Lookin" Good...

We FINALLY got the "sitting room" upstairs done! The guys came on Wednesday and installed the gas insert. Billy did the mantle and I think it turned out beautiful! There is still a little work to do on it but for the most part - done! Oh yeah we still have one little place to paint - I just remembered that. Here are some pictures of the insert

Before















After
















oooooh aweee - atmosphere :













It's kind of hard to see the flames but they are really there you just have to use your Barney imagination.

Thanksgiving

Well I had pictures to put on with this post but I couldn't get them to work so I bagged them. We had a GREAT Thanksgiving this year, my kids and spouses and granddaughter were all home plus my younger sister Marge and her family came up. We all ate way to much (as always) and then just spent the day together playing the WII and just chillin. Isn't it amazing how long it takes to get dinner all ready and how fast we can down all that food!
Toree and her friend Karli Mitchell were able to get in a little bit of studying haha!
It was nice to have everyone home, with Toree in St. George it is a little harder to have everyone together.
Billy & I decided that we were going to do the "Black Friday" thing. Ya our big outting consisted of going to Joanne's fabric store and waiting in line to buy fabric! Can you believe that haha..I tell everyone that Billy is a good wife! We bought flannel and also fleece for blankets. There was NO way we were going to go to one of those other stores...there wasn't anything on sale that was worth the craziness that goes on in them there stores!

Still here

Hey,
Just wanted to let everyone know that we are still alive and kickin'. Not much has happened around the place so there is really no reason to blog. We did get the back patio done which is really sweet. The yard is going to wait until spring to finish - but hey it looks better with just the dirt than it did before. So ya that's all for now.

FINALLY

Well after5 long months of waiting and high anticipation we finally got an egg from one of our chickens. Billy got the new coop out back and we moved the dog run they were in to the back of the yard. Things are looking pretty good for the ol' hen house!

The ol' hen house














The "incredible edible egg"

Sunday tradition in cold weather

Well it is here. The cold weather which brings
out the best in all of us. Billy had this idea to make a
"puzzle board". He did this so that when we do
puzzles the pieces stay together. Well with the cold
weather here this is what we do on Sunday's.
AHHHH nothing like a good ole puzzle to bring the
family together!!

Surprise trip...

Two weeks ago Billy had to go to upstate New York on a business trip. I was wishing I could go, but didn't say anything to him. He called me on Wednesday and told me that I was flying out to meet him on Friday. After almost missing both of my flights, I finally arrived. Saturday we headed up to Palmyra to visit church historic sites. The first place we went to was Hill Cumorah. It's quite the little hill! It was pretty amazing to be standing where the Golden Plates were.














We then went to Joseph Smith's log home. We stood in the room where the Angel Moroni visited Joseph Smith.
















The next place we went to was the Sacred Grove. It was pretty overwhelming to think this is where our Heavenly Father and Jesus visited Joseph Smith.














This is a picture of the Palmyra Temple, across the street from the log home.














This is the Peter Whitmer home where the church was organized.














On Sunday before we flew home we went to Niagara Falls. It was the first time Billy had seen them. When we went to Canada to see them from the Canadian side, they almost didn't let us back in. Turns out the scanner read our license plate wrong and they thought we had a stolen car. Billy was pretty glad to get back into the USA.

Wanna play...

Billy was out "playing" on his tractor so Gracie and I went out to watch. I decided to let the chickens out for awhile. Gracie was like a "sheep dog" for chickens. She herded them all over the place. She would get close to them and wag her tail like "come on...wanna play" Funny, funny dog!!