CHRISTMAS 2009

We enjoyed Christmas with all most all of the family. The following pictures are a little out of order. We had the Crowleys and Leiningers over for Christmas Eve dinner and a program.

Christmas Eve with the little ones. What could be in their packages?

Kim helping out with the Christmas Eve dinner.

Uncle Landon helping out with keeping the kids busy. I guess he is playing dead.

Lexi, Logan, Clayton, and Connor trying to save him.

Looks like Macy is now helping. Still out-of-it. Reminds me of my Dad when he wanted to play with my kids. Landon is taking over for Dad. He is the perfect Uncle.

Everyone ready to go , lined-up, and excited to see what Santa brought on Christmas morning. The line-up was from youngest to oldest. Stinks to be Chad as he is last............. and I think Brett and Dustin ran over the little ones to end up first. Competitive Boys !!!

Christmas Eve dinner.............great food, great company, and good looking Chef. We had the Crowleys and the Leiningers over with the Harlows and the rest of the crew.

Devin and Dustin always trying to help Mom. She would prefer them out of the kitchen.

Dustin's first Christmas at home in two years......sneaking the shrimp dip and crackers before dinner.

Grandpa and Wyatt.

Chad and Bennett.

Grandpa and Ciara.

The traditional opening of one present.................pajamas on Christmas Eve.

Brett and Emily and their beautiful smiles.

Christmas Eve dinner.....................looking good and it was delicious.

Emily and Denae...........getting ready for the Luke Chapter 2 Pageant. Video to

follow.

More food.

Kaley focusing on the Beetles Rock Band...............great Christmas gift and had lots of fun playng and singing.

Dustin is singing and Emily is jamming. Julie loved this game..............sorry I didn't get a picture of her.

We had a great Christmas with almost everyone there. We missed Angie and Pete and their kids, but its a long ways to travel with so many little ones. We enjoyed the family and played hard.................and sang a lot..............and ate tons of food. Christmas 2009 is now history.

Thanksgiving 2009

We decided to travel to Utah, rather than have the kids come home to California for Thanksgiving. We were all there except for Denae and Dave -- they were in Utah in September. We had a great few days............13 of us went to the movie, "New Moon". We hit the mall at 4:00 a.m. the day after Thanksgiving. Brett, Emily, Kaley, Dustin, Landon, Jill and I were at Target for the door busters and were successful at what we went to get. We also had a snow ball fight where i was injured with gash to the forehead, lots of blood, but no one was able to hit me with a snowball. We had a BYU party , watching BYU beat Utah in football. And enjoyed the few days.............some of the pictures are below, but as usual we didn't take many.

This was at Tanya and Scott's home on Thanksgiving night. Lots of pie and lots of neices and nephews, kids, and grandkids.

Grandma loves to read.

Kaley is the best Aunt ever. Kameron, Skyler, and Savannah love her too !!!

Sister Kaley and Brother Dustin. Both born on the same day, 3 years apart.

Walking the Mall with some of the kids during Thanksgiving break. Dustin, Jill, and Angie, along with some of the younger ones.

Jill and Angie ..............check out Mom's rolls on the left. They are "da best !!!

Chad and Julie with their new ice cream stand..............at the Southtown Mall in Sandy, Utah.

We will have to remember to take more pictues...............like the 13 of us at New Moon and then eating ice cream bars at the BOARDWALK.

Next big event.............CHRISTMAS !!!

San Diego Trip in October 2009

We planned a trip to the BYU/San Diego State game in October 2009. In addition to the football, we had to do some golf. We met Ernie and Bill Blodgett.............along with Chad and Devin and did some golfing, footballing, Sea World...ing, and eating. We had a great couple of days and BYU even won the game. Chad won the golf. Mom and Landon had fun at Sea World.

Ernie at Torrey Pines in San Diego. Site of the 2008 U.S. Open.

Devin's awesome follow-thru as it hits the ball 300 yards.

Chad trying to hit it 305 yards to outdrive is little brother.



The Golfers at Torrey Pines.

Dad just trying to hit the ball .............let alone 300 yards.

Ernie winding up for a smash.

Bill Blodgett and Denny

I guess this got in cause i missed the ball the first time. Mulligan.

We watched BYU beat San Diego..............great game , great day. Check out Landon's cool shades.

Landon and Mom went to Sea World in San Diego. Big Fish.

Cute seal.

Another cute babe............

The car we took down the highway to San Diego

We had lots of fun and enjoyed the weather, BYU game, historic San Diego, and of course one of the greatest golf courses in America -- Torrey Pines.

HALLOWEEN -- OCTOBER 2009

This is Landon during Homecoming Week on Michael Jackson Day. He's got some new moves.

Mom got these teeth and wanted to me to look about as scary as I could................I looked like this at the Ward party and most people did not know who I was until they saw mom.

This was Mom and she looks good no matter what she wears. And dressed back to her roots.

Me again..............looking pretty weird. If you look close enough you can see the resemblance between me and Chad and Devin.

The videos below are from Landon showing the grandkids what our house looked like when we gave out candy Halloween night. He had fun.........as the doorbell rang, he would shoot the fog machine and the girls would scream.



This is what the house looked like right before it got dark.

Halloween is over for another year. We only had about 60-70 kids show up at the door. But it was fun, and now we are left to eat all of the candy. Mom is going to look for some more teeth for next year. There were lots of comments today at church as to how I looked. At least for a night i had a "little piece of the glory".

KALEY IS OFF TO REXBURG AND THE COLLEGE LIFE !!!

This Temple sits right on the edge of the campus and is simply breathtaking !!!

Kaley outside of her dorm. She lives on the other side of this wall -- 50 yards from campus.

This is her bedroom with her desk below the bed.

This is the kitchen where she is always trying to clean.........just like her Mom.

This is Kaley saying goodbye as we left........do i see a tear or three. Love you Kaley and we will miss you tons. The house will not be the same without you around to stir things up.

This is one of Kaley's roommates........Chrissie.......from England with a great accent.

We are thankful for Brett and Emily in helping Kaley get settled. They have become very close -- and are only about 5 minutes away. Thanks Brett & Emily for being such good friends.

Dadders and the Kaysters.

Mommers and Kaley -- two very beautiful young ladies !!!

Another view of this beautiful site. It can be seen from where ever you are on campus and pretty much in the whole town of Rexburg.

LANDON TURNS 14 -- LAST ONE AT HOME !!!

Landon had his 14th birthday last month and he got some sweet presents.

The snake looking thing is actually a Sasquatch Nike Driver with a Nike cover.

This is our little baby that is now 14. Next year he gets to ride the Scooter to school.

Landon turned 14 in September and is now alone with mom and dad at home. It stinks to be him right now.............except he gets Mountain Mike's pizza every weekend. Watch out girls........Landon is now in high school.

More Half Marathon Pictures

We had so much fun running we have to keep posting pictures................We also publish this blog site into a book and it becomes a pretty good Family History.

Here we are after the race looking at our official times posted on the internet. I love my IPhone.........so does every one else in the family. We have 7 Iphones total among us all. Notice Jill looking at my time and thinking, "How was Denny's time so close to mine?" And of course Dustin could care less about the times...............he just knows someone has a camera !!

A few of the runners.......Kimberly, Jill, Denae, Denny, and Dave.

We were very proud of Landon for finishing this race with an extremely hurt TOE......which he destroyed a few days earlier at "Jump on It".