FiNaLlY sOmE tHaNkSgIvInG pIcS

Our schools started a "modified traditional" schedule a few years ago which means we get a week off at Thanksgiving, 3 weeks off at Christmas and 2 weeks off at spring break. So ever since we have been able to have 2 Thanksgivings, one in Utah with my family and one in Las Vegas with Brad's family. We go to Utah first and spend a few days and have our Thanksgiving dinner on the Sunday before Thanksgiving. Here are a few of the pictures that we took.

Here are a few random pics... just hanging out in grandma's basement...

Some fun on the segways...

Just messin' around...

The cousins...

oh, bubba... yep, some messin' around AGAIN!

AND again...

Dessert! yum!

back to the basement... messin' around some MORE!

sittin' with grandma!

Decorating grandma's tree!

We babysat Lane a couple of times while we were there...

Now, in Vegas... we have such a big crew on this side of the family that we always have our Thanksgiving dinner at the church.... notice who was 1st in line for food! Yep, Bradly boy! AND, then the kids! HAHA

AND, you might notice... I guess it just cant be Thanksgiving without the big gulps, HAHA!

After we are done eating and chatting for a bit, we put away the tables and bring in the couches...

There is always a ton of sports in the gym. I missed getting pics of basketball, indoor soccer, and football... not sure what I was doing... eating still??? chatting??? checking the ads for black Friday??? Anyway, here are some pics of volleyball...

Hugs and saying good bye... to my girls...

oh, AND Dallin! Love you, Dal Pal!

I should say I am so very grateful for my family and for the gospel and for the knowledge that families are for.ever!!!

Great Talks!

As I sit here preparing my lesson for tomorrow night I thought I should share with you a great web site with wonderful talks/discussions. It is listed on my side bar under favorite web sites, it is "Book of Mormon Talks". When you get to this website just scroll down to Book of Mormon Episodes, then click on which chapters you would like to study. Then on the right hand side, click on "Listen to this Episode". It is so good to listen to, they are about 30 min each and oh so worth the time!! I love to take notes in my scriptures as they discuss... There are other wonderful talks and things on this web site too! ENJOY!

Isn't this just the cutest little picture ever?! (NO, I do not know her... wish I did!)

Today is SHAILA'S BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HaPpY BiRtHDaY ShAILa!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today is the day.....just a mere XX number of years ago (yes -I know exactly how many years ago... but value my life.. so I wont post it-But hey, I am always up for a BRIBE to leak out certain information) A little girl was born to James and Shari Measles in Plano Texas! (I think it was Plano, it was in Texas) She was the joy of her parents life (sorry Dirk...just keeping it real-I am sure when Shaila sees this ..she will edit it anyway) Shaila continues to bring much joy to SO many......She is a dear friend to sooooo many! Always serving, always teaching, always going about emulating the Savior!

Join with me in Wishing Shaila HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

We are all blessed to have you in our lives!

WE LOVE YOU!

Remembering our Veterans!

Just remembering our Veterans today! Here is a pic of my father when he served in the navy!


They got his headstone up....


And, the Navy got his marker down this week... just in time for Veterans Day!

Thank you to all those who serve/served our country!!!

I am proud to be an American! THANK YOU for protecting us!

RaNdOm StUfF

I have to say… work is totally cramping my style! I used to have sooooooooooooooooo much more time! So, this post is going to be totally random but I HAVE to catch up in this journal of mine!

Chad has had his stitches for over two weeks so I think I will take them out today! Tomorrow is his 14th Birthday!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY Sweet CHAD!!! I can’t believe you are going to be 14! That means that now you can go to all the church dances! Wow… Crazy! He is finally growing. When Brad took him to get stitches the Dr. did an X-ray and the Dr. pointed out all the “tares” in his bones to Brad and told him that he is really going thru a growth spurt! He is 5'4" at the moment, looking me square in the eye. His favorite meal is ribs, so.... tomorrow night, ribs it is!

My friend went up to Utah for the BYU Homecoming game and I bummed a ride up with her. It was nice to go up and see my mom and some of my older kids. Derek and Brittany came down from Rexburg too! The game wasn't so good... but we still had a blast! I forgot my camera on the trip! :( But here is a pic from the game that Devin took of us girls... it is the only pic we took at the game! I love these girls, we are so blessed to have them in our family!!!

And, here are a few pics that Brittany took in my mom's front room... as Britt says, the boys always make time to bond, aka hurt each other lovingly! HAHAHA, she is SO right!

Cute Britt with Derek...

Here is a pic of Brad and Chad cleaning the spider webs... i debated on leaving them since it was SO close to Halloween! Thank you, Chadman!

Halloween!

A family in our ward had a great Halloween party! This is Chad's scout leader that drove the tractor and took us all on a hay ride!

Chad and some friends sitting on the hay, ready to go!

Chad and his scout leader. He is Johnny Depp from the new movie coming out March 5, 2010, Alice in Wonderland.

Okay, all caught up.... gotta go work on my lesson for tomorrow night...

OUCH!

Chad is a very quiet boy but he is very active. He loves to run and jump and actually quite good at it. Blake is the one that is always doing back handsprings and flips on his snowboard, he and Devin did quite well at pole vaulting in high school, in fact, Devin held the school record for about 6 or 7 years. I tell you that because as high and as much as THEY jumped, Chad jumps more. Chad can run and jump upon the stage at the church without using his hands, he has done this for a couple of years now. Blake was shocked to see him do that, he told his dad, "I don't think I could do that until I was in high school." A few years ago Blake taught Chad how to do the Fosbury-flop, he does it quite well. I am sure in HS he will be able to do the high jump better than Blake. (Sorry, Blake, but YOU taught him!)

Yesterday Chad was at a merit badge fair earning his last merit badge before doing his Eagle Project. After he was all finished he was outside running and jumping with his friends. He misjudged a brick wall and did this....


I was at work when I got a text from Brad telling me that he was with Chad at the urgent care. The Dr. was concerned about his bone and his tendon. He cut it DEEP, yep, the Dr. showed Brad the bone and the tendon. He had Chad flex his foot up and down and then from side to side to check the tendon. Brad said the tendon looked like a ribbon and you could see it tightening etc as Chad moved his foot. YEAH, no damage to the tendon or bone. The bone was bruised but not chipped or anything! Here is a pic that Brad took when the Dr. was cleaning it up and getting ready to sew it up.

He cut the dead skin away and had to do THREE layers of stitches! Like I said, it as deep! Chad was quite the stud during all of this!

Here is the finished product. Oh, did I say this was his shin? Yep, it is swollen. We had a GREAT Dr. He wants me to take Chad in tomorrow and let him have a look at it. Chad is on antibiotics but we did not fill his pain pill prescription. He is doing okay with Tylenol.

Funny, thing to add... when Chad was in Kindergarten, he was climbing a fence and jumped off it, did I mention that Chad likes to jump? °Ü° Well, his shoelace got caught at the top of the fence and he fell to the cement below and broke both of his arms. YEP, not only did he break BOTH arms, but he broke 2 bones in one arm... so, yep, broke 3 bones! Yep, he had 2 casts on for awhile! What a little stud this guy is! Hang in there Chad, we love you!