Thanksgiving weekend in Utah

We had a great Thanksgiving Holiday with Chad's family in West Valley, Utah! We ate a ton and played several games. We also braved the "Black Friday" shopping and were very successful. Chad's brother, Karl, slept the entire night at R.C. Willey and Chad and his nephews, Brendon and Nate, camped out in Wal Mart. I did happen to get a few hours of sleep, but not many! It was fun!!

Of course Katelynn and Logan had a great time with their cousins Makayla and Ethan. They played lots of games!!

We took the kids to a place with several blow up bouncers. It was fun to watch them run around and it was a great way to get rid of some of their pent up energy! Here's Logan in the dragon's mouth.

Katelynn enjoyed the princess bouncer (of course) and is seen here riding the dragon. The kids started to jump on the dragon while someone else was sitting on it and it would launch them off. It was pretty funny!

Thanks everyone for an enjoyable time. We love and miss you all.

Chad's Trip to Mazatlan, Mexico

Chad just returned home from his 4th annual MDM trip to Mazatlan, Mexico. Chad is a salesman for MDM Supply, a wholesale plumbing supply company here in Helena. The salesmen and several of their clients are treated to a marlin fishing trip by MDM every year. (Too bad the wives aren't invited!!!) The fishing was slow this year but Chad's boat did manage to catch a couple of nice durado. (Chad is on the bottom right)

Here's Chad posing with some clients in a Mexican taxi cab. Aren't they funny looking? The cab, that is!

Here's a view of the bay from the resort they stayed at. No fair that I was home freezing in 50 degree weather!

Halloween 2009

We had a great Halloween here in Montana. The weather was above average (50's) and so it made for a nice trick-or-treating night. Katelynn dressed up as Cinderella and Logan was a blue and green dragon. We hit the ward trunk-or-treat and then went up a few streets for some extra fun.

Earlier that day we carved pumpkins as a family. We grew some massive pumpkins in our garden this year and it was so much fun to carve them. Katelynn did her own for the first time! Chad helped Logan and Niko and Brae (Niko's friend) free-handed their cute jack-o-lanterns! They created an adorable pac-man one that turned out awesome!

I was in charge of making pumpkin seeds (YUM!) and Kelsey was at work unfortunately. So I am including a picture of her "clowning around" a couple of weeks ago! :)