Making Christmas Candy

It's been a family tradition to make loads of candy for Christmas to give to friends and family...or just to keep and eat. I made candy with my in laws the first year Garrett and I were married and every year since I have always had to work, but this year I finally was able to do the candy making! It was...interesting to say the least. We had loads of laughs, had to make a couple batches of toffee over and over again and might have had to throw out some as well. It might now have been the most professional looking but it sure tasted good.

Christmas Party at Samurai 21

We forgot to take a picture of all of us at dinner, but here is one of just the girls after we ate at Samurai. We don't get together as often as we should but when we do we have so much fun.

Disneyland at Christmas Time= THE BEST TIME EVER!!!

My parents called us a few weeks ago and said we're going to DISNEYLAND the day after thanksgiving. YAHOO! If you ever have the opportunity to go during the holiday, I highly suggest it! They totally transform Disneyland to a Christmas wonderland. The haunted mansion, It's a Small World, Main Street are totally redone to be Christmas. And they have a firework show on Main Street and it SNOWS! Disneyland is truely the happiest place on earth.















NEWPORT BEACH - You can't go to Cali without going to the beach. On Sunday before we drove home we stopped to take a walk out on the pier.

Give Thanks

Trick - OR - Treat

Di-Dix-Xi-Xie-GOOOOOOOOO Dixie!

It pretty much goes against every thing I have believed in, but I've done it-----I now bleed DIXIE BLUE!!!!
My sister switched to Dixie at her 9th grade year and this year she is a sophomore and a cute little Rah Rah! We have had so much fun going to every game and watching her cheer. She is so cute and is a "Flyer" too! (The girl on the top when the stunt) I'm so proud of her for the hard work she puts into learning and perfecting her talents. Love you Kenzie!

Here Deer! here Deer!

I told Garrett that I've been itching to camp for the last two years, but we have just been so busy that we've never got around to planning a trip. Well this year for the Deer Hunt - we went all out. Tents and all! We drove past the most beautiful fall colors of changing leaves, and pull up to our camp - BURNT. Yea, this should be fun. At least we have fire wood. too WINDY for a fire. Well no fire, let's cook dinner, where's the griddle for the STEAKS.....weren't you in charge of bringing that? Improvise. Find something left behind from the previous campers out in NATURE. Hot hot fire, lots of oil to disinfect. I am NOT eating those....well I am pretty hungry, dang these are GOOD steaks! Yummy Yummy DUTCH OVEN potatoes.
This is pretty much how the trip went. Fly by the seat of our pants. We did a lot of improvising on this trip. We went on a lot of fun four wheeler rides, saw very little deer, and actually got sun burnt from CAMPING - who woulda thought.
For a funny countdown of the greatest memories from camping go to Lainee's blog.
Thanks Lain - it sure was fun. Until next year!