Thanksgiving Fun

We enjoyed Thanksgiving with Grandpa, Grandma, Dave, Julie and their 6 kids. Due to freezing temperatures our traditional Thanksgiving morning of shooting was cancelled. In leu, the boys all put on sunglasses and sported their airsoft guns around the yard. Airsoft Wars! I'm sure our neighbors were wondering what was going on at our house.

Everyone made cute turkeys to dress up the table. The kids kept asking, can we eat the turkey...the first time I thought they wanted real turkey not the candy ones :-) But after dinner the candy turkeys all disappeared. They were a big hit.

Cute Grandpa & Grandma

The next day the girls headed out shopping at 4:30AM. We live in a great place to shop on Black Friday. No crowds, no lines, friendly people. In the afternoon we all went to the movies. It was a great weekend with family!

Front Yard Finally Done

After having no yard and acres of weeds, we are so excited to finally have our front yard and driveway done. We had to pour over 7,000 SF of concrete for our driveway. I love the grass which has helped keep the dirt from coming in the house. The kids love the driveway for riding bikes, scooters, basketball, 4 square and side walk chalk. Our neighbor brought over a big 24 pack of sidewalk chalk right after the driveway was done and the kids went to down designing. Next summer I will plant flowers in the beds at the front and side of the house. Can't wait!

We have a parking area for 4 cars at the beginning of the driveway.

California Weekend

The day after Jared got baptized, his cousin who is 1 day older got baptized. We said good bye to all of our company and headed to California for Race's Baptism. Race's father Rusty baptized Race. It was a beautiful baptism.

The following day we spent the morning with Kyle's parents and then headed to Balboa for some fun.

The kids love the ferris wheel and playing in the sand. It was much warmer than we thought, and we should have worn swim suits because the kids all got soaking wet playing in the surf.

Jared & Race

The following day we headed to Disneyland. We turned in our "Give A Day - Get A Day" Tickets and had a beautiful day a Disneyland.

Jared's Baptism

Jared choose to follow in the steps of the Savior and be baptized. We are so proud of the great decisions he is making. He baptism was a great day. We had lots of family come for the day and we spent the morning playing together. And then in the afternoon we headed to the church for our family baptism service.

Kyle baptized Jared

Grandpa gave a talk about baptism

We had a fun reception after the baptism for Jared