The Holidays Are Here!

A Few Fun Things!

Funny Face!
Noel got a hold of my camera!

Holly's Spotlight Competition at the LA Music Center.

Dean had his 60th birthday party.
Here's the girls!

Here's Dean and the guys!

We went to the St. Regis for the Veteren's Weekend one night
and the fun part was... we took the dogs! Ha! Ha!

This Cinderella Carriage was waiting for a bride to come and take her
to her wedding. We saw it in our park.

They let us take photos inside of it too!
Enchanting!

Our poor plum tree gave up the ghost and it was time to say goodbye...

The kids kept some memorabilia from it. :(

Drew visited last weekend! Yay! It was 90 degrees,
so we hit the beach Saturday afternoon!

Then we got sushi later for dinner!

Check out these fancy rolls!
Thank goodness our kids LOVE SUSHI!!!


Here's Holly singing "Old Maid".
She did this for a drama festival earlier this November.

Noel sings one of my favorite Christmas songs,
"Breath of Heaven".

Carrie Underwood In Concert!

Jeff gave me Carrie Underwood Concert tickets for
Mother's Day and today was the payoff!

We saw her at the Nokia Theater in LA.

The opening act was Little Big Town.
They were awesome - real musicians!

Me and my girls!
We Love Carrie!

She had a great show with her playing
a couple of really pretty songs on guitar too!

Luke fell asleep near the end and missed the finale.
The video below shows the end. Everyone was out of their seats!
Pretty awesome night!

We all had so much fun singing!

Chapman University American Celebration

The whole family got all dressed up for
the auction, show, dinner and dance!

Holly brought her friend Zack.

Luke, Shera, and Noel were on their best behavior.
Everyone was so impressed - especially with Luke!

My brother Dean, and my mom were looking dapper that night.

Brother Vern and Deanne, Dean's wife, had a great time too!

But Luke stole the show!!!

Halloween Night and our Haunted House!

We had our first Halloween without Drew.
That was sad...
We had our second year with the Haunted House.
And we were glad...

Pumpkin soup to warm us up!

Photos in our favorite "Halloween Tree"...

Jeff has it all set up to go...

We do a little trick-or-treating early...

Carol is ready for a long night...

Our friend, Rich, comes out alive!

Below are 3 funny videos
"going through the Haunted House"...



Funny!


Funnier!!


Funniest!!!

Halloween Fun!

Twas the night before Halloween and all through the sky...

Holly was dressed up like a butterfly!

The creatures were carving their pumpkins with fear...

Anxiously waiting for Halloween to be here...

Batgirl was ready for Trunk or Treating...

While the Grim Reaper won the scariest costume competing!

Sweet fluffy puppies became pigs...

and chickens...

Hooray for Halloween!
Let's get scared like the Dicken's!!!

Pumpkin City!

Every October for family night
we have to go for our traditional romp through Pumpkin City.

Heavy Lifters!

Our Little Pumpkin!

Pumpkin Faces!

Tractor Trash!

Cupcakes for friends afterwards!

Off to The River!

We are always anxious to get to the river again!
We went a couple of weekends ago.
It is the one place we can truly relax.

Here is Jeff, Luke, Shera, and Noel
about to go riding in the dunes!

Heidi and Sasha love to ride in the golf cart!

Look what we found in the dumpster
while taking out the trash!

BYU's Homecoming!

We visited Drew at BYU during Homecoming.
It was sooo good to see him!

We beat New Mexico 21-3!

We hung out with Drew and his buddies!

Drew went with Kelsie to the Homecoming Dance in the Wilkinson Center.

They went to the Spanish Fork Hot Springs afterwards.
The Eyes Have It!