CHRISTMAS 2009

We had a Ukrainian Christmas Eve dinner this year. Sarah was a big help in putting it all together. Here she is making the golubtsi which is like cabbage rolls.

Can you tell by the looks on these faces that we all enjoyed it? We even got Nick Lasker to join us.

With Sarah's help in translating this recipe for myedovik, I was able to make this dessert by myself.

Then we all exchanged gifts. This is a hat that Diane got from Sarah.

And what is Christmas without Bruce and his guitar to accompany us in some carols?

Thanks to Candace and Jared, we had our traditional cinnamon rolls for breakfast on Christmas morning.

Later in the day we visited Bruce's mother in Orem. We had a good day!

When we got our Raidon that Sunday, Andy had to be gone trucking. So this is a sad boy talking to his daddy on the phone.

We had fun anyway and got a little story time in before he had to go back home. Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and will have a good New Years coming soon!

GETTING READY FOR CHRISTMAS

My office is ready. We just had our Christmas potluck luncheon and ate way too much! This is Allie, hygenist, Cheryl, assistant, and me, office manager.

Sue, Diane, and Sharon are the receptionists downstairs who put the party together. Thanks for everything you do!

Since we had a Thanksgiving dinner after Diane and Dallon got married, we decided to have a waffles brunch on Thanksgiving Day. Bruce cooked the eggs and bacon (yummy from Jared and Candace)..........

and the girls made the waffles. It was all too delicious!

The other guys hung out until the food was ready. It's great to have Rick come for the holidays.

We still enjoy having Raidon on Sundays and now we found out we get to have him on Christmas Day too! Yay!

We're almost ready for Christmas at our house. Bruce showed what a "Scrouge" he's not by putting up our lights.

But I always get the job inside. It's fun anyway. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Diane and Dallon's Wedding

I have always thought it would be nice if we could have our children's wedding reception in our back yard, but I never thought the wedding would be there. But that was where it ended up for Diane and Dallon.

It was a cold day and had just snowed the day before, but the sky was clear and the sun came out. The minister was a friend of Diane's and was his first ceremony.

This was the entire congregation, but they chose to keep it immediate family.

After the ceremony outside, we came inside and had an early Thanksgiving dinner. We set up an extra table to accomodate the group. Dallon has a nice family. His parents and one sister. Our good friend and Candace's sister, Brandy Johnson came and took the pictures which turned out very good. See her blog at www.sweethoneyphoto.com.