When did I get so short??

Thanksgiving pictures

Where's the food??
Being silly
The girls
Ray
Odis and Kyle

and more......

Yum!
Double yum!
Alicia, Peyton, Kelly, and Jenna....beautiful girls
Auntie making rolls
Auntie and Kelly

Happy Thanksgiving

Odis and Oney
Watching the ball game
Someone is tired and needs a nap!
don't know who needed this more....Me or him!
First Thanksgiving! Same size as the turkey!! :)


We had such a great day. We couldn't get Odis out to either of our homes so Kelly and I decided we would bring Thanksgiving to her. We went over the night before and made our pies and a few other things then this morning we went back and did the rest of the dinner. Stacy did the turkey this year so when she arrived with the bird we had quite a feast. There were 19 of us from 3 weeks old to 83 years old and I think we all had a great time. I am so stuffed tonight that after this post I am going to bed and hope to sleep until at least 8:00 in the morning.

My Thankful list....totally incomplete

Being a mom. Being an Aunt. Being a Great Aunt. Being a daughter. Having a warm home in the winter and shade trees in the summer. The Gospel of Jesus Christ. The Restoration. Having wonderful friends. For all the places I have been fortunate enough to live. For the people I have met in those places. Different jobs and the things I have learned from each one. Lessons I learned from my mother. Lessons I learned from my grandmother. Lessons I am still learning from my son. The smell inside of a clean barn. Holding a new calf. Gathering eggs. Fall leaves under my feet. Green summer grass under my feet. Having the Priesthood in my home. Freedom. Cheesecake. Hot homemade bread with butter and honey. The smell of homemade bread with butter and honey. Listening to the rain on my roof. The smell of Eagar after the rain. The smell of rain on the desert. Children's prayers. Children's laughter. A living Prophet. Christmas decorations. Good books. Being able to read the good books. Music. Dancing. The Atonement. Hot Postum with Creme Brule'. My mothers testimony. Days with no pain. New socks. When the summer visitors go home. Massages. Foot rubs. Brand new babies, human and otherwise. Painted toenails. New shoes. Arizona sunrises. Montana sunsets. Camping under the stars. Falling stars. Sitting around a campfire. Hot showers. Clean sheets. Cinnabar perfume. Spring flowers. My testimony. Sleeping with the windows open. Catching the first fish. Hymns. Having gone to a drive-in movie. Pets, past and present. Early morning silence. Prayer. Ice cold Pepsi.

Fall

Kelly and I took all the kids and Odis for a ride up over the mountain to see the changing colors. We almost waited too late as a lot of the leaves had already fallen but we had a nice ride. Odis bought us lunch at Arby's and we took it with us for a picnic. We live in such a beautiful place.

More Halloween

halloween

Damian and Randy..... don't ask
Angie and Ashley

We had a fun time on Halloween. We had our 4th annual Halloween bonfire and quite a few of Randy's friends showed up. They would come and eat, leave, come back and eat, stand around the fire to get warm, and leave again. Works for me. I stayed inside and worked on painting my cupboards. Kelly and Ray brought the kids over so I could see them in their costumes and then they went to the party at the school. I tried to get more pictures of Titan but he wasn't in the mood to cooperate :) He told me he was a "bum bum bee" (bumble bee) and I just took his word for it! They all looked so cute. We had quite a snow storm a few days before so I didn't know if we would be having the bonfire or not but it melted off and the weather was pretty nice. Most of our leaves are gone now and the grass is brown. The mornings are crisp but the afternoons are beautiful. I love this time of year but how I dread winter. I only like the snow when I can stay inside by the fire and watch it come down. :)

A fun day

Today was a fun day. Kelly and I had hair appointments with Kelly Brown. I got my hair cut and Kelly got a hair cut and a weave and her hair looks beautiful. I'm trying to grow all the dye out of my hair and go "natural"...... which means gray! :) I may hate it but after 40 years of dying my hair I am just tired of it. I may have some red weaved into it but haven't gotten that far yet. I still can't believe how much gray I have and I am NOT going to have the beautiful white hair that my mother had. Hers was white, mine is gray. Bummer.
We had fun just getting "beautiful" and lots of visiting with no kids around. Kelly B. always does such a good job. It was a nice afternoon