A 'BEARY" fun afternoon

Friday afternoon Elli came over to my house to give her
and her dad a break from each other. I told Elli i needed
to make bread. She saw this idea in a "Twilight'"(Highlite)
magazine so we decided to give it a try. We only had
1 disaster when we were making the bread. We dropped the
whole can of evaporated milk in the mixer and we had
stuff EVERYWHERE. At first Elli thought she was in
trouble but we both just busted out laughing!

This is two of Elli's bears and one of mine














Elli showing off her creative skills














Papa and Elli with the cooked bears














Our cooked bears

Valentine's Day

My Valentine's Day was GREAT!! Billy & I went to Ogden and he bought me these beautiful diamond earrings!! I was so excited..I have wanted a pair of these forever.

We were going to go to Logan on a date but the weather was horrible so we stayed home and fixed dinner for the two of us and also Toree and Taylor. We had steak, potatoes and dessert. It was really fun to spend time with Toree and Taylor.
Sunday we had Jenn, Eric, Elli, Kenny, Chelsey, Toree, Taylor, Bruce (Taylor's dad) Billy and myself at the house for dinner. We had bar-b-qed ribs, salad, funeral potatoes and brownie sundays. Dinner was really yummy and looks really good on all of our hips and fannies!

After Christmas Fun

For Christmas this year we decided that we would
go up to Island Park and spend some time
together as a family. Billy & I rented a cabin and
snow machines (a whole lot easier and cheaper
than owning them) and away we went. There were
11 of us up there Billy, myself, Eric, Jenn, Elli, Brant,
Ashley, Kenny, Chelsey, Toree and her boyfriend
Taylor Evans. It was SO much fun...cold but fun. I don't
think the furnace turned off the whole time we
were there.
This is some of the fam playing with Elli's
play dough set she got from Brant and Ashley














This is the group minus Eric at Big Springs..
there used to be hundreds of REALLY BIG
fish there but there are only a few now














Billy, Kelly and Elli














This is us on Two Top, it was DANG cold and windy
up there but you could see forever anyway you
looked.














Some guy came to clean the snow off the roof
while we were gone and this is what we came
home to..we couldn't even get close to the front
door. Don't know what he was thinking...DUH!

Who's MORE excited...

Toree got home from school yesterday, Jenn, Eric & Elli came over for dinner. I don't know who was more excited for Toree to be home - her or Elli. Elli did not leave Toree's side for anything, pretty much she was velcroed to Toree's side you know BFF!! Here are some pictures of the two of them. Elli was trying to teach Toree how to play some "puppy" game on the WII (Toree was a little challenged at the game). They were doing "airplane" and "back flips". It is SO nice to have Toree home!
Back flip














Airplane














Elli TRYING to teach Toree...

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!