In With The New

Here's update #2 of our barn:
This is the new barn/shop the first part of December

December 14th

As of Dec. 19th - It's coming along nicely!

Merry Christmas from our blog to you!

Just wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We are looking forward to having all of our family home for the holidays for some fun, food and memory making events!
Enjoy your holidays! Thanks for stopping by our blog.

Happy 5th

Happy Birthday Lucas! Can't believe he's already 5! He's enjoying Disneyland with the Valentine family this week! Have a lot of fun with Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Pluto, ... and whoever else you see! We're having fun with Reese and Kody. See you soon.

(Belated) Happy Thanksgiving/Happy Birthday Reesie!

This picture is suppose to be at the end! oops! We had such a great time playing with Abby and Dax - so cute!

It's the last day of November so I thought I better get my Thanksgiving pictures posted. Mark and I went to Mesa for Thanksgiving this year. It was gorgeous weather (75 - 80) and we enjoyed it immensely! We had a "Clouse Family" Thanksgiving at the Germaine's. Here's a few pics of the big event!

Gravy makers - Nyla and Jeanie - (are they cute or what?!!)

Mom making the whipped cream - (she's a cutie too!) (It was the first Thanksgiving without Dad - we missed him.)

Nyla, Marsha and Mom getting "stuff" ready -

Nyla, Jeanie, Lynsee (tasting the potatoes) , Shelley and Kent

Kent, Mark and John sampling the THREE turkeys! (2 in the pit, 1 in brine) They were all delicious. Thank you Max and Jeanie for a delicious Thanksgiving Dinner! I should have taken a picture of us actually eating! There were about 20 of us (Germaines, Clouses, Nicholas', Paynes, and Buelers)

Shelley, Shara and Mike scanning the ads for "Black Friday"

Reesie's 2nd Birthday was also Thanksgiving Day - Happy Birthday! We skyped her that evening but she was too busy playing with her new toys!

Looks like mom in this picture

Looks like dad in this one!

Dad and Daxton

Papa Mark and Abby jumping

a little static in the hair?

Grams and Abbs doing the "bunny hop"

Daxton taking in the "zoo lights" at the Phoenix Zoo. (we did need jackets!)

AC and Abby - There was a talking giraffe that Abby loved. I didn't get a picture of it but it was pretty impressive!

We had a great time and can't wait to see the Call's again at Christmas.

Out with the old...

This is where the old log shed and white shop were ... a new barn and shop will take their place -

what a mess!

Happy 30th

Hard to believe I know! It's our 30th anniversary today! Not sure where those 30 years went! I started to make a yearly list of things we've done through the years but it was taking way too long so here's the short version!:

Married Nov. 20, 1979 in the Mesa, AZ Temple

Lived in Logan (coldest place on earth!) for a couple of months before moving to Honeyville

Bought our first home in Tremonton - lived there for 12 years.

Have 4 gorgeous daughters whom we adore - hence the poem "No Buckaroos"
(Attended many YW in Excellence, New Beginnings and Girls Camps)


Moved back to Honeyville in 1992 - bought the family homestead - been here ever since

Served in many church callings - enjoyed most!

Mark worked at LaZBoy for 28 1/2 years before it closed in 2008. Has since returned to school at Bridgerland and owner of B&M Boot Repair

Carole works for the Box Elder School District as a Food Service Technician (aka.: lunch lady!)
Have 3 wonderful sons in law
Six beautiful grandchildren that we love to pieces (and one on the way)

I'm sure I'll think of more to add but it's late and I'm tired! Katie took some recent pictures and I'll post one soon too!
Happy Anniversary to us - may the next 30 be just as good! (Maybe a cruise?)

29 and holding!

Happy Birthday to our Katie girl! Hard to believe she's already 29 (you'll be 29 for a LONG time!) Those 29 years have been such a delight! What a beautiful daughter, wife, mommy, sister, grandaughter she is! Hope you've had a great day - (Sick kids and all!) Love you much!

November

Mark, Jessica and I went to visit the kids in Utah Valley last weekend. We had dinner at Landon and Tawnya's Friday night and Reese opened birthday presents since we'll be gone for her 2nd birthday. (Tawnya took all the pictures at that event! - she'll have to send me some). It was a yummy dinner and lots of fun.

Kody getting a "buzz" by "wethead" mom -
Lucas loves to put puzzles together and is very good at it! Here's the "Barnyard Friends"

Lucas had his primary program Sunday and did a great job - he had his part memorized perfectly and had some "groovy" moves to the songs! We caught a couple of winks from him also.

Aunt Tawnya, Lucas, Aunt Nappy and Kody

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Happy Birthday Shara! (yesterday) She can't believe how "old" she's getting! Whatever! We love having her as our daughter and what joy she brings to our family. We just wish we got to see her and her family more often! We are certainly looking forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas! Hope it was a wonderful day. Love you much!

Weekend Fun

We had visitors for the weekend - always a fun thing! Katie, Tawnya and the kids came up Thursday and Jed came Friday evening.
Things we did: Reesie and Kody got into Nappy's fingerpolish (just flipped the comforter over and all was well!), Taco Time lunch, bought Christmas jammies, Katie had a photo shoot, rode Vic and played with the baby horses, Lucas got sick (H1N1), Dr. visit, creamy chicken noodle soup, power outage, Nicholas Family Halloween Party, played "Walk the Dogs" (Lucas' favorite game), Pizza Plus Breadsticks, BYU football (lousy), Eggnog, missed Stake Conference (Mark went), Reese and Kody got into the finger polish - again, rootbeer floats, bread pudding, and had lots of fun!
(Katie's camera has all the pics on it - she'll post soon I'm sure!)

Holy Tamale!

My cousin, Doreen, was teaching some of her friends in her ward how to make tamales today. I work with Kathleen so she invited me to come along also. (I actually invited myself!) It was so fun to become reaquainted with Doreen and meet some of her family. The tamales were awesome and we had a great time.

Have some tamales! (They are yummy!)

Nicole - "How do you eat these things?" (Still wrapped in husk)

Carole - "Here, let me help you honey!" (It was hilarious!)

Cleaning up and catching up on family news! We've only seen each other once (and that was briefly) since we were kids!

Doreen, husband Russell and son Chase (hopefully I got the names right!) She also has two other sons.

For more pictures and the recipe - go to: clousecousinscookin.blogspot.com.

Last Weekend Visitors

We sure enjoyed having the Kesler's visit. They were only here for a day but we still had fun.
Reese and Tawnya practicing their "duet"!

Tawnya gave Jessica and Landon new "do's"!

Babe checking out her new friends!

UEA/Conference Weekend=Grandkids!

We got to enjoy Lucas and Kody for a few days while Katie and Ryker went to visit the Call's.

Lucas found "twin caterpillars"! One crawled up his arm and around his neck -I had to get it off - which I don't like to touch creepy crawly things.

Gramps and his little shadow - eating candied popcorn!

This is what happens when Kody is being very quiet! He got into the Desitin - (makes for a cute little cowboy clown!)

We sure enjoyed having them - come again soon!

Sisters in Zion

You like the title I know!
Nancy planned a little getaway to St. George the end of September. What a fun time we had. We did lots of shopping, eating, talking and laughing. Here's a little synopsis of what we did The sisters: Nancy, Anne, Elaine, Grace and Ellen
We enjoyed doing a session in the St. George Temple

A cute couple took a picture with me in it too!

Waiting for AAA to come "jump" us - dead battery drink time!

Enjoying the hot tub - the pool was too cold for me!

Santa Clara Swiss Days - Grace contemplating which watch bands to buy!

Bargain buys at Dillards (I think that's where we were) We shopped till we dropped! ( I was sitting on the chair)

After breakfast at Village Inn - some other places we enjoyed were: Cracker Barrell, Applebees, Bent Fork, One Man Band Diner, - I've forgotten some I'm sure.