Our January Trip To Washington

We want to thank Spencer and Jane for making us so welcome and comfortable at their home early this month. It was a joy to see them and our grandson, Wyatt, who is now 18 months old.

Wyatt loves his Grandpa Howard. One rainy day we took a trip to the zoo where Wyatt enjoyed seeing the animals.

Lee's birthday was January 10th and we enjoyed a lasagna dinner by Karyn. Happy Birthday to Lee!!! The girl with dark hair is Veronica from Ukraine who is an exchange student living with them until school is out this summer. Thank you Lee and Karyn for a nice dinner and visit.

Wally and Roz are Spencer and Jane's cats. Wyatt likes playing with them and they are going to help chase birds and rodents away from the garden this year. It was so funny watching them play with yarn!

But the most fun was just watching Wyatt play.

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.

Bruce is 59!!!

Don't you just want to kiss this little face?! Happy belated birthday, Bruce. And Karyn's was yesterday, the 27th. Life just keeps moving along, doesn't it?

Our Baby is Married!

No, not a recent picture, but we're awaiting the cd of pictures from our photographer. Diane and Dallon's wedding turned out very nice. We were in the back yard for the ceremony... cold but pretty, then indoors for an early Thanksgiving dinner.

Other than these couple of shots, I was too busy that day to do anything but cook and get things ready. Emily was my little helper with the sweet potato pie. She did a great job with the marshmallows. Lee's family made the trip from Shelton for Diane's wedding.

Aunt Sarah shared some Barbie gummies with Emily. Thanks to everyone who helped in any way.

"Falling in Love"

This was the theme of Diane's bridal shower. Everyone took home hot chocolate packages with the date of the wedding on it.

We had way too much food but it was way yummy! The money tree grew a nice sum of envelopes as the night went on. Diane is very thankful to all.

What are they looking at and why are they holding toilet paper? They are awaiting their turn to add to Diane's TP wedding gown.

Here is Annie M. adding a lovely sleeve. Each had one minute to do their best.

Doesn't the bride look charming?! And we saved so much money! Thanks to all for the fun time.