Our Thanksgiving Holiday

We hope that everyone had a very

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!

We had such a great Thanksgiving together as a family this year, it was so fun. My mom and I started cooking on Wednesday night and had alot of fun, with Mas there talking and getting the turkey ready for Thursday. My mom and I made homemade rolls, strawberry jam, stuffing, pumkin muffins with cream cheese frosting....You name it we made it, and boy was it delicous. The boys spent most of the morning playing video games and snacking while we cooked, but after dinner it was Gene that stood over the sink for an hour doing dishes while we all cleaned up around him. Thanks Babe, for being such a big help. After everything was clean we watched movies, had dessert and just relaxed. It was the perfect start to a wonderful weekend.

Gene and Me just before Dinner

Family Time

Logan just couldn't wait he ate a peice before the puff pastry but we didn't tell mom, we just covered it up
Mom and I making the rolls we had so much fun
Gene hand mashed all the potatoes it was quite the job
Everyones place was set with a name card listing all of the reasons why I was greatful for each one of them and a See's Candy chocolate leaf of course. The table settings in the kitchen

The other table in the so called dinning room
The buffet in the dinning room Our beautiful turkey, it tasted as good as it looks
Logan sleeping in the love sac after dinner

Stake Road Show

Oh, the road show was this last weekend and after all the long hours and many practices it went off without a hitch. Gene and Logan did such a great job. They were pretty amazing. I didn't know that we had such acting talent in our little family. We were the first to perform, and the building was packed. Everyone was alittle nervous for the first perfomance, but once the audiance started laughing at our jokes and cheering after our dance number. Everyone felt much more comfortable.

Most of the Cast

The star of the Show. Great Job Loge's!!!

Me and Gene Just before he went on stage

Logan and Lizzy Bro. White, Logan and I practicing the Oleo the morning of Logan goofing off and trying to crawl out of the enlarging machine

These two were the cutes cheerleaders
These were our great two homeless guys with amazing voices singing in the background Bro. Star and Bro. Shorts Thank you so much Bro. Hood for creating our set and his wife was our prop master. They were so great. Bro. Hood actually used to build sets for the Donny and Marie Osmond show.
We had alot of fun, but I am sure glad that it is over and I can now start organizing the ward Christmas Dinner. I hope that it goes as smoothly as this did. Thanks to all of those who helped it was a great success.

P.S. Carrie you did a great job with your wards. It was quite the production. Love ya

We Love Mendo

Me and My Gene

There was so much drift wood on the beach in one spot, that someone thought it would be cool to build a fort. It was quite the site.The view that was just down the street from our house Goofing off on the bench overlooking the beach

This picture just doesn't do it justice, the colors were like a painting

All I can say is that we love Mendocino, as I am sure you all know since we have been there twice in the past two months. The Ocean views are so spectacular, with the rocky shorelines, and dramatic cliffsides. I just love it. Even though we went with my family, we still had plenty of time alone together. It was great. We went on a few hikes down to the Ocean, and saw some fun tidepooles with star fish and sea anemone. It was so fun, Gene kept trying to get me to touch them, but I was too scared they looked so squishy. We also walked around the little town of Historical Mendocino and did a little shopping. We had lunch and ice cream, sooo good. Then we went down to the beach and walked along the shoreline looking at all the drift wood. The next day Gene bought some rubber band airplanes and we flew them over by the Highlands in the field. It was really fun, he's such a good pilot he hee. Then we watched the Sun Set into the sea. It was so beautiful. Usually there is fog and you can't see the sunset, but this weekend was perfect. No fog, just amazing days with unforgetable sunsets.

Family Fun. . .

The Whole GangBeautiful Coast LineUs and Mom Us and Bill Mom and BillTaylor and Logan crawling through the brush on the cliff side
They got the PrizeMom and BillLauren"s Lovely Henna tattoo that they did at school, of course she thinks that it would look better on her neck than on her hand ha ha.... that girl is such a character. Playing Poison

Love her
I Won!!!!
Mom and Tay, she was helping him cheat ha ha ....

Quesadillas our first night there, the kids came a little late Lauren and Bill playing the hand slapping game
Lauren: Quite the personality


Taylor and the "dust mites"

We had so much fun in Mendocino this last weekend. The whole family was there and it was a great weekend of fun times, laughs and great memories together. We walked through the Beautiful Botanical Gardens, and then went and had a picnic in Van Damn Park over looking the Ocean. It was here thant we played cards and Taylor accidently threw the frisbee over the cliff side into the brush. The frisbee was dangling on this branch and Taylor and Logan thought that they could climb down and get it. My mom was so scared she couldn't even watch so she left and went on a little walk. It was quite scarry when logan got out there and was holding on to Taylor to reach it, and the ocean was a steep 80 foot drop below with lots of sharp rocks. But they did it and I almost had a heart attack watching. Afterwards we went back to the House and made Minestrone soup and played more games until we couldn't keep our eyes open anymore.