Day After Thanksgiving!

What do you do after Thanksgiving?
Well, in the day time we had the septic tank drain dug up by LaVar's brother Brett, because he has a tractor.
Oliver was interested to go out and see the "swimming pool" Grandad had dug. The smell with that thought was an interesting contrast.

I heard the definition of "Men Working", one actually doing the work and other men watching the work getting done. Here's our version.


Brett built a wonderful bonfire for us to all enjoy. The embers looked like fireworks. He had the young children throw pinecones in the fire.
Tim, Laura and family left on Saturday afternoon. With all the good-byes said and kissed exchanged the needed to return to get Sam's "kitty" that Oliver found at the Greats house. That avoided a near tragedy, for the trip home and beyond. Then Micah, Stephanie, and Max left. They wished someone had help them know they were forgetting some games for the Wii they were selling as soon as they got home.
So as things go we have not found very many things people have left here.
We are very appreciative of the effort you all made to travel here. We really missed those of you that we didn't get to spend time with.

Our Happy Thanksgiving

We had a good Thanksgiving and I just thought that I would share it in pictures. We had about 35 people and served dinner in our unfinished family room. The candlesticks are Brad's.



Our room had all the entertainment for a little while! Micah and Stephanie brought their Wii and had fun with the guitar.



Tim helping us cover the insulation in the family room.









Sam liked the legos and got Laura to be involved sometimes







Room set up. We had more food than we needed and quite a variety. Great day! We had a good time cooking together and eating together.

Miracles!!

When Jaim and Jody got married in Las Vegas when we all went down there to go to the BYU vs UNLV football game. I tried to download all the pictures to Jaim and my computers when the sandisk seemed to get corrupted. I thought that we had lost all these pictures. But this time I downloaded with the option to delete after download and that seemed to be the trick. I just love it when things seem to "heal" themselves! Congratulations Jaim and Jody, all of our best wishes go out to you!!

HOoray for Katie

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Alyssa sent this and it is pretty interesting!
DeHart's big news is the Katerine is out of PGN and that actually means that she may be "HOMe" for Christmas. They may get to go to Guatamala and pick her up the first part of December and that is pretty darn exciting.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAXWELL

This picture was taken when you were much younger

Here is the state the Family Room is in right now. We had the paneling and 2/3 of the beams taken down off the (yes, that's right off the ceiling) and now we are working on the electrical. There are 15 can lights installed now and plugs and switches are coming. Then the inspection, all before Thanksgiving and drywall, paint and flooring before Christmas! We are pretty excited to be this close to "Finished" that dreamy word that has alluded us for about 3 years. Then we need to turn our attention to the details in almost every room that was left to do when we moved on to bigger jobs. Like trim, paint doors, carpeting, not small things but in the big picture..... not a big deal, but still plenty to do...

New Bloggers

Hi Laura! thanks for starting a blog too. You and I had the idea the about the same day and Rachel was a bit ahead of us. Stephanie on the other hand has been doing this since March!! and Charlotte is an old hand at this stuff.
I really enjoy reading what you all are doing! This is a fun way to share the days activities or special times. I'm so excited about it.
Yesterday Rowena and I drove Jon and Rosey to Reno for medical tests and while there bought the food for Thanksgiving. Rach, I don't know who is cooking the turkey but Costco has fresh ones for .89 cents a lb. It is a dilima what to do a week and a half ahead with a "fresh" one. Rowena was going to freeze it for a few days and then begin thawing it. I wonder what Costco was going to do with them for so long. Maybe their refrigerators are colder.... no idea. So do you want any "traditional" Thanksgiving recipes?? We found and bought a 27 lb. bird. Rowena has a roaster pan that she said I could use since mine got used for construction. It has held thinset, concrete, grout, miriad of wonderful stuff but is no longer good for cooking.
I will include everyones blog address here, and soon figure out how Charlotte put all the blog addresses on the side of hers. Guess you are the first of all of us to start a blog. Thanks Charlotte you are a trend setter!
Stephanie http://onelifelessordinary.blogspot.com
Rachel http://rachelamandahill.blogspot.com/
Laura http://thepinksquirrel.blogspot.com/

First Day

This is the first day of our blog. LaVar thought it was so neat he too wanted to be a part of Blogging land. So from time to time maybe he will add a post or two. Today we were up early. It is a holiday for LaVar, and we do appreciate all those who served in the military and all they have and do sacrifice for the freedoms we enjoy each minute of every day, so he will put in electrical in our family room. I am going to Reno to drive a friend Jon Bodie, his wife Rosey and Rowena, to do some medical testing. If he is feeling good we may stop by to get food for Thanksgiving. Its not too early to think about that.

Just enjoying the journey

Because you all were making blogs and we were enjoying them so much, I thought maybe we could do one too! I have made a few mistakes that someday when I am not so tired we can try and fix but for now this will have to do.