Kace started his gingerbread house but will have to come back up to finish it, he was ready to eat it before it even was put together.
After our Thanksgiving dinner we had to play "Rock band" and it was fun because everyone got involved. I just sang because I am really, really, bad at the drums and the guitar.
Mary and Isaac do quite well and the rest of us just try to keep up.
Mac and Jess and little Millie.
Mac and Isaac posing for the camera, yes Mac is pinching the dogs ears.
Mr. Jones was pretty good at the drums and was getting into quite the rhythm.
This is before all of the food was on my plate. I should have taken an after photo but I was too full to move.
Ready, get set, go, we almost are ready to eat!
Mac had to try the turkey before hand and he had to keep telling us all of the gross parts that the Philippine people eat on a bird. Yes, we are very spoiled and we waste a lot of food.
This was right after we took the turkey out of the roaster it was a little crispy on the top but it was really moist and yummy! WE have so much to be grateful for and it was a great holiday and we are looking forward to the next great holiday, Christmas my favorite.
We had a very fun night at pie night and there was definitely enough pies to go around and then some. They were delicious and we all felt like we had our fill. 
Yes, all 
I have always loved Halloween, I liked the dress up part but more I think I loved the candy. We would try and see who could save their candy the longest and Carolyn was always the winner. I think one year she saved it until Easter!(she always had so much will power.) I loved the costumes, I remember trying to think of something original to be. One year my friend Angela and I decided we would be a purple cow and we worked for days to make the costume. We dyed a sheet purple and with the help of her Mom we made a head and then the body. She was the head and I was the body. We won the costume contest,(that was our goal), I can't remember what the prize was but I have always been so competitive and just winning was great. I remember when I was little that at Zella Chard's (she was a teacher at Valley elementary and she never had any children, so her students were her kids) Witch Maggie always came at Halloween. Witch Maggie was a legend in the Valley and she always came to the Chard's. Well when you would go trick or treating at their house you had to watch out because Witch Maggie would be hiding behind something and would chase you after you had your candy. One year we had our candy and was coming back to the car and she came from out from behind the bushes and started chasing us, we were petrified and started running and screaming. Carolyn, my little sister fell down as she started running and she started crying, I remember running back to help her and thinking," Oh, Witch Maggie is going to get us and that will be the end of us." I was terrified and I think Carolyn was more terrified than I was, we made it back to the car but I was always a little leery of going to that place. Witch Maggie was a very authentic looking witch and we never found out who she was, it wasn't Zella or her husband Lyle, and even when they became old they never would tell anyone who she was. They are both dead now and their secret went with them to their grave, if you see any authentic looking witches out their tonight, beware Witch Maggie may be back!
This picture is that of a six point bull elk. yes, it is dead. No, they don't sleep this way. The tracks in the dirt said that someone had shot this guy and he was walking up towards where I'm standing and then fell dead and rolled down into this position. The far horn was under him and I have pulled his head out...well around anyway, so that you could see the horns better. He has been dead about 7 to 10 days as I can figure. If you dare, you can enlarge the picture and see the maggots. there's lots of them, but I must warn you its disgusting. I tried to cut its head off and haul it out, but the smell was more than even I could stand. Nathan said he could still smell it on my clothes in the truck even though I only touched his horns with my glove. It was pretty potent stuff.
and played basketball at the Huntsman senior games. You have to be 50 to play so all of you that are younger, look at what you get to look forward to. He played with Frank my brother, Steve Petersen, Mark Jenkins, Scott Miller, Jerry Ropelato, Kent Yearsley, to name a few that people might recognize. The games were held in St. George and Steve Peterson was so nice to offer his home for us to stay. It is a beautiful home and it was quite relaxing for me. I know it wasn't quite as relaxing for the men because they had to play a basketball game every day and sometimes two a day. They played well and won all of their games until the gold medal game. We played well in that game but we were a little "out heighted". We played against a team that had combined the best of the "flying burrito brothers" ( yes that is really the name of their team) and then they had recruited some players that were 
Here is the 2008 team and they kind of look a little beat up don't you think?
We had lunch at the "Ledges" , it was delicious and the salmon was cooked to perfection.
Here is Steve Petersen and his wife Polly, Ryan and I, Frank and Paula, and Mark Jenkins. We had a lot of fun playing golf in his back yard or I should say they had fun playing and we had fun watching their competitive natures.
Tydon had fun playing with the tractor and he pretty much didn't care if it was cold as long as he could play with the tractor.
