More Christmas pics

On Christmas Eve, we had a fun little jam session. Dad played his guitar and Patrick and I took turns on bass.

Christmas tree on Christmas Eve.

The Hat of Awesomeness!!

Cool shot of the pool table.

Me, Patrick and sister-in-law Brittany played a fun game of Pool at the bowling alley.

Casualties of the Epic Spoons Rematch between Jill, Matt, Brittany and me.

Late Christmas

Ok, so I know that it's February, but here's what we did for Christmas.

We went up to Preston to stay with my folks for two weeks this year. It was a great firts Christmas as a married couple. We did a lot of really fun things and my brother Matt and his wife Brittany came down from Boise and stayed for a couple days. While there were here, we had Xbox competitions, played spoons, and had an epic bowling rematch.

Patrick enjoyed bringing out his "farmer" side in doing some chores around the house like chopping wood and feeding animals. We played tons of games, read books and just relaxed the whole time. Here are some fun pictures.

Loot!

Squeegie decided to stand guard over the presents.

Don't Worry!

Don't worry everyone. Christmas and New Year's photos and clips are coming soon. School just started up again and I've been pretty busy. Hopefully I'll get back into the swing of things soon so I can get back to regular postings :) I'll be back! Promise!

Thanksgiving videos

Here are some videos of the fun stuff we did over thanksgiving :)

Soccer!

All the neices and nephews came for Thanksgiving, including little Max. Max loved to play with the bean bag mice that Grandma had. He especially loved it when Uncle Patrick would play with him like this....

And when Uncle Patrick didn't do it, Max would play mouse with himself like this :)

Thanksgiving!!!

This year was my first year away from my own family for a holliday. It was a new and fun experience. I had a chance to sharpen my cooking skills and make some Butterflake Rolls and Cauliflower Dilly, two of my family's traditional family favorites. Luckilly, they turned out to be a pretty big hit :)

The rolls were a success

There were a lot of people at our dinner. We had to move into the church for our meal. I'm not used to so many people so it was nice to have some space. The church gym was a handy place to be since after the delicious dinner, we played volleyball, soccer and even a little frisbee.

PIE!!! :D

I admit, most of that cauliflower dilly was devoured by me....

Playing in the gym after dinner

Halloween

We started working on our Ghostbusters costumes about a month before Halloween, which was lucky considering we had to go find all the stuff and build them ourselves. It was a fun project. We found almost every thing we needed at the DI and in grandma's pile of cardboard boxes. We ended up using everything from bike pumps, to film cansisters, to pesticide canister hoses.

Here are the end results at the String Department Halloween party.

Patrick with the scary bass studio

My violin studio. Will, my teacher, is the one in the big yellow Tweety Bird outfit. (yikes)

Together. The picture on the left is from Jill's Halloween party. The costumes were great. We even made a ghost trap to go with the outfits :) It was a great Halloween. (ha ha, my jumpsuit was WAY too big so I look really chubby.)

Carving Pumpkins

We carved some fantastic pumpkins this year for Halloween. Mine was more like a gourd than a pumpkin, but we didn't really have anything else to carve besides the huge monster Patrick chose to carve. Both wonderful specimen were compliments of mom's garden. I was done with mine in about 5 minutes, but Patrick's masterpiece took about 45 minutes of carefully thought out cuts and measurments :) Then we got to the picture taking....

Patrick's pumpkin was about 5 inches thick!




The end results....don't worry, nobody lost fingers in the process :)