Superbowl

Our annual Superbowl party was fun and yummy as usual. I really don't care who was playing... I like the food and commercials! Here are the highlights:

 We had pizza, ribs, jello, chips, dips, cheeseball, mini weinies, pop and a chocolate fountain.... great junk food! YUM!!

 Toby!

Toby had fun too and loved all the attention and food... but I think we wore him out!!

Another fun party thanks to a great family!!

Great Glendale adventure...

Mike and I did a mini escape this weekend. We took off after work on Friday and went to Cabelas!!

 We did a lot of shopping and lots of looking. We even ate dinner there!

 I like the aquatium there.... here is some kind of lovely sucker fish!

 A HUGE catfish... that would make a catfish dinner for the whole family!!!

 And of course Cabelas is filled with dead animals everywhere!!

 After spending the evening at Cabelas we stayed at a great little place, the Executive Inn.

 Then Saturday morning it was off to the Glendale Chocolate festival. I have always wanted to go. It wasn't just chocolate stuff... it was more like an arts and craft thing and fair food and chocolate all in one.

 We did lots of looking at antique stores and eating food and then had chocolate for the grand finale! YUM!

See this thing in the bottom of the picture... it is a GIANT carmel apple completely covered in nuts and chocolate chips! WAY YUM!! So when we left Glendale we stopped at Pruitts in Phoenix. It is a HUGE furniture store and we spent a couple hours there just LOOKING!! We definitely have a wish list now! We didn't have to go far to have a great fun weekend! Thanks Mike... you're the best!!

Cow in the road...

WARNING... GRAPHIC CONTENT!!!! (kinda in the first picture.. more like hamburger in it's original form)

...There's a cow in the road and you swerve to the left

Fate skips a beat and it scares you to death....

Have you heard the Diamond Rio song about how your love makes me feel inside?... The two lines above are from the chorus. I think of that song when I think about Kristin's recent car crash... She was coming home from work at night when a cow/bull ran in front of her... She swerved to the left... Car is smooshed and so was the bull. But amazingly Kristin only got a bruise. No glass broke, the air bag didn't hit her, the cow didn't fly through the windshield..... truly there were angels working overtime that night!!!

Lyndi

New Years was a special day besides being the beginning of 2011... it was Lyndi's blessing day!

 Cute parents

 Cute baby

 Cute uncle

Cute grandpa Mike

What a great way to start the New Year!

Christmas afternoon!

After an activity filled Christmas day already... we now are ready for the much anticipated present opening from Uncle Dan and the family! Crazy fun!

Yep... we are spoiled.... and very blessed and very thankful for all we have... our great family, our health and our Savior Jesus Christ whose birth we have celebrated in many ways this season. Merry Christmas! Life is good!

Christmas lunch!

After SKYPEING we had a yummy Christmas lunch!

We had to get our tummies full and get ready for the next activity!!! Wonder what THAT could be?!?

The pickle!

One of our fun traditions on Christmas is finding the Christmas pickle.

 Everyone wants to find it!

 keep looking... it's not easy to find!

 OH....what is this?!?! Could it be?!?!?

 Yes!!! Brandon found the pickle!!

He did get a lovely prize... but what is more important is that he gets bragging rights until next year!!!