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!!!

State Fair!

A couple weeks ago I took a much needed day off from work and went with the family to the fair. The reason we chose a Friday was because it was dollar day! One dollar rides, games and food... but mostly it was for the FOOD!!

 And just when we thought the fair was gonna be just like any other year... we stumbled accross this... the HOT DOG PIG RACES!!

 It was hilarious!!

 Erin especially like the weenie dogs!

 We liked this SOOOO much that when the rest of the family got there later we made sure they got to have this experience too!!! Jadon and Krislin got to volunteer. That's Jadon in the orange shirt being a cheerleader!

 See how excited they were to volunteer!! An experience they'll remember forever!!

 We watched the stunt people...

 We WATCHED some of the rides...

 Then Jaron, Jadon and Krislin actually rode this thing!!

 Family tradition... this is what I used to let my kids ride when they were little!

 A fair isn't a fair without seeing the animals... the animals REALLY like Jaron!!

 Mike' favorite!

 We ate a LOT of food. Every food vendor had something for a dollar so we got to try LOTS of stuff. I didn't take any food pictures except for this one... chocolate covered meal worms (YUK... there was no WAY I was gonna eat a bug... I could stay home and do that!!) So WHO ate these delicacies?!?!?

 Erin & Jadon!!!! They REALLY ate them!!!!

 Mike & I snuck away for a little while and did old people stuff ... like ride the sky ride... I love that thing... it's slow and you can see everything!!

Then Mike and I did a wild and crazy thing... we paid our dollar to see the world's smallest horse, largest alligator and largest pig!!! I'm glad we didn't pay more than a dollar!! AND the biggest pigs at the fair were  really us after eating all the stuff we did!!!

Fun fun day... can't wait til next year!!!



Happy Veteran's Day!

Happy Veteran's Day! I don't know why I have a day off... seems like the military should have a day off and we should take their place for a day!... afterall they are the ones serving our country... and I am VERY grateful for that! There is a lot of military history in my family... My maternal grandpa served in WWI, my dad and his brother served in WWII, my brother served for 30 years in the Air Force and now my son is serving in the Army! I am blessed to be part of that heritage!!! I can't have a military tribute without showing a few pics of my cute boy and his family:

Love ya and thanks for the day off!!!