Santa arrived early to our ward party so he helped out!  What a guy.

The wreath on the table goes in the middle of the socks, and lights up

getting our table decorations ready

Brittany and I made the poster and the books for people to sign

That happens to be our bishop in the plaid shirt.  His son Josh and the little girl on his left side is his sweet girl Caroline.  She is my buddy.  We had live music for about 1/2 hour then I put a CD in.

the kids loved visiting with Santa and then took home a treat.  We fixed the back ground so it would be good picture taking.  One young boy saw that Santa was here and ran and got paper and wrote out a list!!!  This was serious!

Sugar cookies to decorate is a must have to keep kids busy

a coloring table was great too

our front porch, I kept it simple!

Our outside lights...we have real deer many days.  The lights look great in the dark woods.

Grandma likes to have lights all over for Christmas

Santa lights up too

I love this

more lights

our tree and some of the fireplace mantel

This is the cabinet we keep the pretty ponies in

This is our last and only Zucchini from our garden, the animals enjoyed the rest

 This is our little monkey ,of a son-in-law.  He was helping to get the speakers working for conference!

                                         This is Dawson figuring out where the ball went????

                 Who couldn't love this face.  We love that they come for short visits, when possible

                   Just Grandpa and Dawson soaking in the rays, it's a big thrill when a boat comes by...

         This was Dad's(Grandpa's) project during conference!  he sorted his bucket of screws  and                stuff.   He put them in the baby food plastic containers.  It looks great and it took 2 sessions.

           Look closely and see that the bees took over the hummingbird feeders.  they were swarming!!!!

                            It's hard to see but by the end of the day it was covered with bees

                                        I love my letters from my Grand kids, this is from Reagan

 We are decked out for Halloween and a lot stays up for Thanksgiving too.  We just add pilgrims and turkeys to the mix.  I take pictures so i know where the stuff goes next year! 

More pics from the family reunion.  We had fun at the Jockey Lot!  It's a giant flee market

 Brittany and Aaron checking out the goods.  It was a fun day.

 We all lined up for a family picture...there is a lot of us!

 This picture is more like us!  It was a very hot day so it was short and sweet day at the park.

 Nathan took individual pictures of each family.  This is Heather, Jerrel, Reaganand Porter and Hudson.

 Martin and Penny...Callie, Cayden, Brandon, Chase

 All our Grand Kids, we had fun with them

 Travis, Loralee, Elise, Sierra, Jordon,and Troy

 Aaron, Brittany and Dawson.

 Nathan took individual of everone.  He missed Loralee and Hudson,oops  This is Martin

                                                                         Jordon

                                                                             Elise

                                                                          Sierra

                                                                         Travis

                                                                       Troy

                                                                      Chase

                                                                       Brandon

                                                                       Porter

                                                                       Heather

                                                                  Cayden

                                                                      ????

                                                                        Brittany

                                                                   My sweet husband

                                                                         Lisa

                                                                      Reagan

                                                                       Raina

                                                                        Darin

                                                                     Callie

                                                                    Nate

                                                                         Dawson

                                                                    Penny

                                                Elise and Heather taking pictures together

                                                Getting ready to roast marshmallows

                                                   Cayden,   Elise and Sierra

                                                              Travis's girls

                                                            Jordan waiting and waiting

                                            making bubbles with a bottle and a sock

                                                 Finally we can cook the marshmellows

                                                                Yum  Yum

                                                     I have had to many, here Dad.

                                                                      Our Lake

                                                              Hudson, there you are

                                                                        Cayden

                                                                 Chase

                                                                          Callie

                                                         preparing for a day at the lake

                                              Raina..I want to go to the lake

                                                             Jerrel and Dad

                                   Heather had a baby strapped to her, but didn't miss out on the fun

                                                           Martin and the kayak

                                                         More lake pictures

                                     The sea doos were fun but needed a lot of attention!

                                                                          Porter

                                                 Who's pushing who in the water

                                          This is Case after being stranded in the sea doo with his dad

                                                                         Porter

                                    Jerrel to the rescue, Martin is so sunburned

                                                  Porter and Heather

                                                              Sunburn proof

                                                      Reagan

                                                       Martin and Penny and family

                                                    Brittany enjoying herself

                                                        Making family flags

                                                    She loves this picture   

                                              Heather make an e-turtle family flag with turtles on it

                                                                Nathan's flag

                                                          This is serious

                                                               Callie wants to help

                                               Making cupcakes for the gang

                                             checking on his phone who needs him

                                                                 again

                                                Martins ?? birthday celebration

                                      Everyone enjoyed the view from the covered porch of the storm

                      Brandon was baptized by Martin while they were here.  He is such a sweet boy.
                                          It was s fun day to have everyone there for his special day.

                                                  Thor God of Thunder....aka Dawson

                                                              More Lake pictures

                                                                       Dawson

                                                           Hudson and Porter

                                                     Reagan on the slip and slide

                                   We made a big to do when Gary, Lynette, Sherryl and Ron arrived

                                            17 frogs in one hour of catching outside our front door

                                                    Games with the grand kids

                                                         Happy just to have a sucker

                                                  He is so sweet, my Troy Boy

                                                                          Porter

                                                      Family   "talent" night

                              Nathan showing us how to take better pictures, Reagan was his subject

                                                      Darin on messaging a baby

                                                       Travis singing

                                                                       Hudson

 

Dancing

                                                       Having fun with all

                                                   Reagan quoted the 11 Article of Faith

                                                   A lion Hunt

                                         We were climbing trees, running over bridges and so on

                                                      Dancing to a favorite song

                                                  The babies love it and Grandma gets scared!

                                                   Balloon fun in the living room

                                             Beautiful pictures of the lake, from Wayne's boat

                                                      Back to family games

                                                     oops some repeat pictures, oh well