Shoot!!

Mike and I didn't do any Black Friday shopping the day after Thanksgiving... we went shooting!!!

My target doesn't look too bad.... I'm getting better and better... as long as the target isn't moving! It was so much fun! I love having my own private gun instructor..... wait... I LOVE my gun instructor!!! It was a great date!

Thanksgiving

I thought I should posst Thanksgiving before Christmas gets here!!

 We had our family Thanksgiving at Steve & Teresas house in their newly remodeled kitchen. It is beautiful and then we came in with all the food and kinda trashed it!! Thanks for hosting!!

 I've been making these turkey cookies for years!! Still cute!

 Big plates for a big dinner!

 Decor of course!

 Cute!

 Hmmmm....

 Pies!!! and they were as yummy as they looked!... Notice the pretty granite underneath the pies!!

 That word says it!

 Lots of eating went on!

 What?!?! there was a test afterwards?!? I hope everyone paid attention!!!

Sure looks like a test... but it is only a Thanksgiving trivia game.... They sure do take these things seriously!!!

I'm grateful for such a wonderful family and good times together!!

Birthdays in November...

We have birthdays almost every month of the year... In November (yeah... this post is a little late!) we celebrated Dalin's and Erin's

 We had fun at Chuck E Cheese. Dalin LOVED this car!!

The next day was Erin's b-day and we celebrated at Applebees!!

Happy birthday everyone!

Cookies...

Decorating Cookies....

Eating Cookies!!

Pumpkin pie...

This is why Mike doesn't like pumpkin pie!!

I have told him this picture is fake and this is NOT the way it is done, but he doesn't believe me! SO... Mike still doesn't like pumpkin pie! But that's OK... then there will be more for the rest of us!!

LONG short trip!

Mike had to go to Vegas to check out some stuff for work... so we thought we would just hop on a plane after work on FRIDAY and spend the night in Vegas. Just a little mini trip for us.... BUT since we fly standby and it was FRIDAY... our few possible seats from Phoenix to Vegas turned into NO seats to Vegas! BUT... we always have plan B... The flights to LA were open and the flight from LA to Phienix had plenty of seats too and we would still get to Vegas relatively early...

 So off to LA we went... we got there and went to the gate to check on for the Vegas flight... they said you will have to wait the plane is pretty full... WHAT?!?!?! there are suppose to be plenty of seats!... and we noticed more and MORE people wanting to get on that flight... but that's OK cuz we have plan C and there is another flight after this one and it has plenty of seats open.... THEN we find out is has plenty of seats open cuz it is delayed and all the people scheduled for that flight are filling up this one.... no problem... we will be a little delayed... so we go to the next gate to get on the delayed flight and find it it won't even land in LA till 11:00 pm!!!! Hmmmm we have been up since 4:00 AM... then get on a flight after 11 to get to Vegas after midnight and try to rent a car etc... OK... Plan D... we will spend the night in LA!

 The next morning we get on a flight to Vegas... I had NO idea we had to fly over the ocean to get to Vegas... What's up with that?!?

 So we drive down the strip just to say we saw the strip and casinos etc...

 The architecture is amazing! Why is all this talent put on Casinos?

And the buildings were all so TALL! Any way we drive and drive and DRIVE checking out all the stuff we needed to... so we decide to get an early flight home. BUT... no that flight is full and there is probably no chance we will get on the next one but maybe the last one blah blah blah... we thought OH NO!!! we are tired we just want to go home! But we were lucky this time and got almost the last two seats on the second flight we wanted. I really had jet lag after that LONG short trip.
But... I cannot blog about this trip without mentioning our WONDERFUL trabvel agent Jaron. Kristin was working and we were panicking so Jaron got us through everything and even booked our hotel room in LA and rented our car in Vegas and told us where to get all the shuttles and everything!!! Jaron was our Hero!! I bet he can't wait til we go on another trip!!

More Halloween

Our ward had a Trunk or Treat so "WE" dressed up (it's usually just me that dresses up, but Mike was a good sport and dressed up too!)

I'm a witch of course and you can draw your own conclusions as to what Mike is. I wanted him to kind of match me so I had him put on a black shirt and put on a black graduation gown (thanks Trent) so he would look kind of like a warlock guy... but he also looks like a judge and maybe some fancy dressed bad guy... but it was fun!

Halloween was fun this year.. now on to the next holiday!!!