Thanksgiving Week in Arizona

We headed out to Scottsdale with my family and Judy. We spent Thanksgiving at my Aunt Mary's house and had some very yummy food. Thanksgiving night my mom, Nicole and Aunt Mary went out at midnight to Old Navy and did some great shopping with phenomenal deals. Then we went back home. The next morning we hit a few more stores for some good Black Friday deals.

Brayton, Robert and I

The Curet's

Brayton and I

Brayton, me and Judy

The Peterson's

The Cousins

Nana and Grandpa

Nicole and Bob

Our very yummy turkey!

Dinner Time!

Later on Friday night we all got together at this great restaurant Monty's in Tempe for my nana's 80th birthday party. The grandkids and the 3 daughters all did some research on the year when nana was our age. So, I research 1959...it was pretty interesting. We then shared all that we had learned at the table. After that we all went back to nana's and hung out.

The cousins with the grandparents.

The 3 daughters with their parents.

Nana and Grandpa at the party.

Blowing out the candles! Happy 80th Birthday!

5K run for Childhood Cancer

The Sunday before Thanksgiving Brayton and Robert ran in a 5K run in Redlands sponsored by the Redlands Fire Dept. The run was named Lighting the Way to help raise money to find cures for childhood cancer. It was a cold and rainy morning. But, they still ran it and completed it. Frosty got to run also. He loved it! :-) Here are some pictures from the morning.

Waiting for the run to start on the U of R steps

The runners!

Brayton and Frosty coming to the finish line.

Robert making his way to the finish line.

After the race, they all get medals, even Frosty!

Sabrina and Bills Wedding 11/4/10

We went to a beautiful wedding at the Ponte Winery in Temecula for Sabrina and Bill. The wedding was amazing. Sabrina looked gorgeous. It was a true Italian wedding, the best kind. :-)

Sabrina being walked down the aisle by her brother.

The Family!

Brayton and I at the wedding.

The Colton Crew!

Sabrina and Bill, the happy couple!

Lately...

Life's been a bit crazy lately. I started my clinicals for one of my nurse practitioner classes and I've been super busy. Today I went with my mom to holiday idea party with the women's group from my church. We had fun and got some great ideas. We were also able to make a couple of different crafts. Afterwards, we went shopping at Kohls, I got some Christmas gifts and some new shirts for the wedding tomorrow. Then we came back to my house and sat and watched Sex in the City 2. It was a fun day!

Halloween Night

This year we did Halloween at our house, in our neighborhood. We started with a home cooked meal of meatloaf, rolls, and mashed potatoes (I cooked). We sat outside in our driveway, ate dinner and gave candy out to all the Trick or Treaters. Then we took a little walk around our block to check out how the other homes were decorated. First, my mom and I decorated Halloween pumpkin cookies. They came very cute.

Brayton and Frosty waiting for the Trick or Treaters with the candy basket.

Rob in his costume.

Charles is the wolf as usual.

Here we are decorating our pumpkin cookies.

Mom decorating hers.

The final product, they came very cute!

Halloween Party

My friends Faye and Billy had a Halloween Party at their house last night. They seriously went all out. There was food and decorations everywhere in their house. It was a lot of fun. I even won the sexiest costume award at the end of the night.

Here was some of the food set up on a coffin with a head made from ham.

Me and Veronica (Ariel)

The Whitmyer's

Brayton and I. The pilot and the mile high stuardist.

How cute!

Faye, Billy, and Brayton

Me coming down the catwalk. This is where I won sexiest costume.

Pumpkin Patch Time

We made our annual trip to the pumpkin patch in Mentone. This time we went with Mary, Steve, Gina, and of course Abby (Frosty's sister). We had fun playing around in the patch. We actually didn't get a pumpkin this year. I couldn't find any that I really liked.

Brayton and I in the field!

Mary, Gina, and Abby

Us and the scarecrow and a pumpkin I used for the picture

The Whitmyer's

Kids being kids!!!