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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.