Christmas Dance

Our last High School Christmas Dance.
The invites says: "I would be Ex-TREE-mly happy if you would go to the Christmas Dance with me. The letters of his name were written on the back of the little ornaments...and, he thought it up himself...good job!
And...she said "YES"

The group had a fancy dinner at our house.

Merry Christmas!

December - emoticon free month

An interesting article I read on CNN got me thinking:

"A poll of about 500 was taken to discover which emoticons really got them glowering (in real life, not emoticon-effigy). The most-hated emoticons, in descending order (at time of writing):
:P (46%)
>:( (39%)
:) (8%)
:/ (6%)
:( (2%)
That's why we're putting forth the following challenge to you, dear readers, as the year drags its sorry carcass toward the grave: Spend the rest of this month emoticon-free. We're doing it, too, so you don't have to go into the abyss alone -- at least not this time.
The parenthetical purge begins now. If you feel like an emotional cripple come 2011, then, fine, smile, wink, scowl and "meh" away."

So, I'm taking the challenge for a December free emoticon month....Can you do it too?

Addicted to Jazz

An upside about living in SLC is going to the Jazz games especially the last minute cheap tickets...and when the seats are good it's extra cool...

Mr. Kevin O'Connor himself just across the aisle....

Christmas Party in SLC

A company Christmas Party at Desert Star - Christmas Vacation on the Bi-Polar Express, Temple Square lights with rain, an amazing Christmas program of Music & the Spoken Work on Sunday topped off with Christmas shopping and a really nice time with the big guy (Santa).

My "Rocky" in training

"Yo! Adrian"

(click to hear some great Rocky music while viewing the awesome pics)

Where did November Go?

I'm pretty sure we skipped right over November!

Considering the date you see on this blog, I've definately got some catching up to do. But seriously...where did November go? We've had the most beautiful fall with temps in the upper 60's...almost 70 all through October & November! Sadly you know the snow must eventually come....here's our first snow fall. Thank you snow for waiting til almost Thanksgiving!
The 3 amigos enjoying some pumpkin cookie batter. Sadly "Cat" went to another home. He was trying to rule the house by terrorizing the dogs & me!

You know those old fashioned traditional Thanksgiving pictures. Well, I wanted one for my family...They all had the giggles so... here's the best I could do. Thanksgiving Dinner 2010 with my bunch. It's so fun to have the missionary home for the holidays. My parents braved the funny bunch.... Thanksgiving break....yep...hear comes the facial hair!

Of course my mom makes the most beautiful & delicious 2 crust pies. She learned it from her mom who was also a fantastic pie maker too. Of course there has to be a family that loves to eat pie...that's us! Here we have a fresh apple pie with apples from my brother's orchard. I adore the floral "Cat Tails" design on top. It's been handed down for 3 generations. When I was little I always loved watching my mother cut the design on top. I'd ask her how she knew how to do those and she said from her mother. I try to do the same design but of course, mine isn't as pretty. I refuse to do any other design...it just wouldn't be right. And here we have the latest fad at our house...yes, Toilet Paper origami. Don't be surprised if you see it in other public places...... ...and an amazing Court of Honor and guess who had the most merit badges? Yep! And the best part, these are the "money" merit badges because they are the last ones to finish up before the Eagle (coming soon)... YEAH!!!

Happy Halloween

Halloween is a lot different when your kids are big.

• They carve really cool pumpkins
• They make their own costumes

• You can go on a date that night because they go on dates too
• They answer the door and pass out treats and have so much fun scaring the little kiddies
• But sadly.. the big guy and I really do miss the years when we took them trick or treating. I think he misses their good candy.

Meat Loaf monster hands & strawberry brain jell-o

This year we took my parents to a Halloween play: Arsenic & Old Lace. It was very cute. I fixed a scary pre-show dinner and the weather was absolutely perfect for Halloween...beautiful dark skies, no wind, rain or snow!