Gingerbread display Day

On November 25th we met up with the Berry's for a trip to the Gingerbread display at the Mormon Pioneer Trail Center. The kids love to get their 'can you find this item' game sheet and locate all the goodies on the list! Lucky Trevor was there to help Grant find the guitar!
It never fails...we always seem to run into friends from near and far. This year we bumped into the Hinckleys! Fun to catch up with them, both Valerie and I have know the Hinckley girls since they were little.
Thanks for the traditionally fun day Berry family!

Thanksgiving at the Gramma Sues

After our visit to Lincoln we traditionally spend Thanksgiving Eve at Gramma Sues! She makes amazing food and the kids love seeing their cousins too.
We have such a huge year span between the oldest cousin, Christina (21) to little Maya (2) but the kids just love to be and play together.
Chrisi and Trevor are GREAT examples to their cousins! I'm proud of the young adults they have become and know they will continue to be positive influences to all their little cousins!
Thanks Gramma Sue for feeding us every year...we love you!

Happy Thanksgiving at the Berrys

We were SO blessed and thankful this year to be able to spend Thanksgiving together with Berry family again! Not since my parents moved to St. George Utah have we traveled to Lincoln to be together for any holiday

This Thanksgiving was very special because my son Trevor "surprised" me by driving home from Idaho, instead of us traveling to Utah to meet him and spend Thanksgiving at my sister Mindy's home. Trevor drove straight through from Rexburg Idaho to Omaha Nebraska in 16 hours! I was on pins and needles waiting for Trevor to get home! I was SO happy to see him!

I was also so happy that Valerie agreed to feed us ALL! Lindsay and her family arrived and we ate GREAT food for the holiday!

We took family Christmas photos! Because I still had my tri-pod in my car from our family photo shoot, so imagine how excited my teens were to smile again! I LOVE the photo of us ALL!

Loved seeing the family photos this Christmas, when their cards arrived in my mailbox!

Family Photo Day

My family HATES having their pictures taken! Every year is a huge family fight! This year I told my kids,
"All I want for Christmas is a family photo"!
I bought matching outfits, which in-and-of itself, sent my teenagers over the edge. I spent two days shopping for our brown and green ensembles!
I booked a photo shoot at Portrait Innovations at 4:30pm but told my family it started at 3pm.
We piled in the car with our little niece Kaylee (whose turn it was to spend the night at Aunt Jill's house) and I directed Scott to Lanaha's nursery where a park across the street was the PERFECT location for some outdoor photos!
It was cold and windy on November 24th...but I MADE everybody get out of the warm car and pose like a HAPPY DANG FAMILY!
I set up the tri-pod and told Kaylee to press the silver button, over and over again!

Note: when I went to pick up these photo's at Walmart, they had called and asked for a photographer copyright signature allowing Walmart to print these "professional" photos (I love my Nikon camera).
I said I would have to get a hold of the little girl in pink to see if she would ok the printing!