Santa And His Elf

Christmas Elves

Kaylie was being silly when we were decorating our Christmas tree.

She decided to use our decorations for this fashionable outfit.
Notice the tree skirt, garland necklace and lightbulb earrings.
This outfit is complete with the santa hat and Kaylie's boots.

Morgan was watching all of this with interest.
When we asked her if she wanted to try this
outfit on, she quickly said yes!

The funniest part was when we wanted to take her picture.
She clasped her hands together and said "I like boys".

Jackson wanted his turn also, so here he is wearing the skirt as a cape. What cute little Elves!

Kaylie wanted to make sure Max didn't feel left out.

Temple Square

We love visiting Temple Square.

It is especially beautiful with all the Christmas lights.

Here we are with some of the lights in the background.

We love this view of the Temple and the sunset.

Winter Wonderland!

We woke up to snow Saturday morning.
Mick and Kaylie shoveled a couple of inches of snow.

We met Cameron and Brianna at the Salt Lake Temple.

After we did baptisms we walked around Temple Square.
The snow covered trees were beautiful.

Feliz Navidad!

We spent some time in the Church History Museum looking at the
Nativity Sets from other countries. This tree had a Mexican Theme.


Carly, Kaylie and Brianna become shepherds and wisemen as part of the Nativity Scene.

A few more November happenings.

Brittany and Steven at the Utah Flashs' Basketball Game.

Mick was offered 3 tickets to the Utah Flash on Tuesday. Brittany and Steven were more than happy to use the other tickets. They all had a great time. Dad came home with a lot of t-shirts that were handed out at the game. That made the girls at home happy. I'm not sure which Brittany and Steven enjoyed more, the game or watching dad trying to get all the freebies!!

Uncle Cameron and Jackson
"Swing More, Swing More" Jackson said.

Happy Birthday Cameron!!

Cameron celebrated his birthday on November 24th.
He was able to go to the BYU game and see the Cougars win.
Later at the house we had chili, scones and cake.

Thanksgiving Day 2007

Thankgiving is the holiday of peace,
the celebration of work and the simple life...
a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry
of the turn of the seasons,
the beauty of seedtime and harvest,
the ripe product of the year--and the deep,
deep connection of all these things with God.

Ray Stannard Baker

Some things I love about Thanksgiving : The traditions. I always remember having a wonderful dinner that my mom had made. Turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, rolls, yams and cranberries and my grandma Anderson's Thanksgiving salad. We had this for every Thanksgiving that I can remember. I have carried on this tradition and our Thanksgiving dinner is not complete without it. I love my mom's pumpkin chiffon pie, it tasted especially good this year. I love the coming together of different generations and giving thanks for living in America and the blessings we enjoy because of it. Tradition that my dad offers the blessing on the food. I love his humble prayer of gratitude.

I feel very Thankful for many things this year.

--I had most of my family here to share the day with us.
-- I Have an amazing husband who treats me like a queen.
--I have been blessed with great children and grandchildren.
--I have been blessed with wonderful parents, brother and sisters.
--I enjoy good health.
--I am thankful for a roof over my head and food on my table.
--Most of all I am thankful for the gospel and the eternal nature of our family.

We couldn't fit everyone around one table so

we had a table for the 1st and 2nd generation, a table for the 3rd generation and a little table for the 4th generation.

The "Men Den" as Debbie called it. Lots of football before and after our dinner. Mick and Cameron played in the annual turkey bowl at a park close to our home. This is one of Mick's favorite Thanksgiving traditions. This was his 26th annual turkey bowl. They had so many guys show up that they formed 2 teams. Mick and Cameron had a great time. Mick said that Cameron was unstopable.