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Monday, November 28, 2011

tree lovers...

For Family Home Evening tonight,
we watched the kids as they put all their ornaments on the
"kids tree".

as parents...
its fun to see 20 years of little ornaments and school memories

as kids...
they are proud to display there own treasures of memories.

4 kids plus 20 years = a tree chuck full o' love!



(and of course, even Sadie has her own little ornament!)

The Giving of Thanks....

All of my family was able to come together for Thanksgiving this year,
(except Steve, Kurt, Candice, Caitlyn, Kyle and Tanner)
even still, it was nothing short of a miracle.
Having all those people together gets a little crazy sometimes...

but the food was good.
oh, the annual making of the "chop suey"

it was amazing to see the twins again....
no one could tell them apart,
and there mother dressed them the same just to mess with us!
they've grown just a tad bit in the last 3 years huh,
from 4 lbs to over 25....


I made "turkey bread baskets" they turned out pretty cute.
Thanksgiving 2011

thanks Kristen for all the pictures!

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Happy 19th Birthday!!!

We love YOU and miss YOU and we will see YOU soon!!!


Saturday, November 19, 2011

Cardall Cousins...


One thing that I've loved about moving back to Utah is family!

these past 2 weeks I've been able to get together with cousins again,
we've lunched at Cafe' Rio,
we did the Twilight movie thing last Thursday night....
and
today we celebrated the soon-to-be-arrival of Jack!


and they are just as funny as they are cute!
(thanks Chrissy for the picture)

I've loved being able to reconnect with family and friends again.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

it's been a month...

Oh, so much to document!!!
I finally found my camera cord, but for some reason it's not down loading my pictures,
and who can have a post without pictures!?!

but, I will get my pictures up and somehow downloaded....
I have a lot of good ones,
like, Halloween just for starters,
this year was one.of.thee best!!!

we've done a few fun things lately...
like winning the Chili Cookoff last Saturday night in our ward,
have I mentioned we have the best neighborhood and ward? hummm.

Caitlyn had her last Young Women In Excellence night,
it was nice as they had all the girls display things about themselves,
it was fun getting to know the girls and leaders just a little bit better and we had fun putting Caitlyn's display together.
she's an amazing girl, my Caitlyn and a great cookie baker!
(inside joke)

Just getting ready for Thanksgiving and feeling very blest to be able to see family and loved one again, that we only get a chance to see every blue moon!!!
so thankful to my dad who made it all possible.
although,
Candice is still in Texas for this holiday and so it's bittersweet,
but, we have a little surprise in store for her....

I love the holidays and I love traditions....
I'm going to be making "chop suey" candy which is a tradition that we can't live without,
started by my dear grandma Norma B.
in years past, I usually made one big batch,
but this year, I think I'll be up to my eyeballs in chop suey cuz so many of us will be together again,
without saying any names, I've been approached with making a whole batch for one particular person who said he'll even pay me for materials and time!
and that he would just eat chop suey instead of Thanksgiving dinner!!! ha!


bring on the chop suey!!!