Making music together

Oh how I love these two and the music they make!

Family pictures take 2

I wasn't super happy with the way my family pictures turned out last month.  The remote trigger I used didn't get the focus very good so we were all blurry looking in anything bigger than a web picture so today I convinced my family to get dressed up again and Mom to take the pictures for us.  i think they came out great, and I have already sent out the pictures to be printed to hang on my wall.

Thanksgiving!

This year we ate at home for Thanksgiving.  This is unusual for us!  Mom cooked a fabulous dinner, stuffing, dressing, cranberry jello, chicken, turkey, ham, potatoes, veggies and rolls.  I provided the pie.  Pumpkin, apple, cherry and pecan.  We had  visitors for dinner too, Uncle Mark, the Sister Missionaries, and mom's friends Dave and Betty so it was a full house.  I am so thankful for wonderful parents who live so close to us!

Nashville

While Mom and I were at our retreat, Dad took Jon and the kids to Nashville for some fun.  They took the kids out of school on friday and drove up to Nashville, they went to Sushi Train for lunch and lucked out with an awesome lunch special.  All you can eat sushi for $9.  They ate a TON of sushi then headed over to the Gaylord hotel to see the "ICE" show.  It is a huge arena where everything is made of ice.  It is kept at just 9 degrees so they had coats for them to stay warm.  The kids all loved the slide.  After Ice they walked around the mall, then went to the Hotel where they went swimming.  On Saturday, they swam in the morning again, and then Dad took everyone to the Zoo. They arrived home around 5:30 and had pizza and watched a movie before heading home for Bed.  I think they ended up having a good weekend, according to Jon, the kids were very well behaved.

Grand Oaks Scrapbooking retreat!

This weekend Mom took me with her to a fabulous scrap booking retreat.  We arrived on Thursday at 2pm and we were the first ones there.  That meant that we got to pick which table we wanted and get all settled in before the rest of the people arrived.  The retreat lasted from thursday at 2pm untill Sunday at 2 pm.  They provided all our meals, and a nice place to work.  Mom and I got so many projects done!!  Mom sewed 1 dress and 3 tunics, we made 4 red t-shirts for our harry potter trip, front and back, 4 ravenclaw shirts front and back, a cruise t-shirt a onsie for James and an extra ravenclaw shirt.  I caught up on my blog and got all of October and part of November done, and I worked on my "I love you" scraboook.  Mom also did her cruise scrapbook and half of her tennesee vacation scrapbook.  I also made some Angry birds figures for Wesley and we took a break on Saturday and went to see Mockingjay in the theater.  It was an extremely productive weekend, and so fun!!  Our friend Jutta also joined us at the retreat and she worked on her scrapbook as well.  It was awesome to have a few days with just grownups and getting to work uninterrupted.  Unfortunately both mom and I were sick, but we managed to have a good time anyway, even if I did pull a muscle coughing!