife on our gallop.

We highly enjoy our gobble gallop. It was fun to be together as a family and get a little exercise before we took on the meal.

Ben the ever wonderful helper. Grandma was so greatful she had such a great helper to get the Thanksgiving feast ready!

Joe carving the wonderfully cooked turkey!!

What a feast!! We had Thanksgiving at Luke and Julies house this year. What a great time it was. There is nothing better than being together as family. Mom had made a sign that said "I am Thankful for....." we were all allowed the opportunity to write what we were thankful for and I started writing and could have kept going. We are a truly blessed family and I enjoy days like this to really recognize how thankful I am.

Mom has started the tradition that on Thanksgivings that we are there we get to take home a basket to get us started on our Christmas decorating. This year she out did her self, she made one of these beautiful quilts for each family. We were thrilled! Thanks mom for always making the holidays so fun and full of wonderful memories.

After Thankgiving we all had fun playing guitar hero. Mom rocked like no other.

Kev and Jon giving us great grins after a wonderful Thanksgiving!!! Look at those fabulous Gobble Gallop t-shirts!

Ok so believe it or not we went shopping the early morning sales on black Friday. When I say early morning I mean early morning. Like we left at 2:30 a.m. I know we are crazy!!! But we had a BLAST!!! We even managed to get some good sales! We hope to do it agian in two years, we think that will give us time to recover!!! Thanks for a woderful time and great memories!!

With Jon and Megan's wedding getting close we were all able to help get the invitaions ready to send out.

We are able to take part in helping decorate Mom and Dad's Christmas tree this was really fun for the kids.

This year we had our Christmas party early because we were all togehter before the wedding. This is our party where we exchange our gifts from the heart, have a wonderful dinner, display the Nativity, and have our white elephant gift exchange. We love this traditions. The gift from the heart has become a favorite for us all, even though the guys sometimes grumble we come away feeling uplifted. Thanks everyone for another wonderufl party!! (If anyone is wondering about the hats we have little cracker presents that hold the hats, it's tradition!)

The kids all seated waiting for the wonderful Christmas dinner.

I had to include this picture because it cracked me up. Luke chose the white elephant gift that held these beautiful slippers and yes he had to try them on. Aren't they wonderful!

Durning our gift from the heart exchange the two little boys had a small battle and if you'll notice
ben in the back doing his part to entertain.

Our annual tradition is to have the gold sequene bra in one of the white elephant gifts. The rule is that if we have someone who hasn't been to the party visting they have to get the bra. So wouldn't you know that Megan has never been to our party and so here she is with the legendary bra. Welcome to the family Meg.

The kids even had fun with the white elephant gifts!

This was our first movie party in the new house. The kids thought it was great, so did we because we were able to get a few things done.

The little guy couldn't take any more. We wore him out, although he did enjoy his dinner before he zonked out!!!

So we were a little crazy come premiere night. Yes those are Vampire fangs. Come on, it was late and we were having too much fun. I strated out about 9:30 to hang with some friends while they had their hair done, and then I headed to the theater to save some seats. I could not believe it there was a line at 10:45 I thought I was getting there early. I ended up with good seats, and what could be more fun then hanging out with great people. The movie was good. I have to say I liked it much better the second time (now don't think I am crazy Kev wanted to see it, ok, ok I talked him into taking me again, but he liked it.) Needless to say I am still suffering a little from a Twilight hangover.

I am all geared up and ready to go. I have my special Twilight "Bite Me" shirt on and I am ready to start the long night of fun, fun, fun!!!

All right I don't want you all to be jealous because I have my midnight premiere ticket!!!!! We are so excited that Edward and his family have decided to come to Page and visit. There are many in Page who are awaiting their arrival. I do believe the theater will be sold out!!

We were so lucky to have Rusty and GGPa come and help us with our house. We are continually blessed with people so willing to help us out. We have learned what service is all about. We were so excited with all the things that they helped us with. We just want them to know how greatful we are!!! Thanks again.

The Balloon Ragatta is here!!! This is our favorite event in Page. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday the balloons lift off. This is just a little of what it looks like. They are all over the sky. To watch them take off is too cool!!! There have been a couple of years where the balloons have landed in our street and the kids think that is GREAT!

Ben and I saw this Ladybug on Friday and we wanted to get a closer look, so we were excited when it was coming down next to the road. Ben calls this one the daddy ladybug!

the night of the balloon ragotta all the balloons line up down the street and put on a light show. It is amazing to see I counted 17 balloons and I couldn't see them all.

The people who own the balloons are very nice. They let Abi get in and see what it was all about. She would have let the boys in as well they were just a little scared of the how loud it is. They also have collectors cards of their balloons the kids have fun collecting those.

What a beautiful view!

There's nothing better to enjoy the balloon show than some good ol' kettle corn!

This picture is a little out of order, oh well. Abi ws able to have her friend, Kate, spend the night on Halloween. They were such good kids. They had fun being girls and giving themselves the "Spa" treatment.

Here is the final stage of the beautification process. They were impressed with how "Smooth" their skin was.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

We had a great Halloween. Here are our three ninjas!!! Aren't they fierce? They loved being ninjas. We had a great time trick-or-treating and then were able to spend the evening with friends and have some great chili. A great time was had by all.

Our oldest ninja!

Our medium ninja!

Our baby ninja!!

Because we thought we would be in the new house for Halloween we decieded that we would go and sit on our porch anyway and hand out candy. The funny thing was they were working on our roof and there Kev was on his little bucket handing out candy.

This is our next door neighbor(the monster on stilts) and our bishop (the old man) Ben was terrified of them. He said "Mom Gary and Bishop are just pretend right?"

Mac and I enjoying the wonderful night.