Wow! Where did the time go?

In January, we celebrated Scott's and my birthday.

For Scott's, we had our FHE with our friends by going to eat at one of our favorite places to eat in our little town.  We love La Hacienda! It is great Mexican food! Afterwards, we all went to see the movie, "My dad bought a Zoo". A fun night spent with friends!

My birthday was a week later. I was surprised to have flowers delivered to me at school from Scott! That was fun! They were delivered to me in the cafeteria! So, many students got to see me with my flowers, because right afterwards, I had locker duty with the middle school girls, so more students got to see me with flowers! It was a fun day. 

Then, when I went home, I had more flowers delivered!  Steven sent me flowers, too!

This year when we went to Fernley, Nevada for Sister's Weekend, my dad gave to us and also his grandchildren most of the Christmas lights that he had stored up in his attic.....and he had a lot of them. (We could've opened up a store with the 75 plus apple boxes full of brand new and used lights!....Yes, there were a lot!) He gave them to us because he isn't able to put lights up as he has in past years. So, my goal was to put up lots of lights in my house and yard in honor of my Dad, who has always been the Christmas Light master! His 1 acre yard was amazing at Christmas time with all of the lights. My little parcel was just a scratch, but it was the thought and love of doing it that counts, right?

So....enjoy the lights!

When I took them down, I decided to count the strands. There were around 25 strands in the front yard (100 light strands=2500 lights!), and about the same in the back. There were also the lights that lined the peaks on the roof, the chimney, etc., the nativity, the candy canes, and the reindeer. Plus, I also didn't count the icicle lights that were on the fence and the eves of the house. (Did I mention that I also doubled the icicle lights by having both strands of white and blue? Yes.....I'm surprised I didn't blow a breaker!) So, I can honestly say I'm going to have an incredible utility bill next month. Since there were probably more than 20,000 lights in my yard! But, it was worth it! My dad was proud to know that "his lights" were represented in at least 4 states-California, Utah, Oregon and Nevada!

Hazel opening a present!

Dallin playing with his "4 wheeler" from Uncle Steven.

Kim enjoying the "bouncing slide" place with the grandbabies!

Michael enjoying "Nickelcade" with the kiddos on Dallins birthday!

We got to have Thanksgiving in Utah!

During the week, I got to go to preschool with Sage!

They had a Thanksgiving feast!

We had a delicious Thanksgiving dinner made by Kim!

We were treated with turkey, homemade stuffing, dream jello, homemade rolls, mashed potatoes, gravy, pretzel jello salad, broccoli, orange cranberry sauce, green salad, sparkling cider and pies. (I may have forgotten something. The table was full, which made our plates full, which in turn filled our tummies!

(Sorry-I forgot to take pictures of the amazing food!

But, I did get a quick picture of the pies!

Kim made the 2 raspberry creams and 2 pecans. They were amazing!)