It's all about the children

It has really been a while since I have done any blogging. A lot has come and gone. To be honest, I didn't take too many pictures; shame on me. I let Kevin and Nicole take my camera to Richfield because they had left their camera at home. And they only took about 10 pictures. Well, that's my poor excuse. But, I have no excuse for not blogging because I have just plain been lazy. Well, not really lazy just doing other things that kept me busy. I make calendars for the family every year (6 of them) with pictures and stickers and fun stuff. I can't ever seem to get them done in time for the 1st of January. I may take some pictures of my calendar and blog it later. It's a ton of fun, but a lot of work.
On with my pictures; It's all about the children. It most certainly is. Here are some fun pictures of my darling grand babies and some of my own darling children. My kids and David and the grand babies are the grandest part of my life.

Jayce is a bit shy of the camera. The girls were wearing "crowns". They can turn anything into a princess gala.

Here's Kaja with her sweet face. She really does pose for the camera!

Oh, and little Emily likes to eat. I don't know whether to blame this on her or her mom!

Well, Leslie got in the fun of wearing garland. But, taking her own picture, she missed the whole crown thing!

Kylee started this whole "T - wa - wa" thing. She lives for the princesses!

Here's Kylee and Jaycelyn dancing and twirling in their new dresses.

Jaxon wears the goggles when they go sledding. It's really funny, because he doesn't mind wearing them - anywhere!

Much to his parent's chagrin, Jaxon pulls the chairs over to the counter to get to the "real" good stuff!

We had a great time at grandma's and grandpa's. It's so neat to be with everyone. I know that's only 4 people, but they're the best! Whoops! It's just plain hard to get everyone in the camera lense.

No really, here are the best of all the best! From the left - Emily, will be 1 on Saturday the 24th of Jan; then Kylee who is 4, Kaja is 4, Jaycelyn is 2 and Jaxon will be 2 in May. And to add to the "bestness", we are expecting 2 more grand babies this year.

We have been very blessed and are grateful to our Heavenly Father for all good things that come to us.

Our Road Trip

David and I went on a little road trip on Friday after Thanksgiving. We found we had a little time so we went off to enjoy some scenic Utah. Now - I'm still a 'blogging novice" because I am starting with out end of trip. Whoops!

Here we found some Christmas lights in Teasdale on our way home. It was really a quaint little part of Utah with some beautiful landscape. Here they put lights in the over hanging trees. Imagine what they look like with snow on them!!!

We drove through the Natural Bridges National Park. There are 3 bridges, and we only hiked down to this one. It was shorter and easier. Some day we will have to go back and do them all.

These Indian ruins are just off the road. It's almost like a rest stop, but with some interesting views. David of course had to get down in and check it all out.

We stayed our last night in Monticello and took pictures of the Temple there.

Here we are in Canyonlands. David got a real bad case of nostalgia and walked up Elephant Hill. We once did this scary ride with his parents. I can't believe we did it. I would not do it now and would not want my kids to either.

This is a room, they called it a home, where several people were allowed, by the government, to reside. They dug a whole in the rock! Not so fun.

Here we are at a look out in Canyonlands. We even took a hike where we had to follow the cairns (small rock piles to tell you the direction) to stay on the path.

This is our first excursion on the trip. We went to Dead Horse Point. The weather was quite cold, but it was so fun to be there in a different time of the year.

We had so much fun doing this, just the two of us. Although, we said several times how much the kids would have loved this trip.

Thanksgiving

Whoa! I didn't get a whole lot of pictures at our Thanksgiving dinner. Here are a few of the family eating and hanging out. It was a good time. We had 18 people here at our house for dinner.
Here are some of the girls eating and contemplating and eating and talking!

There was a lot of WII action afterward. My grandma and mom used to make us walk around the block. Now we just drive and do a bit of bowling and tennis! It was still great fun, not too much of a work out, but who wants to work out on Thanksgiving.

Kaja loved the traditional shrimp cocktail. It's really funny when you know her parents don't like fish of any kind! Oh, they like to go fishing, but not to eat it.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

I thought I would tell everyone Happy Thanksgiving. Then I had a great idea to go back . . . way back and share some photos of Thanksgivings in the past. I have such great memories of being with my family at Thanksgiving time. It was a big day, and a full day of love and laughter. I hope that all of you who read this will have that same kind of day tomorrow and make sweet memories for your kids.

This is me at the counter helping my mom make her famous, delicious rolls. I can almost make them like her.

Whoa - look at mom! She's taking a sneak bite!

This is me and my mom and brothers with Nana at her home after the big meal. She always made us walk around the block before we could have pie!

Here are my brothers with Nana ready to dig in!! Nana was my dad's mom.

This is little ol' me gnawing on the leg. Can't do that anymore. It's all white for this girl.

Here's my mom encouraging my brother to eat all his food. Which was really not hard to do. He had quite a good appetite.

Again, Happy Thanksgiving to all my good friends. I love you. Denise

ONE OF THOSE DAYS . . . .

Have you ever had one of those days;

You just can't move fast enough.

Too many things to do and you don't know where to start - so you don't start.

Just like to think & think & think & think.

Things just don't get done like you had planned.

Ya just can't get going!

AHHHHHH!

Well, that's my day. To be honest it's been my last few days.

Thanks for listening.

The Accordion

Tyler and Christine came over the other night for dinner. That's always fun in and of itself, but this night was special. Tyler and I went downstairs to find a box and Tyler found his dad's accordion. He lugged it upstairs, it is very heavy. But no matter how we begged David would not play for us. He just sat on the couch with his socks on backwards! (You had to be there!) So, anywho - Tyler entertained us instead. It was downright tear makin' music.

David took lessons many years ago. He doesn't pull the instrument out very often, well never would be a better word. This might be due to the fact that the first time he pulled it out, Leslie and Andrea were 3 and 2 years old. When he sat down, put it on his lap and began to play - the girls started crying and not because they loved it! I think David was just as surprised at their reaction and they were to what he was doing.

Great fun and times with the kids!!

Yesterday most of the family were able to come to dinner. We missed Leslie and hers, Kevin and Nicole and David! (David went to the Sunday Fireside at the Marriott Center).

Tyler's helping Kaja fly like Tinkerbell.

Here Jaxon's flying like Spiderman!

Saturday night we tended Leslie and Jared's girls so they could go to a JAZZ game! Grandpa was a great help!

Andrea and the kids came over one night for dinner and games. Andrea's doing the WII fit thing and Jax and Kaja were standing on cookie sheets and driving!

Here are my little trick or treaters! Leslie brought her girls to the office to trick or treat and then they went with Jared to a NuSkin party. Here Kylee is showing off her Fairy Princess wings.

We went to see the grandkids. Here is Jaycelyn as a spunky little fairy! Don't you love the headband.

Emily gets in the 'spirit'. She curls her tongue. Something her grandma can't do!

We zipped over to Springville too. Here are Kaja and Jax testing out the candy in the back of the van. Andrea and Paul's ward do "trunk or treat". It was really quite organized and fun.

Jaxon was Spiderman (with a gut)!

Kaja's always got a cheesy smile for the camera. She was the cutest Super Gril ever. Yes, I spelled it right, according to Kaja's pronunciation!