Fun Weekend

Our trip to see the lights at Temple Square got snowed out so instead we just had pizza at our place. Between our friends Spencer & Melinda, Jon & Jenae, our family and Tysen and chris there were 16 kids, and only 4 of them are boys!

Office Christmas Party

Our office Christmas party was an over night at the Zermatt resort in Midway this year. Who doesn't like games, swimming and Guitar Hero all night? It was lots of fun, Rick and DR. Crawford have the best staff, we love them!

Happy Thanksgiving

Our family has lots to be grateful for this year! mostly good family and friends, we love them all and enjoy spending as much time with them as we can!

Happy November birthdays to Rick, Mike, Corbin, and Cutie Pie Adrie! (3 of the 4 share Nov.22 as their special day)

I never gave a birthday shout out to my hubby Rick, I love him to death, and I'm reminded every day just how lucky I am to have him! Rick asked Ellie how old she thought he was , she answered 64. Nice guess, but not for another few years!

This wasn't a contest but lets be honest ours rocks!

Happy Halloween

Dinner in a Pumpkin started out to be this fun festive idea, I got my recipe straight out of one of my favorite books, the 2004 UOP cookbook, I think the idea is fun however 3 ideas if you ever try it out, first pre cook your hamburger or chicken, second don't double the recipe, third try it out before you have a house full of people to feed!

We ended up having to take the food out of the pumpkin and cook it on the stove

Gardner Village

Milo

Corbin and Lindey went to Disneyland for the week so we've been watching Milo. The kids love dogs, I've never been much of a fan, so I thought this would be a good test to see how they liked having a dog around. All the kids were big helpers, Madi got up with him every morning after rick took him out. However because I have a slight language problem it might not be a god idea if we get a dog yet, we're in a new neighborhood and we want our neighbors to like us!

Take one guess who he's hiding from? Her name starts and ends with an E

Pumpkin Patch

I don't know what to say other then we went to the pumpkin patch today with Tysen and the gang, It was a great day for pumpkin picking!

Disneyland

Yes we went to Disneyland again! The kids don't know but we aren't going to renew our season passes again. looks like we'll be keeping our eyes open for a new kind of family vacation. We've had fun going so often, but I'm willing to bet it won't be as long as we think before we go back.

We flew down early Sunday morning, not planing on going to the park, so we went to the beach, It was cold but the kids had a ball, one thing I found funny was that Andrew won't go far from the steps at my mom and Dad's pool but he had no problem going out in the ocean where the waves were so big he couldn't stay on his feet. As you can imaging this gave my a slight heart attack!

Aunt Kathlee said she couldn't come with us this year, so Rick and I thought it would be fun to surprise her and the whole family and get her a ticket to come. The plan was that she was going to drop us off at the airport but she would have her bag and just stay, it would be so fun, and such a good surprise. Well little by little someone who we won't mention (Grandpa Courtney) ended up spilling the beans so by the time we got to the airport the only ones who didn't know were the kids. They were excited and it ended up being a fun surprise, we were so glad she came!

The new Buzz ride was lots of fun, one of our favorites now!

This was a very exciting trip for Andrew, he is now over 40 inches, that means he can now go on most rides!

Pin Trading, another Leishman family fav.