Family photos on the beach

We had our family photos taken on May 30th, with our amazing family photograher Alicia Jane Bias...she came all the way from Utah to do this, and is so amazing! Anyway, this is just a little sample of what she's done, we're just waiting for the real ones to come in. Anyway, even though I'm totally un-photogenic! She managed to make me look okay...tee hee! My kids and grandchildren are of course absolutely beautiful!!

How to host a muder party!

A few weeks ago, we threw a "how to host a murder" party with some of our friends from church. We cooked a 6 course dinner, and Amanda, and Brittany and their friend Emily were our butlers, and served our food for us while we played.

Here is the room where we had it (this is actually how the house is set up permanently now)

Neil and I

Jeff and Jennifer Waters

Rick and Rachel Morales

Jim and Liz Nowlan

Playing the Game

So as part of our dinner, we had purchased some non-alchoholic wine, and herbal tea that tasted like coffee. so we thought this picture was funny. a bunch a mormons looking like they were drinking.

Jeff Waters playing faux "drunk"

Neil playing faux "drunk"

The whole gang

Jennifer Waters was the killer, can you tell?

Sailboat Cruise with friends!

For the past 2 years we have taken our friends out on our sail boat for a week vacation. it is a lot of fun. We did a navy themed cruise this year, and went to catalina. you can see the invitations we sent out and pictures of our wonderful trip below.

Catching up...day one!

Okay...so obviously I'm not so good at staying current on my blog.
I am grateful to say though, that I have seen the error of my ways, and now make a vow
To do better! Wish me luck :)
Since I am currently using my cell phone to update today...I won't be adding any photos until tomorrow, when I'll be back home. This declaration to do better will have to suffice for now.

Crazy day in Sunny California!!??

So this morning, we got up just like any other morning, and this is what we saw when we looked out the window?! Crazy day in Sunny California for sure!

The snow didn't stop all day, in fact, as I sit here writing this, it is STILL SNOWING!! It's about 10 minutes to six pm, and they say it's not going to stop until maybe midnight!? Yikes! We already have (we measured) a foot of snow on the ground as you will see, and if it keeps up like this, by morning we'll be under 2 feet of snow! We were already snowed in today, at least from going down the hill, the I-15 freeway has been closed for over 9 hours now, and so many other roads. It's kind of a mess. Travis had to take off work today, because he couldn't get his car out of our driveway! Crazy day!! Enjoy the photos, we probably won't see this kind of thing for at least another 15 years or more!

Amanda building a snowman with the kids
Look how cute they are! They're so proud of themselves

Savanna and Mr. Frosty the snowman

Eizyn didn't know what to think...LOL

The girls up to it thigh deep!!

Eizyn preferred indoors...ahhh

Uncle Travis getting into the fun!

Just about 30 minutes ago, I took this shot of our house...Crazy!!!

Thanksgiving!

Yummy pies!
Stuffing our faces!

Brittany and Alex

Neil making his awesome caribbean turkey!

I finally found time to update, so here goes.

We had a really nice thanksgiving, even though for us, it was pretty small. Amanda and Brad and their family went to Brad's Grandma's place for their turkey day, and Karli and her new husband Juarez had their turkey time with his folks, so needless to say we had a very small crowd this year. It was however, very nice. We had Travis, Brittany and Alex, the missionaries, Neil and I, and Mom and Dad. Just the nine of us...but boy did we eat like there were 25 of us!! It was great, we made two turkeys, one caribbean style, and one country style (they were pretty yummy) and a nice glazed ham, then all the regular thanksgiving day food. I also made home made noodles, which I haven't done in years, so that was a nice surprise for my father-in-law, even though the poor guy was really sick that day. Anyway, it was really nice, and nothing really significant to report other than just a wonderful day. The next day all the kids were back, and we did it all over again!! It was awesome! We also put up Christmas, which we do every year on the day after. I also usually go to the black friday sales, but this year no one was here to go with me, so I didn't. It's okay, I didn't really see anything that was knockin' my socks off anyway. It took us three day to get all the lights up on the house outside...poor hubby...he's a good egg. It looks really great now, and we have a great little music and lights show too. The kids love it! We were outside last night, and the kids were all bundled up cute, and they were just dancing around, and oooh-ing and awww-ing over the light show. Too cute! Here are some pics of our holiday weekend. I hope everyone else had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and that you all have a very Merry Christmas!