....our first holiday without LaVerl.
It seemed like the kids had barely left from being home for their Dad's funeral before some of them came back for Thanksgiving. Bret's family, Lisa's family and Kari's family all came. We ate lots of food, we hiked up to the star on Flattop, and we loved being together!
Tami's family was in Idaho by themselves!
Reed's family celebrated in Dallas Texas with some of Natali's family!
I also wanted to post some pictures of everyone while they were here, before Thanksgiving, helping me, just being here for me.
Oh, that baby Rome! He was everyone's favorite pastime!!
Reed's little Isabel is quite the entertainer! She loved singing and dancing for all of us!! So adorable!!
Our kids have the best friends and so many came to support them!!
LaVerl's Aunt Nan Johnson, came with two of her son's, Dustin and Stuart. The trip was really hard for them-Dustin just had knee surgery and had to sit in the backseat with his leg stretched out the whole way and Nan does NOT travel anymore. They couldn't have come if Stuart wouldn't had been able to drive them.
The silly boys would all line up and let someone slam a ping pong ball and see who they could hit!! They all had little round welts on their backs!
Bret's high school friends came-Eric Allred and Trey Whiting
All the little girl cousins played so cute together!
Tami helped me plant new stuff in my sad planter! Before....
...After
Kirk and Bret worked on cleaning some of LaVerl's guns.
On Friday, the hike up to the star ended up being almost 4 miles!!
Saturday was Leo's #11 birthday!
And the grandkids helped me decorate my Christmas tree!
They all headed home on Saturday. I LOVED having a houseful of my kids and grandkids. But I have to admit that somehow, I just had this strong, really sad feeling of loneliness!
