Sunday, December 4, 2011

Thanksgiving 2011

This year we were supposed to have Thanksgiving with my side of the family. So few of the families could show up so my parents decided it would be nice to have Thanksgiving at Chuck-O-Rama! We stayed the night at my parents house so that we could wake up early and run the Cold Turkey Trot up by the Capitol in Salt lake. The kids enjoyed their time with the Grandparents. My dad even read them a goodnight story:)


We began Thanksgiving at 2:OO p.m. Everyone else decided to have Thanksgiving at the same time.




Here is Evan with his two Grandmas Playing intsy winsey Spider!
 The Line at the restaurant stretched clear at the door. At first I was nervous to stand in line until I spoke with a woman who had done this for three years in a row. At this point it's not like you can go home and defrost a turkey anyway. It was nice talking the lady in line little did I know that she worked with my parents at the Temple until they arrived and filled me in. Along with us and my parents Mike and Bree Came and Their parents. I had currently got a new camera and so did Bree so we spent  a while talking about that. In all we were waiting in line for about an hour and half.

 Sammy spent some time trying to sign to a couple of kids through the glass in the doorway.

 My Dad also showed us a picture of my Grandpa's Highschool Band that was hanging just inside the restaurant. He is on the top row in the center.

Look at Riley reading her Kindle she hardly ever lays that down.

The Buffet was really good! Here are some of the few pictures of my family inside of Chuck-O-Rama enjoying the Thanksgiving meal.






After the good food at the restaurant. We went back to my parents house and enjoyed a night of talking and playing games. Look there is nothing to clean up! No dishes to do!!  This was fun for one year next year though I think I want to do it the Traditional Way!!
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Rebecca's Baptism January 3rd 2009

Well another one of our children entered the waters of baptism. I can't believe how proud I am of her making this commitment to her Heavenly Father. She was prepared to make it thanks to the help of the Ward Missionaries the Montgomery's for coming over and giving her the discussions. I can't believe how cute she was all dressed in white and beaming from ear to ear. I gave her the primary song book and had her choose all of the songs that we would sing. She ended up choosing a lot of christmas songs ( Which I loved hearing again) due to poor planning on my part I ended up leading the music while my sister Melanie played the piano. Bishop Saunders was there presiding which I thought was very nice. We had met with him the day before at the Seminary building of the highschool to get Rebecca's interview.
The Baptism was supposed to begin at 3:30, but due to a funeral they moved it back to 4pm. Unfortunately the family ran into a traffic jam caused by a fatal accident and we did not begin the baptism until 4pm...I want to thank everyone for their patience.. Grandma Ballard gave the talk on Baptism and Grandma Lamoreaux gave the talk on the Holy Ghost. They both did a really great job! After the baptism we had a get together at our house with soup and breadsticks. Grandma and Grandpa Lamoreaux could not make it, because of having to drive in the dark.. They did give Rebecca her baptism gift before they left. She had been looking forward to it all week. After the get together that night we opened the gift which was a new set of scriptures.. What a great day it turned out to be.. Congratulations Rebecca!

Christmas 2008

Well Christmas has come and gone. A lot of fun we had with family and friends. It was nice for me not being pregnant this year to be able to do Christmas Cards to all the people that we have known over the years. And for us as a family to go out and Carol. It was great to see the surprised look on the peoples faces. The girls did complain of the cold! this year we bought the girls their own Christmas trees to hang their ornaments on, So our Big tree looked rather bare. I also took each of the kids individually to the store to get each others gifts. Then they took turns helping me wrap them. We spent Christmas EVE at Grandma and Grandpa Lamoreaux's house where we had the usual Christmas Program. Of course this year instead of reading the Littlest Snowman we had the kids act it out.. Christmas day we enjoyed the morning opening gifts. Riley was excited to get a real camera instead of the toy one she has been using for over a year now. She also got a hand held harp that she can play. Rebecca got a huge remote control car from Santa. And a race to the mall car track from Mom and Dad. Jolie got a Hello Kitty Radio from Santa, and Art supplies from Mom and Dad. Last, but not least Sam got a fish aquarium for nights and a Basketball hoop for the days..This year Michelle got a Kareoke Machine that so far has been a huge hit with the family. After opening gifts we went to Grandma and Grandpa Ballards for a brunch and enjoyed spending the day with them. Of course our favorite day was the day spent after Christmas opening the gifts and actually being able to use them.. We hope that you have all enjoyed Christmas as well..